sunday

mood: achey--stinkin curse of eve man.
listening to: jack johnson
last read: dreamer's comment (happy december to you too!)

i am going to let out angst over tree decorating. so we pulled out our decorations totes, all geared up to put the trimmings on the tree that has been in our living room for a week now. i had bought two extra strands of lights to make sure we had enough lights for the delightful beast of a tree. well, one and half of the three strands we already had didnt work. one of the new strands i bought has a white cord instead of green, and the three working strands put together only cover the top third of the tree. i know its my own dang fault, but still.

perspective? i do realize that in the light of all things perilous, my lights do not top the list. i give thanks for the fact that i have electricity. oh--and we spent $60 on lights, decorations, and extension cords for the outside of the house, only to find that they dont stay on for more than two minutes before they trigger some electical switch to flip and the lights go out. (we really are not all clark griswald or anything. we only have 4 strands of energy efficient led lights, one reindeer and five candy canes. what gives???)

oh yeah, perspective... "And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime. the greatest gift they'll get this year is life. where nothing ever grows, no rain or rivers flow. do they know it's Christmastime at all?"

stinkin lights.