Wishful thinking at its best.

Oh! It's definitely listening.

I can so relate!

i need someone cleverer than me to make a "strawman argument" joke....

"I was going until you started telling everyone that, I was the one driving the house, I wrote a note saying, meet me at the beginning of the yellow brick road and I stole a very expensive pair of ruby slippers"

This and that ugly punch bowl, were the two items she was planning to re-gifting to relatives she disliked

"and it has me concerned, because most of that Hope should of gone away, by the time you reached your early thirties"

"My forty two followers will not be happy with this" CinDAfluencer screamed at her Fairy Godmother

Commercialism has something to do with the holidays running together, but I think abandoning the liturgical calendar also has something to do with it. If you have two or three fasting days or feasting days every week, you don't have to fill your calendar with the scant few observations you have left. Eastern Orthodox readers - please chime in to confirm!

I am not a trustworthy cook (everything is either perfect and delicious...or simply horrid). So I'll volunteer to bring drinks or silverware/plates/napkins, table decorations, etc. Something I can't screw up that still lets me share the load.

They never had a cup either. They used to drink out of a rolled up newspaper. 😭

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