Sunday, April 5, 2009

Founding Tenets

Since I've changed venue, I feel like I've lost 2 years of blog posts. And I'm waaaaaay too lazy to move everything. Still...I feel like I need to get any new readers up to speed on Beth's Blog Tenets - Shorthand Version. Each of them is several (usually annoyed) blog posts. However, since I'm too lazy to move all those blog entries and I'm too lazy to blog about each of them again, here are some. If any readers are from the old blog, feel free to add to the list.

1. I dislike the phone. I feign deafness and don't answer it except at work. I don't like cell phones.

2. I dislike Costco but have a Costco membership.

3. Miss J doesn't eat very much, but she's made some progress in the last 6 weeks in a positive direction. She's up to the 3rd percentile!

4. I'm married to a wonderful man. He's my hero.

5. I love board games. I love murder mysteries. I want to start hosting murder mysteries again.

6. I love the 80s!!!

7. I recently learned from a doctor friend (the PhD kind, not the medical kind) that I have low self-esteem issues & slight OCD. That's it. I really thought I was more screwed up than that. Or maybe he just doesn't know me well enough yet.

8. I HATE getting little books sent to me from someone who shall remain nameless. They always have passages highlighted, as in, "Beth, let me help you come to the light. Once you read this paragraph, you'll change your views." Ummm... yeah, right, I'm a fairly stubborn girl.

And there are more; I just can't remember them!

2 comments:

Leigh Ann said...

Hey, can you make it where it emails me when you blog from here? My nephew has his blog set up to email me every time he blogs on here....
I need to know when Beth blogs! :)

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[3:85] And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers.

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The Messenger of Allah (saas) said, "One who kills a non-Muslim person under protection (Arabic: dhimmi) will not even smell the fragrance of Paradise."

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Whoever hurts a non-Muslim person under protection, I am his adversary, and I shall be an adversary to him on the Day of Resurrection.

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