Social Media Christmas

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Merry Christmas Y'all

' Tis the season and I wish one and all a delightful holiday or non holiday depending on who and where you are.  May we all have peace, and look forward to a bit of prosperity in the New Year.

Enjoy this seasonal video done by my good online friend, LoupDargent-- It's the pinkpackrat's digital Christmas gift to you.

Merry Christmas, y'all

A Digital Nativity via Google, Facebook, and More

A digital twist on the old story-- you gotta love those wise men. I love this video. Hope you enjoy it too.

Merry Christmas everyone and happy shopping this last week-end before Santa comes down the chimney.

Hohoho:-)

Christmas Twitter Sing Up HO HO HO

It's that time of year again, and in the spirit of the season, along with Santa Claus, here comes Sing-Up number seven; a fabulous toe-tapping, belly-laugh inducing, collage of Christmas music put together by the amazingly talented @paul_steele and starring a good natured group of tweeple, including @grattongirl @cindyvriend @ceggs @MarySarahMusic @fizzy duck @mistygirlph @pixygiggles @Andaluciankitty @Happysoul @amfan_jenny @Spked @@Saskia2nd @BecauseUAreHere @belle_lulu @Impurrfection @LadyofSalzburg @mergyeugnau @Dahara @Fanny_Ingabout @DiscoJimbo @Pilgrimfamilyuk @keys2thekingdom @mallarybc  and-- tah dah--(at 6:32,said she modestly) @pinkpackrat making a cameo appearance singing Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer.

I know I didn't get everybody by twitter name--there were so many and all sooooo good in one way or another, I just finally stopped cutting and pasting.  I can only say that this video was just a blast to watch and knocked any hint of Christmas crazies right out of me.  The good cheer just oozes out of it and it is so much fun to put  faces to the twitter names you know and follow.

Go have a look. Check out all the tweepsters. Find some cool new folks to follow. Smile and sing along and have a very merry twittermas with the whole twitter sing up gang

Merry Christmas to All And To All Good Night

Christmas is many things to me-- light in the darkness, warmth in the midst of cold, the birth of a child who would change the world,although now it is pretty well established that Jesus was not born on December 25th.

The early church fathers rather cagily co-opted the pagan competition by assigning the birth of Christ to December 25th to coincide with the Roman festival of Saturnalia, the Nordic festival of Yule, and the birth of the Persian sun god Mithra. I like to think that our modern Christmas celebration incorporates elements of many, or perhaps all religions. In it's feasting and gift giving it is inclusive and secular to embrace those who adhere to no religion as well. It is for everybody.

At its heart, Christmas is the eternal wish of humankind for the love of God, the rebirth of hope and the brotherhood of man. It celebrates the return of light in the darkness. It celebrates birth in the face of death, joy in the face of despair and love in the presence of indifference or hate.

May all of us, whatever our culture or clan, share this holiday in the true spirit of Christmas. God knows, this year in particular, we all need it:-)

Holiday Depression and Christmas Crazies

I used to get Holiday Depression bigtime. I called it the Christmas crazies and it started around Thanksgiving with a vague feeling of anxiety and escalated through the month of December, reaching a crescendo of sadness and lethergy on Christmas Day. I always breathed a big sigh of relief on New Years Day. I thought it had to do with the emotional stress of Christmas but it turns out I was wrong.

A few months ago, I read that decreased Vitamin D due to less sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere actually might have something to do with my Christmas crazies. So at the beginning of November, I started taking 1000 milligrams of Vitamin D along with 1000 milligrams of fish oil and 1000 milligrams of vitamin C every day and the results have been amazing.

I know this is not scientific evidence, but this December I'm a different woman. I'm filled with energy and loving the hope and joy and traditions of the season. I look forward to the lights, candles, shopping and parties, not to mention the real joy and hope of the Christmas story. To think I thought all those years that I was an emotional basket case when it turns out I was just vitamin deficient.

I am so grateful and full of FaLaLa I can hardly bear it. Oh yes, and I am not selling anything and don't work for a vitamin company either. I'm just sharing what happened to me and wishing the whole world a happy healthy Holiday season.

Hello Christmas and Goodbye Bah Humbug.