today was a great day, right up until the christmas tree fell over. yes, fell over. broke some ornaments, messed up the lights, spilled water all over the presents underneath.
see, we have these glasses that make the word “noel” appear around points of light. mom and i were sitting on the couch waggling our heads back and forth looking at a thousand “noels” when katie walked in the door, took one look at us, and said “hold on, i have to get my camera.”
being in a festive mood and all, we decided to put the ornaments on the tree (last night we just did lights). we’re happily hanging ornaments when suddenly i turn around to the sight of the tree falling over. i couldn’t do anything but cry “oh oh oh!” before it hit the ground. i don’t understand why it won’t stay up. the screws are all screwed in, and it’s resting on the bottom of the stand. i don’t understand!
so now my engineering skills have been tested and proven to suck, and i just got online to comfort myself with email, only to find that no one emailed me.
sigh. i’m going to go drown myself in tolkien.
(the reindeer romp went well. katie finished in 29:55, i followed in 30:50. with my life and running outings in houston, i’ve forgotten what it’s like to run a course with hills, but today i was reminded. hills suck.)
