Christmas Lights

I swear I'm not afraid of heights but after I'm finished you may be convinced otherwise.

Earlier today I was throwing a football with Sandra and she got tired and left me outside. I wasn't ready to go inside so I was laying in the hammock deciding what I wanted to do. It would take too long to find a basketball to shoot some hoops and then I realized that it was six days into the new year and our Christmas lights were still up. I go into the garage and get out the ladder and start with the lights on the side of the house and after I was done with those it was time to get on the roof to get the ones on the front because you can't reach those from the ladder. So I positioned the ladder near the porch where it makes a corner and it's the easiest to get on right there.

As soon as I was on the house I could tell that the roof did not look this steep from the ground. I was able to make it from the top and I was fine just sitting there overlooking the neighborhood. I really like being able to look around from up there because you can just see so much more. Then I realized that to actually get to lights off I to venture down the roof and there is just not as much to hold onto. I set out to take the lights down so I was going to do it. I just sat there for a little while trying to prepare myself but I could tell waiting wasn't going to help as my heart rate increased so I just went after it. I went down the one side and made it without dieing so I was feeling good. I sat there on top and enjoyed myself a little more. After I conquered the other side I was done. I got off the roof and decided that my dad could tackle the garage side of the house because that side is a lot worse.

I think the incline just freaked me out. I haven't been home around the time that we put up and took down the lights for the last couple of years. But I do remember always being excited about getting on the roof. When I was little I would actually climb up a tree to get on the roof at our house back in California to just get away. I could could actually hide up there for hours without anyone finding me. Then again the incline on that roof was next to nothing. I also loved to help put up the lights at my Grandparents house but the roof at that house is flat. The scary put about getting up there was you got on there from the patio of the apartment above the garage and the wood was rotting really badly in some places. There was actually a piece of wood covering a hole in the wood. I've heard that the patio has actually been redone since the last time I was in California.

So I have decided that I am not afraid of heights but I definitely do not like steep inclines when I have nothing to hold onto.

I have also figured out a few options that I have for when I have a house of my own.

1. My house will just have a flat roof.
   
2. My future husband can just be in charge of putting up and taking down Christmas lights on the outside of the house.
3. I could pay someone else, or they could just do it out of the kindness of their heart.
4. Christmas will just not be celebrated at my house because you can't have Christmas without Christmas lights. And plus it can't be that hard to be a Scrooge.
   

So this isn't my house and not the same incline at all but this is what it seemed like when I was up there today.