{"id":1570,"date":"2011-12-12T21:25:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T21:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2011-12-12T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T21:28:00","slug":"dockin-around-the-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2011\/12\/12\/dockin-around-the-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Dockin’ Around the Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Upon hearing that Mr E Man and I will be heading to his sister’s house for Christmas and therefore don’t have a Christmas tree at home this year*, our friends invited us round to their place on Friday to help them decorate their<\/em> tree. As their two-year-old daughter “helped” by climbing on her Dad’s back while he lay on the floor trying to connect the lights, I started to sort through their huge box of assorted ornaments. And look what geeky vintage childhood delights I found!<\/p>\n

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Light-up space shuttle - note teeny tiny space walking astronaut on the plug that goes into the light socket!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Amazingly enough, the "hear Spock's voice!" button still works!<\/p><\/div>\n

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We didn't put this one up because, well, two spaceships per tree is enough, really...<\/p><\/div>\n

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This one also stayed in the box, to protect it from passing toddlers. Maybe next year.<\/p><\/div>\n

I think we did a pretty good job:<\/p>\n

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It is a shame not to have our own tree this year, but at least I put all the lights up and wrapped various objects in tinsel. And in just over a week, weather and road conditions permitting, we’ll be pulling up in the driveway of a house nestled in a proper Canadian winter wonderland, with a beautiful tree and lots of excited family members to welcome us!<\/p>\n

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*when we’re home for Christmas Day itself we always get a real tree, so we don’t have a fake one lying around that we could put up. Besides, the cats do enough damage to it when we’re there to keep an eye on them… with our tenant looking in on them only every second day, we’d probably get home after Christmas to find the tree and all ornaments completely destroyed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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