December 5, 2024 • 20 mins
Holiday chaos is here, and we’re diving in. While some are sipping pumpkin spice, my house is already blasting Christmas music and the kids’ wish lists are growing by the day. Black Friday crowds? A thing of the past. Now it’s all about online shopping and bonding with my delivery driver.
On this episode of No Wine Left Behind, we’re talking holiday shopping trends, the stress of staying on budget, and how to keep the festive spirit alive. Don’t miss it—let’s tackle the madness together.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the no Wine Left Behind podcast, where
we truly leave no wine behind.
I'm Alex and I'm Celia.
We are here in the studiotogether, sharing ups and downs,
frustrations and funny momentsof our daily adventures.
So grab your favorite glass,join us as we raise our voices
Together.
We'll dive into the drama oflife as we see it.
(00:20):
Can you believe it?
Believe what it's fuckingDecember?
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
Can you believe it?
Believe what it's fuckingdecember?
How is it december?
It's coming.
Time just goes, time waits forno one.
(00:40):
What you feel me is happening.
Yeah, I feel like there's alwaysa point in the year where
you're like, oh god, the year isdragging, like, oh, it's june
or whatever the fuck.
You're having this feeling.
But the next thing, you know, Ifeel only like that in the
winter.
I don't feel like that anyother time of year.
No, yeah, I, because I likespring, I like summer, I love
(01:01):
summer fall, but, excuse me, I'mdrinking ginger ale.
A little hangover, harriet,over here.
Hangover, harriet, I mean, itwas even better hangover ho, but
(01:22):
you're my elder and I respectyou.
So, harriet, it is.
So, yeah, big Christmas iscoming.
There's Christmas music.
Ever Christmas music has beenplaying since, I'm going to say
early November, maybe even weekof Halloween, I believe, I heard
(01:47):
Christmas music.
I definitely saw Christmasmovies in October playing
already on TV and yeah, now herewe are a couple of weeks away
from the big day.
Away from the big day thattakes me forever to prepare for,
(02:11):
because I have a lot ofshopping.
Last year was crazy, oh, yeah,last year.
That's my life, that's no, Iknow, but I feel like last year
was like really crazy.
Wow, I don't know.
Maybe it's because, like thekids, so they like added on a
little extra fucking shit.
But last year was crazy, oh,because you helped with the
(02:32):
wrapping last year, yes, so yougot to see what it's like.
Yes, that's every year.
That's awful, that's not one.
I wish that on.
No one.
That's like this is exactly whyI'm not having any more kids.
Yeah, it's bad, fuck that.
Yeah, it's Christmas here islike insane.
Um, I try to buy a littlesomething for everyone, yeah,
(02:53):
and sometimes I get away frommyself and buy a little bit more
than I wanted to or expected to, um, but then I end up like,
like started christmas shopping,um, early november, bought a
little few things here and there, and that's what fucks me up,
because, like now, fast forwardthree weeks, four weeks, and I
(03:17):
can't remember the shit I boughta month ago.
I was just going to ask you howdo you keep track of what you
buy and who you buy it for?
So I'm a little mental case,okay, I have my mental notes,
okay, which I can't rely onbecause my mind is fucking trash
.
Yeah, um, I have notes in myphone, okay, and I have paper
(03:38):
notes, so.
So I'm like juggling backbetween what I was thinking,
what I should have wrote down,what I didn't write down, what's
in my phone, what's on thepaper, and I just kind of just
jump around everything.
And what I have to do, too, is Ihave the kids send me notes of
just ideas and things that theywould like and I tell them you
(04:01):
can put a hundred things on thatlist.
You're probably only gettingfive.
I'm not doing crazy.
So I just need ideas, becauseI'm at a point where I don't
want to have to walk around astore and stress and wonder
would they like this?
Size isn't?
I don't want to do that anymore.
Right, walk around a store andstress and wonder will they like
(04:23):
this?
Yeah, size isn't, I don't wantto do that anymore, right?
So I literally said listen, Ineed you all to just send me
ideas, even if it's stores, youlike things, you like things,
you might need things, you mightneed to be replaced, whatever.
And I'll just kind of go off ofthat.
Make my life easy, yeah, um,and then so they'll send me the
note.
Kind of go off of that, make mylife easy, yeah, and then so
they'll send me the note.
(04:43):
Then I have to copy and pastethe note onto another note.
Yeah, so that they don't seeyour edits, right, because they
see me fucking checking off shitand erasing shit and they think
they're so funny because theycan see it.
I've done that before, like Ididn't know that until last year
and I'm like these sneakymotherfuckers.
So now I have to do that.
But I cut it off Like after.
(05:06):
Like once you send me the note,you're not adding it, you're
not going to add shit.
Now, like, make sure, when yousend me that note, it's, it is
what it is, cause once I copyand paste it, I'm not going back
to see what you added.
Fuck that.
Like birthdays are coming rightafter the holidays.
We'll have to save it for thattime.
(05:27):
Yeah, but I try to keep it fair.
I try to spend the same amountof money on each person, um,
like, separate from the niecesand nephews and the kids, like,
I try to spend the same money.
I try to spend the same money.
I try to spend the same moneyon my kids, like, I try to make
them all equal, but sometimesyou can't because some stuff is
more expensive, of course.
So I tell them like, it doesn'tlook like you have a lot, but
(05:48):
the value of what you have ishigh, correct, yes, and then,
like for, like the extendedfamily, I try to keep it equal
and give everybody, like, evenif it's a gift card, if you're
getting a gift card for 50 andthey're getting three gifts, it
was probably a 50 value.
So I try to keep that all equal.
Yeah, but it's a lot, and we dosecret santa, which is so fun.
(06:11):
We do that and that helpsbecause then everyone's not
having to worry about buyinggifts.
I'm the only fucking assholethat has to worry about buying
all the gifts.
Um, so, yeah, but it's, it's alot of work and that's why I
start early, but I do end upforgetting, like, like, by now
(06:31):
there's stuff that causesometimes I'll buy stuff and I
won't write it down.
And that's another thing.
Like every time I buy something, I'll either check it off a
note or I'll write it on aseparate note to make sure, like
, all right, you know, courtney,something that wasn't on her
list, that I thought was cute orwhatever, and sometimes I
forget to write stuff.
Last year I think I bought thesame thing like four times
(06:52):
because I forgot I had it.
Yeah, I had like multiple ofone item.
I like, oh, wow, that wasfucking stupid.
After the second time you thinkI would have been like I got
this already, you already havethis.
And I'm like, oh, this looksfamiliar because you got four of
them in the closet.
Um, yeah, and I just make piles,like everyone will have their
piles, yeah.
And then I recruit to rap, likeyou were part of it last year.
(07:15):
Usually I'll have bianca rap orcourtney rap you joined us last
year and how funny, it's just afucking shit show.
It's crazy, it's a lot, it's somuch, yeah.
And then, like I'm the type whoI make sure everyone has that
christmas chair and believe insanta.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
(07:36):
Like you gotta believe you getno gifts.
I don't put any gifts under mytree until christmas eve every
year.
So the only gifts that go undermy tree are the gifts that I'm
giving to my friends becausethey come over, for I have a
christmas eve party every year,yeah, and whoever's coming over,
I always make sure I have agift for everyone that walks
(07:56):
through the door, even if it's afucking candle.
Yeah, um, I buy.
I literally buy like 50 worthof extra things and keep them
tucked away in case someoneshows up that I forgot about.
Or they hand me something.
Um, so, tricks of the trade,yep, yep, not all my secrets.
(08:18):
Um, what else?
Yeah, I just, oh.
So then, like, we have ourchristmas party every year, um,
and then, once everybody leaves,we clean up to get ready for
christmas dinner, because that'slike a whole nother thing, yep,
and we just make 20 trips backand forth to the tree making
(08:38):
piles fill in stockings, becauseI do stockings.
I have 11 stockings, I think,hanging from my mantle right now
.
I don't even understand howthey fit anymore.
They do.
Have you seen them?
No, oh, my god, wait till yousee, it's so pretty.
So I have all the stockings.
I think there's 11.
Sounds, sounds about right.
Yeah, and it looks so nice, sofunny, so then I'll take them
(09:01):
all down, hang them.
Everybody's will have a pileupstairs and their stocking will
be in front.
That's what we do.
So crazy, it's a lot of work.
So crazy, yeah, yeah, so, butit's fun, it's nice.
That's one way to say it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so, but it'sfun, it's nice.
That's one way to say it.
Yeah, I do a lot of onlineshopping now, so it's not as bad
as it was.
I remember years ago I would.
(09:22):
Every Black Friday I was out atfour o'clock in the morning.
It's not the same anymore.
Ugh, I would never do that,right.
If anybody said to me for allof it, I might right, but other
than that, yeah, you will nevercatch me out there.
(09:43):
No, on black friday I go online.
I do cyber monday, black friday, online.
Yes, if there's somethingreally wild and crazy that I
feel like I need to go, I'll goout and look for that.
One thing yeah, but blackfriday is wild.
It's wild, and the deals aren'tthe same anymore.
No, the things start going onsale weeks in advance like black
(10:03):
friday, isn't like?
You don't hold out?
I got an email today pre black,pre black friday.
So I'm like three, it's.
I'm like three, are you fuckingkidding me right now?
Like that's so funny.
Or post, or whatever it said,like, yeah, I don't know what
the fuck it said, but I'm likeblack friday.
Everything and everything'sblack friday.
From from before thanksgivingtill the day before christmas
(10:26):
it's black friday, or whatever,I don't know.
There's always these fuckingdeals, always constant, constant
.
You know.
So there's just no need to doit anymore.
No, no, no, no, no.
And I have, I have a grandchild,so you think I'd want to go out
and get all the fun, cute, yeah, baby stuff for him, like I
used to do for my kids.
(10:46):
Oh, no, I won't, I won't do it.
I'll buy, I'll pay full price.
I'm not gonna go through that.
Yeah, the lines, right, thetraffic, the crazy people like I
don't even have the patiencefor someone to fight with me
over a fucking lego.
Yeah, like even a parking spotbefore you get into the store.
Yeah, fight with me over thisparking lot and guarantee I win,
(11:09):
like guarantee my car's goingin that spot.
Just, yeah, so crazy.
Yeah, it's just not worth it.
I would much rather shop at hometoo, and then you'd know, like
you're guaranteed to get whatyou want, because, heaven forbid
, you go through all that shit,the traffic, the parking,
getting into the store lookingfor what you need and then they
don't even have it.
(11:29):
Right, yeah, sold out, like yousee a big empty box, what used
to be there.
No, that was me.
Last year I went into so manystores.
I left the mall one bag, twobags.
Yeah, didn't get half the shitI intended to buy, right, and
ended up just shopping online.
Yeah, yeah, the fuck,everything was online now.
Yeah, yeah, and it's the samedeals.
It's, it's fine.
So that's what I do.
(11:51):
I do most of it online.
So I'll you know, I'm makingpackages, one after another,
after another, after anotherafter another, and like fucking
gary calls me, he's like I ain'tgot no package.
Well, it's fucking christmastime.
Hello, I'm holiday shopping.
What do you expect?
Like, why do you call me everysingle time I get a package?
Why?
Why just bring it in?
(12:12):
That's it.
Like I know I got a package.
I get to know what I want on myphone.
Trust me, I know it's there.
I didn't need that added layerof fucking.
You know what I mean.
Like, I need a fucking break.
I should, I should stop saying,hey, I got a package today,
(12:34):
just say no, like beat him tothe punch.
Oh, my gosh, this is so funny.
You still have the same fedexguy.
Remember the fedex guy you usedto have?
That was I don't know because I?
Yeah, I don't know because I'mnot really here when I get
delivered anymore, but like,yeah, when I had my daycare,
(12:56):
like he would drive by and justbeep every single time he
wouldn't even stop, like he wasjust driving by to go up the
hill or down the hill and he'dbe like I'm in the neighborhood,
hon.
And then I remember when Imoved closer, he was I must've
been on his route too and Iwould see him and I'd be like
whoa, that's the one that goesto my aunt's house.
(13:18):
Yes, so weird.
Yes, yeah, I don't know, Ihaven't been here.
That guy was for a delivery, soI'm not sure if it's the same
guy.
That was UPS guy.
Oh, ups guy's a different guy,but I had the same fetish guy
for a long time.
Yeah, so, but I don't know ifit's the same one.
You're so right, yeah, he was anice guy, but yeah, he would
(13:39):
just beep, like just, he justrandomly drives by as he's going
by the house and gary'd be like, oh, your boyfriend, like guy
you're, you couldn't mess it upso people's fucking homes.
Like boyfriend guy just drovelike oh, okay, didn't have
(14:02):
anything, but he said hi,anyways, yeah, like what is
wrong with you?
I wonder if he ever got likereported or something like there
had to be someone that was notokay with his behavior.
Yeah, yeah, I thought it washilarious and I'd be outside.
I'd be like oh, hi, I can't.
(14:22):
When he was out there with mehe'd be like, seriously, I'm
like what do you want to tellhim?
Don't beep when you go by.
He's being friendly.
Who cares?
So bad, you know, so bad.
People are fucking weird.
So do you think the menendezbrothers will be out before, um,
christmas?
They have a hearing coming up.
I don't know, I don't know.
(14:43):
Yeah, I don't know, because itwas supposed to be yeah, I mean,
um, yeah, I don't know.
I think they might, but I don'tknow.
I don't know either.
I think Gascon not beingreelected, that must have got
hit by a car and he was sittingon the side of the road, but
there was a car on the otherside of the road that was pulled
(15:05):
way over.
And then there was a lady infront of the kid in a wheelchair
.
So, as we're driving by, I go,oh, maybe she hit him a
wheelchair.
So as we're driving by, I go,oh, maybe she hit him.
Aggie goes, mom, be.
So for real, what are youtrying to say?
She hit him in the wheelchair.
She's just like he was.
She was just rolling down thestreet and she hit him.
No, I meant she was probablythe one that hit him.
(15:31):
Like there was a car on theother side of the road that she
could have got out of the carand went over to check on him.
I go, people in wheelchairsdrive too.
You know, she was like whatever, she wasn't even having it Like
.
She was like you're fuckingdumb, what do you mean?
That's a snifter, Okay, Iwonder why that didn't come up.
(15:53):
So, yeah, she was like be forreal.
Oh well, was he driving hisbike down there?
She just happened to drive intohim with her wheelchair.
I'm like no, I have been toldthis before and I didn't notice
it until someone said this to me, but the amount of people in
our city that are in wheelchairsis fucking weird, like
(16:14):
astronomically high, like ifyou're downtown or in the
outskirts of downtown.
But not only are they inwheelchairs, so many people,
those fucking electric oneswhere they're just like they
keep up with the cars, they go,it's the fucking flight and
they're so aggressive, like youknow you're not in a real car.
(16:34):
Why are you so fucking mean andfast?
Some of them are like tiltedback and they're like Flying
through the city like illegally,because they're like all over
the fucking place and we gottalike be careful when we're
driving, that we don't like runinto them.
Oh my God, they're wild.
That's don't like run into them.
(16:56):
Oh my god, they're wild.
I can't believe how fast theygo.
Those like you know, whenpeople go have their cars
modified like that show on mtvfit my ride, my chair, I don't
(17:17):
know what they're going to do inthe winter.
So for Christmas this year, thefamily, we all decided to do
shirts.
So every year, you knowdifferent traditional things, we
do a new decided to do shirts.
So every year, you know, we dodifferent traditional things.
We do a new sweater.
We do something different everyyear.
This year we're doing shirts.
(17:39):
I love it Most likely twoshirts, so excited.
So that's going to be fun.
I have what?
20 shirts or so to make.
I lost count, so I have to kindof get on that soon, because
it's cutting it kind of closeright.
So, in the spirit of mostlikely to, we should do a real
quick game of would you ratherlove?
(18:00):
Let's do it all right, here wego.
Would you rather receive 20small presents or one big gift?
Oh, 20 small ones.
I just like to feel special.
If you give me me one gift, I'mgoing to be pissed.
I wouldn't want one gift, evenif it's like a car.
No, give me 20 small gifts.
I would want one gift, becauseif I get 20 small gifts it's
(18:23):
going to just be a bunch of shitthat I don't need, you don't?
Yeah, I know.
Would you rather have a visitfrom a ghost, from the ghost of
Christmas past or the ghost ofChristmas future?
Ooh, future, ting.
Yeah, I already know whathappened.
Now I'm going to fuck about it.
I don't want none of thefucking ghost haunting me from
(18:45):
the past.
Um, would you rather be home?
Would you rather be?
Oh, kevin from Home Alone orKate from the Christmas
Chronicles?
Kevin from Home Alone, I would.
He looked like he was fuckinghaving fun when his parents were
gone.
I know and I have to choose mywords carefully I would love to
(19:08):
be Home Alone.
Would you rather wrap a hundredpresents or write a hundred
cards?
Oh, write cards.
I'm not a good gift wrapper.
I would definitely one thousandpercent want to wrap on
presents.
I mean I would, but they'regonna look fucking janky.
(19:28):
No, I don't care, I'd ratherthan my handwriting's janky.
So I'd rather rather my giftwrapping be janky.
Would you rather have Rudolph'snose or the big green, or be
green like the Grinch?
Ooh, be green like the Grinch.
I'd rather be green like theGrinch, just go all out Like
just the red nose.
You want a little bit?
(19:48):
No, why?
Because that's weird To me.
That just sounds like a zit orsomething.
Fuck off, paint my green wholething.
You have to be green.
I had to tell green and guesswhat the celtics would love me?
I'll probably be their newmascot.
Good point, good point.
Um.
Would you rather drink, um, onlyhot chocolate or only eat
(20:08):
christmas cookies?
Oh, hot chocolate.
Christmas cookies are fuckinggross.
No, they're not.
They have like sugar cookiesand like gingerbread.
Oh my God.
So good?
Absolutely not.
Yeah, I would rather have theChristmas cookies.
All right, what for you?
I like Christmas cookies.
So, yeah, that's all I got.
Those are good ones.
(20:29):
And now I want hot cocoa Ew, oh, all right, I those are good
ones.
And now I want hot cocoa Ew, oh, all right, I want Christmas
cookies.
Fine, I'm going to get startedon them.
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Welcome to the no Wine Left Behind podcast, where
we truly leave no wine behind.
I'm Alex and I'm Celia.
We are here in the studiotogether, sharing ups and downs,
frustrations and funny momentsof our daily adventures.
So grab your favorite glass,join us as we raise our voices
Together.
We'll dive into the drama oflife as we see it.
(00:20):
Can you believe it?
Believe what it's fuckingDecember?
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
Can you believe it?
Believe what it's fuckingdecember?
How is it december?
It's coming.
Time just goes, time waits forno one.
(00:40):
What you feel me is happening.
Yeah, I feel like there's alwaysa point in the year where
you're like, oh god, the year isdragging, like, oh, it's june
or whatever the fuck.
You're having this feeling.
But the next thing, you know, Ifeel only like that in the
winter.
I don't feel like that anyother time of year.
No, yeah, I, because I likespring, I like summer, I love
(01:01):
summer fall, but, excuse me, I'mdrinking ginger ale.
A little hangover, harriet,over here.
Hangover, harriet, I mean, itwas even better hangover ho, but
(01:22):
you're my elder and I respectyou.
So, harriet, it is.
So, yeah, big Christmas iscoming.
There's Christmas music.
Ever Christmas music has beenplaying since, I'm going to say
early November, maybe even weekof Halloween, I believe, I heard
(01:47):
Christmas music.
I definitely saw Christmasmovies in October playing
already on TV and yeah, now herewe are a couple of weeks away
from the big day.
Away from the big day thattakes me forever to prepare for,
(02:11):
because I have a lot ofshopping.
Last year was crazy, oh, yeah,last year.
That's my life, that's no, Iknow, but I feel like last year
was like really crazy.
Wow, I don't know.
Maybe it's because, like thekids, so they like added on a
little extra fucking shit.
But last year was crazy, oh,because you helped with the
(02:32):
wrapping last year, yes, so yougot to see what it's like.
Yes, that's every year.
That's awful, that's not one.
I wish that on.
No one.
That's like this is exactly whyI'm not having any more kids.
Yeah, it's bad, fuck that.
Yeah, it's Christmas here islike insane.
Um, I try to buy a littlesomething for everyone, yeah,
(02:53):
and sometimes I get away frommyself and buy a little bit more
than I wanted to or expected to, um, but then I end up like,
like started christmas shopping,um, early november, bought a
little few things here and there, and that's what fucks me up,
because, like now, fast forwardthree weeks, four weeks, and I
(03:17):
can't remember the shit I boughta month ago.
I was just going to ask you howdo you keep track of what you
buy and who you buy it for?
So I'm a little mental case,okay, I have my mental notes,
okay, which I can't rely onbecause my mind is fucking trash
.
Yeah, um, I have notes in myphone, okay, and I have paper
(03:38):
notes, so.
So I'm like juggling backbetween what I was thinking,
what I should have wrote down,what I didn't write down, what's
in my phone, what's on thepaper, and I just kind of just
jump around everything.
And what I have to do, too, is Ihave the kids send me notes of
just ideas and things that theywould like and I tell them you
(04:01):
can put a hundred things on thatlist.
You're probably only gettingfive.
I'm not doing crazy.
So I just need ideas, becauseI'm at a point where I don't
want to have to walk around astore and stress and wonder
would they like this?
Size isn't?
I don't want to do that anymore.
Right, walk around a store andstress and wonder will they like
(04:23):
this?
Yeah, size isn't, I don't wantto do that anymore, right?
So I literally said listen, Ineed you all to just send me
ideas, even if it's stores, youlike things, you like things,
you might need things, you mightneed to be replaced, whatever.
And I'll just kind of go off ofthat.
Make my life easy, yeah, um,and then so they'll send me the
note.
Kind of go off of that, make mylife easy, yeah, and then so
they'll send me the note.
(04:43):
Then I have to copy and pastethe note onto another note.
Yeah, so that they don't seeyour edits, right, because they
see me fucking checking off shitand erasing shit and they think
they're so funny because theycan see it.
I've done that before, like Ididn't know that until last year
and I'm like these sneakymotherfuckers.
So now I have to do that.
But I cut it off Like after.
(05:06):
Like once you send me the note,you're not adding it, you're
not going to add shit.
Now, like, make sure, when yousend me that note, it's, it is
what it is, cause once I copyand paste it, I'm not going back
to see what you added.
Fuck that.
Like birthdays are coming rightafter the holidays.
We'll have to save it for thattime.
(05:27):
Yeah, but I try to keep it fair.
I try to spend the same amountof money on each person, um,
like, separate from the niecesand nephews and the kids, like,
I try to spend the same money.
I try to spend the same money.
I try to spend the same moneyon my kids, like, I try to make
them all equal, but sometimesyou can't because some stuff is
more expensive, of course.
So I tell them like, it doesn'tlook like you have a lot, but
(05:48):
the value of what you have ishigh, correct, yes, and then,
like for, like the extendedfamily, I try to keep it equal
and give everybody, like, evenif it's a gift card, if you're
getting a gift card for 50 andthey're getting three gifts, it
was probably a 50 value.
So I try to keep that all equal.
Yeah, but it's a lot, and we dosecret santa, which is so fun.
(06:11):
We do that and that helpsbecause then everyone's not
having to worry about buyinggifts.
I'm the only fucking assholethat has to worry about buying
all the gifts.
Um, so, yeah, but it's, it's alot of work and that's why I
start early, but I do end upforgetting, like, like, by now
(06:31):
there's stuff that causesometimes I'll buy stuff and I
won't write it down.
And that's another thing.
Like every time I buy something, I'll either check it off a
note or I'll write it on aseparate note to make sure, like
, all right, you know, courtney,something that wasn't on her
list, that I thought was cute orwhatever, and sometimes I
forget to write stuff.
Last year I think I bought thesame thing like four times
(06:52):
because I forgot I had it.
Yeah, I had like multiple ofone item.
I like, oh, wow, that wasfucking stupid.
After the second time you thinkI would have been like I got
this already, you already havethis.
And I'm like, oh, this looksfamiliar because you got four of
them in the closet.
Um, yeah, and I just make piles,like everyone will have their
piles, yeah.
And then I recruit to rap, likeyou were part of it last year.
(07:15):
Usually I'll have bianca rap orcourtney rap you joined us last
year and how funny, it's just afucking shit show.
It's crazy, it's a lot, it's somuch, yeah.
And then, like I'm the type whoI make sure everyone has that
christmas chair and believe insanta.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
(07:36):
Like you gotta believe you getno gifts.
I don't put any gifts under mytree until christmas eve every
year.
So the only gifts that go undermy tree are the gifts that I'm
giving to my friends becausethey come over, for I have a
christmas eve party every year,yeah, and whoever's coming over,
I always make sure I have agift for everyone that walks
(07:56):
through the door, even if it's afucking candle.
Yeah, um, I buy.
I literally buy like 50 worthof extra things and keep them
tucked away in case someoneshows up that I forgot about.
Or they hand me something.
Um, so, tricks of the trade,yep, yep, not all my secrets.
(08:18):
Um, what else?
Yeah, I just, oh.
So then, like, we have ourchristmas party every year, um,
and then, once everybody leaves,we clean up to get ready for
christmas dinner, because that'slike a whole nother thing, yep,
and we just make 20 trips backand forth to the tree making
(08:38):
piles fill in stockings, becauseI do stockings.
I have 11 stockings, I think,hanging from my mantle right now
.
I don't even understand howthey fit anymore.
They do.
Have you seen them?
No, oh, my god, wait till yousee, it's so pretty.
So I have all the stockings.
I think there's 11.
Sounds, sounds about right.
Yeah, and it looks so nice, sofunny, so then I'll take them
(09:01):
all down, hang them.
Everybody's will have a pileupstairs and their stocking will
be in front.
That's what we do.
So crazy, it's a lot of work.
So crazy, yeah, yeah, so, butit's fun, it's nice.
That's one way to say it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so, but it'sfun, it's nice.
That's one way to say it.
Yeah, I do a lot of onlineshopping now, so it's not as bad
as it was.
I remember years ago I would.
(09:22):
Every Black Friday I was out atfour o'clock in the morning.
It's not the same anymore.
Ugh, I would never do that,right.
If anybody said to me for allof it, I might right, but other
than that, yeah, you will nevercatch me out there.
(09:43):
No, on black friday I go online.
I do cyber monday, black friday, online.
Yes, if there's somethingreally wild and crazy that I
feel like I need to go, I'll goout and look for that.
One thing yeah, but blackfriday is wild.
It's wild, and the deals aren'tthe same anymore.
No, the things start going onsale weeks in advance like black
(10:03):
friday, isn't like?
You don't hold out?
I got an email today pre black,pre black friday.
So I'm like three, it's.
I'm like three, are you fuckingkidding me right now?
Like that's so funny.
Or post, or whatever it said,like, yeah, I don't know what
the fuck it said, but I'm likeblack friday.
Everything and everything'sblack friday.
From from before thanksgivingtill the day before christmas
(10:26):
it's black friday, or whatever,I don't know.
There's always these fuckingdeals, always constant, constant
.
You know.
So there's just no need to doit anymore.
No, no, no, no, no.
And I have, I have a grandchild,so you think I'd want to go out
and get all the fun, cute, yeah, baby stuff for him, like I
used to do for my kids.
(10:46):
Oh, no, I won't, I won't do it.
I'll buy, I'll pay full price.
I'm not gonna go through that.
Yeah, the lines, right, thetraffic, the crazy people like I
don't even have the patiencefor someone to fight with me
over a fucking lego.
Yeah, like even a parking spotbefore you get into the store.
Yeah, fight with me over thisparking lot and guarantee I win,
(11:09):
like guarantee my car's goingin that spot.
Just, yeah, so crazy.
Yeah, it's just not worth it.
I would much rather shop at hometoo, and then you'd know, like
you're guaranteed to get whatyou want, because, heaven forbid
, you go through all that shit,the traffic, the parking,
getting into the store lookingfor what you need and then they
don't even have it.
(11:29):
Right, yeah, sold out, like yousee a big empty box, what used
to be there.
No, that was me.
Last year I went into so manystores.
I left the mall one bag, twobags.
Yeah, didn't get half the shitI intended to buy, right, and
ended up just shopping online.
Yeah, yeah, the fuck,everything was online now.
Yeah, yeah, and it's the samedeals.
It's, it's fine.
So that's what I do.
(11:51):
I do most of it online.
So I'll you know, I'm makingpackages, one after another,
after another, after anotherafter another, and like fucking
gary calls me, he's like I ain'tgot no package.
Well, it's fucking christmastime.
Hello, I'm holiday shopping.
What do you expect?
Like, why do you call me everysingle time I get a package?
Why?
Why just bring it in?
(12:12):
That's it.
Like I know I got a package.
I get to know what I want on myphone.
Trust me, I know it's there.
I didn't need that added layerof fucking.
You know what I mean.
Like, I need a fucking break.
I should, I should stop saying,hey, I got a package today,
(12:34):
just say no, like beat him tothe punch.
Oh, my gosh, this is so funny.
You still have the same fedexguy.
Remember the fedex guy you usedto have?
That was I don't know because I?
Yeah, I don't know because I'mnot really here when I get
delivered anymore, but like,yeah, when I had my daycare,
(12:56):
like he would drive by and justbeep every single time he
wouldn't even stop, like he wasjust driving by to go up the
hill or down the hill and he'dbe like I'm in the neighborhood,
hon.
And then I remember when Imoved closer, he was I must've
been on his route too and Iwould see him and I'd be like
whoa, that's the one that goesto my aunt's house.
(13:18):
Yes, so weird.
Yes, yeah, I don't know, Ihaven't been here.
That guy was for a delivery, soI'm not sure if it's the same
guy.
That was UPS guy.
Oh, ups guy's a different guy,but I had the same fetish guy
for a long time.
Yeah, so, but I don't know ifit's the same one.
You're so right, yeah, he was anice guy, but yeah, he would
(13:39):
just beep, like just, he justrandomly drives by as he's going
by the house and gary'd be like, oh, your boyfriend, like guy
you're, you couldn't mess it upso people's fucking homes.
Like boyfriend guy just drovelike oh, okay, didn't have
(14:02):
anything, but he said hi,anyways, yeah, like what is
wrong with you?
I wonder if he ever got likereported or something like there
had to be someone that was notokay with his behavior.
Yeah, yeah, I thought it washilarious and I'd be outside.
I'd be like oh, hi, I can't.
(14:22):
When he was out there with mehe'd be like, seriously, I'm
like what do you want to tellhim?
Don't beep when you go by.
He's being friendly.
Who cares?
So bad, you know, so bad.
People are fucking weird.
So do you think the menendezbrothers will be out before, um,
christmas?
They have a hearing coming up.
I don't know, I don't know.
(14:43):
Yeah, I don't know, because itwas supposed to be yeah, I mean,
um, yeah, I don't know.
I think they might, but I don'tknow.
I don't know either.
I think Gascon not beingreelected, that must have got
hit by a car and he was sittingon the side of the road, but
there was a car on the otherside of the road that was pulled
(15:05):
way over.
And then there was a lady infront of the kid in a wheelchair
.
So, as we're driving by, I go,oh, maybe she hit him a
wheelchair.
So as we're driving by, I go,oh, maybe she hit him.
Aggie goes, mom, be.
So for real, what are youtrying to say?
She hit him in the wheelchair.
She's just like he was.
She was just rolling down thestreet and she hit him.
No, I meant she was probablythe one that hit him.
(15:31):
Like there was a car on theother side of the road that she
could have got out of the carand went over to check on him.
I go, people in wheelchairsdrive too.
You know, she was like whatever, she wasn't even having it Like
.
She was like you're fuckingdumb, what do you mean?
That's a snifter, Okay, Iwonder why that didn't come up.
(15:53):
So, yeah, she was like be forreal.
Oh well, was he driving hisbike down there?
She just happened to drive intohim with her wheelchair.
I'm like no, I have been toldthis before and I didn't notice
it until someone said this to me, but the amount of people in
our city that are in wheelchairsis fucking weird, like
(16:14):
astronomically high, like ifyou're downtown or in the
outskirts of downtown.
But not only are they inwheelchairs, so many people,
those fucking electric oneswhere they're just like they
keep up with the cars, they go,it's the fucking flight and
they're so aggressive, like youknow you're not in a real car.
(16:34):
Why are you so fucking mean andfast?
Some of them are like tiltedback and they're like Flying
through the city like illegally,because they're like all over
the fucking place and we gottalike be careful when we're
driving, that we don't like runinto them.
Oh my God, they're wild.
That's don't like run into them.
(16:56):
Oh my god, they're wild.
I can't believe how fast theygo.
Those like you know, whenpeople go have their cars
modified like that show on mtvfit my ride, my chair, I don't
(17:17):
know what they're going to do inthe winter.
So for Christmas this year, thefamily, we all decided to do
shirts.
So every year, you knowdifferent traditional things, we
do a new decided to do shirts.
So every year, you know, we dodifferent traditional things.
We do a new sweater.
We do something different everyyear.
This year we're doing shirts.
(17:39):
I love it Most likely twoshirts, so excited.
So that's going to be fun.
I have what?
20 shirts or so to make.
I lost count, so I have to kindof get on that soon, because
it's cutting it kind of closeright.
So, in the spirit of mostlikely to, we should do a real
quick game of would you ratherlove?
(18:00):
Let's do it all right, here wego.
Would you rather receive 20small presents or one big gift?
Oh, 20 small ones.
I just like to feel special.
If you give me me one gift, I'mgoing to be pissed.
I wouldn't want one gift, evenif it's like a car.
No, give me 20 small gifts.
I would want one gift, becauseif I get 20 small gifts it's
(18:23):
going to just be a bunch of shitthat I don't need, you don't?
Yeah, I know.
Would you rather have a visitfrom a ghost, from the ghost of
Christmas past or the ghost ofChristmas future?
Ooh, future, ting.
Yeah, I already know whathappened.
Now I'm going to fuck about it.
I don't want none of thefucking ghost haunting me from
(18:45):
the past.
Um, would you rather be home?
Would you rather be?
Oh, kevin from Home Alone orKate from the Christmas
Chronicles?
Kevin from Home Alone, I would.
He looked like he was fuckinghaving fun when his parents were
gone.
I know and I have to choose mywords carefully I would love to
(19:08):
be Home Alone.
Would you rather wrap a hundredpresents or write a hundred
cards?
Oh, write cards.
I'm not a good gift wrapper.
I would definitely one thousandpercent want to wrap on
presents.
I mean I would, but they'regonna look fucking janky.
(19:28):
No, I don't care, I'd ratherthan my handwriting's janky.
So I'd rather rather my giftwrapping be janky.
Would you rather have Rudolph'snose or the big green, or be
green like the Grinch?
Ooh, be green like the Grinch.
I'd rather be green like theGrinch, just go all out Like
just the red nose.
You want a little bit?
(19:48):
No, why?
Because that's weird To me.
That just sounds like a zit orsomething.
Fuck off, paint my green wholething.
You have to be green.
I had to tell green and guesswhat the celtics would love me?
I'll probably be their newmascot.
Good point, good point.
Um.
Would you rather drink, um, onlyhot chocolate or only eat
(20:08):
christmas cookies?
Oh, hot chocolate.
Christmas cookies are fuckinggross.
No, they're not.
They have like sugar cookiesand like gingerbread.
Oh my God.
So good?
Absolutely not.
Yeah, I would rather have theChristmas cookies.
All right, what for you?
I like Christmas cookies.
So, yeah, that's all I got.
Those are good ones.
(20:29):
And now I want hot cocoa Ew, oh, all right, I those are good
ones.
And now I want hot cocoa Ew, oh, all right, I want Christmas
cookies.
Fine, I'm going to get startedon them.
Shirts.
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