O' Christmas Tree

So I am about to experience my very first Christmas away from home so in celebration of that I went out and bought my very first real Christmas tree (wow do they cost more than I thought they did but totally worth it). It fit just perfectly into my car (good thing I bought the hatchback) and was much lighter than my TV (which was 88 lbs and took me a good 15 minutes to drag up my stairs) so it made it into my place quite nicely.




It stands just over 5 feet tall and is pretty puffy at the bottom (it takes up a lot of space in my living room) so 400 mini-lights and 72 ft of rope garland later (not to mention the 8 ornaments that mom sent me) this:



turned into this:




Hope everyone is having fun Christmas Shopping (mine is all done by the way, and I must agree Deb I totally missed having a few drinks while trying to fight the crowds at the mall. Drinking and shopping really do go well together).

There is still no snow here and the temperature has only been below zero a couple times so it is a little hard to get in the spirit of the season however the tree and the few decorations help. I will be working Christmas so nothing exciting planned. I am sure the surgeons will not be very active however the nursing homes tend to empty into the hospitals around the holidays (we are still trying to discharge some of our Thanksgiving admissions but of course now that they're in odds are they will never leave) so expect things will not be that quiet.

Hope you all have a great Christmas. I will be thinking of you all.

Julie