Christmas Time (Was) Here

And taking another moment to post up some pictures from Christmas at my house!  I've been MIA from blogging this way over the past few weeks because I still have family in town; while it's been a blast to get some quality-hanging-time in and do fun things with them, I'm not going to lie - I am looking forward to taking the longest nap EVER after they leave Sunday morning. I am beyond zonked at the moment and on Full Chloe Zombie mode, creekity-creek, chompity-chomp.

So!  One of the best Christmas gifts that I received this year was my dad and Husband finally hanging my new light above the fireplace! Our remodeling process has ground to a halt lately due to the craziness of the holiday season, Husband working a lot (and devoting most of his free-time to coaching a lot, too), and the fact that I'm pretty sure if I ask enough times Husband will finally get the hint and totally get Extreme Home Makeover (WITH MARIAH CAREY!) to come over and get it all done lickity-split during a weekend when I'm away traveling, as I'm pretty sure that's how most all home remodels work.  Hence, um...we've gotten nowhere.

That is until now.  Here's my new light, finally hung up in its spot:

A few of you emailed me inquiring where I got it from after seeing a shot of it yesterday in my pics; it's from Z Gallerie and retails for $399 and ohmygoodness- I love it!

A word to the wise, however- the way it's rigged in my home isn't the way it's meant to be hung. The light originally came with four wires that could be adjusted in length (one on each corner on top of the square metal grate that the shells dangle from) which would make it a snap to install on a flat ceiling.

But since nearly every ceiling in my house is vaulted, we decided to snap the wires, integrate the same pole from which a ceiling fan originally hung, secure that pole to the middle of the metal grate, and then hang the entire light off that instead.  It worked brilliantly, I think, and saved all of us the obnoxious trouble of adjusting wires all day so it'd hang straight at an angle.

Thank goodness for smart and handy dads, hm?  And super-thank-goodness for hard liquor, TI's newest album entitled No Mercy, and leaf blowers...as I'm pretty sure that's the only way to actually dust the sucker, envy me if you will.

More pictures from the jolly day; click the pics for larger sizes:

food.

married couple.

light Christmas reading entitled, Understand Rap: Explanations of Confusing Rap Lyrics You and Your Grandma Can Understand and/or otherwise known as THE BEST BOOK EVER

homeless yorkie under kitchen table.

homeless chihuahua in a dress, looking for her gift.

my dad was in charge of stocking stuffers this year and so he ransacked home depot and bought everyone the candy that only he likes.

my dad also ransacked my mom's purse and put her cellphone into my twin sister's stocking.

my dad thinking he's funny (mostly 'cuz he is).

my parents accidentally gave Husband my future car and he won't share.

digging.

snoozing.

big pimping.

outfit of the day-ing.

(more) snoozing.

snoopy dancing.

rudolph-ing.

stare-of-death-O-RLY-ing.  rudolph has a bad attitude.

hiding.

cheer-upping.

& a few of more of my favorite gifts. ♥

And I hope you all had a great Christmas too, full of family & friends & really great gifts.  I'll be back with some more updates and pictures later!