Wacky Funster

"WHAT!! and you thought this was another gay thread?" ...then you would have called it The Fast Fairy's Coming!!! :P--> :P-->

kisses with the pastel colored wrappers... yummmmmmmmmmmy :P-->

mj...you are exactly who the system is there to help!!!! why? because you WILL NOT take advantage of the system...and that's the whole point of that system...to help people in NEED...not people who are using the system to exploit it.

Now...what was the topic here?

We'll see, Zix... Every year my health insurance, and that's even a stretch of the term, goes up $400!!! I get the next bill in July...we shall see. Sometimes I am on the edge of just chucking the whole health insurance thing. I really don't need it...never did, and with god's mercy and grace...never will. It's always that soft whisper people like to whisper in my ear..."but, what if???" What ifs never seem to happen to me. If my health insurance goes up again by $400, and that is likely the case, I won't be renewing it again this year. I just don't make the money...and, hey, the money I have to spend, well...I need a life. Sitting at home because you don't have money to go out because you're paying for health insurance that you don't use is getting very very old.

no :(-->

Zix...I'm gonna end up paying for them anyways... :(--> ??? I can't count on one hand how many times I've been ill in the past 20 years, let alone use any of my very costly insurance... ...last my agency told me, the National Association of the Self Employed, self employed people are the least likely to get sick, nor use their health benefits... I pay over $4000/year for catastrophic (if I get cancer or MS, or something that serious)...everything else comes out of pocket...which itself is motivation to NOT get sick. So, I eat right and take preventative cautions.

Outside of San Fransisco, I do believe I am in the gay capital of the world...well...I live on the other side of it... Provincetown, MA. I've read most of this thread...(reading long durges is hard for me)...and I must admit, altho I interact nor know very few gays, I have seen enough to separate them into 2 camps. I've done a few experiments...as I love travelling and learning about culture, I have also been curious about the homosexual culture. An old boyfriend of mine was doing the Aids bike marathon from Boston to New York a few years back. I decided to volunteer to be one of the many massage therapists for it...travelling in vans and setting up camp for 3 nights, working on the peops every evening. I had no problem volunteering, after all...this is what I do...but, HOLY MOLY...!!!! ...I was blown away by the community of gays (and not in a good way)...and I will NEVER...EVER again be amongst a mass of them. They have their own rhythm and rhyme...and my head was reeling with the diversity and (seemingly sickness) of them. Not only did I hear conversations of devil worship, see queens dressed up as Jackie Onassis passing out glow in the dark condoms...I was majorly uncomfortable at the out in the open sexual activity that was prevalent. Oh, btw, I was all but ostracized that I was straight!!! Needless to say, I will never do that again :(--> Last year, I spent 2 weeks at tour directing school in San Fransisco. 2 of my summer clients are a gay couple with 2 little boys (artificially inseminated). The invited me to stay at their house for free as I attended my classes. They live in Twin Peaks...an affluent residencial suburb...and for 2 weeks I spend dinners with them when I got home. Loving to learn of cultures, I embraced the opportunity to engage with their household. I was amazed!!!! There was more love and caring interaction in that house than I have seen in heterosexual relationships!!!! I was impressed...and glad to see it...add it to yet another life experience on my cultural quest. What did I learn of all this? There are 2 camps of gays...the thoroughly obnoxious ones that make your skin crawl and cringe for a getaway...and those that are quite "normal" ... I'm not sure how I feel about this gay marriage issue. I believe the bulk of it is for marriage perks, myself...and the one gay I have spoken to about this agrees with me. Being single myself, I know of the struggle it is to make ends meet...and then watch marrieds and marrieds with children get tax breaks and perks, insurance perks...and the list goes on. Why should a gay with a partner suffer financially? I don't see love as being in the equation. I don't even see "marriage" as the equation...I see it all as a financial need...and perhaps the government doesn't wanna dish out more benefits and lose more money with this issue either. I dunno. To me, marriage is just a piece of paper...and a bunch of perks... you can love each other and live together...and what's the difference? And as far as our society is concerned...the whole world is going insane...this is just one more piece of the pie.

Touche Radar....I never read those lengthy articles either...my eyes tend to , so I bypass them. In fact, after a few sentences if someone doesn't paragraph themselves, I skip over that too... Well, I'm in Massachusetts...and I've been watching the TV and it seems this topic is spreading ...San Fransisco, New Paltz (where the heck is that?)...New Mexico...and this morning in the news I hear it is spreading to Rhode Island...it's an epidemic I tell ya ;)-->

ROFLMAO Tom...of course it'll be worth something someday...just don't open the box...don't touch it, don't enjoy it...just store it away and forget about it... You'll be rich someday fer sure ;)-->

I have no clue what you are talking about... :(-->

Holy Moly...I frolic off to work for a few hours to make a few measly bucks and look what happens!!!! Rocky...have you found your thread yet?

I can't believe I am saying this after 17 years, but... Chapter and Verse please... :D-->

"Either way, why be upset that it got moved over there? It is a political thread after all..." Well, Tom...how is he gonna respond to people and reap the benefits of what people say when he can't read the thread???

def...is that written in the bible? or was that more of vpw's word of wisdom???? ugh...

ex...you have a point there...put in a place where you are banned from going? Ouch!!!

Geez, ex10...at my movie, which was the first showing in the area, and the theatre was about 1/8th full, everyone got up right away...including me ;)--> I didn't have haunting dreams last night. To be honest with you...I only went to see it because it was Ash Wednesday and I thought it would be a nice, happening thing to do. I work like that sometimes. I probably wouldn't have opted to see it otherwise.

yeah d...kinda like that ;)--> ex...according to the blurbs I've been hearing this movie, as opposed to the feel good movies of Jesus telling his spiritual message...this one reveals the very graphic 3 days of an innocent man being tortured... I felt nor saw any "spirituality" as I have seen and gleaned from, lets say, King of Kings... I received no message from this movie. I felt like a witness to the brutality against him...

" I do find I have less emotion a lot of times..." Me? Emotionless? ROFLMAO...not me... I spent 10 years in therapy after twi learning to feel and have emotions again... Most of the time, I'm a blubbering fool... -->

I just got home from the movie. I didn't cry...I was pretty emotionless as far as that goes... But I was sick to my stomache since about 10 minutes into it. While I was watching it I was thinking that that same situation could happen today... I didn't feel the spirituality of it all, but that wasn't the purpose of the movie. I was sick to my stomache...still feel sick... ugh... I'm glad I saw it...but, I wouldn't see it again worth nothing... P.S. This is exactly how I pictured it from twi's teachings, perhaps that's why it didn't surprise me... I remember someone teaching once that he looked like a piece of meat...and Mel Gibson did a fine job in making a person looking like that and still walking.

Alexander and the No Good, Very Bad Day... Why? Because...he wants to go to Australia,...and inspired me to go there ...

Happy Birthday Dot :)--> Many more...ok??? :D-->

Thank you everyone for sharing the big 29th with me again this year!!!! (We've been 4 years here celebrating already...wow...where does the time go?) It's been a long weekend drawn out birthday...not too eventful...but lots of little meaningful blessings along the way :)--> The cabin sale is still postponed as there is alot of restrictions on the land and zoning, yada yada yada...so...so much for my birthday bash in the little cabin on the brook with a waterfall...oh well...next year I hope to have it :)--> and you're all invited. I went up there this weekend to scope out the land again...didn't bring any snowshoes...and the snow was way past my knees!!! The brook still sang to me, so I am still going ahead with the purchase. It means alot to me to have seen this thread, and I thank you all for your kindnesses and words. Isn't there an old oriental custom of the birthday girl giving a gift? If so, and my memory is serving me right,... I WISH YOU ALL GOOD HEALTH AND BLESSINGS ABOUNDING IN YOUR VERY PRECIOUS LIVES. If you have your health, you have close to everything... :)--> Thanx

Happy Birthday, Shell...and many many more!!! :D-->

Spanish? I don't think there are many spanish speaking folks where I live. Never heard of a spanish speaking station...oh well... I only get 3 channels...and that's plenty ;)-->