Hm...did the tree grow or my ceilings shrink?

No your eyes are not deceiving you....my new Chritmas tree reaches floor to ceiling (and about 5 feet in diameter!). Wonder where I'll put my angel? Oh well at least I got it. I ordered it online from this company that has been advertising in a lot of magazines lately. But my lazy UPS man didn't bring it back to my apartment when he delivered (despite the fact that I was HOME all day the day he came). I finally got to the office when it was open and this thing weights like 75 pounds! It took me like 20 minutes to waddle it back to my apartment from the office.

Anyway its been a few years since I decorated for Christmas due to my fall down the stairs 2 years ago, and just plain running out of time last year...so this year I'm very excited to dig all my stuff out and show it off! My old tree was only 4.5 feet so ornaments were packed on it...I'm thinking it might look a bit bare this year!

Comments

Shelley said…

thanks! its looking even better now that I've got some ornaments on it! now if only I can figure out what happened to all of my 2003 hallmark ornaments....

11/23/2005 1:35 PM

el walto said…

Woo woo! Nice tree! I say cast aside your worries about a possibly barer decorated tree… for the most important decorations are below it ;)

11/26/2005 6:45 AM

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