Posted by
RepublicanEvangelist on Sunday, November 23, 2008 11:29:10 AM
I am in a good mood. I was on Friday and mostly still am. Sure the market finally had a good day. President Elect Obama seems to be appointing grown ups and pragmatists to the cabinet. I had a decent week at work. Jack managed to crank out three good songs in a row on my commute home. Does anyone else remember "On the Loose" by Saga? Love that song.
I got my Christmas ornaments and house decorations out of storage. Since our plan is to decorate on Thanksgiving day, I needed to get them this weekend when I had the chance. I am the guy with the ridiculously large inflatable lighted Christmas decorations on his tiny front lawn. I own a total of five but could only put up three for space and electric issues. Since the giant snow globe (something like this but bigger
http://www.netshops.com/cart/shopper.cfm?action=view&key=JMW012&tid=JMW012&source=channel_intelligence_gbase&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=JMW012-1)
takes up half the lawn, I only have room for the inflatable Christmas tree and Homer Santa. I asked my daughter if we should remove one of the three for the inflatable polar bears and she said no. We put them up yesterday morning and already had neighbors come by to see.
I love Christmas and the Christmas season. For us Christians, the Nativity followed by the Resurrection represents real hope for mankind and not false hope in elected leaders. Ultimately our fate as a nation, people and individually is in God's hands and my personal hope is that like Abraham negotiating with God over the fate of Sodom, we will have at least ten righteous people that make us worth sparing in the eyes of the Almighty. As long as I can keep focused on things eternal, I will keep in joyous mood.
UPDATE: I decided the polar bears would be lonely in the garage and had to get them up to. To see a picture of the scene (mess) in my front lawn, click here :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32730061@N06/3054009002/ and here at night :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32730061@N06/3054821988/