Sun, Nov 25
... O Tannenbaum
There's something incredibly weird going around... I don't know what it is, but everyone's in a really strange mood lately. Weird.
It's still snowing! Yay for Christmas-y-ness. I can't wait to get a tree and decorate it... that'll be so much fun. I love having my own place... I remember last year's Christmas tree. (yes, it's story time!)
It was the cutest little artificial tree ever--Lynsae and Jen found the whole thing, minus a stand, in a box by the dumpster behind the Co-op, and they brought it home so that we could have our own tree to decorate. Our place was so small that there wasn't really any room for it, so we put it in the corner of the hallway, right as you walked in the door, against the door of the linen closet. For that month, anyone who wanted to get out towels or anything had to have someone else help so the tree didn't fall over. There wasn't a base, so the whole thing was kind of unsteady, so there was a string from the top of the Christmas tree to the little clothesline we had strung up in that corner for drying bras and underwear on. We didn't have lights, and we were too poor to buy any, so we strung up popcorn. Shannon kept eating it, and only about half of what we made ever made it onto the tree. We didn't really have any ornaments, but we had a ton of Kindersurprise toys, so we put string on those, and attached them to the branches. And, we didn't have a star, so we stuck a mitten on the top of the tree. It was the best Christmas tree ever; the homiest, and the one that was most "mine."
We had our roommate Christmas a few days before we went home for the holidays, and we'd all bought each other little presents. We sat in the hallway, surrounded with chips, pop, nad snacks, opened our presents, and then went into the lounge to show them off to everyone else.
That was the most memorable part of Christmas last year... So I'm excited to get a tree and decorate it--with a little more room, and a few more decorations--to put up our stockings and all kinds of Christmas stuff in our house... and it's the best, because it's my house. :o)
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posted at 1:13 p.m.
