Tag: Christmas

Christmas Trees are Assholes

How awesome are Christmas trees?

None. That’s how awesome they are. None awesome.

We bought a big tree. Bigger than usual. Partly because we waited an extra week or so to go tree shopping and the pickings were a little slim. Also though, it was a really nice tree.

We bought it on Saturday, and the kids and I put it onto the stand right away. We decorated it on Sunday, and everything was well. About an hour after we finished it fell over. It hit the bay window but didn’t punch through. The tree stand though. Toast. One of the legs was bent completely into the wrong direction. the upper ring was snapped off. It was a bad fall.

I got the tree back up by precariously balancing it on what was left of the stand. Jen ran out to buy a newer, better, stronger stand while the kids and I took off all the decorations that we’d just put on. When the new stand arrived the kids and I started from scratch and put everything back together.

I think that the decorations looked better before the fall, but that might just be because the tree is a total asshole. I’m just waiting for it to fall over again. What a jerk, right?

The Christmas Season is Here

I don’t like Christmas. Well, that’s not entirely true. I love Christmas. I just hate all the crap that leads up to it. My step son asked me why I get so stressed out around Christmas time. I told him because, for adults, Christmas is just the most stressful time of the year. It’s just the way it is. I usually try putting off the prep work for as long as possible. This year my family was okay with that to a small degree. The house remained Christmas free until December 10th. The season, however, is now officially in full swing.

There is a tree in the living room. It’s not decorated yet, but it will be today. Probably by lunch time.

Trips to the mall have been made. Mostly to help the kids get the various gifts for the various people they need to buy gifts for. Thus far we’ve been pretty unsuccessful, but amazon.com should fix things for everyone.

Speaking of which, amazon.com has been accessed and put to good use. It’s not over yet though, far from it.

We still need to finish the shopping and decorating. Then there is wrapping and cleaning and cleaning and cleaning. Then there is cooking and cleaning and probably more decorating. Then Christmas eve we have my wife’s family over to do gifts with them. Then Christmas day itself comes and all of the stressing out and preparations are over and we can just enjoy the holiday.

Then we have to clean up. Yikes!

HoHoHo!

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My wife, Santa Jen, brought me a Christmas present today. I’m not going to say what it is, but it was purchased at the Apple store and it has a very small strip of touch screen. I so want to set it up, but it is a replacement for an older version of almost the same thing and I have to create a backup of the older version to restore onto the newer version. Sadly the backup functionality has been erroring out for a couple of weeks so I had to reinitialize the 3TB… thing the backup function uses and start with a clean slate. It’s been running for over three hours and it isn’t even close to 10% finished yet.

Come on, thing! Do that thing faster so I can set up my new Christmas present thing!

I Dislike Christmas in October

I saw this at a CVS in Salem, NH two nights ago:


To that, I say, BITE ME. It’s not even Halloween yet and they are putting out Christmas crap. I hate Christmas. Now granted, last year my first Christmas crap sighting in a store was in September, so October 27th was a pleasant surprise. Still…

I wonder if the Halloween decorations (33% off) are jealous.


HoHoHo! Merry Christmas!

HoHoHo! Merry Christmas!

Santa Claus came to our house. The kids woke up at their dad’s today which means Santa could just leave everything in our room and we could put it all under the tree this morning. You’d think that would be convenient, but it really actually sucks. We both want the kids here. We both miss them. It doesn’t ever really feel like Christmas when they don’t start the day with us. The good news is we’ll pick them up at dad’s in an hour or two and then come back here for the annual wrapping paper shredding bonanza. This afternoon they will go back to their dads and Jen and I will be sad again, but at least we’ll have had our own Christmas morning with them. Next year though… next year they start the day with us and it will be the BEST!

Wishing all of you and yours a Merry Christmas if applicable. If it’s not applicable then I hope you have an extra fantastic day for no good reason at all.

HoHoHo!

It is Christmas Eve

Hello everyone, and welcome to a happy Christmas Eve.  We all hope you are having a wonderful day with family, friends, and loved ones (and hopefully you didn’t have to go to work).

Have a wonderful Christmas Eve, and tomorrow have an even wonderfuller Christmas Day.

HoHoHo!!!

 
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Christmas Lights

We went out in search of Christmas lights last night.  The search led us to Attleboro, MA (practically Rhode Island, from our almost New Hampshire point of view) and the shrine at Our Lady of La Sallette.  They sure had lots of pretty lights!

 
2015-12-19 - Our Lady of La Sallette Christmas Lights, Attleboro, MA

2015-12-19 - Our Lady of La Sallette Christmas Lights, Attleboro, MA

2015-12-19 - Our Lady of La Sallette Christmas Lights, Attleboro, MA

2015-12-19 - Our Lady of La Sallette Christmas Lights, Attleboro, MA

2015-12-19 - Our Lady of La Sallette Christmas Lights, Attleboro, MA

2015-12-19 - Our Lady of La Sallette Christmas Lights, Attleboro, MA

2015-12-19 - Our Lady of La Sallette Christmas Lights, Attleboro, MA

2015-12-19 - Our Lady of La Sallette Christmas Lights, Attleboro, MA

Christmas Prep

Tree: Purchased and put up in the living room.
Decorations and wrapping paper and stuff: Some purchased, some purchasing in progress.

Christmas season: In full swing.

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Note: The idea of Lord Darth Vader giving you a gift is completely absurd. He would force choke you to death and then steal all of your presents. Everyone knows that.