Happy Holidays!

Here's my first "live" Christmas tree! It's a tabletop tree since Tofu would probably ruin one that is on the ground. Hope everyone has a happy holidays!

grumble grumble

can you believe it's been over 2 years since we moved into the townhouse and we JUST got a notice about our supplemental property tax bill??? mind you, it wasn't even the actual bill with an amount of how much we owed, it was just a notice saying that one will be arriving within 90 days! we've been paying a ridiculously low property tax for the last two years which was always confounding to me because everyone else complains about how expensive theirs is. i just thought it was because our area wasn't good, but nope, it's because of super slow bureaucracy and we've been paying the property tax based on old assessment values. great. so...the reassessed value of the property is now over double, i'm very scared to see how huge this supplemental bill is because it will cover TWO years!!! argh!! it's just so odd that it took so long for the county to realize there was a new owner, is that normal??!!

i need a money tree for christmas. one that grows actual money. thanks. =)