la_belle_laide | Tree, and a song meme

I got my tree today, hurray! Note to next year's self: Trees have gotten superfly expensive! Don't bother with the closest ones. Don't go to the creepy privately owned place; their teeniest Charlie Brown tree is $55. The other place, the one you went ot in '07, was closed this afternoon. Landscape Adventure has nice trees for good prices! This year's one is pretty tall and was only $38.

So now the whole inside is done. Tree is up and decorated (yes, two strands of the LED lights are enough to go around a reasonably sized tree,) and all the indoor stuff is up, even the damn kitchen lights. Tonight is Kung Fu, and then tomorrow I will do the outside stuff and start getting my cards out.

And my shopping is almost done! I still need something for Boychild, and a few other people, but I did a lot of it on Amazon. Maybe about half. And nothing I've ordered--not even the stuff I ordered for myself for the holiday season before TG (like BPAL and some clothes,) has arrived yet. >_<

I kinda failed at the holidays last year, because the holidays were really hard. But this year, I am going to just OWN them. ;)

Yoinked from

spatterdash, a song meme. Put your player on shuffle and take the first line of the first thirty songs. She did twenty, but I did thirty because I was having so much fun (and because I like the number better. ;D ) Then make a poem out of the lines. Mine went in the order I got them; I didn't cheat! You can format them to read like poetry if you want. Oh, and the first line is the title. Here was mine:

As black as the night can get

I miss the part when we were moving forward now
sign of the times
again the burden of losing rests upon my shoulders

humidity's rising, barometer's getting low
September never stays this cold where I come from,
scraping the skylines with hypnotic observations:
brutal, beautiful, strung out
Out on the street, I'm stalking the night

I've heard there was a secret chord
beating with life, you promised life

Savoy, the home of sweet romance

I see the way that the sun spits in your face -
So this is what we're up against.

If travel is searching, and home what's been found:
"O ka malu hulu o lele..."

She said, Don't
spin me round, roll me over,
love me cancerously -
gummed up, brain dead and can't decide.

They call me "The Wild Rose"
"E auhea wale ana 'oe?"
Well it ain't nobody's business what I do.
(Kung Fu do what you do to me...)

Hello, I've waited here for you everlong
"Tiare, oe no te tama maho'i e,"
"im nin alu,"
I'm gonna leave you, baby, standing on your own
(I thnk I'm drowning, asphixiated,)
See that smile, see that smile, see that smile on your face.

Neat!