I wanted that tree down for three reasons. 1. The city starts picking up the trees tomorrow and although our neighborhood is probably not #1 on the runway, I don't want to miss tree pick-up, just in case, because it is pretty lame to be the only house on the block with a tree out front in, say, March. Which happens to a few people around here every year. 2. The Scholar is leaving Tuesday morning for a trip and will be gone until Saturday, and I do not want to be looking at that tree and thinking about item #1 every day and try to take it down myself and make a huge freaking mess. 3. Regardless of those two things, once I get the tree down I feel like party time is over and I should exercise, sitting around time is over and I should clean and organize, and Things Are Back To Normal. So yeah, I wanted it down. Even if we had a fake tree, I'd still want it down by now for reason #3.

I have like four more things to do and then I can go to bed.