Holidays
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10 Funny Memes For The Chronologically-Challenged Christmas Shoppers
Every year. Every year I tell myself I’ll be prepared, & get my Christmas shopping done early. Every year I tell myself that I’ll be less stressed during the holidays, & more in the place to enjoy the meaning of the season rather than rage-shopping. And every year… it turns out that I’m a BIG FAT LIAR. While there are so many meaningful, sentimental aspects to Christmas, when it comes to the shopping, my take on it is: “Bah, humbug!”. Christmas is a few days off, and some of you finished your shopping long ago. You probably have those gifts wrapped, too. And one of you needs to be my…
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Holiday Shopping- 5 Stages Of Grief
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year…” Let me tell you- whoever said that clearly never tried to decorate a house for Christmas with six overeager kids and a throbbing post-Thanksgiving hangover. So the holiday season is in full swing, and I’m not feeling it. I love the spiritual meaning of Christmas, but I’m often too bogged down with the buying/decorating/hosting aspects to dwell long enough on the real purpose. My holiday shopping experience comes in stages: 1. Denial This starts the day after Thanksgiving, known as the dreaded “Black Friday”– a time for savvy (beastly) shoppers to score fantastic deals on their gift purchases. I never shop on…
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National Siblings Day
If you’re a regular social media user (and let’s face it, you probably wouldn’t have landed here if you aren’t), then chances are you heard at some point that today is National Siblings Day! Umm…. huh? Before I get to my point, let me first say that I am a firm skeptic of these “so called” special days. In fact, I’m a little confused as to how they suddenly appeared, most likely via social media. Call me ignorant, but was Sibling Day always a “thing”? When did this become a thing? Oh, I’m in the know now, however. It seems like every other day on Twitter, people are hash-tagging “National…
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Go Green
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, if you’re Irish, or you like Ireland, or like drinking, or like corned beef, or like…. green, I guess? As someone who has a rather muddled ethnic heritage, I was always lukewarm about St. Paddy’s Day. While I appreciate the idea of pride in one’s cultural identity, I always felt like this holiday didn’t “fit” me somehow. While I do have some Irish blood, I also have plenty of Italian blood, and some German, and some… I don’t know. Some sliver of something else. Growing up, I’d wear green, & that would be the extent of my “celebrating”. My mentality was more like: Fast-forward to…
