Fun with Christmas trees.

Jason's mom gave us a Christmas tree when she moved away. Artificial, one of the pre-lit ones, with clear Christmas lights all over. While I think that clear lights are nice on the outside of houses, I think it's too bright on our tree, so we went and got strings of multicolored lights, and now we're swapping all the clear lights on the tree with the multicolored lights on the strings for outside. My sister said it'd be simpler/cheaper to just go buy a multi colored prelit tree, if we value our time at all, but I guess I can't see doing that since we have a perfectly good tree. I think we've almost 1/3 done, might get it done by Christmas. I think with the multicolored lights it's easier to see the tree, the clear lights cause too much glare. I guess I'm picky.

We don't have many decorations on it other than a few 'first Christmas' things my aunt gave us for our first Christmas, 5 years ago. A few things Jason's had for ages, but I've never had/kept decorations. I was looking at decorations at the store, but I think they're excessively expensive for what you get. I might go buy more decorations after Christmas, when stuff is on sale.

End of the semester

Friday was the last day of the semester for us. It's also the first day of my vacation from work. I'm looking forward to the time off, the last several weeks have been extremely busy, but didn't feel productive at all. I suppose that it's all the extra meetings.

We're going to spend Christmas at home, just the two of us. It's kind of nice to not need to run all over visiting everyone in a couple days, although the reason we're not doing so is a little sad. If my dad were still alive we would probably be travelling, but it changes things a lot. Jason's mom moved out of state too, so that cuts visits in half.

I'm on call while I'm on vacation, but things are fairly stable, shouldn't be too bad. I've a project I finished Friday, at least implementation, but since I was going to be gone for a couple weeks it was a bad time to put it into production, so that waits til I get back.