In the spirit

The other night, some friends and I had another Christmas party — that makes about 15 for the season so far. This was one of those heinous Christmas theme parties. We all wore gaudy Christmas sweaters and bells. Or in my case, antlers with bells, a big bow on my butt, a Christmas tree turtle neck, knee high red and green socks, and slippers with reindeers on the toes. I even had these huge silver ornaments as earrings.

I won't lie, I was pretty heinous. I could have been one of Santa's elves. I even won the contest.

And in some sort of garish holiday fluke, my friend Justin was dressed to match — we both wore a quilted Christmas vest and jean. He just didn't look as ridiculous as I did. Too bad.

Lesson learned: My tree has nothing on me.