The tree is up!
I did finally manage to buy batteries for my camera but, alas, they were the wrong freakin' size! Aaaarrgh. So I can not yet regale you with this year's version of my white fake Christmas tree.
When I woke this morning, I had no idea I was going to put up the lights and the tree, but when I got out of bed, it was snowing (!!!) and then 6 hours later.... the tree & lights were up! However, this was the year for some lights to die. The blue strand I usually put on the white tree said a fond farewell and went to the great Christmas light party in the sky. Yes, I had to restring the tree with lights 5 times this year before everything was working right. And oddly enough, I never once lost my patience. How incredibly unusual is that?
But now the tree has merry multi-colored lights all over it and it looks like a very cotton-candy, girlie tree. What bad timing, considering that a non-girlie man will be living here by Christmas...
Oh well. There's always next year. We can have a much more manly tree in 2010. Perhaps decorate it with bars of Irish Spring soap and bottles of Old Spice and English Leather. Or maybe by next year, we will suddenly become austere and Quaker-like and not celebrate any holidays at all. Gosh, you just never know what a year will bring, do ya, gang?
2009 was nothing at all like I thought it would be yet it was a very productive and good year. I hope to have revisions of Freak Parade done before the end of December, but as of right now, it ain't looking all that promising, folks. Mostly b/c I keep traipsing off to the kitchen to bake brownies and stuff like that!! What's with that, anyway? I sure don't know. But I'm not gaining any weight -- in fact, I'm losing weight; which is always nice. I'm leaving the weight-gaining stuff to all my heroes (see lofty post below). In fact, when I find myself putting on weight, I simply remove it, package it up, postmark it: "Johnny Depp; Hollywood, USA" and drop it in the nearest mailbox. I once more get to look great for my age and he gets to look weirder by the freakin' minute. Problem solved and everyone's happy!
However, on that note... I had decided to give up imbibing until Jay returned in a couple weeks b/c I drank WAY TOO MUCH wine while he was here last week and it was making me feel very fucked up -- depressed, bloated, etc. Today, though, I'm thinking eggnog, gang. I'm also thinking champagne! I'm thinking either/or eggnog, champagne, then popcorn perhaps, and watching Holiday Inn! What say ye to that? Do I have any takers???
Well, okay. I'm off first to the shower! Then onward to a writer's favorite thing in the world -- drinking alone! Happy Friday, gang, wherever you are. Thank you so much for visiting. And I really mean that. See ya.
When I woke this morning, I had no idea I was going to put up the lights and the tree, but when I got out of bed, it was snowing (!!!) and then 6 hours later.... the tree & lights were up! However, this was the year for some lights to die. The blue strand I usually put on the white tree said a fond farewell and went to the great Christmas light party in the sky. Yes, I had to restring the tree with lights 5 times this year before everything was working right. And oddly enough, I never once lost my patience. How incredibly unusual is that?
But now the tree has merry multi-colored lights all over it and it looks like a very cotton-candy, girlie tree. What bad timing, considering that a non-girlie man will be living here by Christmas...
Oh well. There's always next year. We can have a much more manly tree in 2010. Perhaps decorate it with bars of Irish Spring soap and bottles of Old Spice and English Leather. Or maybe by next year, we will suddenly become austere and Quaker-like and not celebrate any holidays at all. Gosh, you just never know what a year will bring, do ya, gang?
2009 was nothing at all like I thought it would be yet it was a very productive and good year. I hope to have revisions of Freak Parade done before the end of December, but as of right now, it ain't looking all that promising, folks. Mostly b/c I keep traipsing off to the kitchen to bake brownies and stuff like that!! What's with that, anyway? I sure don't know. But I'm not gaining any weight -- in fact, I'm losing weight; which is always nice. I'm leaving the weight-gaining stuff to all my heroes (see lofty post below). In fact, when I find myself putting on weight, I simply remove it, package it up, postmark it: "Johnny Depp; Hollywood, USA" and drop it in the nearest mailbox. I once more get to look great for my age and he gets to look weirder by the freakin' minute. Problem solved and everyone's happy!
However, on that note... I had decided to give up imbibing until Jay returned in a couple weeks b/c I drank WAY TOO MUCH wine while he was here last week and it was making me feel very fucked up -- depressed, bloated, etc. Today, though, I'm thinking eggnog, gang. I'm also thinking champagne! I'm thinking either/or eggnog, champagne, then popcorn perhaps, and watching Holiday Inn! What say ye to that? Do I have any takers???
Well, okay. I'm off first to the shower! Then onward to a writer's favorite thing in the world -- drinking alone! Happy Friday, gang, wherever you are. Thank you so much for visiting. And I really mean that. See ya.
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