wow, so today is my puppies 1 year anniversary... it's very exciting... i guess it is kind of like her birthday since we don't know when she was actually born and we got her on the 7th of december so that is what is important to us and we labeled it her "birthday"... she's so cute...
so yeah, actually i'm still thinkin on saturday time and man has it been a long day. today was the megan gets up early to go shopping for crazy christmas party stuff while huey sits at home and does "work" whatever that means... so i ran around all morning along with about everyone else in atlanta and the list that never ends getting groceries and whatnot. i could understand if it was like, two days before christmas or we were expecting a blizzard or something but it's just early december and for some reason today was everyone's day to go shopping for the rest of winter or something... lines were ridiculous and the amount of food these people eat is ridiculous... when you pay more attention to what you are eating then it becomes insane to see what normal people eat... because you realize you used to eat that and you're just sitting there screaming HEARTATTACK to yourself... its very eye opening...
so anyways, the fun part of today was the christmas tree hunting... i think it was fun... i'm going to tell myself it was fun because its a great tradition when you really think about it. you go out to the middle of nowhere (they call it canton, ga down here) and you hop in the back of a hay wagon pulled by what looks like one of those mini kids tractors that run off 8 D batteries and you putter around through the woods for 15 min while its freezing cold... then they just drop you off with a saw and putter back while you wander around realizing that all of the really good trees were probably taken last year and you are just pickin through the rejects in the same field you were in last year... so you finally find one, that perfect one, walk about 30 laps around it then chop it down with the same crappy rusty saw they probably stuck you with the year before... but its a proven fact that when standing in the middle of a field in the woods for about 30 min in the freezing cold, anything looks good... got it home and it was leaning worse than pisa... we finally said fuck it and just stuck boards under one side of the tree stand to make it look straight... then duck taped the whole thing to a board underneath to make sure it wouldn't tip on us... after a few thousand strands of lights which i'm sure will start some sort of electrical fire b/c it seems the power bar gnomes have stolen all our power bars again and we had to plug everything into one plug... and then some really old, 70's lookin ornaments that we inherited from family to mix with the few pretty ones we could actually afford... the whole thing does look pretty damn nice...
wow, what a tradition... really gets ya in the christmas spirit :o)
so anyways, the fun part of today was the christmas tree hunting... i think it was fun... i'm going to tell myself it was fun because its a great tradition when you really think about it. you go out to the middle of nowhere (they call it canton, ga down here) and you hop in the back of a hay wagon pulled by what looks like one of those mini kids tractors that run off 8 D batteries and you putter around through the woods for 15 min while its freezing cold... then they just drop you off with a saw and putter back while you wander around realizing that all of the really good trees were probably taken last year and you are just pickin through the rejects in the same field you were in last year... so you finally find one, that perfect one, walk about 30 laps around it then chop it down with the same crappy rusty saw they probably stuck you with the year before... but its a proven fact that when standing in the middle of a field in the woods for about 30 min in the freezing cold, anything looks good... got it home and it was leaning worse than pisa... we finally said fuck it and just stuck boards under one side of the tree stand to make it look straight... then duck taped the whole thing to a board underneath to make sure it wouldn't tip on us... after a few thousand strands of lights which i'm sure will start some sort of electrical fire b/c it seems the power bar gnomes have stolen all our power bars again and we had to plug everything into one plug... and then some really old, 70's lookin ornaments that we inherited from family to mix with the few pretty ones we could actually afford... the whole thing does look pretty damn nice...