{"id":47177,"date":"2022-12-25T20:26:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T01:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=47177"},"modified":"2022-12-25T20:26:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T01:26:23","slug":"have-a-very-merry-titmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/have-a-very-merry-titmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Have a Very Merry Titmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/happy-holiday-goyim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As is my tradition<\/a>, I wish you all a very merry Titmas, regardless of your religious belief or lack thereof.<\/p>\n\n\n<center>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 466px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/71654836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 127.46781% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/71654836?et=lO4evailTIJi_KcyqGqcBw&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=VHDm20xTdRVmKs2wlYPj7mPxuolh3ahE85ii-4hA578=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"466\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/center>\n<p><br \/>I considered trying something new and wishing you a Merry Clitmas &#8230;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/thevulvagallery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/clitmasresize.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/clitmasresize.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/clitmasresize-297x300.jpeg 297w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/clitmasresize-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From the Vulva Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#8230; but I didn&#8217;t want any men <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gpaOy8b8X6A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to miss my holiday message.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, I will share this beautiful &#8212; but still funny! &#8212; story by <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/profile\/107650100-andrea-gibson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poet Andrea Gibson<\/a> called, &#8220;I&#8217;m Allergic to Christmas.&#8221;  It begins:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;My partner Meg loves Christmas more than Santa loves cookies. Each year she spends weeks wrapping gifts. It\u2019s not that she has an unusually high number of gifts to wrap. It\u2019s that she\u2019s addicted to wrapping everything she can get her tape on. If she\u2019s giving you tea, she\u2019s likely to wrap each individual tea bag. If she\u2019s giving you socks, don\u2019t be surprised to find each sock wrapped separately. The best gift I can give Meg each year is to let her wrap the gifts that I got for her.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andreagibson.substack.com\/p\/allergic-to-christmas?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=linktree&amp;utm_campaign=i%27m+allergic+to+christmas\">Continue reading here<\/a>. You won&#8217;t regret it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"344\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gibson.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gibson.jpeg 344w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gibson-228x300.jpeg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image from Andrea Gibson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re on Instagram and prefer to read the story as a series of slides, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cmh6zaAuQeN\/?igshid=NWQ4MGE5ZTk%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">start here<\/a>, but there are more lovely photos in the newsletter version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully, I&#8217;ll post here again very soon. If I don&#8217;t, you can assume that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/happy-1st-birthday-to-robin-the-bebe-cat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baby the cat<\/a> has taken his violent revenge on both me and the dog.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/babyresize.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/babyresize.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/babyresize-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Note Edward the dog unwisely laughing in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I swear that Baby was only dressed as a gingerbread man for a few seconds, but that was clearly long enough for the terrifying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/each-christmas-icelands-yule-cat-takes-fashion-policing-extreme-180961420\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Icelandic Yule Cat<\/a> to radicalize him. 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