The tree from....

Whoever wrote that song with something about a Christmas tree and it's beautiful branches must have been insane! Either that or they hadn't just travelled for 20 hours and returned home to a tree that I am convinced was being held together by the 450 lights I had strung on it. Let me tell you, this tree was D-E-A-D. There was nothing beautiful about recovering from jetlag while de-ornamentizing the tree and sweeping up the 13 billion needles left along its evacuation route. Next year's tree just may have a little more plastic in its composition...