Fourteen Ways To Pretend It's Not The Holidays

Stay super busy with school and work up until the last possible minute.

Go back to counselling.

Don't make your famous candycane hot chocolate every day like you used to.

Be single again.

Get sick.

Don't make a gingerbread house.

Carry bitterness and anger in your pockets as opposed to candycanes to hand out to random people.

Don't send any Christmas cards.

Contemplate not going to see The Nutcracker like you have every year for the last four years.

Mourn a death, be very emotional, and cry a lot.

Don't buy gifts for anyone.

Go back to work as soon as necessary (i.e.: right after Christmas).

Think about how your family has been torn apart since the road trip that was supposed to bring everyone closer together.

Not host a Christmas dinner party like you have every year for the past nine years. There will be no relatives, no noise, no food, no presents, no music, no turkey, no sangria, no happiness.
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