A Holiday Cheer Up

Here it is Monday, December 20, 2004: 10 days after my last post and 5 days till Christmas. I’m feeling delinquent. Christmas is slowly turning into the shopping days count down, as I pop Tums and forge head first into an agitated sea of people.

The Sea, she was angry on Sunday rocking about violently, slamming to and fro. Abby and I took turns commanding a small vessel through the canals, quickly dismissing all Target’s wares. Nothing, not even the affordable allure of the brightly colored products could keep us among the sloppy mess of bodies. Decorative tins, tension rods, make-up, Christmas lights, and candy canes later we escaped outside to safer terrain. We had to sit for a minute, reflect in the brisk air to decompress.

Off again to find holiday cheer we headed toward the Christmas tree lot. When arriving, we were again faced with too many faces and retreated to the open air. The Lot penned in trees and bodies in some horrific corral at an intersection of two busy highways. The bodies and trees fought against each other as two Russian men screamed out prices over euro-techno beats. It was loud confusion; we weren’t really sure who or what was for sale.

We found another tree lot down the street in a good old fashion parking lot. We each bought a Christmas tree from a man who resembled Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer as much as a man can and still look like a man.

Decorative tins, tension rods, make-up, Christmas lights, and candy canes and now two trees, dragging behind us, headed home.

As I raised my mighty little tree in triumph and dressed it in lights, the light rain out my window turned to snow. It finally felt like Christmas. I was happy. I fell asleep with the tree still lit and woke up like a child on Christmas morning.


RHTL Update:
For a detailed description of DC hi-jinks please refer to the following link: http://peppermint-patty.blogspot.com/. The Debutantes played a great show at the Galaxy Hut and were asked back to play at the Velvet Lounge on January 21st. (More info to follow)