The halls, they are decked

Just trying to finish up the internet shopping for the bits, and I'll be ready for the holidays. And by holidays, I mean copy edits! *rubs hands together and stares at the driveway, waiting for FedEx*  Every year for the past three years, I've been doing something editorial over Christmas. It's now as much a tradition as hanging stockings and wrangling lights onto the tree.

And speaking of tree lights... *ptooooey* on the new LEDs we got this year. They look like tiny bright-white light sabers, which would be awesome, if we had Star Wars ornaments. But we don't. It's what I call Nonbreakable Hodgepodge... all things that neither the SugarBean nor the dogs can wreck, which means a lot of beads (garland and big wired flowers) metal (tiny signs, trains, Eiffel Towers) plastic (chandelier crystals) and lot of glitter-covered cardboard (feathers, keys, dragonflies and fairies) in red, black and gold.

Honestly, it looks like Santa urped decorative cheer all over my house, concluding with a piece of glitter I found stuck to TinyDoom!'s twinkus last night. I'd say we've reached some sort of Maximum Decorative Threshold when the baby has sparkling junk, no?