Dear Santa,
Just in case you forgot...
Can't WAIT to get my hands on this Canon Rebel Camera! Looking forward to creative adventures in photography in 2012.

It's time! ... for a new debut from CrossCreations, lover of all sorts of creativity and art but especially photography. After searching and reviewing all of the SLR cameras available, this one my top RAVE reviews as the ultimate.

Christmas isn't just for kids, ya know! Maybe you've been there and done that, and the little ones have flown the nest or maybe you never HAD kids and don't plan to do so. Maybe you're tired of the consumerism and over-commercialized nature that the holidays have become to the point of considering just skipping Christmas altogether.

Here's a bit of fun for those without little ones during the holidays, for people who might enjoy celebrating but doing so in a very nontraditional way. Forget what Hallmark says is the way to enjoy a traditional happy holiday and think outside that box with me. Hell why not snorkel in the snow?

Consider a bag of holiday goodies for adults, no not anything X rated but surely some hilarious holiday humor to spark some adult Yuletide fun. Feeling like a Scrooge? OK well even the Grinch can enjoy some twisted Christmas fun. There's even a hilarious Christmas movie where Bill Murray plays Scrooge, very different from the traditional version.

In fact, watching funny Christmas movies is a great way to avoid the mania and just giggle your way through the holidays.

About Christmas Music... There's life beyond Noel and Silent Night, folks. Do you dread hearing Jingle Bells again and again? What if you were to check out some funny Christmas music and truly twisted Xmas tunes to jiggle your funny bone?

One of the very best holidays I ever enjoyed was a year when I escaped to a tropical island for the holidays. No snow nor jingle bells, yet Christmas came. In fact on Christmas morning as I walked on the beach, I saw a couple of guys walking toward me wearing Santa hats. And as they came closer I realized they were wearing matching shirts, both saying... "HO HO HO, Who needs SNOW?" True story and it was hilarious. Santa can arrive without snow if you want that, hell Santa is magic, right? What if Santa were to arrive on a surfboard? Yep, a surfing Santa!

Ho Ho HO! Who needs SNOW? Indeed!

Shortly after the St. Louis Cardinals won the 2011 MLB World Series, I was reading some posts on Yahoo and noted several comments referring to the Cardinals win as 'lucky'. Hmmm...

Here we have a baseball team that some called an 'underdog' who came from behind over 10 games in August to clinch their spot in the playoffs. Then they fought against all odds and found themselves backed against the wall over and over again in post season, still managing at the last second to pull out of it to the next step. The Cardinals simply never gave up, pushed ahead against the top teams in the MLB with fierce determination over and over throughout postseason baseball.

And they DID IT! Shocked the world in what was one of the most amazing world series competitions in history, one to go down in records as something to TALK about.

And yet, after all that ...
people actually refer to the Cardinals as LUCKY?

Lucky? Really? OK so I'm a Cards fan and yet ... would proudly salute ANY team able to pull off such an amazing and next to impossible feat in the great game of baseball.

Only a CHUMP would call that LUCKY!

"I'm just sayin ...

"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work,the more I have of it."
~Thomas Jefferson

Breaking News: Do you Squidoo? Listen up, ya Squid! Cause this is BIG, an opportunity for Squids to hop aboard a FUN international virtual tour to meet and greet Squidoo lensmaster friends all around the world.

This Squidoo World Tour was released in early November and WOW! Squids have been jumping aboard like crazy, and so the traffic to this new lens has been nothing short of amazing. In fact, this Squidoo World Tour was even blessed by Squidoo angels FIFTEEN times! Holy Squid Angel WOW! Never seen anything like it in all my born Squid days, what a ride

Nothing to buy here... This is a TOUR and not a store. It's the Squidoo community party of the season, folks. Your first class ticket is waiting, so jump aboard the Squidoo World Tour now.

Managing Info Overload Most of us are living in a digital world, where information streams in at a speed that can be downright overwhelming. Managing the overload of information requires that we make consistent effort to filter out what we don't need in favor of the input we really want. It's about creating personal adjustments in order to avoid becoming overwhelmed with the massive avalanche of daily input.

Tools such as Google Reader help to filter out the noise and to focus on personal priorities. Allowing one's attention to be grabbed at random in this world of massive input will certainly deflect progress toward goals.

This web page has well-written instructions for using Google reader that includes all the steps toward creating your own reader and rss feeds.

Mimi's page about lensmaster RSS feeds was also helpful. There she shares her own Squidoo lensmaster RSS feeds, which helped get a jump start, feeding the feeds - so to speak. Since Mimi and I share many of the same interests, friends and online networks her lens was a big help.

and below... VOILA! my live reader feeds, just born today

Meet the newest MLB celebrity in Saint Louis, the Cardinals Rally Squirrel! Cardinal baseball fans have gone NUTS over this Rally Squirrel! I mean, it has become HUGE here, and it's a pretty funny story - whether you are a St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan or not. MLB postseason fever is on HIGH is St. Louis and this squirrel is leading fans to a crazy frenzy.

See the entire story about the Cardinals Rally Squirrel with dozens of photos.

Join Yoko Ono at the Imagine Peace Tower and encourage world peace in the name of her late husband, John Lennon.

In spirit, John Lennon is surely with the brave souls who protest on Wall Street. "IMAGINE all the people...living lives of PEACE." "IMAGINE no possessions. I wonder if you can." ~ John Lennon

JOIN the Imagine Peace Tower network on Facebook.

It began with a FB post... "I believe in the church of baseball!" Forgive me Lord, that was not my FB post... but ya gotta admit - it IS pretty funny AND very sincere (for Cardinal fans). So then Miz CrossCreations couldn't resist the fun of doing some photo editing and then publishing this prayer for the game of ALL games this 2011 MLB season.

"It's going to be as good as it gets." — says Manager Tony La Russa about this fifth-game matchup of 2 MLB pitchers and former Toronto teammates, Chris Carpenter (Cardinals) and Roy Halladay (Phillies).

Like the Cardinals, humor and the Cards VS Cubs rivalry? Then go have some fun at this A#1 Cardinals Squidoo Lens! Created long ago and now all dressed up and updated for the 2011 MLB post-season play.

Like the MLB? So who do YOU think should make the Top Ten Players Ever in the MLB List?