I'm on Christmas break, and I've spent this week rolling around ideas in my head for the obligatory Christmas post, but they haven't seemed to gel into anything coherent just yet. I have some nice pictures waiting in the wings, though.
In it's place, I'm writing the things I really need to remember at the holidays. In no particular order, these are things that I know, but always conveniently forget when I actually need to use them.
1. I don't actually like champagne. It always seems like such a festive idea- ah, a little alcoholic bubbly in my fancy glass. Champagne inevitably turns me into a giggling idiot school-girl and gives a horrible headache in the morning. Better to drink Martinelli's, which at least has the benefit of being so sickeningly sweet that I can only drink half a glass before I give up and switch to water.
2. It is never a good idea to eat more than 2 rum balls/cookies/pieces of fudge for the duration of the day. I mean, literally the entire day. I should only have 2 sweet things in any given 24 hour period, otherwise I turn into something like that Jane Krakowski character from 30 Rock who says "Me want FOOD!" and I eat the whole damn plate.
3. Just because it is on the holiday buffet doesn't mean it has to go on my plate. Under normal circumstances, I would not attempt to eat a slice of roast/turkey/ham and some bread and some cranberries and some potatoes and five different kinds of jello and several random vegetable servings. My stomach didn't magically double in size for the holiday, so it's unlikely that a plate heaped as high as the centerpiece will actually get eaten. Which goes along with...
4. It is acceptable to get seconds, but it's probably not a good idea. If you couldn't finish the plate the first time around, what makes you think it'll work now? Seconds at the holidays should probably come a good 4 hours after the firsts. After a nice long nap and a Tums.
5. If it's sung by a campy/not talented musical group/artist, it should not be allowed in the Christmas playlist. Reference "Little St. Nick" and any holiday remake by Britney Spears. I rest my case.
