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Originally Posted by issybird
I put up my tree today and am in the process of trimming it. I prefer real trees, but prelit fake ones are so much easier and cheaper in the long run that I got seduced several years ago. I admit this tree is looking rather seedy, but I contend it's part of its charm.
Trimming the tree is always somewhat melancholy. Some of the ornaments go back to when I was small and no matter how tarnished, on the tree they go. And the first thing I put on it every year is an angel my oldest nephew made when he was little; he died of cancer twelve years ago.
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My cats are far too rambunctious for me to put up a tree, but I have ornaments that belonged to my great grandparents in storage. I have some stuff from the teens and twenties I'll never let go.
I just gave little Sei cat her last dost of post-op meds (we have been medicating her every four hours since Wednesday, so I am deliriously tired at this point. I hope to do the Christmas decorating on Monday since its an office day for my wife.