What’s your favorite Christmas tune?

If you are a close-minded, Christian conservative* person, save yourself some time and don’t even read this post. And if you do and get angry, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

I left this comment on Kristiapplesauce’s blog, after she reposted something opposing Rick Warren’s latest invitation of Barack Obama speak at an AIDS conference at his church. Please note - this was not a worship service. It was hosted at Saddleback Church for business leaders, relgious leaders and AIDS advocacy groups. So when I say “This was not a ministry event” that is what I mean. If anything, Saddleback and Rick Warren ministered to people they would normally never get to speak to, or show love to. In that way, yes it was a ministry event. I digress. On to my thoughts.

maybe i am a freak.  but i love the stripes vacuum cleaners make on the carpet.  our vacuum cleaner broke the day before we left for kansas city (november 20-something) and we had to order a part for it.  it finally came in over the weekend and chris fixed it tonight so i was able to vacuum.  i swear i was going crazy with all the little things being tracked in.  and our cats decided to rip up one of their nerf balls so that was shredded everywhere.  i could seriously vacuum three times a day.  there is just something about those stripes…so cathartic.

So, first thanks for your prayers an encouragement from last Saturday’s post.  Instead of dropping back to 150mg of Wellbutrin, I stopped taking it all together. (*Note-don’t ever do that unless you’re under supervision from a doctor!)  I got switched over to Paxil, which affects a different chemical in the brain.  Some friends of mine have had success with it, but more importantly my own brother has been on it for a while and the difference it has made in him his tremendous, without very many side effects.

I haven’t started taking it yet.  Wellbutrin has the world’s longest half-life so it is still in my system for a few more days. I’ll probably start next weekend.  I know this stuff takes time to work and the side-effects diminish over time, but what Wellbutrin did to me was a little more than a side effect…I’d even say I was literally hysterical.  It was so crazy.

On to the next step…

when you suck?  when someone gets under your skin and you react irrationally and unlovingly?  regardless of how stupid what someone says is, that still doesn’t give you a right to tell them how dumb they are.  sigh.  i need to learn me some grace.

So, last night was Lake Pointe’s Media Team Christmas party.  One of the coolest things they did was have an area set up for professional family photos, which each family received via jump drive immediately after.  As we stood in line, we saw the way the families were being posed.  Nothing horrible, but your typical “lean on your hip, put your hand here, tilt your head, sit down here” kind of a portrait.  Which if you know Chris or me, we are not exactly the formal family portrait posing kind of people.  So, much to the amusement of the people waiting in line after us, we improvised.  I hope you enjoy.