The holiday season and I have a love/hate relationship. I love going to parties and indulging in eggnog, yet I hate the way my jeans seem to have shrunk in the thighs by New Year’s Day. I love exchanging gifts, yet I hate shoving my way through crowds at the mall. I love holiday traditions, but I HATE Christmas music. To further enlighten you as to my opinions on everything this holiday season, I’ve made a list. Not that anyone asked for my opinon, but hey, everyone deserves to make a Christmas list!

ALLIE’S LIKES
-seasonal Starbucks drinks. I know we’ve touched on this already in previous posts, but I just can’t let this post go without mentioning the pure amazingness that is the peppermint white chocolate mocha (not for the weak or calorie-counting.)
-Skullcandy earbuds. My Apple-manufactured earbuds broke just before my birthday, and after being given this brand as a replacement, I’ll never go back. They’re compact, comfortable, and effectively block out all noise that isn’t coming our of your iPod. The result? Adam Lazzara and I can have an intimate music session, without the sound of my neighbor’s snowplow in the background.
-tree goats! (see picture) Apparently in Morocco there are goats that will climb a particular tree for its fruit. But I like to pretend that they do it simply for kicks. AND I WANT ONE!
-snow days:) really, who doesn’t love a day off? this past Monday, I used a snow day to take a break from all the holiday-season stress and indulge in a bubble bath. ahhmazing…
-the guys who tie your christmas tree on top of your car. I have no idea why, but these boys are pretty consistently gorgeous. I will personally pay twenty bucks to the first girl who gets up the nerve to ask one of these guys to swing by later on and help with the decorating!

ALLIE’S DISLIKES
-holiday traffic. I hate feeling like I’m fighting for my right to drive over 20 mph on every road that might even be remotely connected to a shopping center. Why, exactly, must everyone stop to look at an inflatable candy cane and therefore create a traffic jam five miles back?
-snow. *gasp* Yes, blasphemous as it sounds for a Northeasterner to say, I hate snow. It’s freezing, it gets dirty pretty damn quick, and it makes it near impossible to drive on the rural roads by my house.
-eggnog lattes. Actually, these are delicious, but I detest making them for people at my job- eggnog is a very difficult substance to steam!
-those commercials for Jared Galleria jewelry. You know, the ones where some enamored twenty-something woman gasps at a diamond necklace and gushes, “He went to Jared!!” Wow, good for him. Too bad no one suggested a trip to the “I can have self-confidence without a material reminder of a man’s affection for me” store…but seriously, all bitterness aside, those ads just get really irritating when they’re on every prime-time commercial break.
-holiday music. It has to be said again, I can’t stand holiday music. It’s the same dozen songs every single year, played on repeat on every single radio station! To quote Will Ferrell’s character Mugatu from Zoolander, “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!”

But anywho…happy holidays everyone!!!