A Work in Progress

so derek had the day off yesterday and we went to the store. (in this story, "the store" means wal*mart) i wanted to show derek the Christmas trees. we had seen some at Costco earlier, but they were like $100! yeah right, i'm gonna pay that for a tree! we found one at "wal*marts" for $20. now that's more like it. so...we got it. then we had to get lights and a star for the top. personally i don't like blinking lights and angels on top are not for me, so those were both out. derek wanted colored lights and he picked out a star that blinks green and blue alternately. i wanted white lights and just a metal star. we went with derek's choices. i figured since he was being such a good sport about the whole thing i should let him pick out some of the stuff. now i just need to get ornaments. i also think i want to get some red and green ribbons and tie them on in lieu of tinsel or garland. when i'm all done i'll take pictures. the nice thing is that the tree is small enough around i only had to do minimal rearranging. basically i just shoved my big chair about six inches one way. now the tree is in the living room between the chair and couch. i still need to get the stockings somewhere...