I'm bringing colored lights back!!

If you don't know what I mean by this "bringing them back"... well then, you just keep on keepin' on, my friend. :D I'll admit, I myself was not fond of the colored light Christmas trees. I found myself turning my nose up at them, saying as for me and my house, we will have clear lights. And then, Black Friday 2008 happened. Randy and I had our eyes on this awesome tree at Home Depot. Our old tree (which was also a Black Friday find from Home Depot) had lit its last light 2 weeks before Christmas last year. A whole section just refused to light up. I don't know how many times we got zapped testing each and every little light bulb... let me tell you, they all had juice to them. Anyway, Randy, being the good man that he is, braved the cold and madness alone (as I was... conveniently sick) on Black Friday morning at Home Depot. We knew it would be a race for these trees, they were marked 75% off for crying out loud! And LED lights? I don't even know what that means, but it sounds high class! Randy said it was a full on race to the trees... just like we knew it would be. Somehow, by miracles of all miracles... we got one, the last one, which just so happened to have "clear" lights. (Do you have goosebumps?) They had 2 options, "color" or "clear"... I gave specific instructions. It was when Randy was making his way to the checkout line, fists up, as people had tried to STEAL our tree (suckas! wake up earlier next year!) that a cold, lonely and forlorn man approached Randy from the shadows with his sob story. You see, this man also had specific instructions to bring home a "clear" tree. Sadly, he did not grab one. Instead, he had mistakenly picked up a colored tree. He wanted to make the "boss" happy. He could not, would not bring home a colored tree! The nerve to even think of such a thing! So, of course, Randy being the good man that he is, found it in his heart to trade this sad man our clear tree for his colored tree. Hence, why I am bringing colored lights back.

And you know what? After humbling myself, and putting up my new tree decorations (thank you, Tai Pan), I actually like colored lights better than white lights! *GASP* You heard. And here's why: they are fun. Funner than white lights ever dreamed of being! And, if I do say so myself, they look awesome with my fun theme I have going on with my tree. The pictures just don't do the beauty justice.

I decided to have a half sentimental tree. The ornaments, they mean nothing to me. Just some pretty things I picked up from Tai Pan Trading this year. The nutcrackers, on the other hand, are sentimental. It's a little tradition we have going in our family to buy a nutcracker figurine each year. It's fun to look back at them all (all 4 of them) and remember the year we bought them and why we chose the one we did. To be honest I've never really liked this tradition until this year... I actually have a place to put them! The train was also a Black Friday find at Home Depot. Macey loves it! I would love it more if I had ear plugs.

So, don't care about my tree? Well then, you just go back to your self righteous ways with your clear lights... I'll be here, enjoying this view... laughing on the inside, because I know I am having more fun than you. One day when you make the change to color, you'll see. You'll all see.