Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Merry Christmas, everyone!


    Well everyone, it is about 4:30 pm on Christmas Day.  I have had a great Christmas this year, and have been celebrating for about a month.  I visited my mom and dad and sister's family in Greenville, SC, and it was a great visit.  The mall there just got a new store with a bunch of cool polished rocks, so I gave my nieces each a box full of cool stones and I gave their whole family a Nintendo Switch with some games.  I would say I did pretty well, except I might do one more winter gift with a refill for their "suitcase full of money" from last year. 
    A great highlight of my Christmas was getting to go to a high church Christmas eve service at St. Bart's church with two great friends in downtown NYC, and I finally ate communion after several years of not knowing what to do about trying to be a church member somewhere.  I could not decide between Catholicism and just joining a Presbyterian Church, but I easily scarfed down some Episcopalian Eucharist last night and it was great. 
   Today I have been playing video games and am excited about a cheap mall plug and play that has 76 THOUSAND video games on it, including Arkanoid, Tetris, and Pinball!!! I can't believe it! I also have been playing some new Nintendo games, including a carnival game, which is a category of entertainment that I have always loved.  So that is a great Christmas, and I am surrounded by yummy snacks as well.  For some reason, yesterday I stopped by a gas station and got some pork rinds, beef jerky, salted peanuts, and lottery tickets, and it added a little something to my Christmas that I did not expect.
   I have not blogged as much in recent months, but I might try to continue adding to my blogs a little bit more as I promote my e-books, including two new collections of poems and theology blurbs.
   I hope if anyone is having a tough time this Christmas or ever does, some combination of Christmas lights, a trip to Starbucks or Waffle House, or even some outpatient hospital treatment for depression will help until there are better days!


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