Wed 12/17/2008 6:46 PM

most pathetic christmas tree ever

[photo of our mini Christmas tree on the dining room table]

I know I haven't written anything yet this week. I've been too busy designing and sending out our Christmas e-card, writing out the few snail mail cards I'm sending this year, and decorating our pathetic little Christmas tree.

The tree has no lights. This is not something I'm happy about, but something or someone really did not want me to have lights on my tree, and I finally gave up. You see, we went to Benny's, which is this local store chain I can't really describe except to say it's just the place you go for these things. We bought a battery-operated string of twenty lights, because it was going to be difficult to run a cord from the dining room table to the wall, especially with two puppies who still like to chew on new and interesting things. When we got them home, we found that despite the picture of multi-colored lights on the box, these were actually clear bulbs, indicated only by the words "clear bulbs" in tiny print on the corner of the box. This is not okay with me. So we went back. The colored lights only came in strings of ten, so we bought two. When we got home and opened the first set, we found it had a broken bulb. This wasn't a problem, as we happened to have a few spare bulbs. But the second string is defective. This isn't just a dead bulb... each bulb is dimmer than the last as you move away from the battery pack, until about halfway down the string where they just fail to light at all. Now, the one working string just isn't long enough, and I wasn't waiting another day to get this stupid tree decorated, so that's it... no lights. The original set of clear lights is now wrapped around my monitor and across my desk at work, and the ten multi-color lights? Maybe I'll put them up on Chiquita's memorial shelf or something.

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