oh christmas tree....

i set up the tree ahead of schedule this year...which goes against all of my ethics...but i guess you could say the nesting kicked in and so i wanted it all set up and ready to go when i walked in the door from california....so one week before thanksgiving...up went the tree....

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i loved walking into our home from vacation and seeing all of the decorations all set up and waiting for me....but....billy and i have noticed an oddity with our tree this year....it took me 4 strands of lights to clothe our entire tree....and we noticed 3 sets are on a blinking schedule....sort of....we turn the tree on...and it randomly decides which section to let blink...sometimes it will be the bottom....sometimes the second third and sometimes just the middle....never do all three sections blink together....and it only chooses one section a day to allow this oddity to occur in....i have searched that tree...trying to locate the sole light that is allowing this atrocity to occur, to no avail....i can not locate that dumb little blinker....so every time i plug in our tree it's like it laughs at me....i sit there staring at it waiting to see which section it chose today....sometimes it likes to mess with my head and take an extra long time in between blinks...just to make me think maybe today i won my little battle with our christmas tree....and then about three hours after being plugged in....my little tree will give up its fight and stop blinking all together....the lights will shine so pretty and bright and i don't have to feel like i'm going to rip every single bulb off that tree individually....patience is the key with our tree this year....maybe next year i'll find that stupid bulb....