Ten Things To Do Instead of Shopping:
#9. Get stoopid.

Gosh, some people take themselves so seriously! Why when it is much more fun to allow yourself to be all kinds of ways, including ridiculously silly… if that is what your natural inclination is at that moment. For a kid, play is how you learn. But why stop that in adulthood?

This holiday season, embrace the freedom and strength it takes to be an idiot sometimes. Because you make your own set of rules. And because it amuses your friend who then also plays with the big abandoned Tonka truck. Because: laughter. Laughing–what an odd physical reaction when you think about it! Like tears–I mean, so odd! I am sad so water is going to come out of my eyes?!

To many laughs in the new year. …