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UberLutheran
24th January 2005, 02:54 AM
...so I want to share it with everyone here and say that I've decided to stay, and I am extending an olive branch:

http://bxa04732.hp.infoseek.co.jp/kinmokusei.jpg
(which has Lutheran cooties all over it! :P)*

A friend of mine (an Episcopalian, no less!) pointed out to me that simultaneously dealing with:

1) buying a new car;
2) that IT meeting from Hell regarding ALL the problems with the system analyst and his control issues;
3) preparing for our annual parish meeting (which was today -- and these vary from "milk and cookies" to bloodbath)**; and
4) the Capital Metro bus which broke down on the way to work (hence, the reason for #1) with no backup bus, and the cab which never arrived so I walked three miles to work wearing a back brace due to several stress fractures on my spine from falling down the stairs*** -- and realized at work that when I was sitting down, I couldn't stand up; and when I was standing up, I couldn't sit back down;

might have had anything to do with my fit of pique.

Anyway, I'm over my 72-hour case of rabies, and I'd like to stay if you'll have me.


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*JUST KIDDING!!!
**It was a "milk and cookies" parish meeting today. One of the members who has a tendency to turn these into "bloodbath" meetings resigned his position on the council and has transferred to a Wisconsin Synod church; the other one had to leave after this morning's service because she had a sick child. I guess God really IS merciful unto us (Ps. 67:1).
***While we were moving, I fell down the stairs on my heels while carrying a 100 pound box of books, and ended up with stress fractures up and down my spine (and legs) because of the continuous impact of my heels hitting the stairs.
Question 1: Why didn't I drop the box? "Because 'books are our friends.'"
Question 2: What did you do after you fell down the stairs? "Moved the piano."
Question 3: Why didn't we hire professional movers? "Why, hire professional movers when we could do it ourselves for free? Do you think money grows on trees?" (See: I really AM a Lutheran!)
Oh - and next time, we're hiring professional movers!

PaladinValer
24th January 2005, 03:00 AM
God bless you for such a tough day! Take a minute and wander into our Alehouse and rest up...

...just try to not get assimilated though :P

And please do stay. :)

gtsecc
24th January 2005, 03:03 AM
Have some of these too!

http://www.schwartz.co.uk/assets/Mustard-Seed.jpg

pmcleanj
24th January 2005, 03:14 AM
God bless you for such a tough day! Take a minute and wander into our Alehouse and rest up...

...just try to not get assimilated though :P

And please do stay. :)
Yes, do come. There's a nice lazy-boy chair by the fire, so the chair can do the work of sitting-down and standing-up for you. And I dragged a crate of that rasberry-whatchamacallit out of the cellar just for you -- which given the corpses and the shovels and stuff was riskier than it should have been!

(I'll take care of the compost heap. The cellar is P.V.'s problem from now on!)

PaladinValer
24th January 2005, 03:40 AM
gollum gollum

Filthy little hobbitses! They stole my Prescious. Curse them! We hates them! Wicked!; Tricksty!; FALSE!

Makes us bury their deads. gollum gollum. Makes us work in...pits pits pits of filth. But when we gets the Prescious, then wes become the Master! And then we makes them crawl in filthinesses!

Yess! Yess! Make them stinky and serves us! gollum! gollum!

**Knaws on an ankle bone**

pmcleanj
24th January 2005, 03:44 AM
**Knaws on an ankle bone**
Pray, what is yon?
For it looks like the shin of my n'uncle Tim
As should be lying in a graveyard!

I don't see why the likes of thee
without asking leave should go making free
with the shank nor shin of my father's kin.

So hand that old bone over!

PaladinValer
24th January 2005, 03:51 AM
**Eats pmjeanj**

Too sweat! Needed dillweed :P

Iron Sun 254
24th January 2005, 04:01 AM
Here...this is a good use for the olives on the olive branch.http://www.nyespolonaise.com/img/martini.jpg

cenimo
24th January 2005, 04:29 AM
Good to see you back, Uber...

I'm sure if someone told you the world was going to end tomorrow you'd plant an
olive branch!
:)

AveMaria
24th January 2005, 06:23 AM
Pax, Uber. Glad to see you back. If you've got any spare olives, I've got the martini glasses!

I sympathize about the Parish meeting. Ours was yesterday, too, but I overslept and only made it for the last few minutes - :doh:

RobNJ
24th January 2005, 09:12 AM
Glad to see you!! :clap:

Zacharias
24th January 2005, 09:45 AM
I'm glad that you didn't leave! :cool:

Father Rick
24th January 2005, 12:24 PM
gollum gollum

Filthy little hobbitses! They stole my Prescious. Curse them! We hates them! Wicked!; Tricksty!; FALSE!

Makes us bury their deads. gollum gollum. Makes us work in...pits pits pits of filth. But when we gets the Prescious, then wes become the Master! And then we makes them crawl in filthinesses!

Yess! Yess! Make them stinky and serves us! gollum! gollum!

**Knaws on an ankle bone**PM... I don't know WHAT you've been serving Paladin over in the Alehouse but I'm SURE that he's had a few too many!!!

AveMaria
24th January 2005, 01:00 PM
PM... I don't know WHAT you've been serving Paladin over in the Alehouse but I'm SURE that he's had a few too many!!!

I'll have whatever he's been having! Sounds like much more fun than my ginger-lemon tea and sambucol - I'm trying to ward off the flu. :sick:

PaladinValer
25th January 2005, 01:48 AM
Me? Get drunk? Only on rootbeer :P

Stormi
30th January 2005, 02:16 PM
Your stories reminded me of some other reasons why I will never, ever, EVER move into a two story house again. ;) ughhh....**the pain** ... and yes, we are still living in the two-story. Never again, though.