So my huge project to coming to a close at work and I’m finally ready to celebrate Christmas.  So I decided we are really going to go grizwald this year with the lights.

Nothing is better in a recession than a completely gratuitous Christmas lghts display.

So today Wes and I pull out everylight we used last year, both inside and out and drag them all outside.  Last year was the first year I very neatly rolled them up on extenstion cord hangers I wouldn’t have to spend half the morning untangling them.  Aren’t I smart.  Wes and I carefully laid every string on the ground and moved on to testing.

We had 20 strings of lights . . .and two worked!  I could not beleive the number of lights that didn’t work so I changed my extension cord thinking something was wrong with the testing rig . . . Nope.  The damn Chinese made holiday lights, which I purchase last year, had a 90% failure rate.  Un flippin believable.

Wes was, of course, disappointed that we couldn’t decorate any more than one tree. 

Wes and the Broken Lights

 

But like Clark Grizwald I won’t give up.  I may kick the crap out of a plastic Santa but I won’t giveup!

Boys . . .  . let’s go  . . . .we’re going to Walmart!