…was here…
(Don’t worry mom and dad, this is in the hallway window. My home is nice and toasty inside!)
Welcome, December! Your first day sure was a brisk one. The elmer fudd hat will be out in no time. I even dug out my “real” winter jacket. (In Minnesota, we have our “kidding ourselves” winter jackets, nice peacoats and cute little things, and then we eventually succumb to the cold and bring out the “real” winter jacket. Am I right?)
In honor of this month, I am going to go full speed ahead holiday cheer. We’re talking embracing the bad with the good, and distracting ourselves from the frostbite, shoveling, shopping rage, and general driving CHAOS that is winter. One whole month of festivities! Who’s with me?
I love holidays: Christmas, 4th of July, my birthday, Dia de los muertos, Halloween, other peoples’ birthdays, saturdays, days that end in y where I invent a holiday…
after all, who doesn’t like to party? So cheers everyone. Let’s enjoy the season. Whether it be Kwanzaa, Christmas, New Year, Hannukah, Winter Solstice, your birthday (ahem), or just the wintery coziness, I’m here to bring ideas and cheer.
So the plan for Meri-Go-Round- a bit of a grab bag. I”ll also take requests. So far I have ideas including:
-favorite holiday treats
-holiday media rants- the good and the bad (miracle on 34th street, the nutcracker, mariah carey’s influence on christmas music, the Christmas story, Blue Christmas, Elf, Peef…)
-alternative and creative shopping ideas for when you would rather put a fork in your eye than go to the Mall of America on your Sunday off
-the roots of some Christmas traditions
-coping strategies for the holiday season (not to be confused with “simply drinking all of the christmas wine”
and more!
For tonight, I’ll leave you with this:
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| In particular, the gingerbread spice is very nice |
Go buy this tea now, if you can find it. The gingerbread tea in particular is delicious. I drink it, actually, every single night lately, with a two-pack of biscoff cookies. It is a ridiculous combination. Really helps with the blogging (since I clearly am not motivated to do this every day for other narcissistic reasons). These teas, remembered from last holiday season, are the only tea that interrupt my increasingly troubling Good Earth tea habit. And they continue to be enjoyable through the whole cold winter. Even my fair-weather-tea-drinking parents were impressed by the Gingerbread variety.
You are welcome.
In other beverage news, this holiday season I WILL continue to imbibe the similarly limited time only cranberry sierra mist. I will NOT repeat the “candycane martinis” (vodka with a candy cane? is that what they were?) of a few birthdays past. Now it is in writing, so its set in stone.
Cheers!
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