Movies, Politics, Religion and Being Gay

Last night my husband and I finally sat down and watched, "Alexander", one of the DVD movies that he received for his birthday last April. I actually expected to see much more of actress Angelina Jolie in the movie than what I did. However, the lack of Angelina acting in the movie isn't what surprised me, but the intimate scene that goes on between actors Collin Farrell and Jared Leto did.

It really had me to wondering, did something such as intimacy between men go on during that era in time? Is it possible? And if so, why is it such a bad thing today? If its been happening for ages, what's so different about today other than the fact that people are just honest instead of hiding in fear.


On MSNBC tonight it was shown that Sarah Palin's (Vice Presidential candidate) church is forcing prayer to turn gays straight. Now I am in no way saying that Sara Palin is a negative influence however, her church is a different story.

I wonder if they'd like it if someone forced them to pray to turn them into a non-religion or different religion? I bet they would be pissed off and defend themselves. I wonder what Sara Palin thinks of her church's efforts to pray away gay.

Really people. Does it matter what someone's sexual preference is? What if it were vice versa and men and women being together was a problem? I am willing to bet if that were the case, there would be a riot and churches would be defending rights for straight people. Walk in someone else's shoes for a change. You just might see the light.

Transforming a Lamp

We have no lighting in the living room so when I stopped at a yard sale that a church was having last Saturday, I splurged and found a brass floor lamp for $5. It's rare that I splurge for such things, but I didn't think the $5 was a really big thing and as it turns out, it wasn't.

The lamp has been tarnished badly, however. So when we went on our usual grocery shopping trip I picked up some brasso to clean the lamp with. I had originally tried a homemade mixture of flour, salt and vinegar. While the mixture did do some good, the tarnish is so bad that it needed a little ooomph. So I spent $2 for the brasso and boy is it working wonders! I am so excited and can't wait to show you! I will take some before and after photos to show the transformation. So all in all I spent $7 for the lamp. It's a very heavy lamp too. Not one of those cheap wal-mart made lamps.

I really don't know how old the lamp is, but I was told that it came out of an old building here in town. I am so excited and can't wait to show you the transformation results!