How are we supposed to know it’s Christmas? One week it snows, the next week it’s warm, then it gets really cold, and now it’s sweltering. Nobody wants to see Santa in biker shorts and a tank top, unless Santa used Prancer’s gift of a gym membership this past year.
However, there’s ONE sure way to know it’s Christmas. Even though after the time he’s had with them, I’m surprised Tom didn’t just hurl this entire set-up out the door, his holiday garland is up. The ornaments can’t be plugged into the current string of lights because they don’t fit. So there are no flashing lights, no noises, no voices telling us….
We are the Borg. Lower your shields.
Bad news, gentlemen. Shore leave’s been canceled.
Resistance is futile.
When I was seventeen
Lock phasers on target.
He’s dead, Jim.
Fate protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise.
Make it so.
I kid, I kid. Actually, I very much like this Deep Space Nine space station that miniatures of the ships can hang from.
Have a merry Christmas and don’t forget to:
Live long and prosper.
Rest in peace, Majel B. Roddenberry.
I love this garland! It’s always nice to see a well-balanced obsession at work.
Thanks, and I agree!
Thanks for the post, Becky. I hadn’t heard that Majel Barret had passed away.
You’re welcome. Though I guess it’s not so great to share bad news. Still, her passing should be noted.
Hee! Who says Christmas is for children???
*grin*
It’s important that we never grow up in some ways, don’t you think? =)
I had not heard of Majel Roddenberry’s passing either. I always thought she was a riot.
I loved her as Deanna’s mother. =) Deanna Troi, btw? An Aries. =)
Awesome! 🙂
Thanks!
Cool!
I think you meant to say, “Geek!” But I love the geekage.
Naw, one of my oldest friends from college is a Trekkie, so I have respect for Trek geekage. =0)
I think you need to tell Tom that he was issued a fake Kirk. The real Kirk wears a lot more eyeliner, and his shirt is way tighter.
No Worf?
Hey, he takes what Lynne’s generosity provides. I think there’s only one ornament on there, maybe two, that I found in an antique mall she and I used to frequent. Other than that, she’s given them all to him for his Christmas birthday every year. It’s their thing–even though she, like me, is not a Star Trek fan. She just loves Hallmark.
So cool, and I know next to nothing about Star Trek… any chance of a photo of what Tom’s face looks like the day after Christmas when all this get’s taken down? I bet it’s blue-as-all-heck.
The real photo to have captured was the one at the end of the ordeal of putting them up this year. Then again, I didn’t want my camera broken again.
LOL… love it!
I do, too, and I’m not a Star Trek fan. It just makes me happy to see him indulge his geekiness.
If you check at Hallmark (although they may be out of them for this year) you should be able to get light string adapters. Of course they only have one type, which may not solve Tom’s problem, but it’s worth a shot. I’ll call the 2 stores in my chain that don’t get a lot of customers and see if they have any left.
Awesome, though, I always think the Star Trek & Star Wars ornaments are neat!
Oh, if you knew the saga of the garland this year. I honestly thought we’d put nothing up last year, but in going back through my LJ, I saw that I put my sleighbells out after all. I don’t know about the Barbie and Star Trek garlands, though. Our kitchen was in the middle of its remodel at Christmas.
SOOOO… In previous years, he’s had no problem. We use the same lights every year–even pack them with the garland. First thing he does is check them to see if they’re all working and replace any bad bulbs. Check. Strung the lights, staple-gunned the garland, plugged in…dead. Nothing he could do would make them return to life. Garland down. New lights. All worked. Garland up. Lights went out when he started plugging in the pluggable ornaments. Wouldn’t come back. Garland down. New lights. Worked like a charm. Staple-gunned garland. Started hanging ornaments. Wouldn’t fit light sockets.
Refused to take garland down again. Wants me to be beamed to another galaxy far, far away.
OMG – We have the same problem with the “space” tree – we’ve decided not to decorate anaything this year – but we’ll still be picking up this year’s Trek ornament.
BTW – I need to be introduced to this TOM!
You know, I think Jim’s been keeping Tom and me from you and Allen deliberately. There’s obviously something foul afoot. WHAT IS HE AFRAID OF?
I have no idea…Silly boy.