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The holidays are just around the corner. I mean, they are here and around the corner.

You put up your Christmas tree already.

Sure did.

Yeah.

I was jumping on the trend, but just the excitement around the holidays.

And I took advantage selfishly of my parents being in town because I get real tired of putting

up decorations really fast.

I'm a pretty energetic person, but when you comes to decorating, I'm like, I put up one thing and I'm like, I'm exhausted. So my mom

loves to do- That feels like enough. Yeah. I'm very much like my dad, where I like to just

throw something, throw it up, and then leave, you know, like he doesn't do details very well. I'm the same way. Meaning my mom is someone who will like take 10 minutes to peel off a sticker of something so the glue doesn't stay on, you know? She's like this so patient instead of me just like ripping it off and then I'll just scratch it with my finger like

you know for the next 10 months to get the rest of the glue off she will sit there and just like

peel it ever so slowly to make you know what I mean like that type of person so she took the time to

fluff up the we have an artificial tree so she took up the time to like fluff up the artificial tree

which takes time you know like it's a perfect job it's a perfect job for it up and so she was fluff took up the time to like fluff up the artificial tree, which takes time.

You know, like it. It's a perfect job for day. And so she was fluffing up the tree. And then I

decorated it yesterday. And we got the rest of the decorations up. So that was fun. But it's so

funny. Scott Parrish completely fell into like the, he does this every year. He kind of like

falls into the excitement around Black Friday. And he loves to go run errands and like find the new deals. And so he was like running around all these stores last night, last minute, just for funsies. And he's like, oh, I found these other decorations. And he's like texting me. Do you need anything else? Yeah, we needed a Christmas tree skirt. We like tossed so

many decorations last year when we moved. And last year, the most we did was a tree. We didn't even put up a Christmas tree skirt. Like we were just like, tree done. That's the most we could handle. And I was kind of laughing at that. I'm like, wow, we were in a real bad mental state if we couldn't even like order a Christmas tree skirt. But anyway, that's what he was doing last night at like

9 p.m. And he was texting me. He's like, how about this one? He was like texting me all these options. I'm like, I don't know. I don't care. And he at one point he just texts, please decide. Like that's when I knew.

He had had enough.

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