To: My Street
From: Thisbe
Re: Holiday Light Decorations
Dear Neighbors,
Happy Holidays! We in the Thisbe household wish you and your families the best this holiday season, and in the upcoming New Year. In the spirit of the season, we would like to send some heartfelt wishes regarding your holiday decorations, as follows:
1) We wish you would follow the tried-and-true adage that "more is less" or the equally compelling "more is not better" or whatever your mother told you regarding "too much" of anything. Because we are going slightly blind from the sheer wattage of your collective holiday cheer.
2) We wish you would stick with all-white lights (which is, of course, a personal preference thing),** but if you must go with colored lights, we wish they were the wee tiny lights, rather than the largish, 60-watt style lights, which are causing Thisbe to almost drive off the road every time she sees them.
3) We wish we did not have to mention giant inflatable holiday decorations. Indeed, we wish they had never been created. But since someone has a very twisted sense of humor, we wish you would not egg them on by purchasing such decorations and putting them on your lawn. You're better than that.
4) Most importantly, we REALLY REALLY REALLY wish you would leave the animated light-up reindeer at the mall/store/gates of Hades. We can't prove it, but we are pretty sure that they are watching us, and it is creeping us OUT.
Love, The Thisbe Family
PS. Please accept our holiday wishes in the spirit in which they were intended, of good cheer, understanding that holiday lights/decorations are a bit of a pet peeve for us, and we are just poking a bit of good fun at them. In no way are we intending to disparage Christmas, or anyone's enjoyment or celebration thereof. We are not interested in receiving posts about how we are mean-spirited Grinches who hate Christmas. We do not, and we are supportive of the celebration of all winter holidays. Happy Festivus! And, Relax.
**Specifically, we wish you would stick with single-strand white lights rather than the very drippy lights, or the nets of lights, both of which are less visually stunning than you might think to the average viewer, but again, to each his own.
Today's Project: Rows away from completion of the pink sweater project. Also working on a black and silver shawl.
Today's Life Observation: Bad morning shower = VERY bad day.
3 comments:
Aren't those inflatable things creepy?? What's even stranger is the ones in our area seem to deflate when the sun comes up (like some sort of odd vampires) , leaving a puddle of plastic on the lawn waiting to be reinflated the next night....
Not only do Weef's parent's neighbors have those 60 watt colored bulbs strung on every inch of their house, but they keep them lit all night long and they shine right in Weef's parent's bedroom window....Weef's Dad is tempted to shoot them out with the BB gun that is handily kept by the front door......Happy Holidays...
While we here at Thisbe's knits certainly do not advocate violence in any form, we can commiserate with the plight of Weef's parents, and the desire to remove the offending decorations (by force if necessary). On the plus side, the big lights should come down in a few weeks. After that, perhaps they will at least burn out. ;)
Happy Holidays Weef's Parents!
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