Anyway my sister-in-law really wants to know what I want for Christmas and the answer can't be "extremely specifically sized frames for art I've purchased and never hung because the frame sizes are too weird" or "a new TV" or "makeup brushes" which are things I actually want so I'm stuck

It's not for nothing I had the most fun last year giving to local friends I didn't intend to shop for, I just was out shopping for family and saw something I knew they'd love. It gave me a lot of joy in a way the rest of the task didn't. Curious how to replicate.

As for giving to others, it's always fun to see something and go "that's perfect!" for someone I love. But the pressure of having to choose by an upcoming occasion takes that spontaneity out of it and is much less fun.

Everything I want is either:
1) way too boring and utilitarian to go on a Christmas list
2) something I will be picky about and want to choose the color/size/whatever myself or
3) absurdly expensive

The Bible in the vernacular. The scriptures should be in a language understanded of the people!

Plus women’s ordination/married persons’ ordination lolololololol

I’m at once, wasn’t sure if it was amount or if it’s because it was two different churches

And have also heard that CRA conducts spot audits if you claim more than ~5% given to charity because it’s so unusual

I read a few years ago that the vast majority of charitable giving in Canada is the round up at the checkout till in the grocery store

Yes, but again, that does not explain how many people already knew about it prior to that date

That does not explain the elder millennials all knowing about it, given that we started being born 5+ years later

There was never a time when the God who became human was not! The man of Nazareth, born of Mary, friend of Lazarus, who ate and drank and walked and laughed and wept and died on a cross and rose again is the Eternal God Uncreated!

Yeah, it seems like the Midwesterners/Canadians have always known and it broke containment in this globalization of media era with Gordon Lightfoot's death and the 50th anniversary

My Texan childhood entirely missed it

Yeah, I remember finding Heathrow a bit tricky and unintuitive last year (landed from Seattle and transferred to Cape Town, then vice versa), but the signs did actually point me the right way!