Laughing @ MindSay 
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ive laughed so hard to the point where i now have hiccups:P
I hate hiccups. they hurt:|
meh
-:PKristal:|
I got stopped today by the county deputy (one of them anyway) and we both had a good laugh!
See I did a no no driving this morning on my way home from dropping the kids off at school.
I did something TERRIBLE! Are you ready for it? I did a Cali roll at a stop sign turning on to a hiway off the school road! GASP! See I told you it was terrible!
I knew I was caught as soon as the county deputy turned around. I started laughing. I almost pulled over before I got completely back in town but didn't. I wanted to make sure he was going to stop me and didn't get a call to go back towards my town first. As soon as I got out of town again, he flashed his lights at me!
LMAO it was the county deputy I went to school with! Lil Russel! He walked up and went to say license and registration please and I was like: "hello, Officer B!" Gave him my license and told him i had to pull out my registration and insurnace. He burst out laughing and goes you know why I stopped you and said yep I did a Cali roll! He was giggling on his way back to the SUV crusier.
A few minutes later he walks back hands me my information and said well I try to give EVERYONE I stop a verbal warning first unless they have been stopped else where by someone and then I give a written one. I have never stopped you before so you get a verbal. I said well hell, your going to burst Randy's bubble it's been like 5 or so years since I had a ticket and he gets them every 2 to 3 years back to back! Russel started laughign at me and told me the last thing on my record was a speeding ticket over 7 years ago! I was like HOT DAYUM!
So i took my verbal warnign and immeditally called Randy on the cell and said nenner nenner nenner! I jsut got stopped and only got a verbal warning! He is soooo pist!
This series is on the Fruit of the Spirit. See 1 Corinthians. We usually have the same basic notes, and we just note the answers for ourselves. In my case, and I'm sure other people do this, most of my margins are taken up with additional notes about brainbenders people have said.
Tonight we're on gentleness. Or, if you like, meekness/humility. This is a doozy. I've heard a friend say, "Of all the cultures in the world, Americans have to have the hardest time being Christians. You have to submit to someone else, you have to admit that you can't do something on your own, AND you have to admit that there's something wrong with you. Americans can't do that." I don't know how accurate that is, but it made me think. Meekness is not a happy word in our vocabulary.
'Til we started exploring this further and figuring out, by a Christian definition, what meekness is. And contrary to the impression we've got, it doesn't mean having the temperament of Bambi's mother. Rather, it is the kung fu master, who holds the strength, and can recognize when not to use it.
The flip side of that is that if you can recognize when NOT to use it, you also recognize when TO use it - but we only made a note of that, it wasn't our point for tonight.
Meekness was Christ on the cross. He's God's son, he IS God, he has the power to bring himself down, or to call legions upon legions of angels to blast everyone there and carry him away. He's in so much suffering that a new word had to be invented to describe it - "excruciating" literally means "out of the cross". He's in pain beyond anything, he's humiliated, he can't breathe, his skin is hanging in ragged tatters, and he's likely excessively dehydrated. And he made the call, with every breath, that it was more important for him to die this way, for these miserable creations to be saved, than for him to come down.
We were talking about how that applies to us, in marriage (most of us aren't) and work relationships. J summed it up, "Yeah, I could win this argument, but then I'd do some major damage to the relationship." He's made the call to walk out of a fight, to let the other person come out on top, even though he knows he can completely destroy their argument. Not because he's afraid or submissive, but because it's more important to him that this relationship be maintained, and that they find a way to solve this (that's probably going to be longer and take more effort) that allows them to work together.
Strength under control. Having the power, and choosing to walk away from a fight. The kung fu master.
There's a lot of great stuff that was said tonight. I've got one that's definitely going on my quote board, and maybe three.
Britta: "For your own personal health, don't expect to be respected."
That one made us laugh, but she made an impressive point. Respecting the people around you, yes, we're supposed to do that. But as soon as you expect them to respect you back, you're setting yourself up for misery. If they don't, you're going to be irked, and you've effectively given them the power to wreck your day.
That's definitely another brainbender for me. I'll be working on getting my head around that concept for awhile.
I have one section that I'm definitely teaching on if I'm a counselor for the junior high or high school girls this summer. One of the girls read it, and you could see this smile spread around to every woman in the group, and then we all started talking.
By the way, the guys were NOT touching that one. It was talking about beauty of spirit, being more real, lasting longer, and being more attractive than physical beauty. Every guy in the room claimed that touching that one in any way was digging himself a hole.
Which made us laugh more.
There's a lot that we learn during these nights, but also a lot of goofy relationship building. Jared, who's very health conscious, made the celery sing at me when I chose the Oreos instead. Kristina and I were talking about some girl stuff on the stairs, Gabe came up to badger us, was perhaps kicked, and fell back down the stairs to land in a tangle with the bike. We're all in the same discussion during the study, but as soon as we're done, we break off into about six separate conversations, and there's this animated joy that just kinda hangs out in the atmosphere above all of them.
I love this group. :)
I almost asked what turns a woman on in a marriage but the couple that got me askign this question aren't married so I worded it this way!
A couple friend of mine are going on a 2 year relationship and are having issues. Granted they both brought 2 kids from previous marriages. Both of the marriages were bad in their own ways, ex spouses selfish lil assholes. And granted one of the ex spouses is dead now but the effects of that marriage still linger. They also had a child together. So that makes a total of 5 kids in one house. To make matters even more interesting to this relationship is the age difference. D the woman is not yet 30 and M the guy is yet 43 years old. D is very vocal and was popular in school and does what she wants and screw who ever doesn't like it. M is very shy and was not so popular in school and does what ever the strong dominate female that takes precident in his life tells him to do.
I won't go into what the issues are because D is having a mutual friend pass on information to me so I am not getting things straight from either horse's mouth. But I did have this mutual friend of ours pass on a message to D: "Go right ahead and think and feel what your going to but just remember; your relationship isn't brand new anymore. Now it is going to take comprimise and work. You can't be expecting EVERYTHING you ever wanted in a man even though you deserve it. It doesn't work that way."
After our friend passed that on, D is now willing to take a step back and work things out a bit more. I am glad. But one of her comments got me to thinking and now I am goign to ask the women in relationships out in Mindsay to answer a lil question!:D
D stated that M isn't turning her on to much any more. But if she ever walked in the house after work or on a weekend and saw M up in her bathroom working on the bathroom that is currently being remodled that would get her worked up and time for some nookie! When that was passed on to me, our mutual friend and I bursted out laughing and said isn't that some shit!
So the question is for those women out there in Mindsay in relationships that aren't BRAND NEW anymore what would turn you on seeing your partner do? See I got to thinking and our mutual friend agreed when I voiced the comment to her...........Randy and I are going on 10 years together and in Febuary 9 years of marriage. Our mutual friend is going on 12 years together with her friend and 11 years of marriage. I said you know D has a point about what turns her one now! I would get all excited if I ever came home from running errands and had dinner not only cooked for me, but dishes done and put away afterwords, Randy to do bath times and put the kids to bed! Our mutual friend sat there for a minute and said you know if my ol man would give me a call at work and said hey I know you have been stressed out and running here and there for everything, I am taking off of work a few hours early. You take your time doing what you need to and I'll pick up our daughter and meet our son's bus at home! I won't cook but I'll order take out and bring it home too boot!
What would excite you women out there in relationships that aren't brand new?
Laughing, joking, just standing around,
A few seconds later bodies on the ground.
Shots rang out, there were many,
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