I get the scammer emails all the time that start out with saying I had a beautiful picture and then blah, blah, blah and how they want to meet me. I used to have my pic on here but deliberately removed it due to the excessive scammer emails I got. I changed my profile to actually sound very nasty to run off the scammers. Anyway, I had met a local guy from CS nearly 6 yrs ago when I had a pic up and we are still together. I'm on here for the forums only. In your case, I smell that it is a scammer writing you. Wouldn't waste my time corresponding with her since she sounds like she is being quite evasive. I don't think she actually is a local as she says. There are many good women out there to invest your time with.
You do not appear to look like an albino. I went to elementary school with a girl who was an albino. She had milky white skin, white blond hair and pinkish blue eyes. It is very obvious she was not just a normal light skin caucasian kid. I have seen albinoism in pictures of African tribesman even. I do know that albinoism occurs in various animal species too. She always kept herself covered up in the summer sun and wore sunglasses too outside.
A waterbed in a display window of a waterbed store back in the early 1970s. We turned out the display light and pulled the display window curtain across the store window of the room scenario setup that was on display. We could tell people were walking by in front of the store at night but there was no way at night that people could see through the curtain and know what was going on. A night to remember for sure.
Another point well said. One would think that mouse cat food would be mighty tasty for the cats. Poor old sods have to eat human food in their cat food dishes. Seems catfood has stuff that humans consume mixed in. No wonder cats are so darn finicky. Humans make them that way. Cats rule and the human drool
I was quiet in high school but on senior cut day(unofficial day), my girlfriends and a few guys got together and drove down to the New Jersey shore(Bradley Beach) and sunned ourselves for the day and walked the boardwalk just having lots of fun with no worries in the world. When I got home toting with my books and sporting a doozy of a sunburn, I got grounded for two weeks for cutting school. 39 years later, I found out that the prinicipal's office secretary called my home and wondered why I wasn't in school. That didn't sit well with my family at all that I would dare and cut school. I was the student who never missed a day unless I was sick...which was very rare anyway for me. I took my punishment and never cut school again. And I didn't let my son cut high school in 2007 either. My family was in too much anguish thinking that I was kidnapped or murdered in high school as there were no cell phones back in those days. I didn't want to go through wondering if everything was OK with my son or worrying whose company he may have been in. Kids don't see danger but a mother does. A mother's fear is very deep when she worries when she doesn't know where her child is...even on "senior cut day".
This is quite a fascinating article Stringman. Thank you for posting it. It certainly is an eye opener. My older brother always said, "Bad health is good for business". I am in agreement with this article. Thank you for posting it. It certainly gives a good insight into the medical world of cancer treatments.
Of course they can. My father who is now deceased was totally blind and could repair the old oil furnaces and still do plumbing. His hearing and touch with incredible. He lost his sight at 51 and could still work. Coincidently, I have a furnace repair man who is totally blind also. He never had sight but knows every part of furnaces by heart and can tell what part is bad just by the sound alone. He always has a helper to drive his truck and he tells them exactly what to do and look for in each furnace. Truly an incredible guy. His truck is very well organized too. If Helen Keller could read and write, you can better believe that these type of handicaps won't stop a person nowadays from learning to use gadgets.
Congratulations Gardenhackle and Ladybee. It is so nice to hear a happy story. May you both have many years together to laugh, cry and be beside each other through good times and bad. I too had found my special guy on this site in 2007, less than a month after I joined. I do believe that each of us has someone special in their life predestined. Where we find them and when...that is the question that none of us knows early on.
Maybe his song, "Great balls of fire. I saw him live back in the 1970's at a Rock n Roll Revival at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan. He put on quite a show...even ripped his clothing off on stage, threw it to the audience and jumped out at the audience at the end of his wild piano playing. The place went wild that night! I was maybe only 21 yrs old at the time and still remember that crazy night. He's quite a character and showman.
I see his eyes. I am able to see the heart of a man so to speak by looking closely into his eyes. The heart of a person is their "soul". A person is either "goodhearted" or "evilhearted" to those around them. Either a person is a good person or an evil person and the eyes do not tell lies without the body following suit. I also think that everyone has an aura about them and some people are more intuitive to the "vibes" that the auras emit. Some people can literally see the aura colors and others feel the vibrations. That can tell alot about a person also I think. The aura is something I can feel without even looking at someone's eyes. Hope this helps to answer your question Ali.
That is quite a dream Kaybee. I do believe that those that we loved that have passed do come back for some reason to complete a journey that they have not finished in their lifetime here. Maybe your father did not get to give yhou that last comfort that he wanted to when he was alive and finally got the chance to do it. Perhaps you may have thought it was a dream and it really wasn't. How blessed you are for having had that last hug with your dad in such a comforting way.
We don't exactly have anything like that here but I can tell you that businesses that are established and registered with the government as houses of prayer do not pay taxes. Yet, they run it as a business with people paying tithings and dues and the money can be invested in ventures that can make money to keep the facility going. And the leaders are paid a wage or salary of sorts. In regards to the Vatican City you speak of, sure they collect lots of money from around the world from their parishoners but they also do alot of charitable work all over the world. And yes, the charitable work does spread the word of their faith. Not everyone where they send their missionaries is in areas where people can even give tithings. Lastly in the US, Christmas is a legal religious holiday where most all the businesses are shut down. Seems odd to me but that is a fact. Our government is considered a Christian nation also as it is set up from Christian leaders from early on.
I met a great guy who lives 45 mins away and we are still going strong 5 yrs later. He is definitely my soulmate and visa versa. He truly was married for 30 yrs and widowed 2 yrs like he said was and just beginning to start over in life to meet someone again, at the encouragement of his daughter. Nothing phony about him at all. Just a very decent and humble human being who is thoughtful and deeply caring. Strangely enough, my field of study in college now paralells his wife's occupation and I began in this field before I even met him. He had no idea what my field of study was when we even met as now it is more specialized than when his wife worked. Oddly enough, I also happened to work in the same hospital she worked in and at the same time but on different shifts so we never knew each other. I even worked on the same unit that she was a patient on. If she were alive, she would have had to go to college to get a degree in this field or else the hospital would eliminate her job. He feels blessed to have known 2 women in his life who have cared deeply for him. I feel blessed to have him in my life. I was alone for 17 yrs after my divorce and remained single to raise my son. His late wife and I have many other things in common too but yet we were very unique in our own sense. I don't believe in coincidences in life. Some things are truly destined that our creator has planned for us.
Has anyone here actually had the opportunity recently to take a tourist visit to Gaza? For the Christians Israeli bashing, try going into Gaza on a tour bus. Try going to see Bethlehem. A Christian friend of mine went on a group tour to Bethlehem and had a Palestinian bus driver. Even with that, the bus was stopped and armed Palestinians came on the bus and harrassed each and every tourist. All elderly tourists at that. The women had to keep their heads bowed down, no eye contact and her Christian pastor was harrassed terribly. Then everyone was herded everyone off the bus in the heat and received alot of direct yelling at them. Her response was that they were truly lucky that they were allowed to leave with their lives. She said she never saw such hate in the eyes of people. She said their eyes were black with hate. She did not see this amongst the Israelis, even the orthodox as she toured their holy places. She said no way Palestinians deserve a state or country of their own. She had nothing but other harsh words for what she saw and personally experienced. She wasn't sure if her bus would be blown apart by a rocket fired at it while on the way back to the border. No one on the bus even spoke a word on the way to the border they were so scared. I'm not saying there are no radicals in Israel but you will probably overall not wind up with your throat cut or shot by a Jew while visting a holy site within visitation hours, following visitation site rules and are not there with the intent to murder another person. But you may find some of the Arab youth throwing stones if they don't want you to visit their holy places. I think most of us may verbally support a country in this forum but overall, it is probably best to have lived there and been amongst it's people to truly come to a vote either way. Know that some of the forum posters probably have lived there. JMHO.
I've done some reading in the past on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. It was truly sad indeed. There are many comparisons for sure. Sadly, history repeats itself. In the sweatshops of the early part of the 20th century in the US, owners worked immigrants for very low wages and very long hours in extremely poor working conditions in many of the large cities where immigrants lived. These immigrants lived in very poor housing tenements,were for the most part illiterate other than their native language and were forced, out of desperation to take jobs that they had limited skills in. Women were taught sewing from childhood as that was a handed down skill in most immigrant families. In the Triangle Shirtwasit Bldg, mostly Italian and Jewish immigrants worked about 16-18 hr days Mon through Fri. There was no air conditioning,fair wage laws,health insurance,laws regarding working hours or breaks and the doors and exits were kept locked so the women wouldn't leave their work areas and be forced to keep working until the work day was over. There was no public health care or even food stamps so people took whatever jobs they could find and put up with the atrocious working conditions to feed their families. Windows were also kept barred. The building codes were not built for fire safety back then and fires were not an uncommon event. Ooby has it right. Sadly, there are many common scenarios between these two business bldg fires and the loss of life. The Triangle Shirtwaist fire did cause the city inspectors to change the building fire codes for the better. Point well made Ooby as to the comparison.
Maybe he is going to take a harem of ladies out for some evenings of fun. He no doubt will need a very big car for that. I've heard that middleastern men can have a harem of women. But they have to be fairly wealthy to do that. If Ali can afford a big car, then he can afford the harem of women too. He is no doubt a wealthy tomato farmer indeed.
You go Ali...buy the big car. You only live once so you might as well enjoy the ride. smitten:
I have a couple of the Uncle John's Bathroom Readers. One is the big 20th Anniversary Edition and the other is the Legenary Lost Bathroom Reader. Ya learn all kinds of the origins of how things began and the author's Aunt Lena riddles to figure out. Lots of funny origins.Each book is almost 600 pages long so lots of good reading. Also keep National Geographic, Scientific Mind and Discovery nearby. All the books above make for interesting bathroom reading to pass the time. I have learned to keep the portable phone handy as inevitably, someone always seems to call when I'm on the throne
Cloud, you sure are pessimistic. I'm the optimist here. I voted "other" as maybe some of the CS members here will wind up with a first date or new love in October. At least that is the game plan for some and I hope it comes to fruition and brings them happiness. Better love than war for the month of October.
Everything you have said here is so very true. I would also add the desire to make your partner and you both smile and laugh. Laughing is good for your heart and soul. No one wants to be thought of as a boring sod. Show the sparky side of each other so to speak.
This is a very good one Nuliiiiii. I busted up laughing cuz it is so very true in some Italian families. Just had to pass it on to my Italian friends. Know it will trigger a memory for them since their family is directly from the old country.
Why you living up in Cleveland, Ohio? You're up in Jew country bud. You are easy talk till you come up to a Jew and try and tell them to their face that Israel rots and that Israel is mouthing off to cause trouble. Your mouth may never talk the same if you say that to the wrong Jew in your neck of the woods.Better to keep your sentiments to yourself if you want to keep your teeth in your mouth.
I agree with Godsgift very much on the financial savings to the schools. As a current college student myself, I have taken fully online mandatory courses for my program as well as strictly in class courses and hybrid courses. Hybrid meets in person 1-2x week and gives the PowerPoint lectures and homwork assignments online. We also view the PowerPoint lectures in class and the teacher usually explains things a bit more. The class face to face interaction is important and I overall do better in the hybrid classes. I have a 3.84 GPA on a 4.0 scale. As the oldest student in my classes but only a part time student, this is no easy task to be a student going on 60 yrs old in less than 3 months in a for credit program in order to blend a new career with one I already have. As a nurse with a permanent back injury and not extremely marketable in a job sense now for the multitude of nursing jobs out there, I've had look to blend a new career with nursing to stay marketable in the job world. Something that is very common for older folks like me in the U.S. who are past 50 and with work injuries that leave us on the sidelines with companies that are in favor of the younger workers. We are used till we are no longer useful and then put out to pasture so to speak to collect disability or fade off into the sunset after giving years of our life to a company. What I've also learned now is that working as a nurse for so many years, I did not keep up with the business side of nursing or train in new technologies to diversify myself, so when it came to promotions, I got overlooked frequently even though annual work evaluations were always excellent. Becoming computer literate and being able to get educated is of vital importance. If a program happens to be very far away and I can get the information via internet, then I'm all for it if I have a good teacher support system to clarify the things I don't understand. Currently, I drive 76 miles round trip 2 days a week for school and some semesters have been 3 days a week.
Hello Ali, Everything everyone has said is very true. But in addition to diet that helps to stave off heart disease is decreasing stress. Stress is a well known factor in heart disease. Stress increases the bad cholesterol and eventually takes a toll on our health both physically and mentally. As we age and our hormone levels decrease, we also lose alot of the protective ability of our hormones against heart disease as heart disease overall is more common in older persons and is one of the top killers of older people. This is not a recommendation to take hormone replacements as that can cause other health problems. Some stress is good but an excess for a very long period is what does damage to our bodies. It takes a toll on us not just in heart disease but in causing many other diseases too. In relation to heart disease, sometimes doing everything right still can't prevent it as some things are genetically inherited and it's just a matter of time before they show up. But feeling good about ourselves and living life to the best of our ability and not hurting others is what life should be about. I believe that might be an idea to decrease disease in general. I've been told that in some of the middleastern countries such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE that obesity, heart disease and diabetes is a major problem because it is so hot there that people do not exercise as much and are sitting more at computers. Foods are also very high in fat content. This came from a fellow student observations who is working at the Cleveland Clinic overseas.
I have a sibling, a 1/2 brother from my father's WW2 marriage. I knew of his existence as a child from my father's divorce proceedings I read secretly in our basement. I searched for him for many years and finally located him. We corresponded for a bit and then he suddenly stopped emailing. I even sent weitten letters to his home. When he asked me why my father had nothing to do with him growing up...that I couldn't answer as all the older generation is deceased and there is no one to say why my father abandoned him in life when his mother and my dad divorced. It had to be a bitter relationship for my father. So heartbreaking for this brother to never have gotten answers even from his own mother and uncle. He has harbored this pain all his life. I searched for 25 yrs for him and he has been elusive to say the least. It is heartbreaking for me to probably be blamed for my father's actions or perhaps he feels a sense of jealousy that my father stuck by us kids and not him. He was a good father to my other brothers and I so I am at a loss for the right answer for him. The only thing I can think of is that my father came back from the war front in Burma a different person and not ready for a family at that time. I am told that many soldiers marriages end in divorce after a battlefront deployment and have problems with relationship issues. I can only wish my 1/2 brother would write me. I would have to fly to Portland,Oregon and knock on his door to speak with him. Something I have considered.
The perfect night is checking into a country bed and breakfast lodge, having dinner, sitting up in the main lodge room in the evening watching TV, playing a few card games, having a few drinks and conversing with other patrons and then attiring to our luxurious spacious room with the king size bed and private jacuzzi. And then...........sitting with wine and by candlelight in a bubble bath jacuzzi for two and kissing and touching each other till late into the evening and letting your mind and body run wild with lovemaking for as long as you both can handle it. And then wake up in the morning to watch a glorious sunrise from your balcony and sip on coffee and breakfast. It's all about romance and magical special moments and time to remember with that someone special in your life. Those are the times we treasure and look back on and smile when we recall them.
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I get the scammer emails all the time that start out with saying I had a beautiful picture and then blah, blah, blah and how they want to meet me. I used to have my pic on here but deliberately removed it due to the excessive scammer emails I got. I changed my profile to actually sound very nasty to run off the scammers.Anyway, I had met a local guy from CS nearly 6 yrs ago when I had a pic up and we are still together. I'm on here for the forums only.
In your case, I smell that it is a scammer writing you. Wouldn't waste my time corresponding with her since she sounds like she is being quite evasive. I don't think she actually is a local as she says. There are many good women out there to invest your time with.
Sharon