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"Gossip Girl" Drinking Game

Gossip Girl is a teen drama about socialites on the Upper East Side. I received the DVD of the first season for Christmas and we have been watching a few episodes each night.

On New Year's Eve, we turned it into a drinking game. The games works best if you watch several episodes at once.

Gossip Girl Drinking Game Rules

• A character looks at or uses a cell phone (one drink per scene)
• Vanessa appears out of nowhere
• A parent asks their child to lie on their behalf
• Someone uses clothing or jewelery to pay another person off
• PDA outside the home
• Talking to "the help"
• Chuck has sex with anyone
• An Ivy league school is named
• The Humphrey's have waffles
• A buffet is served
• Scene with a love triangle

Nice Girls Don't Get Rich

I'm reading Nice Girls Don't Get Rich by Lois Frankel.

Today, I'm loving her assertion that when you volunteer, you're really putting something off that you're supposed to be doing for yourself.

Christmas 2008

You can dream of a white Christmas or being home for the holidays, but you can't have both.

Welcome to Seattle, the city that has only 14 snow plows.

Everyone is still abuzz with "where were you when the snow hit? What's your story?"

At my house, events that I had been looking forward to for months and weeks were cancelled, including my own ornament exchange which I was co-hosting with Lauren.

My Paper Whites bloomed on Christmas Eve, so exciting!

It's our driveway, obviously.

B, D and Emelyn tracking Santa's exact location during Christmas Eve on the Internet

On Christmas Eve it was clear that my dad and his wife weren't going to make it for Christmas. I pouted, but when we woke up to an additional 4 inches of snow on top of our existing two feet, I decided that it was okay not to spend our day digging each other's cars out of snow drifts.

Christmas was quiet and simple. We had Brody and Emelyn here and that's it. We slept in, I made eggs Benedict (with great success, I might add) and we opened the presents under our tree. Most of them were for Dahlia and she opened everything until she was tired.

Unwrapping Gifts

Muppet keeps Brody warm.

The calm after the storm.

We were all tired. B and I put D down for her nap at noon and then we all returned to our respective rooms and took two hour naps! After we woke up, we prepared for dinner by chopping tomatoes, lettuce, cheese and pickles. We all got our snow clothes on and played in our fluffy, frosty wonderland while B made amazing hamburgers on the BBQ.

We drank beer, ate chips and sat in the snow, as our patio furniture was unmovable.

It was non-traditional and I loved it.

Emelyn and I made a snowman.

Playing in the snow without a sled. The laundry basket works.

We couldn't not leave the house to get coffee every day. What an adventure!

Since 12/25, we have been catching up with family and I still need to celebrate Christmas with my mom. Spaced out Christmas is fun too.

Tomorrow, Emelyn leaves and Christmas will be over. I've already started rocking T.C., as is my New Year Resolution. I have offered to remove Christmas trees for my neighbors free of charge. I'm still trying to get my name out there and get more clients.