Everyone wants to win big

What is it about humans, we want it all, but we often don't want to work for it. That's not to say we can't be hard working, but we love bonuses - we dream of winning the lottery, making a good return on a stock market buy/sell, finding antiques in our basements, getting paid in full and then some...

I don't know if we expect that we should be able to put in 80% and get out 110% (don't talk to me about generation Y), but there's a secret hope that in all we do, the "reward" will balloon out of proportion of the investment.

The gold rush - a chance to strike it rich; the lottery - wins just fuel further drive to play on the chance to win; flipping a house.

Are we delusional? Is it inherent to human nature to dream bigger than our reality?

Christmas is coming
The time of year when through God we got more than we gave.

Funny how we don't always think of this as a "win" or an extra reward.
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Anno Domine

[ANNO DOMINE]

Trans-siberian Orchestra

On this night of hope and salvation

One child lies embraced in a dream

Where each man regardless of station

On this night can now be redeemed

Where every man regardless of his nation

Ancestral relations

On this night the past can fly away

And that dream we've dreamed most

That every child is held close

On this night that dream won't be betrayed

All as one

Raise your voices!

Raise your voices!

All as one

On this christmas day!

All rejoice

Raise your voices!

Raise your voices!

All rejoice

Anno domine!

On this night when no child's forgotten

No dream sleeps where he cannot see

No man here is misbegotten

And this night's dreams are still yet to be

Realizing that the past can be forgiven

The future be rewritten

On this night

Where every child is saved

And that dream we've dreamed most

That every child is held close

On this night that dream won't be betrayed

All as one

Raise your voices!

Raise your voices!

All as one

On this christmas day!

All rejoice

Raise your voices!

Raise your voices!

All rejoice

Anno domine!

yes it's early

or perhaps

it's never too early for rejoicing!

Also the only youtube video I could find of this song was of someone's awesome techno light show @ their home.. so here it is!

as a note:

Anno Domine (also written as Anno Domini = A.D.  ie: 1990 A.D. -- as opposed to B.C. -- after the coming and birth of Christ!)

Fwd: had a gahhh moment = bought random snack

around Christmas Longo's and other grocery stores (remember Metro last-last-year?) have neat snacks

 

I bought

 

aachener dominos umhüllt mit zartbitter-schokolade doppelt gefüllt

which translates into: aachener dominos covered with bittersweet chocolate-filled double

 

this is the site and product btw

http://www.lambertz.de/en/range/lambertz/seasonal-items/dominoes.html

 

BUT WHAT IS IT?! a domino... which.. makes no sense? (think those lovely tiles...)

so I just bit into one instead..

it's like.. lebkuchen (i think -- the german gingerbread-like-but-not-exactly-cake with what seems to be apricot jelly (jelly not jam b/c it's rectangular and holds its shape) and then a cream layer of sorts on top -- and then enrobed in chocolate...

it's interesting. super european... ;D

 

 

I also bought contrella

a pic: http://parthenonfoods.com/contrella-classic-lebkuchen-weiss-200g-p-4237.html

which are chocolate covered lebkuchen cookies (see above re: lebkuchen)

 

 

and I also got

Schoko Pfeffernüsse!

which is apparently a pepper cookie????

but I think Schoko means chocolate

 

google translate tells me it means "chocolate gingerbread"

so that does seem so bad?? less scary that "pepper cookie"..... T____T;;

 

and here is the cookie: http://www.austriangrocery.com/de/manner-shop/manner_lebkuchen_1/manner_schoko_pfeffernuesse

 

they had other pfeffernusse --- with what seemed to be dates/grapes and with green apple.. seemed to bizzare. can't go wrong with chocolate.... :D

 

 

hehe christmas in grocery stores is awesome for food discovery!

even if the food itself isn't always to one's taste.. ;D

How do you define love?

What does it look like?
I read a chicken soup for the soul on love once... Which compared love to fishing and about how our love and understanding of it changes as we grow and with our experiences...
so anyway, the fishing analogy was as follows (keep in mind my memory may not be spot on, word for word...)

The first time you go fishing, you might only only have a pole and a line, and you cast that into the water;
The next time, you might add on a hook to the end of your line;
Then a reel;
Finally, you might add some bait to your hook...

Each time, you learn and grow, and improve
- but that doesn't mean that the first time, you weren't fishing.

Same with love -- as we learn and grow, we understand more about love and what it means to love and be loved and to engage in love

and I think I have been content with this kind of analogy for a while
but now I wonder about it

i wonder about "love"

surely, no one is an expert at love
we are selfish people, so it is to be expected that we are poor at loving, i think

i don't know.

Ahaha

I think I'm kinda dangerous

Well, when I think about it more reasonably, I suppose everyone has the propensity to be... :)

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