led christmas tree lights!
I bought my first Christmas present two weeks ago. I don’t know if I was expecting to not be employed that time of year or what, but I feel pretty good about spending that $4.98 from the Target clearance shelf right about now. So, now I’m in the spirit. Yes, I’m one of those people.
I’ve decided that, once again, I’m not going to decorate at all, except for my 12″ Christmas tree, that will be without decorations this year, because I’m quite certain someone may have ate them. I’m kind of in love with LED Christmas lights now, though.
As a kid, I remember how frustrated my dad used to get when an entire strand of Christmas lights wouldn’t work and he had to go through every single light in the five billion foot long strand just to find out which bad bulb was causing the entire string of lights to not work. And think of how much electricity it would save, which is kind of important when it comes to my electric bill this time of year.
I just finished reading an article about how to make Christmas more friendly to the environment (or something along those lines) and I think I’m gonna try to adhere to some of them. They’re easy enough – use newspaper as wrapping paper, sign your name on the gift instead of buying a card that will just wind up in a landfill, use biodegradable packing material (newspaper or popcorn) instead of all that Styrofoam crap.
Hey, Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize for all his environment saving stuff; I gotta start somewhere.
awesome people, interviews, and pick em
The only shitty thing about getting fired is not being around the people that were there. I was pretty excited that by the time I got around to checking email on Friday morning that just about all of my favorite people had emailed. And just now, I heard from just about the last favorite via AIM. One of my former Work Boys™ called me Friday afternoon and left a voicemail making sure I was treated fairly. I haven’t called him back, because I don’t want him to go ballistic when I give him the answer to that. And he’s the kind of guy that might.
I was practicing my napping skills this afternoon and someone called to schedule a job interview. I’m sure I sounded like the most put together person in the world when she called, but who the heck schedules a job interview on a Sunday afternoon? Not complaining (a lot), more like wondering why the whole world doesn’t spend their Sundays in their pajamas. I actually have to get dressed in the morning to A) file for unemployment (which hopefully won’t be as full of drama and heartache as I’m expecting it to) and B) go to this job interview in downtown Minneapolis at 11 a.m. But technically, my former job is still paying me for tomorrow.
You know, if it weren’t for the Arizona Cardinals playing like dookie, I would have gotten every single football pick from the day games correct. For obvious reasons, I didn’t get into the $5 Pick ‘Em Pool at the old employer, or I for sure would have taken those boys for their money. One of the pick ‘em leagues I’m in, though, puts me up against people like my great aunt and her two kids, and I can’t lose to her son. No reason; he’s an awesome guy. I just like being a girl and beating him, and right now he’s winning our league. Today will knock him out of first, and possibly put me in 3rd. And that kinda makes me happy.
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