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Well, today is the 3rd of December. Erin's work party was today. We also purchased our first Christmas tree, together and a stand to go with it. We took my car so we could tie it to the roof and not have to worry about stuff.

The cool thing, to me, was that Erin stuck her hand out of the moon roof to make sure the tree didn't go too far back on the car. Her hand got cold. She used my walking gloves... not too thick, but still better than having nothing. I told her that next time we do something like this, I would have to remember to bring my skiing gloves rather than my walking gloves as the skiing ones are thicker than the walking ones.

I need to go skiing.

After class today we went to Michael's. The objective of this trip was to find a stand (we ended up getting it at Harmon's) before getting the tree and a tree topper. We decided on an angel with a red dress and a wreath.

On Saturday, Erin and I took some tools back to Jared's house. On the way up to Jared's (and Emily's) we stopped at IKEA. We pretty much stop at IKEA whenever we are up there and in need of candles or odds and ends. We bought a coupe of white elephant gifts for Erin's work party. We bought a candle (Erin really likes the candles from there, they tend to burn a long time; even though we got a four-whicker at Wal-Mart a few weeks back that is pretty nice) and this kind of cool grater thing that had two different graters and containers (complete with lids) that we really liked and ended up giving away.

Other than being sick for about a week (I hung the door last week in the wet and cold and got sick) and then Erin getting a little ill, things are what they are.

Erin started filming a movie she has for class, which means I started filming a movie for Erin's class. The final project. She asked a neighborhood girl to be the female lead in the movie. The girl came over Saturday morning and we filmed her around the apartment and then opposite Erin's brother down at The Riverwoods. On Sunday, we went over to her brother's apartment and did the rest of the filming. Quite a bit of the footage taken was actually done through iMovie on the Macbook. I discovered that the Macbook has a built-in camera and that I can start working toward having a video blog.

In case anyone was ever wondering, I want to do a video blog. Erin and I have talked, a little, about how I might go about accomplishing this. I am thinking of using a subdomain on one of my other sites as the location of the video blog. I am thinking of double posting to youtube and to my video blog.

Anyway, Erin ended up, this evening, with a new iPod Nano and, during a White Elephant exchange, I ended up with a wooden Buddha that is now sitting, peacefully, on a book shelf.

Along with the tree we ended up buying lights and stringing them on the tree as well as some ornaments we purchased (also at IKEA). Along with all of that, we put candy canes on the tree and the angel on the top and now have a Christmas tree sitting in our front room.

Uhm, live trees tend to shed lots of pine needles... and by live, I mean, the tree was, once, living but is not green for a finite period of time between now and the end of the year, at which time we will drag it out to the curb (or wherever) and will dump it for the garbage men to come and haul it away.

Regardless, we are working our way through our first (as a married couple) set of holidays. This is proving to be fun.

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