2001-12-08 - Oh X-mas Tree

Oh (Crooked) X-mas Tree

If there is one (well, there's many but this is at the top) thing I hate about Christmas, it's putting up the Christmas tree. My mom always wonders why I don't want to take part but it's because everything has to be just "perfect". It starts with going to pick out the tree. It has to be the perfect size. Perfect width, height, bushy-ness, amount of green, trunk size, etc etc etc. Then, when you decorate, you have to put all the ornaments in the perfect spot. No. Not there. There. No...there. And the lights. And the tinsel. Ohhhhh how I loathe the tinsel. I am happy to just take a handful and toss it on but nooooo you have to carefully place the tinsel on one thin static-y piece at a time. So, instead of me putting up ornaments and tinsel, only to have them moved and re-arranged by her, I choose not to partake. And she wonders why. Bah.

As I type this I hear my poor father having to put up with where to put said tree. No. Over here. Suck-ah. After all, he married her. Fool. Feel the love this season. :)

I'll take a Charlie Brown tree ANY DAY.