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What I want for Christmas...

My list for Santa is as follows...you may think it too ambitious but I think if these humble wishes came true all would be right with the world

1. For the Kardashian's to disappear never to return
2. For wives of major league baseball players to stop making comments such as, "150 million dollars is an insult to my husband."
3. for the world to acknowledge that Tim Tebow is a mortal like the rest of us and that the real god walking amongst us is named Tom Brady
4. for this generation of teenagers to grow up having real live social skills despite their only communication to other humans coming through technological devices. This one I realize might take a not so small miracle
5. For the judges on "chopped" to get theirs someday
6. For people who really need money to get it and the people who have more than they know what to do with, appreciate it
7. For the movie version of "The Hunger Games" to not suck
8. For Starbucks to finally go out of business as the whole world comes to a collective realization that they came make a better cup of coffee at home for less than a dollar
9. For organic chicken to cost 99 cents and a McDonald's hamburger $9.00. There, just solved America's billion dollar obesity problem!
10. For people to stop saying the phrases: "that's neither here nor there," "it is what it is" and "at the end of they day."

I honestly believe that the world would be a nicer, gentler, more peaceful place if these things came true but alas I realize that this is not the world we live in right now. So my real wishes this Christmas are actual pretty simple: I would like for my family and friends to be healthy, happy and safe, for my husband and I to keep our jobs (and our sanity), for a little more money to come our way and of course for their to be no more war, poverty, hate crimes or natural disasters...all of that is possible right? Merry Christmas everyone!!!

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