How lovely! We got our tree this weekend, and we might decorate it tonight! We are far too lazy to do the outside stuff… though our neighbors always put out a nativity with a “it’s a boy” sign next to it.
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We decorated the tree today, for a given value of decorated. Since this is Nimbus’s first Christmas and he is still very much a kitten, all the glass ornaments stayed put away. He’s attempted to nibble the branches, despite the bitter no-bite we put on it 
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I might set up our tree (pre-lit, artificial, sadly) this week, but with the kittens, I don’t plan to put any ornaments on it and just go with the twinkle lights. Almost all of our ornaments are breakable – glass in all its ornament forms, sand dollar “snowflakes”, German straw stars – and I’m too sentimental about them to sacrifice them to the kitten god of chaos.
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Ours is fake pre-lit as well. We had a real struggle deciding if we were doing live or fake until Ryuuko started eating large hunks of the real tree. It was not good. Pine is not good for kitties!
We moved the cat tree when we got the Christmas tree out. They’ve been all over the cat tree and none attempted to climb the Christmas tree. We also have a lot of paper and plastic ornaments. Kids make a lot of ornaments and none of them are breakable! So all those went up.
The kid has this weird laminated piece of paper from the school marketplace thing with a picture of an Egyptian Mau. She asked me if that was a picture of Nimbus, having forgotten she got it in kindergarten. I was like “this is his first Christmas. We wouldn’t have any pictures of him for ornaments. OMG, you are right. That really does look like him!”
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We got to see people in a gathering dressed as Krampus in Salzburg a number of years ago.
Santa really employs some shady people.
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uhhhhhh
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Well, the Donners did have a party.
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David Arkenstone - Christmas Lounge (2008)
Above plz find the link to my yt playlist of a very cool Christmas LP.
It’s mellow, modern, groovy electronic “Lounge,” not what a 50s bachelor pad’s phonograph would play.
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I’ll have to listen to this later and see what they included and what they missed 
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Just at a glace i do think there’s some other traditional xmas carols that they might’ve missed but it’d be a tall task to be wholly inclusive. I would say what they’ve added gives you enough of a glimpse into the sounds of the traditional Venezuelan festivities.
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