When you're furloughed in Frisco you bust out the Christmas decorations

For those of you who don't know, Lots of Groceries and I live in a quaint little apartment that we've nicknamed "Disaster House." The origin of its name will be left for another time, but let's just say it's the kind of place that you laugh about later as you reminisce about how romantic it was to be broke.

Anyway, I spent yesterday getting Disaster House ready for the holidays. We put up our stockings (even the kitty gets one), set up the nativity scene that my husband's grandmother gave us, and decorated the Christmas tree. I have to admit that it's a little odd having a nativity scene in our house considering that we don't go to church and aren't particularly religious...but whatever. It's festive. Besides, this nativity set is particularly awesome. It has real straw on the roof and comes with a bendable palm tree. Want to see it? Here it is:

And here's our very first Christmas tree! (That's Lots of Groceries).

Yeah, so I guess we're actually blocking most of the tree, but you get the idea. And anyway, the two most important defining characteristics are still visible: 1) we vote for a star on the top versus and angel, and 2) we like white lights, not multi-colored ones. They're obviously classier. And we're classy folks, so there you go.