How to do Winter Break

  • Forget to set alarm every night, sleep until headache/sweatiness/hungry cat interferes with sleeping
  • Wait until a respectable hour (at least noon) to eat lunch, never stop eating after that
  • Spend hours searching for “important literary works I’ve been meaning to read” to add to new Kindle, end up reading about 20 pages of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Stop reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and go to the movie instead
  • Shower at 5pm (if at all)
  • Change out of pajamas
  • Put on some other pajamas
  • Leave house ONLY IF supplies of LaCroix, crunchy snacks, or cat food reach dangerously low levels
  • Make a passionate vow to start “extreme coupon-ing,” scour the internet for coupons, print them, and never cut them out
  • Become convinced apartment is haunted
  • Think very seriously about exercising
  • Unplug treadmill to make room for new electric blanket
  • Watch the entire first season of Downton Abbey in 3 days
  • Make lists