Christmas Decor and Home Videos

 My family decorated our Christmas Tree today. It's always kinda nice doing this, mostly because we get to reminisce over the vast assortment of various ornaments we have accumulated over the years. (Hm. That sentence was wordy and a bit pretentious. My bad.) Also, as a sort of related phenomenon, our tree ends up looking vaguely like a giant craft project every year, due to the fact that it's mostly decorated with home-made painted glass balls, popsicle stars, and copious amounts of glitter glue, in various forms. Overall, I think it gives a nice homey feel (as long as you don't look too hard or too long).

On a sort-of-but-not-really related note, I tried a few more times with my home-made bokeh shape (christmas lights are pretty ideal for testing it), and although I still don't quite have it down, I'd say that my results are improving. Part of the problem is that my little heart shape is a little too small I think, and very rough around the edges. This makes the hearts not very neat, and the left side of the picture usually ends up being a smudgy black mess (which fortunately is easily cropped out). The middle four pictures (see left) all have the little heart shapes in the background, so it kinda worked! So, I'm

 fairly pleased with that.

In other news, mostly for my interest and because these pictures took up a lot of space (so I feel the need to write at least enough to match  how much room they're taking up), recently my aunt burned all our family's old VHS home videos onto DVDs, which is awesome on a lot of levels, mostly because rewinding and fast forwarding through VHS tapes is a huge pain. First off, I'd just like to say that my brother was just about the cutest little cubby-cheeked ginger kid ever.

Seriously. I dare you to find a cuter kid.
Anyways, while browsing through these videos with my sister, we stumbled upon a clip that I had completely forgotten/blocked out for a long time. While this video use to literally make me leave the room in embarrassment, twelve years have slowly eased the humiliation and made me realize that it's actually pretty funny. Still awkward in that it makes it pretty obvious that I was a very awkward, spacey kid, but that's alright. Anyways, if you're looking for new moves to bust out on the dance floor, take notes:

Tiny video!

Yeah. You don't need to tell me, I know you're jealous. Maybe it's my sweet retro moves, like "the window wipers," "cartwheeling monkey," or "kickstand leg tap." More likely, it's the sweet combination of my bright yellow t-shirt that does, in fact, have MULTIPLE dancing bears wearing ballerina clothes, and my glow-in-the-dark, peace sign boxers, and the curly bob-like hairstyle I'm rocking. Between all that, all I ask is that you try to contain your envy that you didn't have my childhood. And, please don't point and laugh. Other than that, next time you hear the good ol' Spice Girls music blasting, feel free to bust out a few of my moves (hopefully with more enthusiasm than me), and briefly enjoy that awesomeness that was 90's.




Anyways, I know/think that my music choices have been a bit lacking lately, and I do apologize. Kind of. It's not my fault I'm too lazy to put a lot of effort into it. (Find your own music and tell ME about it, how does that sound?) Anyways, here's a song for your pretty little ears to enjoy:
[Disclaimer: if you're like me, the first time you give this a listen, you will be underwhelmed. Try to give it a chance, like a nice Canadian should.]

The Modern Leper by Frightened Rabbit