Christmassy Christmas Ornaments

Putting away the tree and everything last weekend made me realize something; I have too many non-Christmassy Christmas Ornaments on my tree.

See, I'm kind of an *huge* Nerd. And being a Nerd, everybody loves to get me Nerdy Christmas Ornaments as gifts. And of course I buy TONS of Nerdy Ornaments n clearance every year.

It started back in the early 1990's when my parents bought me my first Star Trek ornament. It's awesome because i love Star Trek, and it's got a little button on it that you press to make Spock say "Shuttlecraft to Enterprise, shuttlecraft to Enterprise... Spock here... Happy Holidays... Live long, and Prosper". The next few years of Star trek ornaments followed suit by being awesome to look at and then having something Christmassy to say... but then it stopped. For the past ten years or so, they've been less CHRISTMAS and more just nicely detailed Star Trek toys.

Same goes for all my Super Hero ornaments. It started off with some really cute ornaments of Spider-Man, The Hulk and Wolverine wearing Santa Hats and delivering presents... so cute! But then that stopped... and now my tree is over-run with really nice miniature statues of Super Heroes that have nothing to do with Christmas. Also found an inordinate amount of cartoon characters like Johnny Quest and The Flintstones that have NOTHING to do with Christmas and everything to do with just being an awesome little figurine.

So next year I think I might do a purge of my tree. If it's not related to Christmas in some way, then it's not going on the tree. All the non-Xmas Star Trek ones will get put on display year-round in my Star Trek shelf, the Super Hero ones and the Cartoon ones will get... I dunno. Maybe traded to somebody else?

So when did Hallmark stop making CHRISTMAS ornaments and start making Collectible Tree Statuettes, anywho?

Dell is so glad we called today!

Crystal has made it her mission to call Dell every day just to verify that yes we ARE getting our netbook. The rep she spoke with TODAY said it sure is a good thing we called in, because the person we spoke with YESTERDAY forgot to transfer our credit card information to the Financial Department so it would be applied to the NEW order instead of the OLD order and, yer gonna be shocked to hear this but, THEY WOULD HAVE GONE AHEAD AND CANCELED THE ORDER FOR US instead of contacting us like a legit business would.

Y'know... I'd expect this if I had gone ahead and ordered the $99 Chinese knock-Off netbook from Ebay or something. Expecting shenanigans like this from a no-name company is EXACTLY why we chose to go with Dell instead!