When Conflict Arives in a Small Group

This is what I did after playing with the kids for Halloween... Homework.

Making up posters and goggling photos.

Coming up with different reasons people have conflict.

And how different people manage the conflict.

Gender, age, race, and the country you come from makes a difference.

And how we all need to respect each others different ways of dealing with it.

Gaining perspective

Today Shandi, her son and I went in search of pictures in downtown Bakersfield. Our town has grown so much in the last decade what with all the new malls and shopping centers; meanwhile, loosing its special charm.

Downtown Bakersfield is the original community, with it's tall buildings decorated in ornate architecture. Although we need our Targets and our K-Marts, we shouldn't have to lose the majestic quality of our original buildings. They have been restoring the downtown area in hopes of bringing business back. The area is now filled with small community businesses; coffee shops, art galleries, small dinner-theatres, restaurants, and boutiques. As with most established communities, there are many old trees lining the streets as well, giving you the impression of a relaxed atmosphere.

As we get downtown the streets are barricaded off, as we are having a street fair and car show. With the many old cars and old building it made me feel as if I stepped back in time.

I turned a corner and found myself looking up at this image. I realized when stepping back, how different it became.

I don't know how many times I have looked at things and didn't really see them. Or they are always there and I just never took the time to look at it at from a different angle.

Stepping away from the building, I gained this perspective and saw the entire work in relation to the architecture surrouding it. This is where I gained a true appreciation for it.

At this point I realized that there is a place for the old and the new within our community with each one having it's place in our lives.

Teri needs...

Teri needs a new broom

Teri needs a gawky, baldheaded loser with red and grey boxer shorts

Teri needs sex toys

Teri needs to get wiped a second time, the doctor gets wiped himself and has to give up psychiatry

Teri needs a gigilo

Teri needs the publics help to continue the search

Teri needs some problem free cock, and I think I've found a way for her to get it

Teri needs your home address and time of departure

Teri needs to go on the Oprah show

Teri needs our continued prayer

Teri is a delightful character with real flaws and needs

Teri needs all the help she can get

I don't invent them, I only posted them.

I'm still here

Because my life wasn't crazy enough...LOL. I took on another job. I'm really like it and I wish it was my primary job. It's at the College working in the computer commons. The students are all doing different assignments and if they have a question I help them out. If I don't know the answer I then help them to figure it out or look it up. I love doing this...It's too cool. Every time I take on something new I learn more about myself. Maybe this will help me decide what I want to be when I grow up?

Just the pill...Please

By now you are aware that I've been talking to this guy in South Dakota that I met through E-Harmony. Things are moving right along and we're getting to know each other more and more everyday even while he is in Louisiana helping with their crisis. Well, he is due to go home tomorrow and then the plan is that he will be flying out here to see me in two weeks.

I'm very anxious to finally met him. I feel like I know his mind, just not his body. There is one thing that I do know about his body and that is that he is still able to produce children... and so am I. Just in case we go there... I want to be safe. Between the two of us we have 5 kids and we're thinking that we don't need to go experience that any more, especially with the youngest being 14 years old.

After thinking about the different ways of preventing pregnancies I feel that the pill is the best way for me to go. I don't like waiting for 10 or 15 minutes for something to work and then you can't orally go down there. That's messed up. And as far as condoms ...that's just wrong. But, I have no medical insurance and so, it's time for me to go to a clinic.



Okay this is all new for me. I ask around to some friends at work to find the best way of doing this. One of my friends tells me about planned parenthood. So, I call and set up an appointment. Easy enough, right? So I have this appointment and I go.

I set there with nice clothes, while others are dressed in...well...they are there to get their pill and they are dressing the part...? I had to fill out all of this paper work... and the questions... It was crazy. Have I been with more than 6 guys with in 6 months? I've done some crazy things, but this...ummm? Have I been with anyone that had open sores? What?! So I fill out the paper work with a shit load of NO's and set there wanting to hurry up and go to the back with a nurse or doctor, thinking that it will then get better.

Finally I go to the back and the nurse starts talking to me about different types of birth control. I tell her that I just want to go on the pill. But she wants me to hear of other alternatives. So, I set back a listen. She mentions condoms and I shoot it down right away. She then goes though other types that I also shoot down.

She says, "How about this?" She hold up this thing that looks like a little girls bright pink bracelet. "What is that?" Is my response. "It's the newest in birth control," she tells me. I'm thinking, (A fucking bracelet, I don't think so). "And what do you do with that?" I ask. "You just put it up in side like a tampon and leave it there for 3 weeks." (In my mind I think this one through. I'm making love to my man and his cock is in touching this female hormone, is his voice going to change? or... he's going in and out and the damn thing ends up rapped around his cock...! or he's going down on me, having oral sex and he's going to ingest this into his mouth...? Did they test all of this? Are these people out of their minds?) I have had enough and say, "Ummm.... Can I just have the pill!"