Some Christmas Spirit

Weird. I just posted about Thanksgiving, and now I already have tons of material for numerous Christmas posts. I'll leave some of it for later, for those inevitable dry days ahead. For now, the first order of business: on Thursday, I happened upon Jewel giving a free lunchtime concert at Herald Square, which is about a block from my school. I heard her sing 3 songs:
1) her song about hands (you know, "these hands, they are not yours, they are my own"...what's that about?)
2) Hark the Herald Angels Sing (my absolute favourite Christmas carol EVER)
3) Silent Night

So that definitely put me in the Christmas spirit, so much so that Lyndsay and I decided to buy a Christmas tree!! Just a small one, it's basically like a plant. We decorated it with a little New York taxi cab ornament that I bought my dad for Christmas (surprise Dad). So it's a bit sparse but it's beautiful. How often do you think these kind of things need to be watered? Lyndsay's friend Chrissy stayed with us Thursday night, which was amazing. She's tons of fun and was awesome enough to lug our heavy, prickly tree around. We bought it at a 24-hour Christmas tree market near Tompkins Square Park - isn't that funny, that such a thing exists? For those urgent Christmas tree needs, I suppose. Anyway, it turns out that our tree is Canadian, so that's extra special. Pictures of the tree to follow.