It's His Year, I'm Just Living in it.
Wherein Our
Heroine's Life is More Colorful in Many Ways.
"Compromise:" it is the advice of choice
in the sage tomes of marital wisdom. (Other top-ten hits are: "Respect," "Hard
work," and "Don't Steal the Covers if you Value Your Life.") Compromise is one
of those things that sounds easy - the action is generally not one that requires
a lot of physical or mental effort. What it does require, though, is
id-squashing: suppression of that powerful, primitive, "I DON'T WANNA" response
that can be more difficult than physical or mental effort. Sometimes, the
compromise leads you to something more interesting or meaningful than you would
have achieved under your own decision-making steam. Sometimes you just squash
your id, grin, and bear
it.So, I give you my
id-squashing of the season: the colored lights on the Christmas tree.
Just for giggles, I give you some
of the photographic outtakes of my photo shoot of this year's tree. There is
the "whoops - left the flash on"
outtake:
And there is the "disco-fever,
whoops, camera moved"
outtake:
Our Hero likes the colored
lights. Me, I'm a white lights sort of gal myself. I must, in all fairness,
note that this is our fourth Christmas together and the only one so far where we
have had colored lights on the tree. The original plan was to go every other
year with colored and white lights, but we didn't have as many colored lights as
we thought the first time we went to put them on the tree, then forgot to buy
them again the next year (why are you looking at me like that? It's not my
responsibility to remember to buy the colored
lights!).So, this year is a
colored light year, and Our Hero is happy (and I am happy for him). It's a cute
little tree, sized to fit our cute little 7.5 foot ceiling height. I must say
that in all likelihood no tree will ever match the magnificence we were able to
achieve in our Massachusetts apartment, with its Victorian ceiling heights and
spacious kitchen/dining area which easily accommodated this nine-foot-plus
beauty:
It had white lights,
too.
Posted: Monday - December 06, 2004 at 08:08 AM
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