Retarded Tree.

The other night the 16 YR old decided to assemble the Christmas tree as she said she has most of her Christmas gifts now and has no place to put them, so....she put the tree up and it somehow ended up looking like this: a giant mutated Charlie Brown tree and she couldn't figure out why and why part of it didn't quite fit right and she had to struggle and fight to get it in but she eventually did....and when I got a closer look at it I could see why: it was 2 different trees she was unaware of she accidently put together; a hybrid! if you look closely you can see: the bottom part the branches are a different shade of green as well as a different texture, making it looked warped and retarded but at least she tried and we got a much taller tree than usual; it reaches our 10 foot ceiling this year. In any case after everyone got a good laugh my hubby fixed it taking out the extra piece and the 16 YR old said she wondered why when she took the pieces out of the bag there were 4 of them instead of 3....Look! It comes with an extra piece!

Then of course we plugged in the lights and they didn't work, just our luck, it figures, so my hubby(without checking first) goes out and buys the most tacky, cheap, hideous lights ever, seen here. It's like a donut or crown you put at the top and the lights all drape down the tree like tentacles and when lit up it's not soooo bad but it looks really really cheap, like ping-pong balls or turtle eggs, and I bet he got it at the Dollar Store or something and it's likely some cheap-ass product from China that doesn't even pass safety standards and is likely a fire hazard. It's just soooo ugly I want to torch the tree every time I see it.

There's no way.

Here are the ugly things up close and the 25 YR old agrees with me that they look stupid. I took them off. No way is he going to bastardize our tree like that.Not happening.

Since no one is going to decorate the tree I told my hubby as long as he brings up the boxes of decorations from the basement and carries them upstairs I'll decorate since I'm still recovering from surgery and  I can't carry and lift as last week when I brought a box of decorations up I felt something pop in my abdomen and think I split my incision inside but I'll try and see what I can do just not put up as many as I normally would.....but he came back saying the mice had chewed thru them and ruined them all, seen in the photo here, so he ended up having to go out and buy more decorations and lights yesterday so I can't decorate it until today. I hate those damn mice; they always come in over the winter and they're such a menace they ruin everything; they even ate thru one of my shoes and ruined it but that's one of hazards of living out in the country. We're also supposed to get a snowstorm tomorrow (10-15 cm) but I actually like snow in December though as it doesn't feel like the Christmas season without it.