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Rants! & Raves! 4.4
Here it is, Rants! & Raves!, your weekly chance to sound off about the week past. Remember the rules:
1. A Rave! is something that happened during the past week that you’re pleased about and is signified by the word “Rave!” and/or an appropriately peppy emoticon.
2 A Rant! is something that happened during the past week that you’re ticked about and is signified by the word “Rant!” and/or an appropriately grumpy emoticon.
3. You may Rant! about something a person said, did or wrote, but you may not Rant! about generally disliking a person.
Have fun!
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Rant!
I didn’t get selected for a jury! In fact, noone got selected for a jury. None of te 20 courtrooms in the building was ready to go to trial yesterday, so the jury lady sent all 241 of us home.
I’m starting to think I’ll never get to serve on a jury! Grrrr…
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Lynn, I think you can volunteer for it.
Rave, We’re off to Myrtle Beach.
Rant: Rain is forecast.
Rave: Much needed rain. We’ll manage.
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Rave: The coining of a new term on a thread yesterday – “Drillbits.” I love it. I want to be one.
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Rant: some names have disappeared from worldblog. I so-o-o dislike it when the furniture gets moved like that.
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My turn again….
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Rant: my wife is home in bed with a nasty flu, which means she’ll miss our church’s women’s retreat. She was one of the key planners, the heart of the whole thing.
Rave: No bronchitis or anything like that, just a flu. This too will pass.
Rave: meanwhile, here at work we’re having a potluck lunch, and the banquet table is already filling up with Latino/Indian/classic American food.
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Rant: A Gambian boy we are helping through high school got suspended for the rest of the school year for an April Fool’s prank! (He told the vice-principal that another teacher in the school needed to see him.)
Rave: We applied pressure Gambian style by going to the VP’s uncle and asking him to intercede for us. Result- Dawda is back in school today. God is good.
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Rant: Woke up out of sorts with everyone and everything.
Rave: God convicted me of unforgiveness toward our 19 yr old who pierced her ear while on a weekend trip to a conservative Christian university. Still not happy with her, but I do love her
Rave: Thankful for God’s unfailing forgiveness towards me
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Rant: My sons’ car, with a book value of about $1800, needs $1780 worth of repairs.
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Michelle – I noticed that too but thought it was just me not understanding how to use it. The old version was lots better. Maybe we need to be trained
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Sports Edition of Rants/Raves
Rave: The Cubs got their first win of the season yesterday (Even though I dislike baseball, I do cheer for the Cubbies).
Rave: The Memphis Tigers play in the Final Four tomorrow!
Rave: The Memphis Grizzlies are actually starting to look a little better, having won 5 of their last 10.
Rant: Who am I kidding. The Grizzlies stink.
Rave: Liverpool survived a tough game against Arsenal on Wednesday, leaving with a 1:1 draw.
Rant: Liverpool still has to play Arsenal TWO more times over the next four days!
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Graceland,
Go Memphis! [Boy, did they ever take it to my 'Horns! Hopefully, the chip on their shoulder will take them all the way.]
Go Arsenal! [Sorry, but my son is absolutely Arsenal mad, and so I've become a fan as well.]
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Is the week over yet?
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Deb – When my older daughter was about 16, she pierced her nose with a needle. She went on to eventually add other piercings to her ears, doing it herself. Ouch!
What in particular about your daughter’s piercing her ear bothered you?
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Oddly, both of our old passports were issued on the same day. When I told the guy that my wife didn’t have to mail hers in after waiting in a shorter line, he said that who ever took her application made a mistake and that her application would be sent back to her for her to mail in like me, as soon as the mistake was caught.
He said I would get my passport in 6-8 weeks but my wife’s would take take forever. Both of us were told that we would expedite our passports by paying twice as much (over $150) and get them in two weeks instead of 6-8. We were both tempted but opted not to.
My wife got her new one back in exactly two weeks! Those foreign folks we outsourced our passport renewals to are going a great, no fantastic, job.
Sadly, we should outsource our Courthouses and Post Offices to them too. I expect that my passport application, and old one, is lost in the mail
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Rave: It’s been a good first week back to school after spring break.
Rant: It snowed the first two days back.
Rave: Temperatures are in the 50’s now. (woohoo! T-shirt weather!)
Rant: I have to go to class instead of going outside and enjoying the weather.
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Deb- If she is 19, doesn’t that make her an adult and therefore responsible for herself? We told our daughters they could pierce their ears when they turned 18 and had the money. One is now 22, the other 20 and neither has gone to get poked yet.
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Yikes, Karen! I could never do a piercing on myself! Isn’t that against human nature in some form? Who wants to inflict that kind of pain on themselves?!
I got my ears pierced when I turned 13 – it was a big day! Mom said we had to wait until we were responsible enough to take care of our ears ourselves – and I’m going to do the same with my daughter.
Deb – if that’s all your 19 year old is doing, please be very thankful. It could be sex, drugs, tongue piercing, alcohol, etc. etc. Small potatoes.
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I think, but don’t know, that Deb is commenting on a person living at home, therefore expected to live by house rules. By having her ears pierced against parental wishes and rule, she is expressing her desire to receive the benies of home life without the responsibility of putting herself under another’s charge. This is actually quite a big thing in the spiritual realm and she is right to be concerned. Yes, she could be a pregnant druggie who became a seller to fund her first six abortions, but she is the beautiful young lady she is, an image bearer, and her parents love her and are trying to give her the best start possible. And if there are younger children involved, the parents are wanting to protect them as well from the willfullness of young adulthood. We all draw our lines in our own way.
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Llama, just got my new (”renewed”, that is) passport back two days ago. It took way less than a month, start to finish, even after I made a bone-headed mistake early in the process, which leads me to my rants and raves:
Rant: Forgetting to mail my photos with my initial application, rushing back to the post office once I’d discovered my mistake, finding them closed, and getting my application form returned to me a week later.
Rave: Still getting my passport back so quickly, despite all the confusion!
Rant: It was the 10 year renewal, and it’s still just going to sit in a drawer somewhere b/c I’m not traveling anywhere anytime soon.
Rave: I am going to vacation with my wife (the fetching Cameron) next week in Pigeon Forge. We’ll go to NC first for a denominational board meeting, so Chas, look us up while we’re near Hendersonville!
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Peter L. – Our 19 year old niece who lives with us nicely reminded us that she was an adult now and shouldn’t have to answer to us for how she spent her time away from home (other than college and work) and we nicely reminded her that when she was in her own place and paying her own way 100% she could do exactly as she pleased. But not before then.
As just one example, her car’s power window broke on one side and it cost US $275 to get it repaired. Paying out that kind of money gives us certain rights and privileges.
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Rant: Another wet gray day. (We keep having storms about 3:00 in the morning. I used to sleep heavily when it was storming outside; I don’t anymore.)
I’m with Make It Man–I just want this week over with.
Rant/Rave: I can’t mow my really tall grass in the back, because it’s staying wet with a week of rain. That’s a rant because it needs it badly, though it has only been a week and a half since I mowed, but a rave because I don’t actually like mowing and I have a completely legitimate excuse.
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Rave: The chickes are peeping and eggs are starting to crack as the new babies are making their appearance!
Rant: Boy is off visiting a friend for a couple days and, though he is responsible for them and greatly anticipating their arrival, may have miscalculated on his calendar and may miss the whole thing.
Rant: The girls are happy to fill in and are diligently cleaning baby supplies.
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Oh, another Rave, one of the reasons I have a dog: for something to laugh at.
This morning Misten was eating her breakfast, and from my office window I could see the mailperson coming to the door with a package. The moment she knocked, Misten jumped into the hall and ran down it, barking. But her bark was strangely muffled. I laughed as I told her, “You’re really not supposed to bark with food in your mouth.”
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TL – I think I’ve mentioned that this daughter is stubborn. So she did what she wanted to do, even if it hurt. (Yes, she got in trouble for it.)
VS & Mumsee – I agree that grown children still living at home should still need to abide by some rules. Most of those rules, to me, should fall under the category of “common courtesy” that the parents follow also, such as helping out around the house, & telling each other where we’re going & approx. how long we’ll be gone.
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I agree with Mumsee. I think the point is that her daughter went against her parents wishes, therefore dishonoring them. Good for you for holding her accountable, AND for forgiving her.
Rant: I’ve had this nasty cough for 2 weeks, and woke up this morning with a serious stomach bug and tiring fever.
Rave: Maybe I’ll lose a few more pounds…8*)
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Rant
– That stubborn older daughter I mentioned used to seem to have a “life plan”. Then last year she took up with her current boyfriend, & became too focused on him. She even said that she no longer had any idea what she wanted to do with her life.
Rave
– She now has a goal in mind for her future. She has enjoyed working with little kids at church, was nanny to a baby for 10 months, & is now working at a good daycare, with 2-yr. olds. She loves it. Now she wants to get a degree in Early Childhood Education.
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Rave: Finished listening to an outstanding book on tape (CD) actually. It’s “Brother, I’m Dying” by Edwidge Danticat. ED’s parents emmigrated from Haiti to NYC when she was 4, leaving her and younger brother with her father’s older brother and family. Then her parents sent for them when she was 12. It’s really the story of her father and her uncle with a lot of Haiti in the mix – beginning in the ’60’s through about 2004. The book was published last year. Audio version esp. recommended as the reader did well with the different languages and accents involved.
Rave: I love homeschooling! Very doubtful I would have run across this book otherwise. We’re studying immigration (US – 1850-1920) and the book popped up on a keyword search at the library. I usually try to have somethng “on topic” for listening to in the car as well as personal reading that’s more at my level, but the kids heard a lot of this book too.
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I pierced my own ears with a corsage pin…2 summers ago, I guess. I was bored one Sunday afternoon.
My mom said it was okay, just don’t pierce anywhere else. 
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My sister waited to pierce her ears until she had moved out of the house. Then, the first time she came back home for a visit, she was nervous that Mom would think she had done it out of rebellion, though she hadn’t. (She was only 17.) Mom apparently didn’t care, much to my sister’s relief. But I’d never had any great interest in piercing my ears, and I saw my sister struggle with infection, and I never chose to have it done. There are very few 40-year-olds around with unpierced ears, but I’m one of them. Years later my sister let her own ears close up, too, finding earrings more trouble than they were worth.
I’d be inclined to talk it over with a daughter, see if she’s interested in having it done. If she is, I’d tell her what age she could do so, and allow her to look forward to it. Not younger than teen years, maybe 16, so that she’d really know what she was doing and know whether she wanted the hassle and expense of earrings.
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Well, my parents had told me they didn’t care, although they said that people with blond hair don’t look good in earrings. ^_^
Notwithstanding, I was a little nervous, especially since I had used my sister’s earrings and she wasn’t there at the time.
Rant: People make me tired.
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Another pierced ears story-
My pastor had been saved, as a young teen, in a church that erred on the legalistic side, but was also very loving. He carried with him into adulthood some of the rules they had.
One rule was against piercing the ears. When his daughter reached her early teen years, she really wanted to have her ears pierced, but he resisted.
It was on a trip to Israel that the Holy Spirit dealt with him about the legalism in his attitude.
He came home from Israel with a pair of earrings for his daughter, as his way of surprising her with his permission.
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Sylvie
Fly to Spain, cross into France and let your parents or friends FedEx your long visa. Take the long visa, go back into Spain, turn around and re-enter France making sure they stamp the visa. Generally speaking there are no border controls within the western side of the EU. However, the train gauge is different in Spain and you must switch trains at the border and the French sometimes ask to see passports. I just held my Canadian passport up and they waived me in without looking. On a bus or private car you may get a cursory glance but nothing more.
I had a friend who lived for years in France and would travel to Italy every three months to re-enter as a tourist. As a Canadian (or American) tourist, you can stay 90 days without a visa. Italy was only an hour drive on his Vespa and it had cheaper cigarettes.
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Thanks for the tip, HRW. The problem is my long visa is acutally here in France and I have to show up to this doctor’s appt. to get it.
Also I believe visa rules have changed with Schengen…I would actually have to leave the European Union to pull that off, which means going through security in England…yikes!
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