How to survive Christmas (part two)
HOW TO SURVIVE CHRISTMAS DECORATION
Public lighting is less and less public and depends more on the will of neighborhood merchant associations. The box of Christmas decorations smells like the detergent drawer of the washing machine. The tinsel is one of the ugliest things less Monocle that can exist in the world. But remember the happiness of setting up the Nativity scene and bringing the Kings closer to the portal every day and think for a moment about how depressing the holidays would be without the scenery , and how cool it is that everyone agrees to hang papanoels from their balconies (more and more pochos), bright colored lights from their windows, and impossible color combinations in the shape of heather or stars on their doors. The secret to avoiding oversaturation it is that the tree and the decorations are less than a month in your home and withdraw them the same day January 7, without waiting any longer.
HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE DAY OF THE FOOLS
There is no way to prepare for this because it is barely celebrated beyond some supposedly funny news in the newspaper and the periodic reappearance of the preparation of Showgirls 2 . I wish someone would hang a paper doll on our coat, as if we were in a Bruguera comic.
Not even Moe resists Christmas decorations
HOW TO PREPARE FOR TELEVISION SCHEDULE
Those of us who love TV are in luck : Christmas is the season of fat cows, light-years ahead of the other big date on the calendar, summer, when the TV sinks into inhospitable pits of nothing . Yes, the series rest and are interrupted (not without first leaving us a handful of Christmas episodes of those that are later used to write lists), but in return Spanish television offers us a good handful of horrendous and addictive movies like Help, it's Christmas , Disney classics (if you can't enjoy masterpieces like Mary Poppins either The little Mermaid you're dead inside and nothing can make Christmas enjoyable for you) and television galas with more or less supportive alibis in which to see Raphael singing 'El Tamborilero' or unusual duets by fangoria+whoever that are ideal to have as a background during the after-meal or to take a nap while the prawns are digested.
No one escapes the Christmas episodes of the series
HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE END OF THE YEAR
It's the craziest night of the year ; this time it comes back Ramon Garcia and your brother-in-law's jokes about his cape; the stores are filled with little black dresses and presumably glamorous looks; it's horrible to go out because everything is full of people, the alcohol sucks and everything is 30% more expensive than usual , but think of it this way: more depressing is staying at home recovering from an injury after run the San Silvestre.
HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE CHIMES
Spain is clear how: listening 'One more year' by Mecano on a loop throughout the night.
HOW TO PREPARE FOR YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
Skip all of them and limit yourself to making a mental list of the best things that have happened to you during the year just ended: the best dishes you were lucky enough to try, the trips you made -whether they were transatlantic or to the next town-, the improvised nights that became revels to remember, the best naps you've ever had … And if you don't want to do an introspection exercise because your year has been a bit depressing, think that despite everything every year is full of cool things for which it is worth continuing to live: focus on evoking the best books you've ever read , in that movie that freaked you out, that song that you listened to on loop from January to December, think of Ramón García… If you need inspiration to remember the cultural milestones of 2014, this year we are in luck because the lists of the worst of the year almost top the best lists.
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HOW TO PREPARE FOR TWELFTH NIGHT
Let's face it - kids can be a pain and the biggest enemies of a clean and tidy banquet table, but nights like Three Kings only acquire their true magic if someone is present . So if there are children in your family and environment, Arm yourself with courage to go to the parade of Kings like someone who goes to the crusades, brandishing an umbrella and with well-oiled elbows ready to make a place for himself in the crowd whoever falls.
And if you have had to go through all kinds of commercial surfaces until exhaustion in search of the Elsa doll of Frozen , think that You will enjoy the moment of opening the gifts as much as they do. . Well almost. And remember in general that so beautiful and wise thing that Juanjo Sáez said.
HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE END OF CHRISTMAS
If you are one of those who would like to live in a perpetual Christmas and you experience something similar to the worst of hangovers when you see that the Christmas lights are removed and you refuse to remove the tree until March, think that you won't have to wait a whole year for his return because probably in October you will start to see the first signs of his return.
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