We finally say goodbye to Christmas

Um. So East of Eden the movie...SUCKED. I finished the book, and man it's as big as the Bible, so it was a huge deal for me to finish it. I loved it too, so I figured I'd give the movie a shot, cause it's a classic and all...it was a complete waste of my time. Roughly 2 hours I will never get back. I know James Dean is respected and dead and all...and I know that movie was made a long time ago, but it was a horrible. I'm forewarning the 5 people that read this blog to resist the urge to rent/buy East of Eden. And I know that you all have that desire to rent it whenever you go to get movies.
That and we finally took down the Christmas tree! I got a rash from picking off the ornaments and the lights and blessed the entire house with an abundance of pine needles. My arms got all itchy and red and I looked like I got bit by some horrible spider. The whole ordeal kinda made me wish we kept the tree up year round. Maybe we should have watered it after Christmas...who knows, but it got it's revenge. O was nice enough to take the crispy bastard down stairs and toss it on the curb. He was about 8 feet shy of the corner however, so I think he gave up lugging it down the driveway. And with our 30 mile an hour winds today the tree has decided to set up camp across the street by the community mailbox. So...we now have a community tree, folks. Cheers!