This year is really the most important Christmas of my entire life.
For the past 5 years or so, I’ve actually calmed down my cookie baking, elaborate gift wrapping, and spending in order to focus more on being a financially responsible adult for the rest of the year. This year, but, Christmas isn’t about adults. It’s all about my step-son, who will be coming up to spend the holiday week with us for the first time! My buddy and I are both so excited, but it’s also quite stressful. There is actually a lot of pressure to make the holiday a good one, since we’ll have a little one running around. That’s why I’ve been working so difficult to get the dwelling in a festive mood lately. I knew that the tree was important, as were the lights and garlands, but the most festive decoration is the wood burning fireplace, in my opinion. I’ve wanted to use the little fireplace for at least a month already, but my buddy and I have an organizational concern at home; the cable is currently sitting in front of the fireplace, rather than being mounted above it. Yes, of course my buddy and I constantly intended to transport the cable above the woodburning stove, but my buddy and I just never got around to it since moving. Instead, we’ve relied on the boring aged central heat. Now, we’ve run out of time to properly mount the cable safely away from the fire and heat of the fireplace, and have to find an alternative solution. At first I was pretty sad about the alternate heating conundrum, despite the fact that I realized that it’s absolutely a fine thing. We’ll just have to put the cable away in the attic so my buddy and I have access to the hot fireplace. What better way to ensure my buddy and I have a festive and fulfilling family holiday than removing the entire cable temptation?