I can't bear Christmas generally. I think it's a very, very hollow event. It's the epitomy of the term anticlimax, due to this emptiness. A highly flawed concept, all in all... Bit like football.

I've already tackled anti-xmas cards this year with some success, and so I thought why not stare the monster in the face, and attempt going through the motions of having an average Christmas (which people may often incorrectly call 'a good Christmas').

I have a tree, which I've slung a string of fairy lights round, and hung a few baubles my mum gave me on. I realise this is quite undertrimmed by most Christmas afficinados' standards, but I refuse to let this pointless annual event cost me money... I'll need all that for whatever intoxicants I can get my hands on to blot out how horrendously poor the event itself will be. Which brought me directly to home made crap to stick on the dead tree in the name of 'aren't we having such FUN!'.

To cut a long story short, I had some fuseable beads, like kids use, and Jo decided we should make something to top the tree with real meaning, not just the same irrelevant, predictable symbols everyone has been brainwashed into using for all time.

Through maybe an hour's worth of effort by the pair of us (me sorting the right colours of beads out and Jo doing assembly), we produced the Christmas Heart. A thing of naive simple beauty, with inherent geek value due to the pixel construction. (l33t h4x0r pwned!!!)

I have been listening to the Mariah Carey and Diana Krall Christmas albums on repeat to increase the festiveness inside my heart, maybe I'm getting there... Maybe indigestion.

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