Snip

That's all it took. One little snip of the hedge trimmers and NO LIGHTS.

No, not the entire power system for our whole house. But the most important of the day.

The Christmas tree lights.

Yup. I actually cut the wires. The green wires. That are the same color as the evergreen tree in my family room.

Uh, oops?

So I tried to fix it. By having my awesome hunky hubby, Spider X, fix it. But he's on to me and my wily ways. So he makes me fix it.

I take back all those nice things I said about him. Well...not everything. He is pretty awesome. And extremely hunky. Sigh.

So as I'm lying under the tree and Spy X is telling me how to strip the wires and twist them back together, I'm happily thinking that this annoying task will soon be over so we can hang our boatload boxes of ornaments.

But, alas, this was not to be.

For, you see, there is apparently some secret to wiring cut Christmas lights that surpasses even my handyman husband. Cause next, instead of happily hanging ornaments, I was ripping out removing the offending light strand while uttering words like "flimsy lights" and "cheap wiring."

Even though I was the one who cut the wires. With a hedge trimmer, let's not forget.