25,000 twinkle lights

Normally I wouldn't be oot and aboot on a Monday, but today is the library's Christmas party and the whole cotton-pickin' county will be gathered together.  This year will be a tough one, because the librarian at Clarkton died last spring.  She as an absolute dear and the whole county loved her, so her presence will be sorely missed.  Anyway, last year I wore one of my prettier Christmas bows (I'll be wearing that one...sometime this week), but this year I've chosen to be somewhat humorous.  Remember when I said that my family loved Christmas Vacation?  Well, here's the bow to prove it!  Etsy shop is AutumnsUniqueHairBow.
This particular line was uttered by Clark Griswold's father after Clark moved Heaven and Earth to get his Christmas lights to light up.  Hilarity quickly follows when Cousin Eddie and his family show up unannounced, but as with Home Alone I'm not going to give too much away.  Christmas Vacation is NOT a flick for kids due to language and some sexual content, but for teens and adults it's a scream.

I've also got these, depicting one of the flick's more memorable scenes.
Fried pussycat!  Yeah, yeah, as a cat lover I know that cats do get into Christmas lights, and they are fully capable of:

A)  Electrocuting themselves,
B)  Burning down the house, and/or
C)  Knocking over the tree and annihilating all the ornaments!

But I still think the scene is funny.  True, it's made me extra-cautious about having a Christmas tree in my house (with eight cats I don't even bother), but the characters' banter in the immediate aftermath makes up for the fictitious cat's fictitious death. 

Now...NOW here's one I don't dare wear to work!
Drunken Cousin Eddie, puffing away on a cigar, swilling a beer, and emptying the septic tank of his RV into Clark's storm drain.  It's a small bow, about the size of the Karen bow (June 7th) and the Dalek bow (August 8th), but knowing my luck someone would complain if I did wear it.  One of my Valentine's Day bows is like that too, as y'all will see on...well, on Valentine's Day, TWO MONTHS AWAY!!!  But for now, I'm off to the Christmas party!  Don't wait up.

Cheers,
RagingMoon1987

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