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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, November 29, 2004 - 12:59 pm
You see, this is why I don't travel. You never hear someone exclaim what a GREAT, PLEASANT trip they had. Sure the destination is great, but the travelling is NEVER good. I could NEVER travel across Europe, or around the world. I am too stressy.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, November 29, 2004 - 2:41 pm
When I was seven, my dad drug my sis and I to Washington State for Thanksgiving with my Grampa and relatives I didn't know. My parents are divorced, My gramma had just died and Grampa went up there to visit my distant family. Dad was constantly teasing us, it is just his nature. I had a pretty bad lisp when I was little, and he had a field day with it until I got it corrected. Anyway, I was homesick, I wanted my mom so badly. Thanksgiving dinner ended up being in the bulding cafeteria. It was awful and sis and I cried the whole time. Then, on the long "DRIVE" home, a family of deer ran across the freeway and the mom and baby made it across, but the buck was hit by a truck and it exploded against the front of it. Legs and horns went flying. After seeing that, my dad to this day says I am not the same. I was so glad to be home. I don't think I ever went on a trip with my dad ever again after that. It just wasn't worth it. We'd go and visit him, but that was it. He always says that he wants to take all his kids back to Washington to visit, he now has 5 at the time, he just had sis and I. He seems to forget that we are both married with Children. Does anyone sense any bitterness here? I could shock you with my "daddy dearest stories"
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - 11:49 am
OH, Escapee. That sounds like a very un-fun Thanksgiving. I can see how an incident like that could have scarred you for life. IF you could change one thing about the way your family does Christmas, what would you change?
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - 12:09 pm
They would all buy me 2 presents. lol Nope not a thing I love Christmas.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - 12:17 pm
i would love to have christmas at my house. we always have to go to his sister's (due to medical reasons). they don't decorate or do anything different than any other family get together. other than the presents, it feels so UNCHRISTMAS! last year it was bring your own mexican dish. GAWD! that is sooooooo not christmas. at least not the ones i grew up with! my mom, when she was alive, always did a big christmas eve dinner, we opened one present, and woke up to christmas breakfast. the house was decorated outside and inside. this year with my new house, we're decorating! the christmas tree with all the fixins! we still go to my dad's christmas eve, where we open one present. but this year we're having christmas breakfast and NOT going to his family until afternoon!
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - 12:47 pm
We don't get together for Christmas since my great-grandmother died 5 years ago. I would change that. I miss them. Unfortunately, SHE was our "glue", the matriarch of the family.

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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - 12:48 pm
I love Christmas, too, and I would hate it if it didn't "feel" like Christmas. One thing I would change is that we would limit gifts to no more than three per person. That doesn't mean that each person would receive only three gifts (hmmm, that's not such a bad idea after all), just that no person would be receiving more than three gifts from the same person. We give and receive way too much! I'd like it if everyone could relax more and make it a less stressed time of year. It's the little things, not the great big ones, that really count.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - 1:16 pm
I wouldn't have to do ALL the shopping!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - 1:53 pm
My aunt and cousins would be pleasures to be around, and their presence would be a welcome asset to our get together, but unfortunately it is the opposite.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 10:53 am
I would have a bigger family. I've always wanted one of those Griswald type Christmases, with both sides of the family and all the extended relatives there... but probably just once. IF you had to sell your soul for one thing, what would it be?
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Lancecrossfire
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 10:58 am
Everyone in the world living by the golden rule.
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Wapland
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 11:01 am
That depends....who am I selling it to?
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 11:57 am
that my daughter would not have the ADHD/SID problems that she has. life has been difficult for her, and for us, and this is just the beginning. i love the lord, but, i would do it in a heartbeat!
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 1:21 pm
my childs soul
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 1:52 pm
That Lance gets his wish. 
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 3:36 pm
Wow... I kind of forgot about this thread, hey? Thanks to Jagger for jogging my memory over in the Question of Scruples thread, which has also fallen victim to being a forgotten thread. Today's quesiton comes courtesy of Jagger, who, incedentally, has the same book. For the record, I would probably sell my soul for a genie who granted an unlimited supply of wishes. IF you could have the answer to any one question, what question would it be?
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 4:24 pm
Why?
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 6:18 pm
Nevermind, I have the answer, of course its "Why not?"
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 6:42 pm
How?
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 8:37 pm
How did the universe REALLY begin? God? Allah? Etc. The truth would rock some of our value systems, and I would think the eventual outcome would be an inner and a world peace. PS - Karen! I'm glad you revived this thread!!
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 9:25 pm
Good question Karen.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 11:20 pm
which came first? the chicken or the egg?
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 11:28 pm
Why don't people like the orange and yellow devil ducks?
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 11:34 pm
i have an orange quackle! and i wuv him!
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Suitsmefine
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 11:37 pm
I love them Sea, I would like one for my very own!
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