apartment Christmas

How does Santa get to the kids who live in apartments? Jeff Dunham has the answer (skip ahead to 4:15).

I didn't realize how much Christmas stuff I'd collected while living with my parents that I had no place to set up. There's a 4-foot aluminum frond Christmas tree from the '50s (with a modern color wheel that's crap) which I used to set up in my room as a kid. But due to space constraints, I hadn't set it up since 2002 or so. That means I never made use of the miniature glass ornaments I bought for it five years ago.

I set it up in my apartment and thought that was all I was going to do for Christmas, but then I got a short strand of lighted roping to put over the entertainment center. Then my parents got me a handmade wreath from the historical society, so that's hanging on the door.

At their house today, I discovered the box of Peanuts ornaments I used to put on the aluminum tree, along with several boxes of large blown glass Peanuts ornaments. And the string of lights and plastic icicles I hung in my college dorm room. And a little animated Christmas-Snoopy-flying-ace-sitting-on-his-doghouse thing.

So I hauled all that crap home with me today and am trying to decide where to put it all. At first I thought I would be satisfied with just the little tree, but now that I have more set up I'm kind of enjoying the Christmassy atmosphere. I've yet to fully unpack or "decorate" the apartment (i.e. hang things on the walls) since I moved in, but now assembling the Christmas stuff is making this place feel more homey.

That, and my mom gave me a bag of her Christmas cookies to take with me. :)