I feel like such an adult. I finally got a real Christmas tree last night when I got back to town. Ever since law school, I have been using a fake tree, mostly because I never thought I could fit a real tree in the Redneck Mobile. This year I didn't feel like dragging the fake tree out of the garage so I had intended to get one of those tree top Christmas trees from Lowe's. However, as luck would have it, the Lowe's in this town, unlike the Lowe's in Thomasville, isn't selling them this year. I ran into Walmart last night and found that their real trees were marked down $5 so I decided to splurge and buy myself one of those 5 foot Douglas firs for $25. That's only $10 more than I would have spent on the tabletop version. Walmart wrapped it up and put it in the car for me after I played a few rounds of "Musical Car Seats" with my dogs. Yeah, they were scared to death of the tree, but my night vision sucks so taking them home and coming back was out of the question.Now I get to go decorate it and clean up Bailey's golden dribblings. That dog has never met a tree that he didn't mark. I feel like such a goober being excited about it--I've decorated many a tree before, fake and real alike. I almost feel like I did when I replaced my law school futon with a grownup couch. I'm even sniffing the thing like an idiot, but in my opinion real Christmas tree smell is better than new car smell. If the tree makes it all the way to New Year's without the dogs knocking it over and ruining the carpet, I may buying short, real trees from now on.
