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This makes me wish that we didn't have 15 months left on our current cell phone contracts. Via CNA : Catholic Mobile has announced it is now offering Christmas ringtones and wallpapers to help users prepare for the Christmas season. As a way of helping users to enter more deeply into the Advent and Christmas seasons, Catholic Mobile is offering ringtones such as “Jingle Bells,” “The First Noel,” “Oh Christmas Tree, “Little Drummer Boy” and many other favorites, as well as wallpapers, that can be downloaded at www.catholicmobile.com . The initiative aims to help users live the true spirit of Advent and Christmas. More information can be found at www.catholicmobile.com .

Bill and I have been watching DVD’s at a reduced price from a local video store nearby. Here are two I believe that you and your family will enjoy. When I Find the Ocean (2006) is the childhood drama of young Lily Strickland who sets out on the journey of a lifetime not out of her love for adventure but out of heartache. Longing for the father she lost to the ocean (a sailor lost at sea who was never found) and having no way to say goodbye, Lily strikes out on her own, beginning a journey of the spirit and of the heart. The year is 1965: Lily Strickland lives in Alabama with her loving mother Jenny (Redford) and her caring grandparents (Lee Majors and Diane Ladd). Lily's father disappeared at sea years ago, yet his independent spirit lives on in the young girl who never lost her belief in dreams. Lily’s mother has now found a new man to share her life with and Lily is the bearer of unpleasant secrets in his life which only she knows. With her faith and belief that her father will...

WALL-E is a charming, animated film from Disney Pixar that takes place 700 years into the future. A large city consisting of huge skyscrapers constructed from trash rises into the sky. It is there that we meet WALL-E, (a Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class), the last of the solar-powered robots, who with his binocular-like eyes, locates trash and compacts it with his square-shaped rusty body. Although he lives in a world filled with trash, he makes good use of it and his "heart" is filled with joy and romantic dreams. WALL-E is alone on the earth (with the exception of his pet cockroach) and keeps busy during the day compacting trash, while at night, he goes home to enjoy the collection of treasures he has salvaged from the trash -- a ring box, a plastic spork, and a lighter. His favorite knick knack is an old VHS copy of Gene Kelly’s "Hello, Dolly!" He gets sentimental watching the film -- especially the romantic scene -- and generates his ideas about love fro...