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War Against Whining … A Revolution Now!

Started by Randy · 8 months ago

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Step up warriors! It’s time to have a new round in the War Against Whining …
Break out your gratitude guns and start firing!

I am grateful to be getting over this cold … finally.
Grateful for cough drops
Grateful that ... Continue reading »

23 comments

  • editorgal

    8 months ago

    Okay, I'll play
    1. I'm beyond grateful for GRACE ... no kidding.
    2. Grateful for a job that challenges and stretches me.
    3. Grateful my son moved out of the house! ;D
    4. Grateful I'm not in charge.
    5. Grateful to have an answer for health issues ... and a plan to fix them!
    6. Grateful for friends, those I've met and those I'll meet in heaven, for the blessings they are in my life.
    7. Grateful I'm not allergic to corn...because Fritos are my friends, too!! heehee
    8. Grateful refraining from foods to which I'm allergic eliminated almost all of my cravings.
    9. Grateful for supportive hubby.
    10. Grateful today is FRIDAY!

    P.S. Yorkies are cute, poms are cute and high maintenance. How about a Silky? Super disposition, calm and totally cute. Westies are cuties, too. Congrats on getting a puppy soon!
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  • Randy

    7 months ago

    1. Amen
    2. ... Amen! ;)
    3 - 5. Good
    6. Great reminder.
    7. loves me somes fritos. Had some at lunch actually.
    9. awww
    10... woohoo!

    What's a silky?
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  • B.T.Carolus

    7 months ago

    It's a terrier. kind of cute, if you like toys. I'd go with a standard poodle, if you can get away with a big dog in your apartment. But I'd also suggest adopting from the pound, unless breed is of utmost importance to you.
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  • Randy

    7 months ago

    I have a condo and I can have a relatively large dog. Breed isn't a big deal to me. Something easy on my allergies, smart and small. I am not into those freaky looking poodles (puff balls stuck everywhere) though.
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  • B.T.Carolus

    7 months ago

    You don't have to keep their coat in a show clip if you don't want. You can shave it all down if you want, and then let it grow in evenly and get it cut back off every month or so (that is the downfall of having a poodle, grooming. But you can also learn to do the grooming yourself). The reason they have long fur is that it acts as a natural wet suit. It gathers up water and heats it up to keep them warm when they are diving into ponds to collect birds.
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  • Randy

    7 months ago

    That's true but they better not dive into any ponds around here ... they might be collected by long green scaly teeth filled alligators.
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  • editorgal

    7 months ago

    Silkies are like Yorkies, only a little bigger, sturdier. Very personable.

    And no, it's good my son moved out...he's 24, will be 25 in March! It's time, and I'm happy for him.
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  • ChaplianChas.

    8 months ago

    I used to have a Brittany Spaniel... not too large a dog, but not a punter, either. Very obedient and very loyal...

    1. Grateful to have had lunch w/a Pastor Friend.
    2. Grateful we're having a worship/ communion service for men only tonight!
    3. Grateful that the Bible doesn't change even when I want it to.
    4. Grateful to live in a country that provides the right to be wrong.
    5. Grateful for Indian Summer (it's been overcast and drizzly through the warmness up here).

    ummmmm....
    6. Grateful for my MacBookPro.
    7. Grateful I don't have a home phone for telemarketer's to always call on.
    8. Grateful for Panera Bread and Starbucks.
    9. Grateful for a job which meets most of my bills.
    10. Grateful to serve a living Savior, Who is in the world, today!

    Blessings!
    ChaplainChas.
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  • Randy

    7 months ago

    I want a yappy punter

    1. Pastor friends are cool
    2. Men's meetings rock too
    4. Yup
    5. Our whole winter is an Indian summer
    6. MAC"S ROCK!
    10. AMEN!
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  • ChaplianChas.

    7 months ago

    5.

    Sigh
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  • Randy

    7 months ago

    Is that a whiny "sigh" or a happy for you "sigh?"
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  • jonathan edmund

    8 months ago

    1. Grateful for my dog
    2. Grateful that you're planning on getting a dog -- you must needs do it immediately!
    3. Grateful that this semester is almost over
    4. Grateful for mastering my own pumpkin-pie-sweetened-with-agave-nectar recipe.
    5. Grateful for visiting Seattle next weekend to visit/interview at Mars Hill Graduate School (www.mhgs.edu)
    6. Grateful for my best friend who is trekking across India teaching the Bible to pastors who can't access Bible teaching
    7. Grateful for the cinnamon brooms they sell at Publix for 3.99 which make your whole apartment smell like cinnamon.
    8. Grateful that God loves me
    9. Grateful for this song which reminds me that He loves me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoC1ec-lYps
    10. Grateful that I rescued a dog who was already house-trained. He just ate and it's pooping time -- gotta run!
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  • Randy

    7 months ago

    1. Your dog is a cutie.
    2. I have to admit I am a little scared. :)
    4. ::: mouth watering :::
    5. I'll pray for ya'.
    6. LOVE missionaries.
    8 -9. Amen!
    10. oohhhh... good idea ;)
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  • Janey

    8 months ago

    OK, I like this blog post.

    Get a cute cuddly dog that is deperatly in need of affection!
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  • Randy

    7 months ago

    I will. So ... where's your gratitude list?
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  • Jay

    8 months ago

    1. Grateful to have 70-degree-weather in November.
    2. Grateful to have not just one but now two beautiful nieces.
    3. Grateful to have a weekend to myself.
    4. Grateful that Marcus got voted off "Survivor" last night (Best. Episode. Ever!)
    5. Grateful to be done with my internship at a local high school (though I'm a little sad too.)
    6. Grateful to have the friends that I have.
    7. Grateful that my ex still keeps in touch, and asks that I pray for him when times are tough.
    8. Grateful that God is using me to challenge people's perceptions (via the blog and real life.)
    9. Grateful for milk and chocolate-chip cookies.
    10. Grateful to God, for so many different things, but most of all Grace.
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  • Randy

    7 months ago

    1. I can relate with empathy ::: doors open :::
    2. I've got three :)
    3. alone time is good I pray you have quality solitude.
    5-6. Good friends great memories
    7. ok
    8. Is that true or your own perception? ::: grin :::
    9. chocolate chip cookies awesome ... chocolate chip cookies and milk ... awesomer.
    10. Amen.
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  • B.T.Carolus

    7 months ago

    1. My friends.
    2. My scholarship.
    3. My internship.
    4. Facebook.
    5. Earth shoes.
    6. Books.
    7. My sheepskin that I read under.
    8. Kezia won homecoming princess!
    9. My mommy.
    10. Anthropologie (even though they're overpriced).
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  • Randy

    7 months ago

    1-4 cool
    5. What are those?
    6. Absolutely
    8. Yeah Kezia!
    9. Mom's are cool.
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  • B.T.Carolus

    7 months ago

    Earth shoes have 'negative heels' which means that your heel is lower than your toes. If you have really bad arches (like me) then they make it so your feet don't hurt.
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  • Pianomankugie

    7 months ago

    In no particular order:
    1. My cat! Sigh, what's with all you dog lovers? Dogs are rude obnoxious babies and they don't purr!!
    2. No longer freaking out about my temptations means they have even less power over me; after 30 years I've come to a point of accepting my weakness (same sex attraction) as a blessing (thorn in the flesh) to keep me from ever thinking or feeling I don't need HIM (God).
    3. My wife who agrees with me that "If I can't get along with you, I can't get along with anyone, so lets suffer with Christ and keep going together; nothing in this fallen world is perfect".
    4. Indoor plumbing and tap water that doesn't give you montezuma's revenge
    5. Chinese Food from Chinese Restaurants in California; not that stuff served at Ridgecrest
    6. Good recordings of good music like Brahms which everyone else thinks is sad but I (Mr. Melancholy) think is absolutely gorgeous and it cheers me up!
    7. An 8-5 weekday year-round 52-week job with stable monthly paychecks, NO evenings, NO weekends, and I am no longer a community college music accompanist since June 2000 (YEA!)
    8. To have inherited good health
    9. A Dad who loved me even though I was "that"
    10. To have been able to experience in person the beauty that is Yellowstone and Crater Lake and Mount Lassen and Kauai and Palm Springs Aerial Tram and Mendocino Coast and......
    11. Salem Radio and Fox News Channel
    12. That I've never had to kill anyone or join the military
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  • Randy

    7 months ago

    ooohh. You get the Gratitude Medal of Honor for going two over :).

    1. Don't be hatin' on dog lovers or I will take your medal away. I like cats too.
    2. Good for you. Sounds like freedom.
    3. very true.
    4. AMEN!
    5. uh ... nothing served at Ridgecrest. It's the only week I don't workout and STILL lose weight.
    6-9. cool
    11. Agreed.
    12. Not killing is a good thing.
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  • Pianomankugie

    7 months ago

    1. OK, my cat is a big baby too, but a baby that runs away from me instead of jumping and slobbering on me.....
    10. No comment about 10? Oh well, not everyone need get excited about natural geologic wonders.....A.D.D. moment here, a few comments about your art: that's cool, becuz I look at your art and think, too random for me, but it only APPEARS to be random to me; the design is there, I just don't get it with my Abstract Concrete (ref: Gregorg) mind...NICE colors! in your art work! Cool! I love the strong colors, none of that French wimpy stuff pale showing in your art......
    13. OK, I did 12 instead of 10 because I couldn't decide which 2 to leave out :) then after I posted, I realized that I could be perceived to be whining about dogs and food at Ridgecrest...... :) which would leave me with only 10.......G I M sillee.......PRAISE GOD I forgot to take my pills for two days, one of which is an antidepressant, and for the first time in over 10 years, there is NO E-OR (Pooh's pessimistic mule) dark cloud life-is-not-worth-living hanging over me, I believe I am experiencing a healing here. Part of it again is that not only will no one take away my joy (LORD said so), but no THING is gonna take away my joy either....I'm not gonna be depressed because I have "that" problem.....whoopee!! Now instead of depression I am feeling anxiety: OK LORD, next level of the onion please.......
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