Christmas Caper

I did this for thanksgiving too, and I rather enjoyed it so here is my holiday list of what is great and not so great about Jesus's Birthday

Pro's

1. Cookies!
2. Holiday Specials!
3. Snow!
4. Christmas Trees!
5. Decorations!
6. Secret Santa's! (the receiving end)
7. the Anticipation
8. Starbucks Seasonal Flavours!
9. Presents! duh...
10. Family!
11. Your still off school for a week!
12. Warm Fuzziness

Cons

1. Obesity
2. Holiday Specials (Rudolph has the worst lesson ever)
3. When it doesn't snow and your "white Christmas" is ruined
4. Fighting over a Christmas Tree, when your younger sibling wins
5. Cleaning up ALL the decorations
6. Fixing faulty lights on the house/tree
7. Secret Santa's, struggling to buy something for someone you don't know too well
8. The sadness after you've opened your presents
9. The increased sadness on the 26th
10. Pretending to like that sweater your grandma got you, being awkwardly enthusiastic
11. TOO MUCH FAMILY
12. School starts again in a week

Call me a Grinch, but I still love the holidays, the pro's are once again greater and more powerful than the cons. After all, 'Tis the Season to be Jolly

Back again...10 pounds heavier

After a much needed, and deserved break from my daily blogging, I'm back to highlight a few things about Thanksgiving that we are are hopefully familiar with. We all know that family bonding comes with the holiday, but what are the pros and cons of this most sacred of eating days?
Pro's:

1. Seeing cousins, catching up
2. Good food
3. Getting off school for a max. of 5 days
4. Sleeping in, staying up late NOT doing homework
5. College kids come home!
6. Movies are on all the time (Back to the Future, for ex.)
7. For some, Black Friday discounts
8. being THAT much closer to Christmas (less than a month now!)

Cons:

1. The drunk and disorderly aunts and uncles
2. Having to clean your ENTIRE HOUSE for your guests
3. Eating too much food and feeling physically ill for days afterward
4. Having crippling amounts of homework you save till Sunday night
5. Relatives talking politics, economics, and (gulp) your future. All the while managing to say something offensive or racist
6. Cleaning up the thousands of plates after the meal
7. Still being a month away from Christmas
8. Exams are right around the corner...

So as you can see, the scales are realtively balanced, with enough good and bad going around to tide you over until Christmas. Given, this is a slightly bias perspective based on my own crazy family but hey, I assume we're all relatively similar in our grievances right? If not, leave a comment and say what you love or hate about the day of thanks.