soopastryheart

This time of year, I find myself gushing over the most inane things, like ornaments of fat penguins wearing mittens or candy cane cookie recipes. I go into stores just to look at their holiday decorations. I spend an embarrassing amount of time looking at Christmas cards. A gingerbread scented candle? You bet your ass I’m going to stop and smell that shit.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am one of those people. I am a Christmas sucker.

And I’m finding myself clinging on to festive clichés even more this year, as I won’t be home for Christmas (where’s your holiday generosity, airlines??). So to combat the fact that I’m just a tiny bit devastated, I’m drowning my sorrows with an abnormal amount of hot chocolate and holiday baking.

So here’s to cranking up that Michael Buble holiday station on Pandora, avoiding road rage in parking lots, and spreading some holiday cheer in the final week. Also…

…Loving gold and bronze color schemes. If I had it my way, I’d have a tree in every corner of my apartment, all decorated in different motifs.

…U-Village in the evening offers so many more perks than the daytime, such as these lights, as well as avoiding the shitshow that is the parking lot dance.

…Hosting a gingerbread house building sugar fest (where I built my very first gingerbread home). By the way, the “fun” quickly runs out when your hands are sticky with frosting and your head is throbbing from the sugar high.