[COOL OR NOT COOL] Turning your house into a Winter Wonderland

My mother was not a Kool-Aid mom, greeting me at the door after school with a tray of wholesome snacks, or welcoming the neighborhood kids over for slumber parties and rice krispie squares. 

She's not overly sentimental, and her attitude when I was growing up was, decidedly, "do it yourself." 

All of this is fine—it made me independent and self-sufficient and blahblahblah rationalization—BUT, it makes it very confusing when Christmas time rolls around and she suddenly transforms into Mrs. Claus. 

Our kitchen—the one that she barely uses the other 11 months of the year—is turned into a 24-hour cookie-baking factory.  All of the door knobs in the house are adorned with plush Rudolph faces which makes it fucking IMPOSSIBLE to enter or exit a room.  Every flat surface is covered with cotton and other forms of fake snow.  It is a straight-up, motherfucking winter wonderland in there, and it's CRAZY.

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[WHO GIVES A SHIT?] Holiday Cards

Ok, so do you people still do this holiday card shit?

I'm a Jew, so I never *really* got into this scene to begin with. And, in truth, those cheesy family photo cards make me want to barf a little bit. And yet...and yet, there is a leetle bitty part of me that's still a little jelly of those cards and for like 11 seconds each year when I get one in the mail. And then like for one brief, shining moment I think to myself: awww, maybe we'll do one next year!

And then we never ever never ever do.

I mean, I don't know ANYONE'S phone number unless I look at my cell phone, so forget about addresses. Who has people's addresses any more??

Anyway.

The one place I've found where I kind of like these cards is on Minted.com. And also I guess this is mostly a ppl with kids kinda thing to do anyway.

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