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"One thing I think will be great about married life is picking out a Christmas tree together and starting new traditions with the guy. I never buy a tree in NYC. Not that I can&amp;#39;t have a tree of my own now, but\u2026it just wouldn&amp;#39;t be as magical with Erica (sorry, roommie!). I also always wanted to have my husband hang as many lights as Clark W. Griswold in Christmas Vacation, since I&amp;#39;ve never succeeded in convincing my dad to be that dedicated or that gaudy.\nMy parents often have the tree trimmed before I fly home for the holidays. So I was really excited last weekend when my friend Bea and her parents invited me over to help pick out a tree and decorate!\nPinterestFacebookThis is how you buy a Christmas tree in NYC. People just set up shop on the sidewalk along Broadway, or along any street.\nPinterestFacebookThis will be Cecil the kitten&amp;#39;s first Christmas, and he was obsessed with the tree.\nWe sang along to Christmas CDs and laughed at the funny ornaments they had. I always thought my family had weird tastes, with ornaments like the surfing Santa and the tire salesman. But Bea&amp;#39;s family had all the random and homemade kinds of ornaments my family has, including Santa on a schooner, a sparkly crocodile, and a golden banana.\nBea, a Martha Stewart-devotee, had been looking online for tips and ideas. We kept hearing, &amp;quot;Martha says we should loop the lights around each branch. Martha says to hang the biggest balls first. Martha says\u2026.&amp;quot; We used none of these suggestions. Instead\u2026\nPinterestFacebookLook what happens after a few Bloody Marys.\nIt wasn&amp;#39;t long before Bea switched us to hot chocolate with homemade, peppermint-flavored whip cream.\nPinterestFacebookThe finished product! (Can you spot the golden banana?)\nDo you share any holiday traditions with your guy? Are you excited for that aspect of married life? Am I romanticizing the whole tree thing? Does it turn out to be one big fight over why he won&amp;#39;t pay for a 9-foot Noble Fir with good needle retention? If you celebrate Christmas, what&amp;#39;s your weirdest ornament?\nPlus:\nDo You Send Out Christmas Cards Without a Partner?\nMore Ways to Get Glamour\nYou could win $50,000 just for registering for or logging in to Glamour.com!\nSign up for Glamour.com&amp;#39;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters!\nAdd Glamour to your iGoogle homepage.\nFollow us on Twitter!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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