This Week in Pictures

 

I hung stockings, and

wrapped presents, and

made it smell like Christmas in here, and

the Christmas tree fell over, and

I found more ornaments on another Army post, and

I made a centerpiece thing for the coffee table, and

spent two hours assembling our early Christmas presents, COMPUTER CHAIRS!, which roll and are padded and are SO MUCH BETTER for 10-hour-video-game days than the kitchen chairs we were using, and

tore two nails pretty badly cooking and doing dishes,

decided to get my nails done for the second time in my entire life (the first time was for my first wedding.) It hurt, still hurts the day after, and I could've gone on two Burger King dates with Joe for the price of one temporary fix of my fingernails. And Burger King would probably have involved less bleeding. And

we heard Korean karaoke versions of Christmas songs at a restaurant we'd never been to and definitely won't be returning to until well after Christmas.

Making Do - With Thumbtacks!

Our PX has a really small selection of Christmas decorations. I don't think they even carry tree toppers. We needed one, so I made one. Cardboard, aluminum foil, a glue stick...and thumbtacks. See, doesn't it look like it's made out of tin with nails in it, like the outside of an antique chest? Now that I look up pictures of antique chests, it really doesn't, but oh well.

Maybe it looks like what it is, a quick craft made out of a shoebox and some foil, but I'm pretty happy with it.

Just don't touch the back.