 - Last login: 3 hours agoJeanmare
- JeanMarie is a 58 year old married woman from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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- Member since Nov 25, 2007
I am married to a great guy for 23 years with no children, two
dogs and a chinchilla. For several years I have been semi-retired, but last year went back to work as a nanny, which is one of many career paths I've been on. I am a Christ follower, a lapsed Catholic and often say, "I hate people", which is certainly counter what Jesus did...
Someday soon I husband & I hope to purchase an RV, hit the road and be wanderers for a bit, just , "...me and you and a dog named Boo..." OK, two dogs named Katie & Greyla, but that doesn't really fit the music, :-)
Tell me what you think of me @ http://kevan.org/johari?name=jeanmare
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jamest50s profile - StumbleUpon
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1:52pm
1 review
stumblers
http://jamest50.stumbleupon.com/
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Welcome to SU! You're off to a good start. Looking forward to seeing more of what you're interested in, Jim. What kind of snake do you have?
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Vibram FiveFingers: Classic
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Jul 3, 9:35pm
6 reviews
clothing, footwear
http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/products/products_classic.cfm
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I think they could be comfy. Unfortunately there isn't an outlet close enough to my hometown to try them & I hesitate to buy something like footwear without trying them first.
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Jul 3, 7:33pm
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And now, a little humor:
Four friends, who hadn't seen each other in 30 years,are reunited at a party.
After several drinks, one of the men had to use the rest room. Those who remained talked about their kids.
The first guy said, 'My son is my pride and joy. He started working at a successful company at the bottom of the barrel. He studied Economics and Business Administration and soon began to climb the corporate ladder and now he's the president of the company. He became so rich that he gave his best friend a top of the line Mercedes for his birthday.'
The second guy said, 'Darn, that's terrific! My son is also my pride and joy. He started working for a big airline, then went to flight school to become a pilot. Eventually he became a partner in the company, where he owns the majority of its assets He's so rich that he gave his best friend a brand new jet for his birthday..'
The third man said: 'Well, that's terrific! My son studied in the best universities and became an engineer. Then he started his own construction company and is now a multimillionaire. He also gave away something very nice and expensive to his best friend for his birthday: A 30,000 square foot mansion.'
The three friends congratulated each other just as the fourth returned from the restroom and asked: 'What are all the congratulations for?'
One of the three said: 'We were talking about the pride we feel for the successes of our sons. ...What about your son?'
The fourth man replied: 'My son is gay and makes a living dancing as a stripper at a nightclub.'
The three friends said: 'What a shame... what a disappointment.'
The fourth man replied: 'No, I'm not ashamed. He's my son and I love him. And he hasn't done too bad either... His birthday was two weeks ago, and he received a beautiful 30,000 square foot mansion, a brand new jet and a top of the line Mercedes from his three boyfriends.'
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Search - LocalHarvest
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Jul 3, 2:21pm
2 reviews
organics, farm-to-table
http://www.localharvest.org/search-csa.jsp?map=1&lat=40.469880&lon=-80.015700...
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Listing for CSA participating farms in & around the Pittsburgh, PA vicinity. Also available information for local Farmer's markets,farms, co-ops.
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Jul 3, 8:51am
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Thank you to exqwizme.stumbleupon.com [exqwizme.stumbleupon.com] for the following wisdom from her review of a blog story of marriage, betrayal and reconciliation. I appreciate her honesty and her point of view.
From her page:
"It's called love, love.
Now, this is me putting myself out there, and I'm not even sure whether this is the right thing to do, but alas, here it is. Only a few months ago I found out about the affair my husband had. It hurt like hell. Literally. It's the kind of pain that is not describable. Just like attempting to describe what it feels like to love your child to someone who's never been a parent before, by saying it felt like someone opened my chest, grabbed a hold of my heart and soul, squeezed it and pulled on it so tight that it made me nauseous, barely covers it. Again, you don't know the feeling unless you've experienced it.
Up to that point, I wasn't in love with my husband anymore, not for the previous two years or so. I liked him and enjoyed his company (most of the time), but that loving feeling was gone, and if it was still present, it was buried deep and unrecognizable.
But in those moments of intense pain and anger, enduring the feelings of betrayal, I fell in love with this man all over again. My feelings for him are stronger than they have ever been. I felt like I had another chance. For crying out loud, I could have lost him to death instead of to another woman.
Love is something worth fighting for, believe me. If you were in love with someone, and that love has disappeared, don't give up. It is buried inside, granted we're not talking about a partner who physically or mentally abuses, no need to go digging for or holding on to that kind of love.
Society has left the impression that it is given that when you have been betrayed, you let go of your marriage/partnership. You're expected to act and react a certain way, e.g., "[...] What self respecting wife would put up his affair!![...]" Well, this self respecting wife has accepted what has happened, has conversed extensively with both the husband and the mistress, has forgiven, has taken away a lesson, has let go, and has moved on."
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Too often in today's society, we expect our spouses and others whom we care for and are in relationship with, to be perfect, forgetting that none of us is perfect. In point of fact, we are all far from the ideal. Yes, people make mistakes. Sometimes they hurt us so badly with their poor choices that we want to die from the pain. But, unless their inflicting pain upon us is habitual and/or abusive, we need to step back and consider forgiveness. It astonishes me that people would be willing to throw away a relationship of intimacy to start all over again. If you truly loved the person enough to marry and want to share your life, surly you can work your way through a valley of pain to emerge into a more evolved and caring love. It is also important to have a friendship with your spouse, as the foundational basis for your relationship, imho. Marriages built on sexual compatibility may function well in youth, but what happens when there is no other point of connection, except sexual pleasure? What happens when you hit one of the rocky patches of road to which we have all been subjected at one time or another?
Kudos to Exqwizme, to my husband & I (having celebrated 23 years last February)and to David and Roberta who got through their rough patch and have been married 40 years!
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Jul 3, 8:26am
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A great couple of quotes I snagged somewhere...
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner
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Kirk: Do you want to know something? Everybody's human.
Spock: I find that remark insulting. "Star Trek"
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She was 82. He was 95. They had dementia. They fell in love. And then they start…
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Jul 3, 8:16am
9 reviews
aging, sexual-health, dementia, elder-rights, geriatric-rights
http://www.slate.com/id/2192178
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This is a really important subject, given the aging of our country, and in particular, the county in which I live in Pennsylvania. Where do we stand of the rights of aging individuals, even those diagnosed with dementia, to make self-determinations concerning their sex-life?
Perhaps, this is an area we all need to be thinking about when we are planning how we spend our latter days on this earth, should we be 'lucky' enough to see ourselves as octogenarians, plus. Lack of privacy is one of the tragedies of elder life in Assisted Living and beyond. In the United States, especially, there is also a lack of respect for those who have lived long. This is an issue we must ponder and a subject, that while uncomfortable for some, must be included in any discussion of "how you wish to live your senior years".
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&8220;Death and Life&8221; |Futility Closet
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Jul 3, 7:57am
38 reviews
poetry
http://www.futilitycloset.com/2008/06/12/death-and-life/
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http://www.fodian.net/world/secret/Way_to_Nirvana.jpg
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Jul 3, 7:25am
24 reviews
buddhism
http://www.fodian.net/world/secret/Way_to_Nirvana.jpg
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There really is much to observe in this picture...not just the color changing of the monkey & the elephant (there's a rabbit, too, but after a while I can't find him in the picture) It would be very nice to see this large & completely in focus. When I opened it to enlarge it to better see details, it was a bit blurry. What is in the monk's hand at the beginning? What does it become?
Thanks to huntinton-meath.stumbleupon [huntinton-meath.stumbleupon] for this image.
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xineanns profile - StumbleUpon
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Jul 3, 7:02am
2 reviews
stumblers
http://xineann.stumbleupon.com/review/19269389/
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Borrowed this sweet cat from xineann.stumbleupon.com [xineann.stumbleupon.com]
Her pages are filled with poetry, lovely images and cats. What's not to like? in addition she has taken the time to add some very helpful pages of information for new stumblers. New? check her out & be sure to click the link for new stumblers. Not new? check it out anyway, it's good info.
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