Plans And Changes
My wife is a little nutty about Christmas. She really likes to decorate the house in a big way. Her ideal is to make every room look like the set of a Hallmark Channel type of movie. She hasn't been able to decorate in a big way for the past several years because of various reasons, so sometime this past summer I offered to get things started with the Christmas decorations at the beginning of September in order to guarantee that she would be able to get everything accomplished this year. I wanted to grant to her the ability to enjoy the finished work throughout the month of December. She immediately said yes and we have been doing things little by little over the past few months. I'm not really into the whole Christmas decorations thing, but she's worth the kookiness of it all and it makes her totally happy. I would describe the extent of what we do to the house, but you would then label me as some kind of a freakish societal outcast, and that's never my goal here. An...