Wishful thinking at its best.

Oh! It's definitely listening.

I can so relate!

I do this. It always seems arrogant to stop a party just so everyone can say goodbye to you. Pocket a cheese ball and slither out.

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

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"

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Perfectly reasonable

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.

In the south, it's a burning smell from the dust when you turn on the heat for the first time that year.

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

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