Christmas Time in 1404

Half way through November my roommates wanted to start playing Christmas music and I quickly vetoed it saying that Christmas music is not allowed until after Thanksgiving. This became a little argument because 2 of my roommates are Canadian and their Thanksgiving is in October... funny thing is that they listened to me! I mean if they would have played Christmas music I would have just put head phones in and ignored them eventually... But as soon as we all got back from Thanksgiving break Christmas was in full swing. I had promised my roommates that I would bring my small tree for our apartment and my room roommate Lauren brought lights that we could hang up. When I got back from class Christmas music was already playing and we had to decorate our apartment, so the tree got decorated and we started hanging lights. We hung lights around the window with command hooks and then we had icicle lights too. We didn't have anything to hang these with so we opted for duck tape.. this was not a brilliant choice they kept falling, but we just kept putting up more tape hoping they would stick. Lauren also decorated our pointless chalkboard on the wall and put a string of lanterns above the TV.

Our 3 foot tree with 8 foot ceilings!

Little did I know that when we were putting up these lights that they twinkle... My biggest pet peeve are dancing Christmas lights. Let's just say that college is testing my patience.

That night for family home evening we decided to cut snowflakes and our original plan was to put them on the our doors... but we didn't make it that far so we hung them up in our apartment. 

The next morning the twinkle lights and the lanterns were all on the floor... the duct tape just didn't work out. Lesson learned here, off brand duct tape is crap. So Lauren and I went to the store and bought more hooks and rehung the lights. Monday night one of the colored lights around our window went out. They were the big bulb ones that actually go on the house not inside of apartments. So being the handy one in our apartment I got up there trying to see if the bulb went out or it was the socket thingy that was broken. I took the light that wasn't lighting up out and the one next to it out so I could switch them to see what happened, but before I had the chance to check I dropped the light that was working. It didn't shatter and it looked just fine, so I continued what I was doing and when I screwed in the light I had just dropped the whole string popped and sparked and went out. I didn't know if I had blew the breaker so I checked the outlet and it worked. I was at a loss, so I called my dad who happens to be an electrician :) I told him what happened and he laughed at me telling me that I blew the breaker in the light strand. Who knew there was a breaker in those things?! I didn't! Now there isn't any lights in the window because I have yet to buy a new one..