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Every year, we think we have a handle on the holidays. We have to pack. We're going away. We have to get the holiday stuff out. We have to put it away. We have to get the platters. We're cooking. We got a shop. We haven't gotten our roots done. We didn't get a manicure. We are starting to eat garbage. And we said we weren't going to. We stopped working out. We just

stopped working out. Nothing happened. We just decided we just stopped working out because we're

going away or it's going to be the holidays and we're going to fuck it up anyway. The gifts,

the gifts and remembering people and, you know, I'm a psycho about the gifts, but then like I keep

remembering a new person every day, which is anxiety producing because I'm not going to leave here until giving all the gifts out

and then me OCD I have to clean everything out. Everything has to be organized and the holidays

will beat the shit out of you and something comes to a head with your business and your family.

Your kids are going through finals or midterms.

Your kids are going through midterms at the same time that you're stressing out about the holidays.

And they're studying and they're cracking.

And they think that their work is the only work that's going on when we're working like dogs.

So at the same time that they're fucking crashing out because of exams, we're crashing out because of, oh, my God, do we do this? Did we tip that person? Did we do end of the year bonuses? You know, all of that. And their job is school. And if they're doing a good job of it, they are working really hard and stressing and studying. And so they're like, but we, I have this and I have that and I have to do this. And you're literally on fumes. And the exhaustion is real this time of year. It's real. And you're like, wait, am I going to be able to make it through? And it hit me yesterday where like I thought the world was coming to an end. I was like, I was thinking about that tragedy, that Rob Reiner tragedy. I was thinking about the horrific nature of the crime. And then I was thinking

about, oh, that kid getting the best defense attorney in the fucking world. And like, I don't know.

I don't know. Like, yes, mental illness. Yes, drug addiction, but like we were kids, people didn't have such severe and intense and nuanced food intolerances, meaning, yes, you have a food allergy. It's real. I have a very serious food allergy. I could die. So coming from me, it's rich to say this. But like everybody, I'm intolerant to this and I can't have that.

And I like to stay away from this.

And I like to stay away from that.

And everybody gets coddled and everyone gets a ribbon.

And now every single person who, you know, has a moment that's uncomfortable, needs special attention.

And mental illness is absolutely real.

And drug addiction is real.

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