Hello everyone, welcome back to the Gin Z Girl podcast. My name is Abby Aslan and I'm the host if this is your first time listening. Welcome. So it's currently Sunday night when I've been recording this, I always record Sunday nights. I feel like unless I just know I'm going to be busy and record in advance, but most of the time I procrastinate recording the podcast. And I don't know

why. I just do. I procrastinate a lot of things, though, but I still get them done, which is

why I continue to procrastinate. But I'm actually currently at home now. In Florida, I drove

home from Texas yesterday, very long drive, but I'm glad that it's done and over with,

and I enjoyed my two weeks in Texas with my boyfriend and his family, and now I'm back home

until I go back to school. I do have to go back to school next week to take my last final and after that I'll come

back home, but that's just like a five-hour drive. So it's nowhere near as intense as the 10-hour drive

from Texas to Florida. But I, this episode, okay, so originally I was going to wait to do this episode because I wasn't

exactly sure how to approach it this year. All of you love, I always get such great feedback

from the holiday themed episodes, like the fall bucket list one from this year. Last year,

my Christmas episode was sort of talking about traditions and sort of like my holiday favorites,

I guess you could say. And my holiday favorites stay the same every year because it's just like

the same types of things like certain drinks from Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts and certain candles

and all that kind of stuff and all that kind of stays the same. So I was like, how can I do a Christmas episode this year and not be repetitive?

And then last year I also talked about like saving money during the holidays and sort of how I go about finding gifts and gifting things to people.

So I kind of did a very comprehensive Christmas episode last year

and covered a lot of bases when in reality I probably could have held off on doing some of those

things for years to come for Christmas episodes, but it's fine. So I figured similar to the

fall bucket list that I did a few months ago, I guess, I was just going to do a Christmas bucket list that is COVID-friendly because COVID is still here.

It is December and the year's almost over and it's still here.

So pretty much, honestly, a lot of Christmas stuff is COVID-friendly to begin with before COVID

even existed so that's a pro for sure but anyways I just wanted to kind of like chat through

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