oh X-mas...

It's my fourth day enduring my chosen vocation of doing nothing. Surprisingly this day is rather full. My main focus started off as packing for the next week and cleaning my apartment. I also got my car tuned up for the upcoming ROAD TRIP! (I think I'll make that a link to a future post about said road trip.) But someone threw a wrench in the gears. That someone was me. I was in Target yesterday buying D&L's wedding gift (the only thing available that they registered for) along with plastic to cover the windows in my poorly-insulated attic, when I stumbled into a winter wonderland between electronics and home improvement. While browsing through my eyes fell upon a fantastically cheap X-mas tree. It's somewhere between Charlie Brown's and the one in Rockefeller Center, and it suits me just fine. Today, I simply couldn't resist setting it up. It's the first time that I've had my very own Christmas tree, and the novelty was just too much to let wait. Normally I frown upon those who set up their Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving, but I won't be back in my apartment until the day after Thanksgiving, so I figure I've justified myself. Unfortunately I don't have a working digital camera, so I can't show you what it looks like. But I'm posting this in the middle of working on it, so I couldn't show you the finished product anyway. Just rest assured that it's relatively awesome in a mundanely domestic sense, and that it makes me very happy.