Christmas Decorations
I love Christmas decorations. I do, really. I mean, come on, people have to get into the spirit and what not. It just wouldn't feel like Christmas. All the colored lights, ornaments, and other articles of Christmas cheer. It is fun putting everything up too. Some might say that it's a hassle, or that it takes too much time. But, I have found to enjoy the decorating process very fun and enjoyable. It brings back memories of previous Christmas years.
However, with all the cheer that decorations bring, they also bring a day when one loses all patience and nerve, the day they all have to come down. Now, this could be a simple task, or at least one would think that it is simple. However, over my 19 years of life, I have found that every year taking down the Christmas decorations never brings anyone any after-Christmas cheer. In fact, people get very angry. Now, this doesn't involve the Christmas tree or the ornaments. That part is OK. The biggest pain the butt is none other than the lights. Yes, we all know about the lights. They get tangled, one goes out and the whole string goes out, you step on them, and all the other problems that go with lights. These all can be very time consuming problems. No one wants to spent an hour and a half working on taking down and wrapping Christmas lights. It's really a pain. I have come to loathe Christmas lights, just for these reasons. Yes, I know they're pretty, and they make the house look all festive and what not, but takign them down has just left a bad taste in my mouth. Yuck.
It also helps to have a partner that doesn't spend precious relaxation time on stupid things, like burned out lights. So, sometimes you get a string of lights and when you shake them, part or all of the string goes out. So, you go on a search for the break or whatever trouble spot there seems to be. So, you fumble around with them for about ten minutes then decide to give up....right? In this case, we didn't give up. My "partner," or my father insisted we find the break. Then he attmepted to cut the wire and then put it back together. To no one's surprise, this didn't work. And who has to clean up the mess, me. I put the strand back together, wrapped it up, then put it in the book. Finally, finished. You know how long that took us? About 20 minutes. Just on one strand. There were 3 other strands left to figure out. So, overall, it took us about an hour. What a waste. I could have been doing something else that trying to figure out how to make Christmas lights work. Another, yuck.
So, overall, the Christmas taking-down excursion wasn't very fun and it really never is. No one likes to take down stuff. I've even seen some people leave their lights up the whole year, just not turned on until Christmas. I think that's kind of clever except when people get up close and notice. Then they might thing you're living in some kind of space time continum thing, and no one likes that. Well, that's my moaning and groaning for now. I'm sure there will be plenty more of these types of posts. Hope all of you had a fun taking-down Christmas decorations day. Bye.
However, with all the cheer that decorations bring, they also bring a day when one loses all patience and nerve, the day they all have to come down. Now, this could be a simple task, or at least one would think that it is simple. However, over my 19 years of life, I have found that every year taking down the Christmas decorations never brings anyone any after-Christmas cheer. In fact, people get very angry. Now, this doesn't involve the Christmas tree or the ornaments. That part is OK. The biggest pain the butt is none other than the lights. Yes, we all know about the lights. They get tangled, one goes out and the whole string goes out, you step on them, and all the other problems that go with lights. These all can be very time consuming problems. No one wants to spent an hour and a half working on taking down and wrapping Christmas lights. It's really a pain. I have come to loathe Christmas lights, just for these reasons. Yes, I know they're pretty, and they make the house look all festive and what not, but takign them down has just left a bad taste in my mouth. Yuck.
It also helps to have a partner that doesn't spend precious relaxation time on stupid things, like burned out lights. So, sometimes you get a string of lights and when you shake them, part or all of the string goes out. So, you go on a search for the break or whatever trouble spot there seems to be. So, you fumble around with them for about ten minutes then decide to give up....right? In this case, we didn't give up. My "partner," or my father insisted we find the break. Then he attmepted to cut the wire and then put it back together. To no one's surprise, this didn't work. And who has to clean up the mess, me. I put the strand back together, wrapped it up, then put it in the book. Finally, finished. You know how long that took us? About 20 minutes. Just on one strand. There were 3 other strands left to figure out. So, overall, it took us about an hour. What a waste. I could have been doing something else that trying to figure out how to make Christmas lights work. Another, yuck.
So, overall, the Christmas taking-down excursion wasn't very fun and it really never is. No one likes to take down stuff. I've even seen some people leave their lights up the whole year, just not turned on until Christmas. I think that's kind of clever except when people get up close and notice. Then they might thing you're living in some kind of space time continum thing, and no one likes that. Well, that's my moaning and groaning for now. I'm sure there will be plenty more of these types of posts. Hope all of you had a fun taking-down Christmas decorations day. Bye.
posted by Joe at 11:03 AM
3 Comments:
I just thought your blog was the funniest. Lights are a big problem. I put up christmas lights in my room and I still have them up. They will stay there until I move. It's nice sometimes I just turn off all my lights and put the christmas lights on..it's very pretty. My parents like keeping the lights outside up all year long like you were talking about. Saves them the trouble for next year. But our family is weird ne ways lol so it doesn't matter if it looks weird lol. Anyways, I was just looking through random blogs and came across yours. If ya want read and comment on mine..it's http://victoriangurl.blogspot.com
Lol, I hate putting up Christmas decorations, because going through my head as I put them up is, "OMG, I have to take these down in a mouths time...a month" and its all breakable stuff, when taking it down I'm a bit rougher becasue I know then I can put off going down to shops to fix the light I just broke, but when Im putting it up I'm really really carful in fear that Ive gota go to shops and get crushed by crowds doing the same thing...
Ahahahhahahahaha. At least he didn't make you do it when you got home that night eh? You can do what we do down here...just leave em up all year. You hardly even notice they're up! Pitch that idea to your dad. He'll love it. hahahaha. love you joe!
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