Monday, December 30, 2019

Our First Christmas Tree

(I hope it's not weird that I'm posting Christmas stuff after Christmas. I even have a post about what we did on Christmas Eve that I'll probably write tomorrow. My mom always says that the holidays aren't over and the decorations don't come down until Three Kings Day (January 6th), so by that logic, I think I'm ok. Anyway, today we're gonna talk about Christmas trees.)

This year I was really, really looking forward to getting a Christmas tree. A real Christmas tree. And by real, I don't even mean it has to be freshly cut and dripping with sap, I would have been fine with a fake tree, as long as it was a respectable tree size, and didn't look like, well, this: 


Because that's the tree we had used for the last five years. I bought it at Sears (RIP), and it would sit on our coffee table, because our tiny apartment just didn't have the space for anything bigger. Don't get me wrong, Charlie Brown Tree has it's own personal charm to it (and next year I'll probably put it up in addition to a big tree; this year it's taking a well earned break), but it's definitely not what comes to mind when you think of Christmas trees.

While it was a bit late in the game, we did finally get our tree. And yes, it's real (wiggles eyebrows suggestively). I love it so much! We were pretty concerned about how the kitties would react, but surprisingly, they seem to just like sitting and staring at it just as much as we do. They also like to sit under it in the dark...I don't have an explanation for that part, but it is cute.


I know the bulb ornaments aren't the most original. They're more of a placeholder until next time, when we hope to have a more exciting ornament collection. I added blue sheet/makeshift tree skirt as an homage to our Charlie Brown Tree (and to keep the cats away from the water in the base).


But to make things a bit more fun, we also added these skulls we had bought for Halloween and never used. The ornament hooks attached to them surprisingly well. You can also see the only other two ornaments we had (however, we were later gifted a Darth Vader ornament for Christmas, but these pictures were taken before that - thank you for Darth Vader, Paige, sorry he didn't make it into the pics!). The Yoda is from my mom (thanks, mom!).

We also hung up a bit of lights in the windows. We wanted them outside, obviously, but for some reason we can't find the freaking outlets outside, and we don't have a garage to plug them into, either. I mean, there has to be one somewhere, right? There has to be. The neighbors have one. But I've lost track of how many times we circled the house and couldn't find any. But we had already bought the lights, and dammit, I was gonna hang them somewhere.


No, the neighbors can't see them, but at least I can. 

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