Deck The Halls!

[Guest]

Ok, so I've been preparing stuff all day. I've moved the furniture a bit, been up in the attic (without a safety net I HATE heights), and found the tree and Christmas decs and so on. I arranged a space in my living room for the tree and put it up, ready for when the girls come home from school, so that we can decorate it together.

I opened all the boxes and they are eager to start decorating the tree. I told them to wait, as Mummy has to put the lights on first. Ok, where's the lights? Um, where's the box with the lights in? WHERE'S THE FLIPPIN' LIGHTS!?

ARGH!

I can't find the buggers anywhere. I've been up in the box room, and nearly killed myself, when I thought I was pulling at a "safe" box. The whole bloody lot came tumbling down on top of me. Apart from whiplash, I'm ok.

So now I have this sodding six foot artificial tree up and no lights. There's decs everywhere and the kids just want to get started.

Mummy is such a slack-arse and bodger (I'm one of the most disorganised people I know).

Ho hum, I've got Christmas music playing, so that helps. Aren't Boney M great?

Ok, back to it, gotta cook a meal soon...

If I track down the twatting lights, I'll let you know.

Lou - loves Christmas.

 

[Guest]

Help?

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Just buy new lights. The old ones never work anyway.

 

[Guest]

Just buy new lights. The old ones never work anyway.

I know, it looks like that's my only option. But I hate spending money needlessly. The ones I've got (somewhere in this chocka house of mine) are really pretty little sparkly ones. They're a string of 100.

Oh well, off to the shops we go...

Lou

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I know, it looks like that's my only option. But I hate spending money needlessly. The ones I've got (somewhere in this chocka house of mine) are really pretty little sparkly ones. They're a string of 100.

Oh well, off to the shops we go...

Lou

I LOVE spending money needlessly, it's my favorite hobby.

When you find the old ones (you know you will as soon as you buy new ones) use them to decorate something else... maybe the cats litterbox.

 

[Guest]

When you find the old ones (you know you will as soon as you buy new ones) use them to decorate something else... maybe the cats litterbox.

Or get some battery operated ones, and decorate the cats.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I'll send you some lights....at least you'll have them for next year.

 

[dreampilot79]

hmmmm.. sounds like my kinda plan... get lit for the hollidays

 

[Guest]

I LOVE spending money needlessly, it's my favorite hobby.

When you find the old ones (you know you will as soon as you buy new ones) use them to decorate something else... maybe the cats litterbox.

Hmmm, that would be luvverly.

I went out and bought some new ones. Multi-coloured things. Oh well, the kids are happy, so I am, too.

Lou

 

[Guest]

Or get some battery operated ones, and decorate the cats.

They need new collars.

 

[Guest]

I'll send you some lights....at least you'll have them for next year.

Cheers, love, I knew I could count on you. Crazy bitch.

 

[Guest]

well, you could be like me...
i put the lights out on the hedge ...oh...i dunno...about a week ago and....
i still havent plugged them in...maybe i will on xmas eve

 

[shereads]

Just buy new lights. The old ones never work anyway.

They can put a man on the moon, but they can't make a string of holiday lights that doesn't cause ulcers.

Why doesn't some Forbes-like entrepeneur with nothing but money hire a team of geniuses from the Russian space program and assign them to invent better tree lights? It could bring about world peace.

 

[Guest]

They can put a man on the moon, but they can't make a string of holiday lights that doesn't cause ulcers.

Why doesn't some Forbes-like entrepeneur with nothing but money hire a team of geniuses from the Russian space program and assign them to invent better tree lights? It could bring about world peace.

it might but it would also topple the xmas economy.
they make the lights shit so that we buy them every year...money money money
*sigh*

 

[Guest]

I stopped using lights a few years ago (untangling them is not worth the stress). The tree is beautiful w/o them.

Perdita

p.s. I do string 'red chile' lights round the window (they're not easy to lose and don't tangle).

 

[dreampilot79]

They can put a man on the moon, but they can't make a string of holiday lights that doesn't cause ulcers.

Why doesn't some Forbes-like entrepeneur with nothing but money hire a team of geniuses from the Russian space program and assign them to invent better tree lights? It could bring about world peace.

Anyone who believes that rocket scientists are a good choice.. doesn't know any....

The ones I know would design a string of lights that work for 15 minutes and cost $1,000,000 a light. Then they would expect you to buy two strings of 100!

 

[shereads]

Tis the season for colorful cat-head lights

Thank you, lou, for reminding me that it's time once again to post the link for cheesylights.com.

For those who need new lights, why not go with tiny parrots or house trailers, or perhaps a string of trout? This site has more than one kind of trout-shaped light, of which my favorite is the one that looks surprised. I also have a lovely string of Winnebago lights and another of palm trees and pineapples.

For Cantdog and others in the frozen North, I recommend a string of moose. Very authentic, until you plug them in.

Introduce yourselves to "Le Fromage Grande," and congratulate him on his ability to run an online store and experiment with hallucinogens at the same time.

[color=dark red]Cheese Holidays, pornsters.[/color]

http://www.cheesylights.com/cheesy_1st.html

 

[shereads]

Light this.

 

[shereads]

Anyone who believes that rocket scientists are a good choice.. doesn't know any....

The ones I know would design a string of lights that work for 15 minutes and cost $1,000,000 a light. Then they would expect you to buy two strings of 100!

 

[Guest]

Re: Tis the season for colorful cat-head lights

Thank you, lou, for reminding me that it's time once again to post the link for cheesylights.com.

For those who need new lights, why not go with tiny parrots or house trailers, or perhaps a string of trout? This site has more than one kind of trout-shaped light, of which my favorite is the one that looks surprised. I also have a lovely string of Winnebago lights and another of palm trees and pineapples.

For Cantdog and others in the frozen North, I recommend a string of moose. Very authentic, until you plug them in.

Introduce yourselves to "Le Fromage Grande," and congratulate him on his ability to run a online store and experiment with hallucinogens at the same time.

[color=dark red]Cheese Holidays, pornsters.[/color]

http://www.cheesylights.com/cheesy_1st.html

Um, lovely. Yeah, thanks.

 

[cloudy]

We have a live tree every year, so I suppose it'll be a couple of weeks before we get ours.

You're not alone, Lou. I can never find the lights, and even if I do, there's always one bulb that's managed to escape during the year it was in storage, and now the whole damn string won't work. Hate those damn things.

I think the prettiest tree we ever had was when I was so broke at Christmas that instead of getting anymore ornaments, or lights, or anything, I bought some cheapo ribbon, and curled it with a pair of scissors before hanging it on the tree. It was so pretty that I do it that way every year. And it's a whole lot easier to take off than that tinsel stuff.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I spent most of today helping my friend M to decorate her local church' s kiddie parlor for christmas. We've put up papers, build a stable from a bookcase and some gaffa tape, I've cut out a bull's head from felt, and created 4 sheep out of pillows and fake rabbit skins. The latter look more like pregnant rabbits than sheep, but atleast it looked alive once I tied its left ear together with the front leg...

I'm going back there tomorrow to fix a roof for the stable out of two bamboo blinds.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I have not yet given a thought to Christmas.

I am still leftover from Thanksgiving.

Serves me right for travelling to a place where Thanksgiving isn’t celebrated for Thanksgiving.

It seems like Thanksgiving is a pre-Halloween get-together, here.


I am thankful that I finally got to see Ed, the Sock.


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[Guest]

My tree's up and looking all pretty and sparkly, btw. Hey, I should take a pic!

Nah, I won't inflict that on you lot.

 

[matriarch]

The tree I have used for the last 10 years is way and all too big for my new little abode, so I have donated it to the office at work. Its almost too big for the small space there.

We have two blondes in the office, bright, funny girls, who occasionally drop into stereotype, especially at christmas.
They assembled it and started to decorate it. The damne thing is now sitting within my line of vision.....just to the left of my desk.

Its Dec 2nd for heaven's sake. It's too damn early !!!!!!
So I have been playing scrooge 'bah-humbug' all day, simply because I know it amuses them. So I've growled and moaned and refused to allow them to hang any decorations from the ceiling over my desk area. I am an official christmas free zone.

So, predictably, they are doing everything they can to wind me up - they think. Inside I'm grinning and laughing - outside I'm growling. Its so much fun. Now they're talking about reindeer antler headredresses. For us all. No way Santa, no freakin' way.

When I was at home with the boys, I held off with the tree until they drove me crazy to put it up, but never, never earlier than a week before Christmas. It just didn't seem right. Not even sure I'll have one this year.

Nothing of import, just sharing.