V. important.

[crim son]

Our fucking Christmas tree just fell down. Goodbye Gramma's ornaments. I want to cry but this is PAR FOR THE FUCKING COURSE! :cry:

[SPKrazy]

1. Oh NO!

That's sad

Sorry Lisa

:hug:

here's hoping that you sell that house and things get better for you real SOON!

:toast:

[crim son]

3. Never gonna happen. n/t

[SPKrazy]

5. Okay?

don't believe that but okay


:cry:


:pals:

thought I'd have said something that cheered you up, but- not

I'd give you some of our ornaments, we seem to have so damned many.

But they aren't your grandmother's.



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[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. I'm sorry.

:hug:

[crim son]

7. I'm cursed.

I'm really beginning to be impressed by how badly things are going. The good news of course is that I'm used to it! Thanks.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. I hope this cheers you up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Hjpa5TXes :hug:

[crim son]

11. It does :)

So cute. Many hugs for you :hug: :hug: :hug:

[Kali]

4. Oh man.

Oh man. You know when your run of "luck" finally breaks, you are not going to know what to do with all the good stuff that finally starts coming your way. But when is it going to happen??!!!

[crim son]

8. I think maybe not soon! n/t

[BarenakedLady]

6. Oh no....

That sucks! :hug:

Listen though, my kids have already destroyed about 1/2 of my late MIL's ornaments and knick knacks in the past week or so. :(

[crim son]

9. I'm sorry about that.

Some of these are my great-grandmother's and great-grandfather's. But King Kong survived :)

[BarenakedLady]

Well as long as Kong survived!

:hug:

I'm so sorry things are so shitty for you right now. I wish there was something I could do for you.

[crim son]

23. The STBE always says "What doesn't kill you makes you

stronger". Or else it maims you for life. I'm going to have a good cry tonight, but not for a couple of hours. I'm still doing laundry.

[BarenakedLady]

29. I may or may not join you later

in that cry. I'll have to see how the rest of my night goes. But I'm alone until at least midnight! :woohoo:

[crim son]

39. Chris and I just congratulated ourselves on not killing one another.

It's the small things. Don't cry BNL. I've decided against it and you should too. :hug:

[Guava Jelly]

12. Sorry crim son

Hopefully some of them are salvageable.
:hug:

[crim son]

13. We saved a few.

I have to have the house ready to go to show in the a.m. so I've propped the darned thing up and will put the unbreakable stuff back on. After I posted this, my son tripped over a lamp cord and broke the lamp :rofl: I guess I'm lucky noboby's dead, right?

[Guava Jelly]

14. A lamp is easily replaced so yeah i'd say you are lucky

I really hope it sells tomorrow crimmy
Oh i dedicated a tune to you in my thread below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF3SBrLrgmE
here it is :7
enjoy

[crim son]

18. I didn't see it!

How did you know I love Bowie? :hug: Thanks, sweetie :hug:

[Guava Jelly]

25. Well being a woman of great taste how could you not?

:hug:

[crim son]

27. True.

:D

[SPKrazy]

15. Man, That Sounds Like A Comedy Of Errors

still sorry about your Christmas ornaments

but glad you're looking on the bright side-(nobody's dead)

Our tree is going up in a rather tense way (not tensils) as a matter of fact.

It appears a little bottom heavy with the damned lights.

Wife has 1,000,000 ornaments that she insists on putting every single one up.

Me, I'd just as soon have fewer ornaments on it, less lights.

I kinda dislike the Christmas season anyhow, it always seems to stress people out too much.

:hug:

[crim son]

19. I used to love Christmas.

And by god, I'll love it again some day, lol. Maybe not this year however.

[SPKrazy]

21. Maybe Not

I think I loved it once

don't know when it became such an ordeal

even more so right this minute!

:hug:

[crim son]

24. Sorry.

I think the holidays can be tough even when everything goes smoothly. :hug:

[SPKrazy]

30. Thanks

I just put beads on the tree

looks like I tied the damned thing up to me

Matthew is so excited.

:hug:

[crim son]

35. We did literally tie it to the curtain rod.

We have very high ceilings and it's a big tree. We should have done that in the first place. I'm sure the beads look fine... isn't it cute to see how happy the kids get?

[SPKrazy]

48. It Is Not Only Cute

it is the only thing I see tonight that is making me happy!

The beads look like shit, but who the heck cares!

I don't even know why we have a tree up. We will be gone to Colorado the week before Christmas, then we will be at my in-laws on Christmas.

Sorry I'm so negative here

:-(

[crim son]

51. You're allowed to be negative.

Your situation is not an easy one.

[SPKrazy]

56. Well I'm Doing A Good Job

of being negative that is.

[crim son]

57. Lots and lots and lots of time.

That's what it takes. It will get better.

[SPKrazy]

60. So, Is Time On My Side?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfpTHC9Z-Bs

:argh:

[crim son]

62. Wow, he's so young!

I was one year old when that was filmed. And Jagger's still wearing tight leather pants. Yeah, time is on your side.

[SPKrazy]

64. I Was 3 I Guess Then!

Glad to know time is on my side

Glad to know you are on my side too


:hug:

[Haole Girl]

16. I'm sorry crim son...

...sounds like you had a very stressful day; wish there was something I could think of to help cheer you up. :hug:

[crim son]

22. I'm already feeling better

thanks to all the nice people here. :)

[Left Is Write]

17. Oh, no no no...

I'm sorry. :(

:hug:

[crim son]

28. Thank you!

It's back up now. I need to redecorate quickly and relax before I have a heart attack. Ah well.

[graywarrior]

20. Now's the time to get blasted.

Sorry about that crim son.

[crim son]

26. Ha. If I didn't have to continue cleaning tomorrow

you'd better believe I'd be shitfaced right now. The kids have gone to bed & I may yet pour myself a tall one.

[SPKrazy]

31. Here You Go!

:pals:

[crim son]

37. I've poured myself one.

What the hell.

[SPKrazy]

46. Sometimes

I wish I could do that too, I mean I could, so I wish sometimes I didn't want to, maybe I don't know what I'm saying anymore!

:rofl:

[crim son]

49. I know what you're saying.

And sometimes I wish I wasn't able to pour myself one! I remember, though, when I couldn't drink that I found other ways to deal with stress. Eating, for example. Now I don't eat so much. You work out, right? That's a good way to boost your endorphin levels.

[SPKrazy]

53. Yes, Eating

and other things I've mentioned to you before

all ways to medicate my feelings, or really to stuff them down!

Yes, I work out. Didn't go today. Didn't feel good.

[crim son]

55. Sometimes a day or two off is a good thing.

My other friend Steve works out constantly, to the point of it being ridiculous, but it works for him.

[SPKrazy]

58. Yes, I Know I Probably Need A Day Off

Part of it is just GETTING THE HELL OUT OF HERE

which I've begun to find other ways to do as well.

I think our tree looks like it's being held hostage with all those beads wrapped around it over and over and over. :scared: Metaphor?

The 1 million Hallmark Ornaments haven't even gone on the tree yet.

I think I will relocate from the living room to my new room before...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

32. Oh, my tree did that two or three years ago.

My mother screamed and sobbed for a week, I swear, probably because all the ornaments that broke were invariably the oldest ones with the most sentimental value.

[crim son]

34. We've noticed the same thing.

I used to collect ornaments and would buy beautiful ones every year in Quebec City. When my daughter was three she pulled our tree down and destroyed a few of them. Since then I think it's fallen three more times. Never again. I've never been the one to put the tree in the stand, etc. but next year I will and IT WILL STAND. :)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

40. You tell that tree who's boss!

:hug:

[crim son]

41. I did. It's trussed up like a turkey.

Thanks, WIMR! :hug:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

43. If you want to soothe it play some Miles.

I think that's my theme for the night. I'm drunk on "Flamenco Sketches." :P

[crim son]

44. I don't have any jazz in the house.

I think it might be time to relent. Miles Davis, right? :P

[WritingIsMyReligion]

68. No jazz!

Might as well have no water in the house!

:o

Miles Davis, yeah. :P

[u4ic]

33. I'm sorry, hon

:hug:

Maybe it's in the air...I'm having that kind of day, too. Everything that can go wrong is going wrong. I think I'm going to go to bed very early just so I don't have to deal with this day anymore. :(

[Guava Jelly]

36. I'm sorry sweetie..

:hug: for you
I am going to bed in a few myself

[u4ic]

59. Thanks, darlin'

I'm just exhausted. I had everything go wrong today...I even had to miss a dinner I was invited to because of it. :-(

I'll live. :hug:

[crim son]

38. You had a tough day too?

:hug: :pals: :hug: Tomorrow will be better! I know it. Sleep well.

[u4ic]

61. Thanks, doll

Nothing precious got broken, though I just barely got out of the way in time when the shelf I was assembling fell forward. :scared: (heck, maybe it would have knocked some sense into me!) :silly:


Did all of your grandmother's ornaments break?


Tomorrow is another day. For both of us. You're right, it will be a better one. Thanks, you sleep well, too. :hug:

[crim son]

63. Not all. I didn't put them all on the tree, but did put up my

favorites. Time to choose new favorites! I hope your shelf wasn't destroyed. It does sound like we've had similar days, lol.

[u4ic]

66. There's the Dunkirk spirit!

:D

The shelf itself wasn't destroyed, but a cabinet door cracked. I think I'll just take it back. (it's a piece of junk, quite frankly; very unstable which is why it fell forward in the first place. I had no idea because there were no display models)

Onward and upward!:toast:

[crim son]

67. ...

:toast:

Who needs that stinkin' shelf anyway?

[wildhorses]

42. sorry, crim son

:hug:

[crim son]

45. It's okay. I'm all better now.

I meant to tell you the other evening when I saw a pic you posted that you looked lovely. I'm not sure I knew before what you looked like. :)

[wildhorses]

65. oh gosh...that is sweet of you to say--

:blush: thanks :hug:

[Deja Q]

47. Oh no, I'm sorry!

:( :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

Things WILL get better. :hug:

[crim son]

52. They will!

For you too, dear man. :hug:

[zingaro]

50. Oh, that's horrible.

A friend of mine once had her storage unit theived and they stole a giant box filled with her grandmother's christmas ornaments and decorations. Of all the things she lost, that's the one that brought her to tears.

I'm sorry crim son.

[crim son]

54. I feel badly for your friend.

I discovered that the glass bells and strawberries survived, at least, so I am happy. Oh, and welcome to DU! :hi:

[billyskank]

69. Oh you

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

[crim son]

70. I know... happy day!

It's back up and decorated with plastic and paper. I am sitting back and anticipating the next disaster :rofl:

[miss_american_pie]

71. I'm sorry

:hug: