This is a time of year that is about love, family, friends and most of all giving. Discuss holiday plans, recipes, gifts (the tangible and intangible) and more here.
Meanwhile, just in time for the season, Netflix and Amazon.com have released for streaming a raw and intense documentary about giving, Craigslist Joe.
In December 2011, 29-year-old Joe Garner decided to see if he could live solely off the generosity of others all month long. He empties his wallet and takes to Craigslist. The dozens and dozens of heartwarming (and often funny!) encounters Joe has with people from Craigslist moves him, and viewers, to tears. In particular, he is once invited to stay with an Iraqi family in Seattle. They tell him about their experiences, good and bad, as immigrants in the U.S. And in New York, he meets an eccentric woman named Fran with cancer. Joe quickly realizes Fran has a severe hoarding problem. Without judgement, he spends a few hours at her place clearing one small area for her to sit, bringing joy and peace to Fran. Will Joe find a place to rest his head and food to eat every day? The answer may surprise you.
Craigslist Joe is the ultimate 31-day grifting plan--and yet this grifting had a greater purpose. To see if most people really are generous, open, and good at heart. Perhaps the most moving moment of all is when Joe's mother talks about the experience. She says she wasn't going to worry about her son out there. She was confident her boy would find plenty of good people to help him. We were rooting throughout the film for Joe to prove his mom right. Thank you, Joe and Zach.
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«Oldest ‹Older 1601 – 1625 of 1625 Newer› Newest»This is a simple thing to do to help Hurricane Sandy. Buy from New York CIty small businesses. I ordered a couple knit things from a business called KD Dance. Great high quality clothes for reasonable prices. They sent a Christmas card saying how much it helps that people are still buying from them. Donations are great too but making a point to buy from any business in an area going through tough times is a longer term solution.
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A little Texas aggie bird flew by and told me that some aggie-person slammed a truck door on her finger a few hours ago. I mean slammed, as in, the truck door was shut with her finger in it.
Apparently the human body is capable of all kinds of different shades of blue.
Be kind if she shows up and tries to type something. The poor thing!
Or maybe she was fibbing and just trying to grift some choco out of me, but I dont think so!
Oh Aggie-type person! Be more careful, you need all those fingers for Christmas. :)
Dwindle, since you're trending crockpots now and have a 'following' (May have your autograph? :) maybe you'd like to throw out the next trend for them to see how closely they do read here - cutting boards, or electric knife sharpeners, or mandolin slicers or cheese slicers or juicers or can openers. Must be something shiny to get their attention.
ot. Everthing that is said seems to have a dirct connection to last Friday. So many tears being shed. So many hearts broken. The 26 Christmas trees that are there, were donated by someone from NC. Im going to help by doing good deeds to play it forward. Will tell family and friends how very important they are. Really wanted to help a lady yesterday in the rain get her groceries in her car. But I didn't because I couldn't get close enough to her in time. Felt guilty. Will keep my eyes open to help someone tomorrow and tomorrow. Do unto others.
I was at WaWa tonight and two teenagers paid for an older man's coffee. I lingered until he came to the register. He was so touched. It was a little thing but it made me smile.
So whether or not we are right on the money by calling it whatever we do, the point is we have witnessed her symtoms impact her daily life, and prevent her from functioning normally as a member of society and as a mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, employee.
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Yes exactly! I don't care what you want to call it the behavior is what it is. Some are more comfortable with labels, others aren't, it doesn't change the behavior.
I personally think trying to classify things into disorders is helpful because it provides a framework to understand the person, and other people who have been through it can offer coping techniques or share their personal stories. If we just let all behavior exist without classifying it, providing help based on past experiences becomes more difficult. This becomes more important for Kate's actual victims though, not for us.
Guys, I just got back from dance class. The other women and I started talking about Newtown. It was the most surreal experience, we were just talking and .... we burst into tears, almost simultaneously. The whole feel of the class was different tonight.
We talked about having this lingering sadness that won't go away.
It reminds me of what Milo said. Although it was way too soon and totally inappropriate, eventually lifedoes go on. There will be a day where there isn't this kind of new coverage and it won't be discussed as much. But the sorrow our nation is feeling, it feels like it's never going to go away.
I just can't stop picturing the faces of the children :-( And thinking of those brilliant, brave teachers who had so much to offer.
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Oh and PS:
A little Texas aggie bird flew by and told me that some aggie-person slammed a truck door on her finger a few hours ago. I mean slammed, as in, the truck door was shut with her finger in it.
Apparently the human body is capable of all kinds of different shades of blue.
Be kind if she shows up and tries to type something. The poor thing!
Or maybe she was fibbing and just trying to grift some choco out of me, but I dont think so!
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aggiemom,
ow!!! At least your sense of humor is intact :)
ICE!!
Today I was the recipient of a random act of kindness. I went to the grocery store, and from there to CVS. When ready to pay for the CVS stuff, I realized I didn't have my wallet! I drove back to the grocery store, my heart in my throat. At customer service, I asked if anyone had found my wallet, and she asked if I was 'Remona Blue'. When I nodded yes, she handed me my wallet, and said a customer had found it in the slushy mud in the place I'd parked my car. I guess I somehow dropped it as I was loading things into the trunk. Not a penny missing. I felt like sobbing! When I was telling my oldest about it, she said that she believed it was ''pay-back'' for the time a few months ago, when I turned in to that very same customer service the really fancy cell phone I'd found in a grocery basket!
Random acts of kindness are a really feel-good thing...whether you're the giver or the recipient!
Remona that's great. I have been the recipient of the kindness of so many good people.
Several months back I lost my camera as I was getting on a crowded train, a rather expensive one. I must have dropped it, and then I walked several cars ahead before realizing it was gone. I thought it would probably be stolen but I would look anyway. I walked up and down the train a couple times until I found it laid out at the edge of a couple's tray table. They were hoping someone would walk by and see it, and I did! They didn't want to ask people if that was their camera for fear someone would lie and take it.
Another camera story, in the 80's my mom lost her camera in D.C. on a family trip there. She is an actual organized mom and had her name and address labeled on it with this old hard red labels with elevated type. Well sure enough about 2 weeks later it arrived in the mail. No note, no return address, just mailed to us. Amazing.
You know I believe what goes around comes around.
I also lost my wallet with everything in it and didn't realize till morning.
I went outside and it was laying in the grass.-lol
I had everything inside. I all ways try to be nice to people.
I don't know what I did ti deserve to find my wallet.
And I had a hundred plus dollar in my wallet that day.
Admin....the woman at customer service said the man was very apologetic that the wallet was muddy on the outside, and he had refused to leave his name. Your mother's camera was returned to her without a return address. Those two are very good uses of Anonymous!! Be anonymous when doing good...NOT when being hateful to others!
Fired Up 4 Kate @MiloandJack
Too tired 2tweet my sweets! Auntie held her own another day...still have a long way 2go. I remain hopeful/op
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Who or what is Milo's "sweets?"
Similar story here about my wallet being turned in at a Walmart store. I was stunned, but so very thankful. I never learned who turned it in. It felt so important to pay it forward as soon as possible.
butterfly, 193..."The NRA is making their statement on Friday."
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They released a statement today. Is there another one forthcoming?
Who or what is Milo's "sweets?"
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Hopefully Lights Out Man, the one who brings her vanilla ice cream every night before bed.
But sadly, I don't think that's who she's talking to here. It's the strangest thing.
I don't have a lights out man, but I just checked, and my very favorite sleeping pill tv show is on Science Channel. How It's Made! I defy anyone to stay awake past the three hundred twenty third step of making golf balls! Or ball point pins. Or pencil erasures. The guide says that for the next 28 minutes, I can watch them make tissues, travel trailers, slippers and motorcycle helmets!! If those don't put me to sleep, there are 30 minute episodes from now (midnight) till 2am. I don't know what they will make, but I promise it will take many many many steps!! Nite everyone!
Ms Kreider is boring. She will never get a TV show because she is boring. No matter that she is despicable and does not have the capability to care for a pet rock, let alone a dog, she is too boring to bring viewers to any show. I would be shocked if she ever resurfaces on any TV show, unless it is some kind of parody.
Fan favorites on Dancin With Them Thar Stars got to be in the Las Vegas live show, or go on tour, or host a companion web series, or return to do comedy bits on the show. Not Ms Kreider, she burned those bridges thoroughly. Engaging families on TLC, like LPBW,, get to return for specials or relaunch of a series with a different focus. Not Ms Kreider, her solo series try must have been a disaster (and wouldn't you love to see some of that footage with Ms Kreider trying to be a waitress or do another non-glamorous job.)
Santa is NOT bringing a new TV show.
Aggiemom, hope your finger gets better soon!
LOL, just because we can clearly see on the show, in other TV venues Kate has been seen on and the magazines and books that feature her that she is the most self-centered, cruel and abusive creature that calls her self "mommy" makes us far from sheeple. It's behavior she places/placed on display time and time and time again. I would say it's a fact not an opinion and since narcissistic personality is no in the newest DSM we don't even need a degree to give her that label since it's not a "diagnosis".
Though I agree that it's just as easy to say she is a narcissistic child/spouse/animal abusing creep and dull, boring and too stupid to realize that her time in the limelight was too long to begin with never mind that she keeps chasing it. She again shows too dumb to realize time to move on or scale back. She's never going to get that talk show or a place as a roving interviewer for any entertainment show.
I also have to laugh at the idea that she is going to luck out and find another man who is going to want to replace Jon as her personal physical and emotional punching bag. Just because some man tells her she's hot doesn't mean that want to marry her and become the bad cop to her children for her.
This is Franky,
I think Joy gave me a shout-out! ( happy dance, lol)
I am the Pastafarian..aka Rastafari/Bhuddist =)
Although Pastafarian coild also apply, especially Angelhair.
I and i have been sending tonglen and love into the world, especially to the good people of Newtown. May the healing process begin and they find strengh to go on.
Jah bless
I also have to laugh at the idea that she is going to luck out and find another man who is going to want to replace Jon as her personal physical and emotional punching bag. Just because some man tells her she's hot doesn't mean that want to marry her and become the bad cop to her children for her.
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You never know. They say that there's a lid for every pot.
I got it working!! I am on an iPad and clicked web version and the comments suddenly appeared. So glad to hear what happened. You can't libel forever and expect to get away with it. Thank you for helping Remona didn't mean to get frazzled was just anxious to hear what was up.
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