While waiting for Christmas...

That's it, tomorrow I'm taking off to France to celebrate Christmas with my family. It's the first time in five years! The schedule is gonna be tight. Two weeks to see everybody is very little time when nobody live in the same region. The suitcase is ready, gifts are wrapped, I'm pretty much ready. 

 
Before I leave, here are pics of some Christmas decoration aisles in Hobby Lobby, a big arts and crafts store where I spent about two hours, only to pick my wrapping paper. Good thing I was not getting a Christmas tree this year, or I would have spent the day there. And since in the US businesses do sales whenever they want, all the Christmas stuff was already 40% off even a month before Christmas. How terrific!

Peppermint candy canes are Christmas candies that are found in every shape and size. It's a very popular ornment theme as well.

Of course we're in America... There has to be adequate ornments for the big ass trees some people get. You can also see that kind of huge stuff hanging from front yard trees and such.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Below, some nutcrackers of questionable taste.

Although red, gold and silver are rightfully the most common colors, colors assortments know no bounds! 

The sock aisle...the choice is pretty amazing.

Each year, we have a little work Christmas party. We get together at our assistant director, who warmly welcome the twenty of us. Each of us put a gift under the tree for someone we randomly picked a few weeks before. During the preceding month, some of us have secretly filmed some skits to pretty much just make fun of each other. Sometimes in a kind way, but mostly in a blunt way... Humor is very dark and sarcastic at work. But that makes for 10 minutes of laughing our asses off when we all watch it together at the party! After that we gather around the tree and distribute the gifts.

My boss has always taken good care of me... as this picture shows. When all the wine glasses are broken from previous drunken parties, she makes sure the last one is for me! Every body else only have the right to drink out of plastic cups. Ha ha!