Lighting of the Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center

I suffered through 2 1/2 hours standing outside in 40 degree weather surrounded by stupid smokers who blow their stupid smoke in my air (yes, it's my air because it's my world) and I didn't even get to have a view of the stage. I couldn't hang. I left at 8pm and missed the lighting of the tree...damn the tree!


Let me tell you how it all started. The streets were already packed at 5:30pm and it was impossible to get a good view of the stage. At first I was standing in a location with a view of the tree. Someone announced on the speakers that we were going to countdown to the lighting of the tree...even though it was only 6:00pm and the lighting was supposed to be much later. Like an idiot, I counted down with the crowd with my camera recording the tree, waiting for the lights to come one. Three! Two! One! (waiting, waiting) Um...where are the lights?! You teased me!


Later my friends came but they were on the other side of the square. I had to squeeze my way through out of my area and then squeeze my way through their area to get to them. I lost my view of the tree but we had a big screen to see the performers. I decided that I had enough of the experience when my feet went numb and it hurt to walk.


Ashley Tisdale (gag me), Al Roker and Nick Lachey host.


The Rockettes.


Sean Kingston...who looked a lot like Fat Albert.


Carrie Underwood.


Celine Dion. She was smart enough to perform in NBC's Rainbow Room instead of freezing her ass off outside.

By the way, NBC was showing a video on how the Rockefeller Center is going green this year by using energy efficient LED lights and how they offset their carbon footprint by cutting the tree the traditional saw method (instead of a machine). Yeah, sounds great and all, and I'm sure some people are saying, "Wow, they're such great environmentalists for doing those things," but HELLO! they freakin' cut down a 75 year old tree! The tree would still be happily standing in Connecticut with its furry and feathered friends for the next hundred years or so, but nooooo, it was cut down so people can take pictures with it for a month. That's like a Christian girl saying that she's waiting for marriage to have sex but she goes out and has anal with someone; sex in one hole is just as bad as sex in the other hole! You know what I mean. Same concept...