Christmas Shenanigans
Dec. 14th, 2009 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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carawj and I put up our Christmas tree on Friday night!
It was fun. We'd inherited a second-hand tree, and we hadn't really checked that it was ok, so we were surprised to open the box and find that it didn't come with a stand, oh noes! So we were like, what do we do, and then I remembered how we never had a stand at home and my dad just used to (and AFAIK still does) wedge the tree into a bucket using rocks of various sizes from the garden.
We don't have a garden to get rocks from, nor do we have a bucket, so instead we washed out the bathroom bin and used that, and wedged the tree in with the entire contents of the tins cupboard in the kitchen.
Of course, now we can't eat any tinned food until January 6th, but our Christmas tree stands up practically almost straight! And is sparkly!
And there's already a present under it because my dad got something forcarawj, which makes me super happy.
Saturday folk came over and we watched Christmassy movies and had mulled wine and nommy foods, yay! Then I spent Sunday going 'aaargh, aargh, too congested to breathe'. And now I'm back at work, but only for a week and an half before I have nearly two whole weeks off! No idea yet really what I'm doing with them... Wales folk, want to meet up? London folk, want to do things that we normally can't do on weekdays because we're always working?
carawj and I put up our Christmas tree on Friday night!It was fun. We'd inherited a second-hand tree, and we hadn't really checked that it was ok, so we were surprised to open the box and find that it didn't come with a stand, oh noes! So we were like, what do we do, and then I remembered how we never had a stand at home and my dad just used to (and AFAIK still does) wedge the tree into a bucket using rocks of various sizes from the garden.
We don't have a garden to get rocks from, nor do we have a bucket, so instead we washed out the bathroom bin and used that, and wedged the tree in with the entire contents of the tins cupboard in the kitchen.
Of course, now we can't eat any tinned food until January 6th, but our Christmas tree stands up practically almost straight! And is sparkly!
And there's already a present under it because my dad got something for
carawj, which makes me super happy.Saturday folk came over and we watched Christmassy movies and had mulled wine and nommy foods, yay! Then I spent Sunday going 'aaargh, aargh, too congested to breathe'. And now I'm back at work, but only for a week and an half before I have nearly two whole weeks off! No idea yet really what I'm doing with them... Wales folk, want to meet up? London folk, want to do things that we normally can't do on weekdays because we're always working?
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Date: 2009-12-14 02:38 pm (UTC)You know, you can always buy more tinned food if you need it...