So my son asked me "hey, can we have a christmas tree this year?" to which I replied "Well, where would we put it and what kind of cat toys should I put on it?"
He grunted and gave me a funny look. I haven't put up a tree in four or five years and it's been even longer for Mr Squid so this was about the best we could do on a whim.
The topper is kind of traditional, like it or not for previous Mr's. Jack Skelington. But there's also a peacock. Cause god damn it, I like em---
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/Squidoid667/xmas1.jpg)
Then I got him an ornament with a clarinet since that's what he plays--
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/Squidoid667/xmas2.jpg)
Did I mention the fucking YODA LIGHTS??? They're so tacky I could punch myself---
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/Squidoid667/xmas4.jpg)
And here's the piece of shit in all it's glory. ENJOY SON!
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/Squidoid667/xmas3.jpg)
(sorry if it's sideways but both photobucket and my photo program thing are fucking retarded and I'm too lazy to try to fix it properly. So just tilt your head if need be)
What a piece of shit! Merry Christmas!!
I LOVE IT!!!
I grew up around a crazy very ritually tacky tree, so I endorse this.
Woah, that's awesome, I love it! I've become really bored with all of the modern/minimalist pure-white-lights-and-all-natural-material christmas decor. Gaudy rules.
What are you talking about? Those yoda lights kick ass!
That's awesome!
I have to get a tree. Dammit.
Gaudy IS Christmas.
thats not as tacky as my cousins tree always is
they always go for the most deformed tree they can find, cover it in macaroni art, glitter, pickles, toy lobsters, other nonsense, and top it
with a stuffed beaver dressed as the Tooth Fairy or something :? its awesome
also when we used to do a tree my mother put chili pepper lights and covered wagons on it :x
sounds awesome :lol:
OH also, where did you get yoda lights?
i want some!
yoda lights are amazing!
we got our tree right after thanksgiving this year. Not because we want to, but because the rest of the bastards in the area will cut them all down before we get there.
The kids are forcing the tree issue on me this year and all my well meaning friends are giving me their left over ornaments. If it makes the kiddies happy...... I can suffer through it.....
I LOVE the Yoda lights.... I will have to take a trip and see what I can find. Right now the tree will have multi colored jack-o-lanterns on it 'cause those are the only lights I have and I really don't want to buy any!
I will have a Christmas tree up every year until I am physically unable to do so. I take pride in my tackiness and the ornaments passed down through generations of tackdom:
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a356/theonlyang/christmasandcats009.jpg)(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a356/theonlyang/christmasandcats010.jpg)(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a356/theonlyang/christmasandcats012.jpg)
PD.Com, I'd like to take this moment to introduce you to The Tack™.
The Tack™ is one of a trilogy of these horrific ornaments bestowed upon myself and my siblings when we were younger by an aging aunt. Despite their horrific appearance, we made sure that all 3 of them had a home in the back of our Christmas tree while growing up.
The current fate of The Tack™ is in jeopardy. Upon leaving Florida for Rhode Island in 2001, my brother sacrificed his Tack™ by hanging it from the sliding glass door at our old house after selling it shortly after Christmas, leaving it there for the next unsuspecting victim. Christmas of 2005, during my engagement to Herbert, I was bestowed with my Tack™, which is seen in the pictures above on Christmas 2006 while my sister was still living with us. My sister's Tack™ is the one still in possession of my parents.
But now, due to the terms of the divorce, Herbert believes that he has the rights to The Tack™ and the powers it holds. I refuse to let such things happen. It is on the list of my coveted ornaments which includes my fairy tree topper, Tampa Bay Buccaneers ball, and ceramic Jabba the Hutt. My ornaments must be re-tree-ved before I depart for Florida next week so that the family can bask in their glittery glory.
THE TACK™ MUST BE SAVED!
I wanted to get the Yoda lights, but my wee li'l tree is too small for them.
One of my friends, however, has a rancor as his tree topper, and several taco ornaments. :lol:
Suu, a ninja strike must be planned and carried out.
GS said he wanted a star for the topper next year. I said, "Why not the DEATH STAR?!"
And his face totally lit up. So now we need to figure out how to engineer a Death Star tree topper with led accents. It's going to be amazing. I'll probably need Larkin's help.
Quote from: LMNO on December 07, 2009, 04:33:46 PM
Suu, a ninja strike must be planned and carried out.
Remember. I have a man on the inside.
Quote from: Suu on December 07, 2009, 04:36:58 PM
Quote from: LMNO on December 07, 2009, 04:33:46 PM
Suu, a ninja strike must be planned and carried out.
Remember. I have a man on the inside.
Ah. So, the Hassassin ploy.
Quote from: LMNO on December 07, 2009, 04:38:07 PM
Quote from: Suu on December 07, 2009, 04:36:58 PM
Quote from: LMNO on December 07, 2009, 04:33:46 PM
Suu, a ninja strike must be planned and carried out.
Remember. I have a man on the inside.
Ah. So, the Hassassin ploy.
It may or may not involve a bottle of Balvenie Doublewood, chicken curry, medieval metal objects and a cat or two.
Aw, Squid, that tree is NOT the crappiest at all! Fanfuckingtastic is more like it. We always have a bunch of Star Wars and Star Trek ornaments on our tree. My mom was fond of buying them for my husband and my kids back in the day.
Quote from: Suu on December 07, 2009, 04:41:20 PM
Quote from: LMNO on December 07, 2009, 04:38:07 PM
Quote from: Suu on December 07, 2009, 04:36:58 PM
Quote from: LMNO on December 07, 2009, 04:33:46 PM
Suu, a ninja strike must be planned and carried out.
Remember. I have a man on the inside.
Ah. So, the Hassassin ploy.
It may or may not involve a bottle of Balvenie Doublewood, chicken curry, medieval metal objects and a cat or two.
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
Now when do I get one of those extendable wrist knives? (R, already has torn down a taser to augment.)
Hold up.
What makes this guy think he has any rights to your family heirlooms???
That's messed up. Don't make me get out of this chair and come up there.
Cause I'm really lazy and if I have to get up I get PISSED.
Quote from: Suu on December 07, 2009, 04:36:58 PM
Quote from: LMNO on December 07, 2009, 04:33:46 PM
Suu, a ninja strike must be planned and carried out.
Remember. I have a man on the inside.
You should get that removed, btw. Ingrown conjoined twins can turn into malevolent tumors later on in life.
ALSO we got two pretty cardboard paper stars, five-pointed, that are gonna get lights in them. I think 000gf shares my lack of need for an actual tree. they don't mean much to me anyway. and we're gonna be at her parents' in Germany with christmas maybe they have a tree. it's easy that way: Sinterklaas (last weekend) at the Dutch parents, Christmas at the German ones :-)
Quote from: Squid on December 07, 2009, 07:10:22 PM
Hold up.
What makes this guy think he has any rights to your family heirlooms???
That's messed up. Don't make me get out of this chair and come up there.
Cause I'm really lazy and if I have to get up I get PISSED.
I recall it's presence for this season being offered, but as the Tack - ashim most likely to be on target, I want it the fuck out of the house.
My sister says that Herbert is welcome to the Tack™, as he spent 6 years in it's presence anyway. I say otherwise.
Then it is fortunate your sister is not the head tack - tician
Quote from: Richter on December 07, 2009, 10:25:18 PM
Then it is fortunate your sister is not the head tack - tician
:x
This is the first year I've had my own tree so I had to get a stand and lights for it. I refuse to buy ornaments and thus far am decorating it with one (1) tatting snowflake my memere made, one (1) blown glass and hand painted Boston scene my girlfriend got me, two (2) christmas cards, and a dozen or so (~12) paper cranes I had lying around from when I was practicing origami earlier this year.