Aaaaand we have a tree.

Once again, we went to a field and paid someone for the privilege of cutting down a perfectly good tree. Then we stuffed it into the car and drove it home.

Once we got it home, we stuck it into a large plastic base and stood it up in the corner. making it look like it was "growing" there the whole time.

In the near future, we will cover it with gaudy baubles, spangly things and strings of lights, making it look like a french hooker getting ready for visit from the Secret Service.

Then, on Christmas morning, we will jam a bunch of material goods under it and pretend a fat guy named "Claws" put them there.

Finally, after the dead tree begins to decay, we will strip it of it's finery and I will unceremoniously toss it back into the gully behind my house where it will entangle itself with the 25 other trees that are down there already,

I sometimes think that we, as a society, are kinda nuts.

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• I must be a f&*^ing genius.



• Pretty soon, all those kids who said they wanted to be a fireman or a princess when they grow up are gonna come out of their shell and we're gonna be overrun by firemen and princesses.