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Thank you all! This was such a great surprise. You made me feel special.

Yep, now even we know K-Mart, not that it would help them to sell something. Or do they have an on-line shop that does international shipping?

Around two weeks before Christmas we meet at one of the tree farms and walk around with mugs of hot chocolate and choose a tree after a lively discussion of course. I am the host of the family get together this year, so I will have the tree up on the weekend before Christmas Eve. It's a large tree and it will take me a while until all the lights and decoration will be in place. The tree will be up until Epiphany Day. For the weeks before Christmas Eve we have the Advent wreath. It has a candle for each of the four Sundays before Christmas. Oh and then there's the Advent Calender, 24 doors to open until Christmas Day. I'll be never too old for that.

If you really make it I'll say 'chapeau'. I could never do that for all the above reasons. Sometimes it takes me days to fine tune one paragraph and then I delete the whole thing because I can't make it work like I wanted. *keeping my fingers crossed*.

I'll take The Night Before Christmas. Oh God what have I done?

Good to hear. Still, I can't decide.

5:15 pm finished tutoring and looking forward to eat left-over lasagna.

I should have been clearer: What is usually understood as gay culture is an artificial concept based on stereotypes and disregarding the diversity of people. Culture is a term interpreted in many different ways and is often misused when we only want to to describe a part of society. As some already said here, culture is so much more. It always annoys me when it's used to separate a group of people from the rest based on one or a few things they have in common. We tend to surround us with others who are like us, that's natural, it means protection, we feel safe. That's what the early humans did, what animals do, instinct, nature. I understand culture in contrast to nature and I want the big picture, I want to be part of culture, not of xxx-culture or yyy-culture. I am shaped by my surroundings, by my upbringing, by my sexuality and much more, yes, but I will not let myself be boxed in one of these. Sorry about the rant it has been a sore point for me lately.

Yes Sir! On the same status I asked 'What's gay culture?' IMO it's an artificial concept based on stereotypes and disregarding the diversity of people.

It's my day off, so... Just remembered I have a kilt somewhere. *digs in closet* Can even go grocery shopping now. Ooops, wolves don't wear pants. Right?

It depends on my mood. If I'm stressed and annoyed with everything around me I want a no fussing around end, problem solved, basta. Otherwise I like an end where I can play with possibilities, of course for that there have to be possibilities.

Well here it's 12.11.13 Isn't that interesting? Tomorrow is 13.11.13 And the day after... And the best of all this is my 222th post.

I might be biased because I love photography as artform and even try my hands on it every now and then. It can take me weeks to find the right motive, the one that fits my idea. I take many pictures, different angles,light etc. When I work on the computer, I use brushes, pencils, shading until the picture is as close as it can get to the idea in my mind. So I work with my hands, feet, mind. I use technology, yes. I won't start to talk about what is technology today and in the past. So tell me is it art?

Nice Ron, the story totally ruined the sad and desperate mood I had myself worked into so I could write my own story. *goes and hears some sad music*

Happy Birthday KC!

Thank you for your comment Suvitar! Hope for happiness is what let us move on, that's why it was in the box. Imagine we hadn't hope.

'k but bring one with strawberries too.

So if you make money of it it isn't art anymore? Or to provoke some more, it can't be art if you do it primarily to make money? Interesting.

This is kinda funny what you two are doing here. When I was a kid and I didn't speak English but faked it by speaking German with an accent ( come on I was four I think, I did the same with French and Italian) my parents said I sounded like I tried to imitate a snotty British brat, whatever that means. So guess how I thought English sounded. I cultivated my Gerrrman accent everrr since.

Aww well, now I sit here cup of coffee in my hand and wait for TLBO to call my cell phone to tell me she'll be over in five and she'll bring my favorite Danish. *sigh*

Well it's not that far from here and he's kinda cute... Around here Joseph Beuys is still an icon of performance art. He said: To provoke means to evoke something. By making a sculpture with fat or a piece of clay I evoke something. I ignite a thought within me – a totally original, totally new thought that has never yet existed in history, even if I deal with a historical fact or with Leonardo or Rembrandt. I myself determine history – it is not history that determines me.. ..every man is a potential provocateur. I'd like to know what he would have thought of Clayton's performance. I'm with Cia.

nox and otto are quit good at spider hunting, and bugs, and birds, and rabbits, and ducks and zombies

Yuck! I always try to ignore my arachnophobia. *practices to vacuum lefthanded*

I don't know half of the food that's mentioned here, . But there's always Google.

You're absolutely right Kitt. this is demeaning and rude, but it's not a problem of the language used to insult you, but of the people doing the insult. My father is Italian, and although I understand Italian I don't speak it very well. My cousins always speak Italian with a local accent only they can understand when they talk about me, I can only guess it's nothing nice they have to say. Lucky for me, my father always throws one of his famous Italian temper tantrums, when they are like this. I like Italian, even though my family sometimes sounds as if they would have a huge fight when they are only talking.