With the tree standing proudly in our bay window as the sweet smell of pine waifs through the apartment it’s time to humiliate it by dressing it up like RuPaul on New Year’s Eve. Now we have a little tradition between the two of us where each Christmas we’ve been buying ornaments for our future holiday seasons together, but four years doesn’t get you much bling to impress your neighbors. Plus we don’t have any lights. In a situation such like this there’s only one thing to do and that’s to head to my favorite French superstore, Target.
The first item on the agenda is the aforementioned lighting matter and while my parents usually go with the colored lights, Bethany’s in favor of the white variety. In recent years, I’ve been sold on the this option so it’s not a problem, but then we must decide what kind of lights to purchase and boy (and girl) we must choose between several features. Size? Shape? Blinking? Number? In circumstances such as this I like to fall back on one key option to help with my pick: What’s on sale. And that’s the story how we ended up with three strands of the non-blinking snowball shaped white lights.
Next up we decided to buy some of those colored glass balls as filler for our tree. Personally, I’m a big fan of the character ornament and I think my favorite would have to be a Santa Claus in a Hawaiian shirt lounging on a beach Bethany gave me last year. Of course these ornaments each cost $10 and I’m not going to drop $200 to make our tree look fa
shionable so we’re settling for the reasonably priced option while we boost up our collection. Once again, the varieties never end as we have all kinds of colors, sizes and shapes to choose from. Is there really anyone out there who wants to decorate an entire tree in purple? The best I can come up with would be 1980’s cartoon villains the Purple Pied Man (Strawberry Shortcake) and Skeletor (He-Man), but they don’t strike me as the holiday type. Plus, I think they were both Jewish. It also doesn’t help that one of the stock boys decided to have an early Christmas meltdown and smashed half of the balls in each box of the variety we liked and chose to leave them on the shelf. After a good fifteen minutes, we picked out some red, gold, and silver ornaments and headed home.
All right, so we’re back at the holiday homestead and it’s time to string some lights on the tree. Seven minutes later I have just completed wrapping two sets around the tree and we decide to turn them on to see if we will need the third box when I realize I’ve connected the lights by the plugs in the middle o
f the tree. Bravo to me and my genius handiwork, but we do some rearranging and use the last string of lights to make it all work out successfully. We hang the ornaments without any further incidents and now have a nice Christmas tree to keep us company for the next month in our living room. If you’re in the neighborhood feel free to stop by and have a look.
The first item on the agenda is the aforementioned lighting matter and while my parents usually go with the colored lights, Bethany’s in favor of the white variety. In recent years, I’ve been sold on the this option so it’s not a problem, but then we must decide what kind of lights to purchase and boy (and girl) we must choose between several features. Size? Shape? Blinking? Number? In circumstances such as this I like to fall back on one key option to help with my pick: What’s on sale. And that’s the story how we ended up with three strands of the non-blinking snowball shaped white lights.
Next up we decided to buy some of those colored glass balls as filler for our tree. Personally, I’m a big fan of the character ornament and I think my favorite would have to be a Santa Claus in a Hawaiian shirt lounging on a beach Bethany gave me last year. Of course these ornaments each cost $10 and I’m not going to drop $200 to make our tree look fa
shionable so we’re settling for the reasonably priced option while we boost up our collection. Once again, the varieties never end as we have all kinds of colors, sizes and shapes to choose from. Is there really anyone out there who wants to decorate an entire tree in purple? The best I can come up with would be 1980’s cartoon villains the Purple Pied Man (Strawberry Shortcake) and Skeletor (He-Man), but they don’t strike me as the holiday type. Plus, I think they were both Jewish. It also doesn’t help that one of the stock boys decided to have an early Christmas meltdown and smashed half of the balls in each box of the variety we liked and chose to leave them on the shelf. After a good fifteen minutes, we picked out some red, gold, and silver ornaments and headed home.All right, so we’re back at the holiday homestead and it’s time to string some lights on the tree. Seven minutes later I have just completed wrapping two sets around the tree and we decide to turn them on to see if we will need the third box when I realize I’ve connected the lights by the plugs in the middle o
f the tree. Bravo to me and my genius handiwork, but we do some rearranging and use the last string of lights to make it all work out successfully. We hang the ornaments without any further incidents and now have a nice Christmas tree to keep us company for the next month in our living room. If you’re in the neighborhood feel free to stop by and have a look.
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