A month-long collegiate winter break brings forth so many great things: a foreshadow of next semester’s Sylly Week, an excuse to drink espresso martinis and watch Love, Actually, and so much free time spent with friends and family. However, the premise of “free time” can’t be a safe haven for all the Thought Daughters out there, especially the single ones.
Every hot girl (or guy!) has the same cookie-cutter Christmas wish: matching pajama’s with your significant other, watching holiday movies as you’re curled up by a fireplace, trying all new positions… of cuddling! But Santa’s special delivery might not come for all of us. How do we manage the feelings of chronic single-ness during the most wonderful time of the year? Here’s my tried and true Christmas list, from a girl who may not get some, but gets it.
Step One: put yourself first
Figuratively and literally.
Gift giving is a love language, and maybe unwrapping doesn’t have to be the best part. Get a ride in Santa’s sleigh to your nearest Ulta and pick yourself up some new lip oils and hair masks. Look good, feel good!
Maybe it’s the weather getting you down. A true snow angel will find herself either staying in and making all the right kinds of heat, or braving the cold and making her own snow-family. Trivia question: what makes a snowman and snow-woman different? One needs more snowballs.
Step Two: Create a routine
This is a judgment free zone: maybe that routine is binging on ice cream and watching Sabrina Carpenter’s Christmas Special on repeat. Maybe it’s wrapping Christmas gifts you spent entirely too much of your minimum wage paycheck on. Maybe it’s getting eggnog drunk after one too many letters to Santa to get you off his naughty list.
Put out your milk and cookies, place a letter in your ex’s mailbox, and do your elongated skincare routine to distract yourself from the mistle-tension. As you watch the holiday Gossip Girl episodes on loop, you wonder why you keep going back to a 5’7 man who looks like he needs to be sent back to the North Pole to help out Mr. Claus every December.
STep three: celebrate, you’ve made it
As the holiday season comes to a close, we say goodbye to Christmas lights and disposable camera photos of happy couples. Christmas cards are off the refrigerator, and your mom finally stops asking when you’re bringing a boy to Christmas dinner. If Christmas keeps your spirits high (and by that, I mean anxiety and blood alcohol levels high), I hear Hanukkah keeps it hot for eight nights.
New Year’s is in the near future, and you make the same resolution you make every year: to avoid crash outs over your long term situationship who’s “not quite ready to settle down”.
Start the new year off with a bang! Or, at least a NYE kiss. Then, pat yourself on the back. You deserve a hot girl winter arc – so what if that puts you on the naughty list? Santa has time to re-evaluate. After all, he only comes once a year.