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I love Christmas lights. 
ALL of them!! 
I wish we could have Christmas lights up all year! 
I love the colored one, warm white, cool white, big bulbs, tiny fairy lights, the cool new LED lights, the old ones that are faded and the red looks more like the color of tomato soup and there isn't any purple. I love the icicle lights and the new dripping lights. I love the net lights that people throw over their bushes and hedges. I love big lighted reindeer. I love them when they twinkle and when they don't. I love the tiny little colored fairy lights around my work computer right now, that are battery operated. I love it when people wrap lights up their tree trunks. Seriously, you don't have to do much to participate either. Just throw a strand on a bush! Put one around your door. Oh! I love the 10+ story apartment building when lots of residents put lights on their balconies. I love it when the Christmas tree is in the front window and it's all lit up. It's so cheerful!!

art

My fella and I watched an old movie a couple weeks ago about Michelangelo starring Charlton Heston called, The Agony and the Ecstasy. It was alright. This past weekend we started watching the Vincent Van Gogh movie called, Lust for Life, starring Kirk Douglas. We didn't watch the whole thing. Van Gogh was kind of a nut. Anyway, there was a line in the movie where another character asked Van Gogh what he wanted to do. He said, I want to paint something that moves people and inspires them. He wanted people to look at his painting and think, he felt deeply and tenderly.

Have you ever been moved by art? Excluding music/theater/movies. I mean, art...a painting, a drawing, a sculpture. What does it mean, to be moved by art? I don't think I've ever been "moved." Mostly when I see art, I'm captivated by that person's talent. It never has to do with the subject of the painting. Is that weird? But I've never laughed or cried or felt a personal connection, to art. 

I just can't...

I know there is A LOT of material out there for political fodder. But there just shouldn't be so much material for religious fodder! Alas...

Ok, here's the latest;

https://www.wthr.com/article/pastor-defends-giving-wife-200k-lamborghini

My gripes don't even have anything to do with the car though! But first of all, when the people that you "pastor" live paycheck to paycheck, why on earth would post on social media, how rich you are? Could you be anymore insensitive!?!?!? Holy wow!
Next, pretty sure most people feel like being a priest is some kind of calling. At the very least, a passion to serve God and/or people. Yet here you are saying straight out, I am a husband and a father first, and don't confuse what I do with who I am. HYPOCRITE!!! Seriously!?!?!?!
And how about that comment, it is especially important to honor his wife because none of the men born into his family properly modeled how a husband should treat his wife. "One of the things that I was always afraid of is that I wouldn't have what it took to be a good husband, to be a good father because I never saw that." So you believe that in order to be a good man, husband and father and treat them properly, you need to provide them with expensive cars, etc.? Well, all you've really done is proven once again that religion is all about power and control. I would've thought after Jim and Tammy Faye that the public would have had enough of people like you. Ugh

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PUBLISHED: DEC 13TH, 2018 - 7:01PM (EST)

UPDATED: DEC 14TH, 2018 - 8:37AM (EST)

A Santa Claus for a new generation may not look like himself - or possibly herself - at all.

A survey of 4,000 people in the United States and United Kingdom by graphic design company GraphicSprings asked respondents what a "re-branded" Santa would be like.

More than 29 percent of Americans who answered the survey said they thought 2018 Santa would be female (10.6%) or gender neutral (18.6%). The UK response was similar.

Among other popular changes, voters thought the new Santa would have an iPhone (9.2%) and wear sneakers (8.3%) as he traveled in his flying (13.8%) or electric car (10%).

And forget the elves: 16.5% of survey respondents said Santa should use Amazon Prime to fulfill the wishes of children around the globe.

The new-look St. Nick would also be a tattooed (7.35%) beer drinker (6.2%) with a new haircut and a better diet.

While the dream of a different Santa is a fun one to envision, more than 70 percent of those surveyed prefer him just the way he is

torture

When your kids were little, were you overly concerned, or even slightly concerned that your kids would get into the aspirin bottle? Or the prescription drug bottle? I don't think I was. I understand that there are a lot REALLY curious kids out there. Also, a lot of irresponsible or disengaged parents. But does everything have to be child proof??? Do you know how hard it is to press down and turn sometimes? Or squeeze in and turn? Especially in the middle of the night when you don't want turn the sun on to see what you're doing! Or these packages;

This is an Rx for migraines. Do you KNOW HOW HARD these are to open?! OMG! As a manufacturer, WHY would torture someone who is in extreme pain like this??? I hate these.
Dear drug makers, trust me when I say, if you're going to charge me $42 a pill, I can absolutely promise you that NO ONE is going to be able to get to these but me! Please let me!!! Why can't you make them like this?

You can get these out, even in the dark, pretty easily. Humph. I'm going to write a letter :-)