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How Not To Be Anxious for the Holidays, Part 2
It’s high time to get squirrelly about the season. I’ve already begun my annual “I hate New Year’s Eve” rant. A few years ago, I experimented with spending December 31 alone. (I’d inched towards it a year earlier, by meeting friends at the movies and getting home well before midnight). By 2007, I was ready for the challenge of a completely solo New Year’s Eve. I prepared a lovely 3-course dinner, put a screener of The Great Debaters into the DVD player, and settled into a comfy evening in sweatpants. “This isn’t half bad,” I thought. Before taking the first sip of my martini, I had an odd sensation of liquid on my head. I looked up, and to my horror, saw water dripping from the ceiling. “This can’t be happening,” I cried out into an empty room. Yet there was no time for pity. I quickly moved my uneaten meal out of harms way, put a bucket in its place, and called a handyman, who miraculously came to the rescue and fixed the leaky toilet upstairs. If there’s a bright side to this story, it’s that I was lucky to be in place at the right moment, rather than coming home later to serious water damage. I heated dinner and rebooted the evening.
Holiday tip: Don’t get ambushed by the season. Plan ahead (and check your plumbing.)
(Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, 1968)
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