seperis | Dec. 6th, 2003

So, after being a mildly psychotic decorating maniac at work today, putting up lights, humming Christmas carols, and generally making sure eveyrone knew I wasn't allergic to any meds so when I took a dive off the desks I was jumping between, the ambulance people would know what kind of painkillers to give me, me and my mother went to....

The Famous Christmas Store.

Okay, Austinites, is *that* what it's called? I've seen it every year since I was knee high to a computer and always wanted to go in. Lights! Trees! Pretty!

This place is like Tree Decorating Crack. They have *everything*.

As most know, I have all the artistic talent of a tree sloth, so I was awfully impressed by the dozen or so trees they had decorated. Balls as big as my head (I'm so not kidding), stiff ribbon, really, *really* bizarre looking Christmas trees that were so gorgeous they made your teeth hurt and also, made me think, man, that thing would *never* survive my son. Ornaments--my God, the ornaments. By color and type and size and glitteriness. Like, where elves shop when they want to decorate for really really special occasions. I wandered around in a daze, thinking, I need to become an assassin so I can afford to decorate like this.

In some universe, I'm sure this is an example of the Christmas Spirit.

It was just amazing. All these *things*--you could theme up your tree, add some bizarre damn things to it, they did that thing where they wound lights around every branch, which must take freaking *hours* but is so gorgeous, multi-size balls, weird gold and silvery glittery wires that just get put up anywhere. I want to do that. I want the artistic eye to be able to create like that, and I know, I *know* that even if I had eveyrthing there, I'd never get anything close to the gorgeousness they created.

If you haven't been? Totally go. It is so worth it. I may go back and buy a few things--at those prices, I can only *afford* a few things--and start collecting for the day that with any kind of luck, my genetic predispostion to be clueless at anything visually artistic will not be inherited by my son and he will decorate for me.

Mood

By that, my mood has taken a record two-day upward swing, which is freaking bizarre, but gift horse, mouth, you get the idea. Happiness is this. It's the Christmas spirit which pleases me, and also, purchasing more presents and feeling good about the world in general.

I need to find a Santa Claus icon. Hmm. Current icon is of the Christmas bears

hwmitzy got me last year. Happy bears. Happy, happy Christmas bears. *glows*

*going to look for Santa icons*

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That's why he goes bad, you know -- all the good people hit him on the head or try to shoot him and constantly mistrust him, while there's this vast cohort of minions saying, We wouldn't hurt you, Lex, and we'll give you power and greatness and oh so much sex...
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Beth: god, why do i have so many beads?
Jenn: Because you are an addict.
Jenn: There are twelve step programs for this.
Beth: i dunno they'd work, might have to go straight for the electroshock.
Jenn: I'm not sure that helps with bead addiction.
Beth: i was thinking more to demagnitize my credit card.
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silverkyst: I need to not be taking molecular genetics.
silverkyst: though, as a sidenote, I did learn how to eviscerate a fruit fly larvae by pulling it's mouth out by it's mouthparts today.
silverkyst: I'm just nowhere near competent in the subject material to be taking it.
Jenn: I'd like to thank you for that image.
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