sarahcentric

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Last night I was making a batch of Joy the Baker’s Peanut Butter Fudge Treats for tonight’s office holiday party.  (These should be called “Fudge-y Peanut Butter Nyom-Nyom ‘rifics”, by the way.  I just had  a Nyom-Nyom ‘rific for breakfast with my Graham Cracker Coffee. I kind of swayed and danced while eating in my kitchen.  Amazing.)   I was completely mesmerized by the cute comfy-ness of the millions of marshmallows required for the recipe.  I closed my eyes and wished with all of my might that they would come to life and be my friends!  They would march out of the bag smiling with tiny black eyes and stick figure arms and legs.  The large marshmallows for the Rice Krispies treats would be the Mommy and Daddy Marshmallows. The mini-marshmallows would be their children, one of which would be wearing a baseball cap to the side.  They would all march into the saucepan jovially…

“We love you, Sarah..weeeeeee!”

“Heeheehee … I love you guys, too!  You’re going to be so delicious!”

When I opened my eyes the Family Marshmallow had not budged from their bags.  This was my own fault.  The fact of the matter is there has been a disturbing lack of Christmas cheer for me this year.  There’s been the occasional glass of egg nog and repeat listenings of the Peanuts Christmas album, sure.  But I’ve been busy and cranky and confused and distracted, blah blah blah.  Marshmallow wishes cannot possibly come true in these conditions!  Bottom line, you can’t have a container of egg nog for the recycling, an empty box of rice Rice Krispies and an open bottle of bourbon without a Christmas tree.  It just ain’t right.

So Christmas comes to Sarahcentric TODAY!  I’m wearing a dress and boots for the party tonight where I will drink just enough to have fun, but not enough to end up doing the lambada with a co-worker.  Tomorrow, I will pull all of the decorations out of the closet and enlist some Queens friends to help me with the tree.  And finally, the big guns…Sarah’s ultimate Christmas Carol playlist.

Best Carol of all time that you would play on repeat if you were only allowed to listen to one Christmas carol for the rest of your life: “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”, Johnny Mathis

Favorite lordly, church-y carol that you prayed the choir would sing at Midnight Mass: “Ding Dong Merrily on High” by any awesome, nerdy group of British madrigal singers.

Carol that is so annoying that if you hear it one more time you may turn into a serial killer: “Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time”, Paul McCartney, Wings

Ring the bells! Christmas is here and we are freaking doing this thing.

Marshmallow wishes and Nyom-Nyom ‘rific dreams!