Well, we lost the holiday decorating contest. :p<\/p>\n
Honestly, I’m shocked. Now, I’m not one of those people who thinks their stuff is better than everyone else’s – if I see something that looks nicer, I will readily admit it. However, in this case I think we were screwed. We had a nice and interesting set-up, and while I knew who would get 1st place, I was certain we’d get 2nd place. Apparently I was wrong. It turns out the “judges” (ie office staff) prefer ridiculous to tasteful – everyone who won had too many lights and figures in a small space. It was overly cluttered and not designed well, if you ask me. But I guess in their world more is better. Oh well. I can tell you this – I’m not so sure we’ll compete next year if it requires putting way too many lights and ornaments all over the place. I think it’s tacky. You can keep your prizes, thanks.<\/p>\n
Bitter much? Maybe just a little. :p<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Here’s our setup<\/a> … and here is the 1st place winner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, we lost the holiday decorating contest. :p Honestly, I’m shocked. Now, I’m not one of those people who thinks their stuff is better than everyone else’s – if I see something that looks nicer, I will readily admit it. However, in this case I think we were screwed. We had a nice and interesting set-up, and while I knew who would get 1st place, I was certain we’d get 2nd place. Apparently I was wrong. It turns out the “judges” (ie office staff) prefer ridiculous to tasteful – everyone who won had too many lights and figures in a small space. It was overly cluttered and not designed well, if you ask me. But I guess in their world more is better. Oh well. I can tell you this – I’m not so sure we’ll compete next year if it requires putting way too many lights and ornaments all Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}