How to decorate a ghetto Christmas tree

There are three elements to creating a ghetto Christmas tree:

Laziness, stingy-ness with a dash of creativity.

Step 1. Be too lazy to buy a real tree and too stingy to buy a full-size tree. Heck, be too cheap to buy a tree, period. Just pick up a branch from your back alley. I stole mine from my mother and it was even missing one of the stand legs.

Step 2. Be too cheap to buy real decorations. I have two ornaments on my tree that are actual, real ornaments. Everything else is just made up. Don't have garland or lights? That's okay. Do you have long, necklaces? Those will do. Don't have a Christmas star? Do you have yellow construction paper? That'll work.

Voila! A Ghetto Christmas Tree!

This is my tree. I wish I had a proper camera that worked (hint, hint, Santa) so you could see it in its full, ghetto glory. But alas, this will have to do. Is that a candy necklace you spy? It certainly is! Who said your decorations couldn't be edible?

In A Pickle

What an awful time it is for me to have an essay due.

I am in a hibernation mood and nothing would make me happier than to bundle up in a pile of blankets and watch a movie on my laptop.

But nooooo, I have an essay due on Tuesday and today (Saturday) is the day I decided I would write my paper. So I've spent the day procrastinating instead. I donated blood this morning with the ever so lovely KtJ, I uploaded a video onto facebook, I vacuumed the basement, I washed the dishes, and now I feel like snuggling in a cozy cave of blankets. It's been a rather lazy day, really. And I want it to stay that way.