A Christmas Intervention
My friend Lana recently went through a pretty tough break up. So going out and buying a Christmas tree solo was pretty high on her list of “Things that could make her cry.” But what kind of friends would we be if we let her Scrooge her Christmas away, all alone?
Last night, while Remi and I were out shopping for some last minute Christmas things, I thought it would be awesome if we got a tree for her and took it over, set it up and pretty much ambushed her with Christmas cheer. Remi was all about it before I could even begin trying to convince her. It was already 8:30 p.m. by this time and some of the stores we needed to go to closed at 9:00 p.m. So we whipped out our Super Lesbian capes and set out on a mad dash for a tree, lights, decorations and a stocking!
As we literally ran through the aisles of various stores, we realized that we were almost too late to pull of this Christmas miracle. The shelves of every store we went to looked like a war zone of broken trinkets, sad teddy bears that had been returned and bare walls. There was not a single box of lights to be found in the entire city!
We did however find her a great little tree, a giant box of ornaments and a stocking we stuffed with goodies. But I was bound and determined that she would have extra lights (the tree was pre-lit but Christmas lights make me happy and I wanted her to be happy, hence the obsession.) After realizing that there just wasn’t any, anywhere, after 4 stores, Remi started rummaging through the carts of misplaced Christmas items. Santa’s elves must have been smiling down on us, because there was one box of lights left! But they were white. Oh well, we grabbed them and headed over to Lana’s.
We tried to sneak up to her door, but Remi tripped and dropped the box with the tree in it. Apparently inside the house, it sounded to Lana that a bomb may have gone off at a nearby factory! So stealthy we were not.
But when she opened the door we yelled, “This is a Christmas intervention!”
To which she jumped up and down clapping and saying, “Yay!!! I love Christmas interventions!”
We spent the next 2 hours or so decorating her tree, her house and even her porch with all the Christmas decorations we brought over as well as some of her own, that she was now inspired to bring out of storage.
It was absolutely the best feeling ever to bust into her house late at night and bring her a Christmas tree and trimmings! She seemed pretty happy about it too, but honestly I think Remi and I enjoyed it even more.
Cheesy as it sounds it’s true: it really does feel better to give then to receive. At least at Christmas time 😉
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Wow that’s pretty nice of you two!! You guys sound like good friends to have! I wish there were more lesbians like you around where I live. But here they all seem to be so clique-ish.
That was so nice of you guys. I bet you made her night. I don’t Sasha, doesn’t seem to me like you would go out of your way like that for anyone less then a BFF 😉
That reminds me of the time my friends surprised me with a makeover once after a bad BAD break up. I had locked myself in my apartment for weeks and they finally threatened to break the door down if I didn’t let them in. They cleaned my whole apartment for me, threw out all of “her” things I was holding onto and took me to a spa and shopping. It was the nicest thing anyone ever did for me. It really helped me feel not so all alone. Hopefully Lana knows she now has some new friends that are really there for her.
You and Remi are awesome.
Dude. I know for a fact you’ve been sick as a dog. When did you have time to do all this? And if you’re not busy this weekend …. I need a tree and new couch 🙂