Far Far Away (before_dawn) wrote, @ 2008-12-04 14:55:00

Current mood:

cheerful

Goddess Work: Living Christmas Tree (a tiny tabletop pine tree) it's so cute!

It's kind of naked on the buffet in the parlor of our building.

A glittery red fake poinsettia garland with crystal balls enshrines our tree.

Butterflies made from red, blue, silver, black, and fuchsia come next.

Big giant lavendar and purple balls will go to Tessa's house (too big for our little tree).

Oh and a happy Christmasy story, my "check engine" light came on this morning driving to work. I always panic since I know nothing about cars and neither does Rodney. My ex husband knew enough to get us into deep shit all the time because he'd try to DIY the car.

Thankfully, I brought my car to this awesome little shop that is near my office and I'd found it on Yelp. The guys who own it do it for passion and love and they hardly charge me anything and never cheat me. I mean, they'll practically do oil and light changes for free *can you believe that shit?* and the admin/secretary woman drives me to work and back to the shop for free (in her stylin' convertible BMW).

ok, so this morning they fixed it for free (again). Said it's possibly the catalytic converter but I recently bought a new one, and they told me it's state law that there's a 5-year warranty on those things and if the other shop who sold it to me doesn't honor the warranty then they'll help me out!! YAY!! but let's keep watching the gauges for now and see if it acts up again before I take it for a total check-up. ~sigh~ relief.

giish 2008-12-05 13:39 (link)

that sounds like a really nice tree! You know me, I usually go for the whole 'chopping down the tree myself' kind of thing, and dragging it home like a caveman. Alas, everything I had accumulated over the past 5 years for housewares, including decorations are gone now. But there is always the bright spot of future decorations and trees. I look forward to those little Martha Stewart moments. And did I tell you? There are NO trees of any sort up here, and they had like 4 holiday decorations at the store here so I bought some green felt and cut out a tree shape and thumbtacked it to the wall in my office, hung some xmas balls on it and candy canes. It looks pathetic, but in the spirit of xmas I am happy to have something up. AND, I'm going home for xmas, so no need to be depressed about that. I wonder how I always leave you a comment and then end up talking about myself...arg. I look forward to your posts! (Reply to this) (Thread)