Dan went out yesterday afternoon to take care of a bunch of errands, and came home with a Christmas tree. Christ. I’m so out of it that I started to blog about the Christmas tree that I already told you Dan brought home. Geez. Anyway! We went out last night. Dan drove, which was a good thing, considering that I was in a pretty foggy state while we were out, and was doing good to push the shopping cart in a straight line. Seriously. The Vicodin is really affecting me in terms of being with it and alert. I don’t remember the Percocet being quite so bad. It made me sleepy, but I don’t recall feeling so sluggish and fuzzy.
Anyway. Back to the Christmas tree. I was originally going to pick out silver ribbon to complement the existing red ribbon, and then decorate the tree with the fifty dozen or so silver balls we’ve managed to collect over the past three years. Instead Dan talked me into gold ribbon, and we decorated the tree using gold balls I bought last year after Christmas, when all of the decorations are 75% off. We left off the other decorations we usually throw on the three, and instead kept things simple, in the hopes of pulling off a traditional, old-fashioned Christmas tree look. What do you think?
I love our Christmas tree. At first glance it’s as wide as it is tall (seriously, this is the fattest Christmas tree I have ever seen!), but it’s wonderfully full and lush, and it smells SO GOOD. I love having real Christmas trees. For the longest time my mom insisted on using fake, pre-lit trees, so I’m kind of turned off of artificial trees for the rest of my life. Nothing beats the real thing!
While we were at Target last night, each of us took a kid (I took Alyssa, he took Ryan) and went present shopping for each other and the kid that wasn’t with us (so Alyssa and I picked out presents for Dan and Ryan, Dan and Ryan picked out presents for Alyssa and I). We also bought stocking stuffers, gifts for Dan’s aunt, two uncles and their spouses, and wrapping paper, tape, bows, tissue paper and gift bags.
I also ran into GameStop to pick up a gift for Dan. While I was in there I told off some smug looking asshole for triple parking across three handicapped parking spaces (not surprisingly, he did NOT have a handicapped plate or tag). Go me. I may not be able to walk in a straight line or focus on anything, but I can still run my mouth and put an asshole in his place, in front of four snickering store clerks and several amused looking customers.
All right… it’s nap time for Alyssa and Ryan, which means it’s nap time for me!
I am so jealous of how pretty your tree looks. I don’t like ours that much lol.
That tree is gorgeous. I have a pre-lit fake tree, mostly because I tend to get tangled up in the lights if I try to put lights on the tree myself. :blush:
Humm so telling off assholes at Christmas time while hopped up on pain killers. That sounds like my idea of a good time!
So isn’t vicodin generic for Oxycontin or whatever? It’s either percoset or vicodin because my mom gave me a couple of both and she said the white one is generic for Oxycontin, the pink one is pretty safe. Oddly enough she gave me those when my tooth started to hurt and I couldn’t get into the dentist.
My point was, can you imagine people who are addicted to those things and take them as much as they can get them? I don’t think I’d like to function in a fuzzy state. Unless it’s the holidays, then I say spike the eggnog as well so my family doesn’t get on my nerves.
Your tree looks gorgeous. I don’t see the point of having a tree this year. Meghan keeps taking the baubles off and giving them to the dog. Who eats them. I just want to take it down because everything’s disappearing off it.
I love your tree. *steals* It’s SO full. I miss real trees, damn those dinky artificial ones.
We used to get “real” trees. However, these past few years, we’ve been using an artificial. We just don’t seem to have as much room anymore.
Your tree is absolutely beautiful. You can’t go wrong with those traditional trees. The style of our tree is actually very similar.
Speaking of Christmas shopping, I haven’t even started!!
That tree is the biggest tree i’ve ever seen! Looks really nice
My tree is just a really old small plastic one, lol rubbish compared to yours 
I forgot to say that your tree is gorgeous. We tried the whole live tree thing once and it just didn’t work for us. Plus our place is super small, that tree would eat our living room. It’s the fattest tree ever!
Your tree IS gorgeous. And no, Vicodin is brand, Hydrocodone is the generic. Oxycontin is the brand, Oxycodone ER is the generic. Go me, for being a Pharmacy Tech.
Yes, no driving on Vicodin, okay?!
“Humm so telling off assholes at Christmas time while hopped up on pain killers. That sounds like my idea of a good time!
So isn’t vicodin generic for Oxycontin or whatever? It’s either percoset or vicodin because my mom gave me a couple of both and she said the white one is generic for Oxycontin, the pink one is pretty safe. Oddly enough she gave me those when my tooth started to hurt and I couldn’t get into the dentist.
My point was, can you imagine people who are addicted to those things and take them as much as they can get them? I don’t think I’d like to function in a fuzzy state. Unless it’s the holidays, then I say spike the eggnog as well so my family doesn’t get on my nerves.”
No. Vicodin is NOT generic for Oxycontin. Vicodin is an extremely weak opioid pain killer. Oxycontin is an extremely strong opioid painkiller. Vicodin is hydrocodone mixed with Acetaminophen (Tylonal). Oxycontin is pure Oxycodone. Percocet is Oxycodone mixed with Acetaminophen. Percocet is much stronger than Vicodin. The color has little to do with anything.
Yay, go me! A recreational drug user!