All peoples looks forward for the Holiday season, and best Part of this season is Christmas, as it coming along with the promise that A new year is not far behind. The first day of December marks the beginning of Christmas celebrations for all these peoples.

The very first thought of Christmas reminds us of the family, friends, the Christmas tree, Cake, Santa Clause, Christmas decorations. Christmas trees, Christmas wreaths, and stars are very important part of Christmas.

Kids and parents normally get busy with their planning right from the Very First weak of the December. You can decorate your house with simple Christmas decorations like Christmas tree, stars and wreath.

Christmas decorations can be done with indoors or outdoors.

The Santa clause's Christmas scene and the Victorian street scene are some of the good themes that will make your indoor decorations look rich. And Christmas tree, candy canes, stars, lighted Christmas signs, and some other thing can be used for outdoor decorations. Personally, my favorite Christmas decoration project during the season is lighting outside the house.

Christmas trees are available for different price ranges. You can choose the one tree that best suits your budget. Most people like to decorate Christmas tree with garlands, and swirls, stars and homemade ornaments. Fake snowflakes can be sprinkled on the Christmas tree to add some touch of reality. Well if you want you can use cotton swabs as snowflakes too.

You can use Christmas bows (the bows maybe of velvet or polyester) to affix the Christmas garland on the tree. These bows can create neat look wherever the maybe attached.

Christmas stars that are hung to signify the birth of Christ are available in various materials and sizes. You can find some good collections of Christmas wreaths too. The wreaths can also be used for decorations.

Horse and carriage, waving Santa, riverboats, etc these kind of animated decorations are greatly admire by every one. 

Lighting is one of the main parts of any decoration and tends to provide any scene with a rich sparkling facelift.Christmas light signs, light bulbs, mini lights, and LEDs are usually used for Christmas decorations.

Though these are some decorative items that are usually used for Christmas decorations, you can use your creativity and thoughtfulness for making your Christmas decorations as per your taste and style.

 

My husband and I are proactive in the fight against high electric bills. If we can save energy in the process and help the world go green, even better. One item I always look for around this time is Christmas lights. When I was little, I remember my mother telling us not to touch the tree because the lights would burn us. Thankfully there are LED lights that use less energy and give off less heat than the traditional lights I am used to using.

Want to know something even better? The LEDs have a lifetime warranty and burn for 50 thousand hours. How many Christmases can that get you through? I mean, there are 24 hours in a day, 31 days in December. Comes out to around 67 Christmases if you burn your lights every day in December nonstop. That's pretty good for $25 lights! This year I would like to get emerald lights. We have a white tree, so I can change the lights and ornaments to suit my fancy every year.

Yesterday we put up the tree.  We went out bright and early yesterday morning and found a lovely Douglas Fir.  We paid way too much for it, but that's how it goes.  As we were waiting for the tree to be tied up to the car, Sarah and I walked around and looked at the smaller trees.  I told Sarah to take a big sniff.  She complied, and I asked her if she thought it smelled nice.  She said, "Mom, it kinda smells disgusting, like chicken and fish."  I nearly dropped her I was laughing so hard.  I told her I didn't know what kind of chicken and fish she had been eating but that I thought it smelled wonderful.  It was the smell of Christmas.  She just nodded her head and smiled at me, as if I had lost my mind, and she was agreeing with me so I wouldn't go off the deep end.  Whatever!  We got the tree home and made room for it, and the same thing happens every year.  We set up the tree and I say, "Oh my God, it's huge!  It didn't look that big at the garden place."  I just can't help it.  Right after Garrett and I finished adjusting it Sarah walked into the room and said, "Hey Daddy, that's a tree and trees don't belong in the house!"  Garrett explained to her that we make an exception every year for the Christmas tree.  I proceeded by stringing up the lights, all the while Sarah is bouncing around the place asking when can we put ornaments on the tree.  Finally, it was ornament time, the first few that we pulled out were plastic and I gave them to Sarah to hang on the tree.  Sarah was very excited, she got to help put ornaments on Grandma's tree and she had so much fun, but she did break an ornament there, and so she assured me that she would be careful this time.  Meanwhile, I'm mentally figuring out how I can keep the beautiful crystal and glass ornaments out of her cute, but clumsy hands.  This being a real tree the first ornaments that she hung immediately fell to the floor.  She slowly stepped back, and with a panicked look turned to me and said, "It was an accident Mom!"  I assured her that everything was ok, and that the ornaments weren't broken and that we can try again.  She was ok after that, and put her happy face back on and we continued to unwrap and hang the rest of the ornaments.  I handed her a package of little plastic candy canes (sidenote: last year Sarah called candy canes, hurricanes, so cute!) and told her to put them on the tree.  She took them out, but she asked me for the hooks.  I explained that they already have built-in hooks, and I showed her how to hang them on the tree, a smile of comprehension came over her face and she went to work.  Garrett walked into the room and Sarah ran up to him, "Daddy, Daddy, look at the hookers!"    Now, that would be an interesting tree indeed!  Sarah was simply fascinated by all of the ornaments, but none more so than the Star Trek ones.  I make a special tree just for Garrett with all of the Star Trek ornaments.  In my humble opinion it makes for the ugliest Christmas tree, but he seems to enjoy it.   I started to set aside these ornaments and so I had Sarah put them on the kitchen table until later.  She said that she loved the spaceships!  One of the last ones I unwrapped was the Borg Cube ornament.  I gave it to her and asked her to put it with the others.  She took it and looked at it and handed it back to me and told me, "Mom, this is a box, not a spaceship, it doesn't belong with the others."  I handed it back and told it her did.  "Mom, it's a square.  It's not a spaceship!"  I told her to go outside and ask her father.  I heard her open the door and yell out, "Daddy!  Mommy says this is a spaceship.  Is it?"  He assured her that it was a spaceship and it's called a Borg Cube.  She marched back inside and said to me, "OK Mom, Daddy says this ice cube is a spaceship."  Oh, you know I had a good laugh.  We all had a good time and the trees look magnificent.  O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!...

Okay, I just thought I'd take this time to clarify my last entry. Go ahead, go read it if you haven't yet (or even if you have; you can never have too much otacon120); I'll be here when you get back, I promise.

Now, having read that, take a listen to my words here.

IT WAS A JOKE. IT WAS NOT SERIOUS.

I'd say that a good 90% of the comments I got to that entry thought that I was being completely serious, and completely missed the humor behind it.

Before you think I'm getting all fussy and uppity about this, please be informed that I am NOT angry, but rather disappointed in myself. More on that later.

Allow me to explain the joke to be found within the entry:

With myself being one of the people who complains about Christmas decorations being up before our Thanksgiving, I decided to spoof myself and everyone else who does that by doing the same thing, but doing it a week before Christmas; you see, I'm complaining about Christmas Decorations, and then I act like some one says something, then end it with "OH GOD BRB" to show that I've just realized that Christmas is a week away and I have a helluva lot of shopping to do.

It was a joke. It's not serious.

Now. Go back, and read it again. Go ahead, I'll still be here, just like last time.

Do you get it now?

It was a joke. It's not serious.

Back? Okay, then let's continue.

As I stated above, I'm not angry at you, my readers. Not at all. Rather, I'm disappointed in myself.

"But, why, otacon? Why are you disappointed in yourself because we obliviously missed a joke in your entry?", you may not be asking. Well, I'll tell you anyways.

I'm disappointed because this shows that my humor (or lack thereof?) is starting to go downhill a bit. I made an entry that was entirely a joke, yet everyone thought that I was being completely serious, even cynical. The humor of mine that I slid into the entry was completely overlooked, and instead was mistaken as ignorance. That shows me that I'm not quite the humorist I used to be, and that I'm starting to lose my touch. It shows me that, very soon, I may be losing part of what keeps this blog interesting, and that feels... kind of like a bad rash that is not only on the inside of my nose, but also in my ears, in my groin-area, and I guess in my eye sockets, as well. Oh, and the rash is spewing puss. And sweat. And orange juice (Sorry, I was thirsty; not to mention, orange juice in the eyes = Orgasmic pleasure, if by pleasure you mean excruciatingly blistering pain).

All that said, am I really losing my touch? Am I really losing my ability to sneak a joke in somewhere without people being able to catch it easily? Or am I just losing my comedic touch? Or am I just being a paranoid little wanker who just needs to mind the gap of humor?

I just hope that, for your sake, I can start regaining the momentum I used to have. :)