5-MINUTE FRIDAY: So, I Decided to Spend Christmas Alone
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This week, I made the final call that I'd be spending Christmas alone cozied up here in New York City. Growing up in a multidenominational household, Christmas Eve has always been one of my favorite days of the year. But in 2020, we've all come to learn some difficult lessons. One I'm leaning into: it's important to not waste energy on the things we cannot control. I am consciously choosing the safe, more sane option (especially because COVID). For 5-MINUTE FRIDAY, I'm chatting about how the "right" choice still feels a little selfish.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:02.1 | Emily Abadi here, bringing you another installment of Five Minute Friday from Hurtle. |
| 0:26.8 | If you're new to this weekly segment, bonus, part of Hurtle, on Five Minute Friday, I chat through a story, something I'm going through, something that's |
| 0:39.7 | happening in my life. I share a thought prompt to take you into the weekend and then offer up some of |
| 0:46.1 | my content picks, some of the stuff that I think is really awesome that I want to share with you. |
| 0:52.7 | This week, tis the season, I'm chatting about Christmas. Now, I don't know |
| 0:57.5 | about you guys. I grew up in a multi-denominational household. So my mother is Jewish and my father |
| 1:04.4 | is Italian. And I, for my adult life, as long as I can remember, have been splitting my time between the two of them when it comes to Christmas time. |
| 1:17.8 | So I've done the exact same thing on Christmas Eve forever. I usually go out east. My grandmother lives out near the Hamptons and I go out east and I spend |
| 1:29.1 | Christmas Eve with my dad's side of the family and we eat all of the seat food because we're Italian. |
| 1:36.3 | And then we drink eggnog. I'm pretty sure my grandmother must put at least like three different |
| 1:42.4 | types of alcohol in the eggnog. It's always super boozy. And then we open gifts and all this is on Christmas Eve. |
| 1:48.2 | And it's just so special because I feel like life is just so hectic, especially in recent years. |
| 1:55.3 | And it's just such a beautiful opportunity for me to spend time with my family. There's also like other small |
| 2:03.8 | traditions that we enjoy on Christmas Eve. I have been tasked for some time now to be the |
| 2:09.9 | person who now makes grandma's signature Italian tricolor cookie recipe. They are my favorite. |
| 2:16.8 | I can't wait to make them. I think I'm going to make |
| 2:18.1 | them this weekend. We also always eat a bunch of stuff that we typically buy at Arthur Avenue in |
| 2:24.0 | the Bronx. If you've never heard of Arthur Avenue, it is amazing. It is this street uptown from |
| 2:29.5 | where I am that has all of the classic Italian shops. Like there's one place that you buy Mooselle. |
| 2:35.0 | There's another place that you buy olive bread. |
| 2:38.2 | There's another place that you buy canoles. |
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