just soooooooo cute~

I fought the neck and back spams most of the day yesterday.  now today I woke up and it felt like someone is trying to pull my hair out.  My scalp feels so stinkin tight and boy do I have a headache.  I know it is stress... it's always stress.

on top of it, I'm cold.  Last night i went to bed wearing 2 shirts and a sweater, pants and SOCKS... socks people socks.  Not to mention I was under every blanket I could find. .... but socks!  Most of my life I couldn't stand having socks on let alone having socks on in bed.  if by some goofy fluke I did have socks on when I fell asleep I kicked them off in the night.  And most of my life, I don't even want blankets on my feet and and and... for years and years when I sleep I have a fan blowing on my feet cause my feet get so hot while I sleep.... i woke up with my socks still on.  but my whole body just hurts because I am cold.  I know last year I was having a harder time with the cold but right now I am in bed and I have 9... that is NINE blankets on top of me and I'm still wearing socks.  i think this is why old people move south in the winter.  if I could I would too.  yeah, i know i set myself up for being called old. but in this case, it is how i feel.

well, what can you do.  I know we have a wood stove but... i don't feel warm.  plus my ribs are hurting today besides, which makes breathing hurt.  oh well.  that's life, what can you do.

the meeting was just wonderful today.  Bro Brad Davis gave the talk, and he has such wonderful experiences he shared.  It was interesting, cause I wished Steph was here... well, not that she needed the info, but it supported what we were talking about last night when I was talking to her (on the phone) we were talking about being careful not to be influenced by others who lower their standards from what Jehovah requires.  Like dress and grooming or conduct.  She mentioned something to a group yesterday that she felt was inappropriate and they all just laughed at her and said they do far worse.  that alarmed her.  We talked about how Jehovah never lowers his standards and when we know better and see others who are not following his standards we shouldn't let them effect us.  I told her it is really hard to be laughed at and be called a goody two shoes (as she was called that) but she said she could hold her head high because she knows what Jehovah requires.  But she did say she was upset that there are Witnesses who don't hold that high standard and she just wasn't prepared for that.  I told her that it has been known for many years that the brothers and sisters in the cities (area) don't all hold the high standard Jehovah sets.  She asked why I didn't tell her, and i told her, because I've never spent time around the congs in down there, so it was "here say"and inappropriate for me to comment about. I told her the Solon cong has been known for years as being very strict.  I told her i would rather be in a hall that is strict than in a hall that isn't.  She didn't know that either.   that really cracks me up to have people say in a negative way that our cong is strict.  REALLYYYYYYYYYYY???????   It is something to make fun of when a cong is striving to follow Jehovah's standards??????????   People are messed up if they think it is a bad thing.

Steph said they were at a coffee shop and some people were talking about not wanting to have a blood transfusion, she said the just thought it was so interesting to hear people talk like that. then someone was talking about the bible, and they were able to give a good witness.  Steph has done so much informal witnessing in the past several years, even making RV's.  She has no problem speaking up at work, in restaurants, in stores, or where ever she is... yet if she goes door to door she can't remember a presentation or a scripture she just freezes like "stage fright".  Then she can go and informal witness anywhere.  She has really been making an effort to do as much informal witnessing as she can because she knows she can.  And yet so many having trouble with informal witnessing.  so interesting.