OCD for the holidays.
Warning, simulated swearing follows.
Since early summer, we've known that Kelly's brother and sister-in-law were visiting us for Christmas, and now Kelly's mother is joining us as well. So we've been plotting all the things we want to get done to the house, since they will be our first visitors from Back East since June, when we had barely settled in here as JJ and Jesse visited.
Our typical thing is to stand in a room and discuss all the things we each envision, then move onto another room. The last couple of weeks, though, we've been actually doing the work we used to just talk about.
We've done and bought a bunch of things, all things we've needed, so it's good to have the forcing agent of having visitors to get us to get it all done.
One thing that's been my project is getting the Christmas lights done outside. It's been a three weekend-long project so far and I don't think it's over yet. See, ours is the first house people see as they enter our neighborhood, so I've felt since we moved in that the front of the house is a duty I can't slack on. Like if I ever let things go, it would signal to other neighbors that it's okay to slack on their places. It's a ridiculous notion, since the next door neighbor to the west only mows three times a year, but it still motivates me.
Last weekend, I was putting these ridiculous oversized bulbs together, which line the edge of our driveway. Kelly was busy working on some of her projects, but passed me and said as I was screwing colored bulbs in, "Aren't you even going to put the lights in in the right order?"
"What the hell is the right order for colored lights?"
"ROYGBIV, mother f****r! God, I can't even watch you do that, you're RUINING Christmas!"
Later, Kelly's nugget of wisdom was, "I know that Christmas decorating isn't a contest here, but we're winning."
As per Jeffrey's request (again), VIDEO! If you look close at the landing of the stairs, you can see a bemused Amanda.
Since early summer, we've known that Kelly's brother and sister-in-law were visiting us for Christmas, and now Kelly's mother is joining us as well. So we've been plotting all the things we want to get done to the house, since they will be our first visitors from Back East since June, when we had barely settled in here as JJ and Jesse visited.
Our typical thing is to stand in a room and discuss all the things we each envision, then move onto another room. The last couple of weeks, though, we've been actually doing the work we used to just talk about.
We've done and bought a bunch of things, all things we've needed, so it's good to have the forcing agent of having visitors to get us to get it all done.
One thing that's been my project is getting the Christmas lights done outside. It's been a three weekend-long project so far and I don't think it's over yet. See, ours is the first house people see as they enter our neighborhood, so I've felt since we moved in that the front of the house is a duty I can't slack on. Like if I ever let things go, it would signal to other neighbors that it's okay to slack on their places. It's a ridiculous notion, since the next door neighbor to the west only mows three times a year, but it still motivates me.
Last weekend, I was putting these ridiculous oversized bulbs together, which line the edge of our driveway. Kelly was busy working on some of her projects, but passed me and said as I was screwing colored bulbs in, "Aren't you even going to put the lights in in the right order?"
"What the hell is the right order for colored lights?"
"ROYGBIV, mother f****r! God, I can't even watch you do that, you're RUINING Christmas!"
Later, Kelly's nugget of wisdom was, "I know that Christmas decorating isn't a contest here, but we're winning."
As per Jeffrey's request (again), VIDEO! If you look close at the landing of the stairs, you can see a bemused Amanda.
red. orange. yellow. green. blue....
IV????
What the hell do I and V stand for??
Now you are ruining Christmas for me, mother .....!!
I couldn't even bring myself to put in the first and last letters. Mom reads this blog.
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Indigo and violet. They taught it as a way to remember the colors of a rainbow the year you skipped highschool. It's pronounced roy gee bive.
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um...no video of the train? WTF, mother f****r?
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I was just waiting for you to ask.
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You should try mounting the camera to the train. Now that would be some you tubin fun for all, yo.
Is there anything better than having a train under the Christmas tree? It's reason enough to buy a house as far as I'm concerned.
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The fireplace is the real reason to get a house
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Ha! Jeffrey, you crack me up. Do you have any idea how many hours he's probably logged trying to rig the camera to the train this morning??
I can't imagine you are on Kelly's good side with that suggestion - knowing how long his honey-do list is right now. : )
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Ok. I tried to keep quiet, but it is just impossible.
Your house looks amazing. That said...
The bush next to your truck is just pathetic. One random string of lights on a bush ruin the effect. It would be way cooler to use that string to make a tiny bush all lit up.
Mom won't say it, but I can tell you she completely agrees with me.
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I just realized how rude that sounded. Sorry.
For what it's worth, I don't have a single decoration on the outside of my house and I have two absolutely perfect christmas-style trees I could light up if I had it in me to do that.
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