Relaxing is one of the best things to be working on. All I’ve accomplished today is done 4 loads of laundry. And watched like 10 episodes of Arrested Development.
I love the background, too…just promise you won’t leave it up until Easter like it happened a few years ago..
(How long ago WAS that, anyway? Wow, I think I’ve been reading this site since 2001 now…)
Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 11/22/2008 11:05 PM
I dig the background, too–and speaking of Christmas lights, I’m all about the traditional multi-color strands. I’m not a huge fan of one-color variety. One year, my mom did our house all in just blue and green lights, and while it looked somewhat cool, it certainly wasn’t “Christmas” enough for me. Maybe it’s just nothing more than pure nostalgia, but give me generic, multi-colored lights any day of the week!
Time to watch ‘Ghostbusters’ for the 1,345,236 time.
Chestnuts roasted by 4-LOM @ 11/22/2008 11:16 PM
i like the multi-color too, but i like the big lights not those little ones like on the back ground. I just like the matted finish on the old fashioned lights like my grandma had on her tree… makes me all warm and fuzzy
Chestnuts roasted by Starscream77 @ 11/22/2008 11:16 PM
I am curious if anyone else here had the same tradition as me growing up- day after Thanksgiving, I helped my dad put up Christmas lights on the outside of our house and up in our apple trees and along our shrubs. I didnt do a lot with my dad, so it was like our special thing that we did do together every year. We had to stop putting lights in the shrubs though, one year, the shrub closest to the driveway had a bad accident involving my dad and the snow blower…lol. We heard cussing and then it seemed to be darker outside than it had been..lol.
Chestnuts roasted by crazy_mainer @ 11/22/2008 11:21 PM
Oops, I just accidentaly broke a christmas decoration walkin by it. I’m not exactly graceful.
Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 11/22/2008 11:21 PM
Well the spiritual show only half came in and was stuff I’ve heard before, so I decided I really wanted to listen to a particular version of ‘Silver Bells’…unfortunately I only have it on tape and am too lazy to go find it and my tape player. So I’ve settled for a CD in the same series, the original Christmas in the Northwest.
Chestnuts roasted by Moony @ 11/22/2008 11:27 PM
Hey Matt,
What’s the deal with the calendar above? I can click on the Dec 23 picture. Are you testing something. The images look like they belong to some Alternate Reality Game, or viral marketing? What are you up to?
Chestnuts roasted by Dave Johnson @ 11/22/2008 11:30 PM
I’m getting ready for the new SNL tonight. Tim McGraw is hosting.
crazy_mainer
Yeah, Day after Thanksgiving was almost always the “get the tree out of the attic” day for us. I, too, have fond memories of my Dad and I doing that. My mom rarely did anything except help put the cranberry strand on the tree.
Wow, there are a LOT of “newbies” asking about Box 23! If you’re new: It’s a big mystery…there’s a thread about it a few blog posts back…
Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 11/22/2008 11:38 PM
Anybody warm and toasty? The heats go all out.
Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 11/22/2008 11:57 PM
Cameron T.
Thanks for reminding me of that. Since I get to check the site at work most often, and my work computer doesn’t have sound, I completely forgot to check that post at home later to find out about the wav file. Tonight was the first night I happen to notice the picture change. Silly me, I should expect nothing less from Matt.
Cheers.
Chestnuts roasted by Dave Johnson @ 11/23/2008 12:01 AM
Sure is a nice SNT tonight. Trying to think of ways to get back into SNT these days…
Going to try to work up some more blog posts, but lost all my ideas thus far.
Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws @ 11/23/2008 12:06 AM
i spent my day at work…waking up at the time that i had to be there, and rushing to get there as soon as i could. then i went to target and bought some groceries and my third christmas ornament of the year….the abominable snowman from rudolph, and then i came home and made oreo balls. ah yes, glorious glorious oreo balls. also, made a list of clues that i am trying to make sense of for the advent calendar.
Chestnuts roasted by Leigha @ 11/23/2008 12:11 AM
What are oreo balls?
It seems incredible necessary for me to know this.
oh, and sorry for possible double post, but Mystie I am in the process of reading twilight for the first time right now, and i absolutely love it. to think i was scoffing at it mere weeks ago…
Chestnuts roasted by Leigha @ 11/23/2008 12:14 AM
I’m warm and toasty from some John Hughes.
For me the outside lights are best when just red and green or plain white. Lights on a tree can be all the colours of the rainbow. Tackier the better! I’m the biggest fan of my Christmas tree. It came with the lights already attached, no more struggling with stringing up lights for this household!
I know this has been talked about before, but if I could make my tree look like Pluto’s tree (maybe without Chip and Dale) I would happiest. I’m still about about tinsel to try to achieve this look!
Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 11/23/2008 12:14 AM
I second the need to know what Oreo Balls are!
Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 11/23/2008 12:16 AM
I started putting up my lights today, even though it was the coldest day so far (northern CT) and I usually wait until after Thanksgiving, I started anyway. It’s probably a good thing too because the ground is beginning to freeze and to wait may only make it more difficult later.
I think the bitter cold and proximity to Thanksgiving is starting to make me feel more Christmassy, I’ve managed to ignore it pretty well so far this November but it’s wearing me down.
Chestnuts roasted by DarthPez @ 11/23/2008 12:17 AM
oreo balls are a dessert that consists of cream cheese and crushed oreos, mixed together and then formed into 1″ balls, and dipped on chocolate and put in the fridge. they are fabulous. plus it gave me the excuse to say balls ad nauseum today…..perhaps more than a pubescent boy…
Chestnuts roasted by Leigha @ 11/23/2008 12:18 AM
oh and IHAQ, I am with you on the tacky christmas tree. i buy the most flamboyant ornaments and have so many lights its ridiculous. i always tell people i am trying to dress my christmas tree like the world’s tackiest drag queen. one of my managers used to raise peacocks(i know, its weird) and she had a bunch of feathers, so i am making a garland out of that this year….hopefully it works out….
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Relaxing is one of the best things to be working on. All I’ve accomplished today is done 4 loads of laundry. And watched like 10 episodes of Arrested Development.