sha la la shine

As of today, I'm on vacation until January. This year, I put up both a christmas tree and a christmas sci-fi spider web. Some of our old glass ornaments are rather worn out and not so nice looking anymore, so I bought some new ones to replace them. But the old ones still have a bit of golden shine... and they're a nice small size... it's so hard to throw them away! I did some web searching and came across the idea of gluing glitter all over them to make them look nice again. So maybe I'll do that.

Some houses in the neighborhood have their houses and yards decorated with a lot of lights. One house has a tree with strands of the "dripping icicle" style LED lights. It looks very pretty.

Oh, and about the ornaments... It's curious how when you get new ones, it's like... they're pretty, but they're somehow alien, blank... Then after a few years of having had them on the tree (or wherever), they acquire a precious quality, and become "one of the family".

Qiao is building up a collection of Hallmark sci-fi ornaments. This year he bought several, including a Lego Darth Vader. Darth's light-saber was missing (!) so I made one out of a thin piece of straw, painted red with a permanent marker.

i should be in bed

Late at night, I feel dead inside. And I feel uncertain whether it is only because my brain is tired, or because there's not much distracting me from noticing it.