There are only 26 shopping days left until Christmas if you are counting. I think I have done all my shopping including some Black Friday sales (which I don't really understand). And I am getting ready to put up my Elvis tree. It is just what it sounds like, an artificial blue Christmas tree with blue lights and all Elvis ornaments. It is one of the true seven wonders of the world.
The Elvis tree needs to go in our bedroom this year because the room I normally put it up in is full of stuff from my son's game room which was water damaged from a faulty shower in his bathroom. The bathroom was completely remodeled about a year and a half ago but the tile and grout was so poorly done it leaked and eventually watered ended up leaking into the adjacent room and soaked up through the laminate floor that was installed by the same subpar contractor. We had to have water remediation done at a cost of about $10,000 including the water detector who determined where the water was coming from. Insurance paid for tearing out the walls and tile, but not putting it back together. And now we are waiting to hear from the subpar contractor as to whether he will actually repair the mess his poor construction created.
TMI, I am sure. Regardless, Elvis has left the room and is moving to our bedroom. I may simplify the installation of the tree this year and not put the miniature Graceland under it just to avoid accidents since the tree will be adjacent to our bed and I am afraid I'd stumble into it in the night when I get up to go to the bathroom.
Again TMI.
Not sure I'm in a Christmas kind of mood. Though I did put new lights outside in our corkscrew willow tree. Nothing like an elderly man on a ladder stringing lights in a tree in the rain. I managed it, but I'm not as nimble as I used to be. Cool thing about these lights though is that I can change the colors with an app on my phone so I can just leave them up all year.
I'm not getting back up on the ladder anytime soon.
This has been a riveting blog post.
Bah, humbug.
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