[caption id="attachment_1513" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="My New Poinsettia"]<a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/img_1269.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1513" title="Poinsettia" src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/img_1269.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /></a>[/caption]

On my way home from my Bulgarian lesson, I decided to buy a poinsettia.  I bought it. Making sure to pick out the most beautiful one. I love poinsettias. There's something uber-Christmasy about the plant--more so than Christmas cookies, Christmas carols or even Christmas parties. I think it's the mix of vibrant red and verdent green that really does it for me.

Serves me right that I spent a bunch of time picking out the perfect plant.  Because, I got it home and took the plastic off of it and one of the three branches came off as well. Gross.

This made me really mad.

I swore a little bit in my head.

[caption id="attachment_1514" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Poinsettia and Mandarin Oranges "]<a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/img_1267.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1514" title="Poinsetta 1" src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/img_1267.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /></a>[/caption]

Then I thought about throwing the whole plant away.  Then I considered just throwing the branch a way but decided against it.  Rather than throwing the branch away, I cut it and put it in water. We'll see how long it lasts in the water.  I am guessing two days. As for the potted plant, I turned it so that the broken branch doesn't show.  It just looks a little scraggly now.  It's kind of like Charlie Brown and his search for a Christmas tree.  Now I have to try to love this scraggly two-branched poinsettia.  I am going to try. Really, I am.

But for the record, I am still kind of angry about the whole thing.