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Hi Jerrico_Usher,

Thanks for your comments. I'm absolutely useless with the techie stuff; where do I find the underscore button? I keep looking but just can't find it.

I believe in the afterlife and this article proves that the 'dead ones' are really contacting us through radio frequency, if not in our dreams in order to relay important messages.
Here's my experience.
I dreamed about my father cutting trees in our farm. I told my sister about it and requested her to go to the place. Fair enough, my mother's relatives already did cut the trees that my father planted when he was still alive.

I collect shells too, but know next to nothing about them. Now I've learned a few very interesting things: not just their names, but also how they're formed, etc. It's great to find your article!

This is where I count my blessings every day that I became interested in history so early. At just 17, I was doing the rounds of great-aunties and my Nan asking questions. At the time, it was solely to fill gaps, but now I'm so grateful that I did it.

I salute my 17 year old self!

And I found your own quest really interesting. More please!

Wow! I was so there with you. Your Dad is a very creative man. Thank you for sharing your story. :)

Ember - PS I've heard of them called a binky too! Though they're most commonly called dummies here, or diddies.

The binkies are extremely safe. The manufacturer makes them in general to European and American standards. They've only recently branched out into dummies for Halloween.

Being an auntie is great, isn't it? You get all of the fun part without the sleepless nights part. :)

i agree with you. I think that our loved ones will try to get a message back, if they can. But i'm also well aware that is merely a belief too. In truth none of us knows what happens when we die. The Atheists could be right and we all turn to dust. In which case, the like of Gary Galka are deluding themselves. But then we could be right and there is an afterlife, then gadgets like these become invaluable.

Thank you for reading and commenting!

Thank you, Ember, for this extremely thorough commendation from someone who actually uses the service. <3

Hulu doesn't work in Britain either. :( I know someone who uses Netflix, so that may work here.

There are plenty of British shows on Amazon Instant Video. Downton Abbey for a start, not to mention Dr Who. I think that if Amazon stocks it, it's there.

I have NO idea how they've managed to get movies before they're in the cinema. It just shows the power of the company! Look up Amazon Instant Video > Movies > Special Release: Movies. They're all in there.

Yeah, it can be hard dealing with sensitivity issues, so I think it is great that there is such a large selection and variety of all natural products now.

You're welcome! And, thank you for the comment!

And wait wait wait, how on earth does watching a movie that hasn't been released in theaters work? Is that for real? That is insane.

I could not agree more with the entirety of this article. Yes. More people need to know about Amazon instant video, because it really is amazing.

We do that here, all gathering to watch movies in the evenings, except for us it is a choice between Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix. In general, Amazon and Netflix are better for movie watching where Hulu is better for TV show watching, but we don't pay for cable.

But in truth, since adding Amazon plus to the Xbox and Play Station, Nexflix has been on the out. It just isn't nearly as good as it used to be. There truly is an immensely better selection for movies on Amazon, as you pointed out. And, when it comes to movies that you have to pay for to stream, again the selection is as good as what Block Buster used to be when they still existed >.>, and way way way better than the selection at any Red Box ever, and is still cheaper than a rental, or even PPV. So, it is very worth it.

Also, and who the heck knows why, it streams a lot better than Netflix as well...at least at our place. I really don't know what took us so long to figure Amazon movies out. The play station comes with the icon already there! You just actually have to click on it and follow the incredibly fool-proof guide they give you to syncing your Amazon account on your computer to the one on your gaming system, and taadaaa movie time! (I just did this a couple weeks ago.) :D

Now, onto Amazon's tv show competition- I can't tell you how great that is, that if you pay you don't have commercials! I wasn't aware of that. That is really amazing. On Hulu, if you pay like 9 bucks a month, you still get like a million more commercials than you do on television!!!!! It is immensely annoying. I thought that by paying for Hulu Plus instead of using the free one there would be less commercials. There are just as many. There is no point in paying for Hulu (except that they'll let you stream on devices that aren't a computer, but Amazon let us stream from the gaming system/TV with no extra fees, so yeah. >.<). Do not pay for Hulu Plus. Just use Amazon.

I do wonder though...If it won't stream in Britain, can I watch British shows on it?

Kudos to discovering it! For people who use things like this all the time, it did take us a while XD

ps- If you'd like you can use my Amazon Plus anytime, if logging in with a US account is all you need to make it work.

For years and years, my dad collected miniature houses, people, animals, and accessories, and would build Christmas villages every year. On the coffee table or something else. He'd work on setting them up in the evenings, and sometimes I'd watch. Some years he'd get super fancy, and set up the electronics to it, and then the villages would light up or play music. One I specifically remember was an ice skating rink. It confused me when I was really little, because according to me there were WAY better things to use as decorations. Like these little drummer boys we had for a couple years, that moved, but their drums were more like metal bells and when it was plugged in they were essentially a bell choir that would play Christmas music (except I broke it because I wouldn't stop touching it *sad*).

But when I got a little bit older, I avidly looked forward to the little villages. Because, with all of the different pieces and accessories, the villages never looked the same two years in a row, and they were actually very gorgeous. We didn't have snow, as the valley I grew up in was essentially a desert, but these mini villages typically did. And I was young and imaginative enough still, that I would completely lose myself in these villages. It was like I was actually there, on some nights. And so I'd sit there in the ambiance of the Christmas tree lights and often Christmas music, and make up stories about these porcelain people and their home villages, and I'd be in a whole new world for a few hours. Despite the fact that they are totally and completely different things, a few of these posters distinctly reminded me of the little villages my dad used to build. Those nights were some of the best parts of my childhood.

Nice posters. :)

PS. dummie, pacifier, binky.

LOL

Those halloween binky things are ridiculously adorable. >.>

How safe are they?

*siiiiiiiigh* My niece and nephew are too old for binkys or else I'd so be sending them each one for Halloween! XD Why didn't I know about these a year ago? Seriously. I'm telling my sister in law that her children need siblings. For my own enjoyment, of course! :D