we got a tree on saturday! it was actually a ridiculously perfect winter day. it was snowing, very gently and prettily, and niles and i walked down logan boulevard and looked at the houses and giant old trees in the snow, stopped at starbucks for a hot cider with caramel... got ourselves a white pine, walked home carrying it through the snow... we got it all decorated, went to kuma's for insanely tasty burgers, and spent the rest of the evening playing video games. just a perfectly happy and content day.

anyway. when i first left home and got my own place, my grandmother sent me a box of her christmas ornaments, so we have a lot of very old and strange ornaments on our tree. here are a handful of them:

this one is now named mcnulty, the "what the f*ck did i do??" elf:


this is a very doughy raggedy ann. made out of actual dough, and several decades old. i'm a little worried about the utter lack of decomposition:


this adorable plastic horsey:


doubles as a pencil sharpener for some reason:


and my personal favorite, the recently christened "gotta pee real bad" santa: