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- “A ghost story and
morality tale wrapped into
one, though I
felt awfully bad
for C…”
November 01, 2009 05:46PM - “Having just spent the
week with a mother who suffers
from
dementia, it strikes
me…”
November 01, 2009 05:25PM - “hee..hee...just noticed
the caller id tag.”
November 01, 2009 04:50PM - “Just noticed the
Tracfone ad at the bottom,
which is now
giving me the
creeps.”
October 29, 2009 09:10AM - “...and a chillingly
fabulous last line.”
October 29, 2009 09:09AM


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I miss it.
We get back niiiiice and late Sunday night, and there it is, still twinkling in the window, this neighbourhood's last standing tribute to procastination done RIGHT.
No wonder I feel so at home here.
So I'm like everyone else with a tree still up, thinking, "Okay, if we can still turn on the Christmas tree lights and the house isn't going to burn down, what's the big rush?"
In an alternative existence my entire world is lit with Christmas tree lights. The small colored ones, occasional blinking allowed. No chasing lights, no white faux "icicle" lights.
L, not L: my parents routinely left it up til February was approaching, I'm not sure why.
The ornaments are all off. Just the tree and all those lovely lights.
:)
Boy, do I ever feel validated! The tree stays at least until Obama is sworn in. (Hey, maybe instead of decorating it with Obama buttons, it might be fun to festoon it with symbols of the last eight years -- a Christmas Bush, if you will -- and then burn it in effigy. Any thoughts on ornaments?)
Joan Walsh, I'm so honored that you dropped by. Had I been here, I would have offered you an eggnog (though I think it may have turned by this time...nothing that a little rum won't disguise.) But about tossing Christmas trees from the balconies of apartment buildings...are you generally this reckless?
Oh - my tree came down two days after Christmas. I would have loved to leave it up longer but 1) I had my son here to help get boxes, wrap lights, etc. and 2) it was about to spontaneously combust.
I miss it. January decor is so...blah...
Ex Marin girl, SS
I'm better than you.
....heh.
PS. One thing - I am sending out Inauguration Day greeting cards. Since I didn't send holiday cards, it seems fair. I found some great cards that say, "It is the season of hope."
So, I guess you're off the hook. ;-D
Thumbed, with a little tinsel and a pine needle stuck under the nail.
Dec 26, off they came and into the garbage. recycling was the next day and the tree went away with the garbage guys. moved all the furniture back (takes rearranging to get a tree in here). voila!
I am pitiful. I love the tree for about a week, and then it has to go. noticed neighbs a have a bare tree with lights in the window now - no needles! an interesting sculpture for sure.
perhaps I left therapy too soon?????
on another note,
Our neighbor had their tree up about 6 months before christmas, and I dont' think it is coming down now.....
They went on a winning streak right after they put theirs up.
I think they'll be taking it down tomorrow.
Go Ravens. I'm sorry, it's not that I'm bitter, although I am very disappointed. It's just that I've never really liked the Steelers.
I'm crazy! Everybody knows it so why try and hide the fact?
Before I married him, Daniel unintentionally left his tree up year 'round.
But darn...Now I wish I DID have a tree for an Inauguration tree. Great idea!
I am one sick puppy.