Tis the Season!

Bah Humbug! Ever since college i've had a mantra, i'd like to be rip van winkle and go to sleep the day before thanksgiving and wake up the day after valentines day! I hate to be so cynical, but sitting around and stuffing your face with turkey and staring at relatives just isn't fun! Shopping on the day after thanksgiving is a fate worse than death, parking lots, parking accidents, fighting for goods, leftover goods at that! I mean really, its not like it used to be where you got good bargains the day after thanksgiving, in fact this year, Saks had the sale before thanksgiving and going to the store now is just down right depressing!

Then the lead up to christmas, the parties, the gifts the food, the way i see it, is the money on clothes, the calories and the gifts for people you probably don't even really like! And for the people you do like, finding the perfect gift is really hard, i mean truth be told, we all shop better for ourselves than we do for others! And in this economy, what can we truly buy, even for ourselves!

Ah, New Years Eve! the pressure to be at a hip party or at a great restaurant! In reality, the restaurant is charging an arm and a leg for food that is never as good as it would be on a normal night, the service sucks and who wants to be out on the road driving with all the drunken idiots! Talk about playing russian roulette!

Then the follow up, Valentines day! The pressure to have a boyfriend or have your husband actually remember and either send you flowers or take you somewhere.

See, you agree, its easier to sleep through it all!