that's it, it's done... finally... the christmas tree came down... all the christmas decorations are finally taken down... and the partment looks normal again... the only things left are the lights on the back porch, but it's raining and cold and they would be a bitch to take down right now... otherwise it's gone, all gone...
so why did it take a full month to kill christmas? because it's a crappy job that no one wants to do... plus it took us that long to finish off all the christmas candy in the stockings... it's nice having a dining room table again though... and not having stupid red and green candles and stuffed santas all over the living room... but i do miss the christmas lights... christmas trees are just so pretty. ours was scary though... it was so dried out that the branches were super stiff... so it wouldn't fit through the door... we ended up shoving it out on the backporch... it lost half it's greenery on the way out... now it's a total charlie brown tree just laying on the outer back porch and the floor of the dining room and porch are covered in pine stuff... it's like being in the woods... complete pain in the ass...
the next step is going to be throwing it off the porch (to get it down to the ground) and then going around the building and retrieving it... then we have to carry it through the mine fields and dump it over in the woods... the mine fields is the grassy area where are the dogs go to use it... so we'll be running through that in the dark hoping we don't step in anything squishy... it's really kind of a crazy adrenaline thing... you are carrying this huge dried out heavy ass tree and leaping around in the dark trying to touch the ground as little as possible... we decided this whole thing would be dangerous in the rain b/c we'd probably slip in mud or wet dog mess and end up with a face full of something... or ruining whatever we were wearing... maybe it'll dry up in the next few days and then we can get the damn thing off the back porch... til then it's the only solution we have...
next year the whole damn thing will be down by new years... mark my words...
