Queen of the EPIC posts!

Wow!

I didn't realize how LONG my posts were. That's a whole nights reading, right there. From this point on, I will try to be more concise. I swear.

Well, Christmas is fast approaching. We don't have our tree up yet, but I think we'll put one up this weekend. We do a fake tree which seems completely sac religious considering where we live, doesn't it? There is a reason for it, a very good reason . . .

When the man and I were living in the city I had no desire what so ever to put up a tree or decorate the house. It was just the 2 of us, no kids yet, and we were traveling home for the holidays so we wouldn't even be in our house on Christmas Day.

Well he really wanted one so we made a deal, I'd put up the tree and he would take it down, which was fine by me because that's the part I dislike anyway. Fine. I go to 7-11 and buy a tree. Crazy, eh? I bought a tree at 7-11. Anyway, I bring it home, drag out all the decorations and put up the tree. It looked nice, got us in the Christmas spirit and seemed like a good idea after all.

We get home after the holidays and decide to leave the tree up until after Ukrainian Christmas (Jan 7th) and then he would take it down. Sounds good to me. Well, Ukrainian Christmas came and went and the tree was still up, January came and went and the tree was still up, February came and went and the tree was still up . . . are you seeing a trend here?

Our tree was up until the beginning of April. By this time it's no longer a tree, it's a nicely decorated stick. Our neighbor's were thinking about getting their yards ready for spring and we were just throwing our tree out. Now while a fake tree kind of sucks, it doesn't suck as bad as vacuuming up an entire tree's worth of needles for 4 months.

Good thing he has a lot of other redeeming qualities.

Yes. It was me. I left our live Christmas tree up until Spring.

I won't do it again. I swear.

I only include this picture because I think it's funny.

(Even a decent camera's zoom has it's limits.)

Ok, ok. I'm including this one because it makes me laugh out loud! Ha ha! But that's it. I won't post any more pics of him that might potentially embarrass him on teh internets. I'm done.

~~~Edited to add~~~

Are you wondering where the aforementioned picture of the man went? Well, he saw it and thought his lips looked funny and he asked me to take it off my blog. I complied because I fear retaliation, (Payback is a Bitch.), and because I love him. *batting eyelashes* This Captain Kirk picture makes me laugh and his lips don't look funny.

In case you can't read the caption, it says
"I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am."
Ha ha!

Ok, maybe just this last picture of the man and one of his brothers.

Can you see the difference?