Give me a break. I struggled to stay positive and upbeat during the holidays, despite the fact that 2018 was a spectacularly bad year for me and I just wanted to hide under the covers until it was over. I did my Christmas shopping, made the obligated family rounds, and emotionally ate chocolate the entire time. I watched most of my old Christmas favorites, A Christmas Carol , National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation , and It’s A Wonderful Life. Now Christmas is over, New Year’s is upon us, and I’m celebrating my version of Festivus, my style. Now without further ado, here is my list of the people I’d like to do without next Christmas: 1. The Person Who Gets to the Head of A Very Long Line and is STILL Shopping I’m not talking, they’re grabbing impulse buys off the rack put there specifically for that purpose and tossing them on the belt. I’m talking, their husband or daughter (it’s always a woman, to be honest) is