Friday 3 January 2014

#003 DeforestaShawn

*sigh*

I hate this time of the year. No, not Winter; the end of the Christmas Holidays. Usually, this doesn't really hit until Jan 6th, Epiphany. That's the regular date I'll take down the Christmas Tree and all the other decorations... but Jan 6th lands on a Monday, and that just won't do. 

As it is, we need to rent a car to get all the boxes and storage containers from the storage unit, get them into the house, take down the decorations, pack them, then get them back to the storage unit, and then finally return the car. All within 24 hours. So tomorrow begins the great un-decking of the halls.

Kiss the weekend goodbye. 

And kiss my Christmas joy buzz away, too.

This year will be more of a challenge than previous years. We currently have 6 trees in the house. And sure, 3 of them are only 2 feet tall but they are all covered in ornaments. When all is said and done, it will look like the place has been clear-cut like the Amazonian Rainforest. Not a tree will be left standing.

All the glitz and glimmer, sparkle and shimmer, twinkle and glow will be gone. Good-bye, my beautiful Christmas decorations, I will miss you. See you in 11 months.

Tomorrow will begin two weeks of the post-Christmas de-greening blues. 


My only solace is that there are still two litres of Nog in the fridge... 

2 comments:

  1. Aw, Shawn. Have you thought of leaving the trees up year round and decorating them for every season/holiday? You could have Valentine's trees then Easter trees then spring trees then then then then then... all the trees!

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    1. Well, we decorate for most other holidays already. :-)
      I dunno about an Easter Tree or Hallowe'en Tree though... I guess I'm a purist. The Christmas Tree is sacred. Heh.

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