Christmas In July Day 22: My Pathetic Tree

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This post is part of Teagan Geneviene’s Christmas In July blog hop. https://teagansbooks.com/ #ChristmasInJuly

My Pathetic Tree

December 26, 2009

I had a cold for Christmas (Thanks, Santa!), so I couldn’t get too enthusiastic about trimming the tree. It would have been all right (please note–“all right” is two words in my little world, not alright–only allowable exception to “all right” is the expression of positive enthusiasm “awRIIIIIIIIght!!!”)…. I lost my place. Oh, yes: It would have been all right, if I trimmed the tree the day after Thanksgiving, as most people do, but NOOO-ooooo, I have to wait until Christmas Eve. So Charlie went out and cut me a tree. I asked for a little one, but I didn’t ask for a little ugly one. Nevertheless, that’s what I got. It was actually a little too big for my miniature trimmings, but I SO did not feel like shaping it to my pleasure or even really trying to do more than get stuff on it and call it decorated. It shows.

Charlie called it “a Charlie Brown tree”.

#4 noted the dearth of lights, and I said, “It looks kind of like fireflies.” She, who turned me on the the SF series Firefly, misunderstood, thinking I’d said it looked like Firefly’s, and said, “It DOES look like one they’d have.”

And the riffs began. Fans will totally know who said what. The best lines are #4 daughter’s.

“There ain’t enough gorram lights on that there tree.”

“The engines’ll only give us so much power. You want engines or you want lights?”

“I think the Captain’s right.”

“Oh, there’s a surprise. Of COURSE you think he’s right.”

<walking over and standing nose-to-branch with it> “…Tree…Tannenbaum…from the German….”

“I think it’s kinda cute.”

“Of course, you know that Christmas isn’t about a tree. Would anyone like me to read–”

<all> “NO!”

A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Discuss a decoration in the styles of a cast of your choosing.

MA

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I was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but now live in the woods in southern Indiana. Though I only write fiction, I love to read non-fiction. The more I learn about this world, the more fantastic I see it is.

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One thought on “Christmas In July Day 22: My Pathetic Tree

  1. Dan Antion

    July 23, 2024 at 7:08am

    Maybe it’s because you’re sharing this for Teagan’s blog hop, but I think the tree looks like a flapper.

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