haphazard musings and creations

welp the christmas tree has been up for... 2 weeks now.  pics are now finally as well.  i got a significantly smaller tree than the beastly ...

this is how a single former engineer removes a christmas tree that had to be carried in by two people. 

besides a tree , i have some other tasteful holiday decorations around.  home depot sells a surprising amount of holiday sparkles and i go...

last week with the help of a classmate with a truck, i got a christmas tree!  turns out i have 8.5' ceilings and a 6' tall friend is...

cos its never too late to start procrastinating projects for next holiday season that you didnt do the last one...   some projects found in ...

apparently my camera does some funky stuff.  like phone filters.  only better quality

see?  office sparkles.  i convinced some of the other ladies to wear sequins as well.  holiday style success!

its not much.  but as i mentioned before...teeny tiny apartment.

*edit - i changed the title from thanksxmas to thanxmas.  cant believe i didnt come up with that before.  jeez. le table

longest title ever. what do you get when you sit down to xmas dinner with 2 atheists, a fallen german catholic, 2 japanese shinto, a musl...

after seeing several ornament trees on pinterest and blogs and realizing... i'm not going home for xmas for logistical reasons, i decide...

family tradition dictates more homemade pies than people. unfortunatly since pies only came from once source we were lacking a bit. but we...

xmas/hanukkah/solstice/kwanzaa decorations are scarce around the house. the roommates are leaving for home and the fam is going to florida....