The thing about best friends is that sometimes you can’t imagine life without your best friend, and other times you wish they’d never shown up. Best friends build you up, bring you down, make you feel awesome and give you a shot of reality.
That’s kind of why Pinterest and Christmas go so well together.
Every day my social media feeds are filled with photos and videos of Christmas perfection. Food, decorating and crafts that would make Martha proud.
And then there are people like me, with photos of something entirely different.
Case in point:
Believe me when I tell you that this does not look like the photo I found on Pinterest. Not even close.
However, I am happy to have given so many of my Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter followers a good laugh. You’re welcome.
Fast-forward a few hours the same day, and I decided to give Pinterest a chance to redeem itself.
After this morning's Peppermint Candy tray fiasco, I'm giving Pinterest a chance to redeem itself. #StayTuned
— Eileen Fisher (@YMC_BC) December 18, 2013As soon as I saw a pin titled “Christmas Tree Pull-Apart,” I knew it had to be mine.
So I put it together for dinner, and just to be safe, I threw some mozza sticks and delicious spuds in the oven as well.
This was obviously a keeper.
Martha’s sitting in her Pinterest browsing chair, jealous of my success, I’m sure.
So Pinterest, you are back in the good books again. I’m sure the #Pintervention is just around the corner for me. Maybe in 2014.
In the meantime, before I get put into Pinterest-rehab, take a look at YMC’s Christmas Pinterest board for more holiday recipes, crafts and decorating ideas.
I was raised in a household where certain events, dates, times had a Welsh superstition attached to it. I’m not talking about your basic walking under ladders kind of superstition, I’m talking about much more than that.
On the 1st of every month, the first words out of your mouth should be “White Rabbits.” If you see the moon through any sort of glass, obviously spit on your money and turn it over. If your foot is itchy, you are going to travel. If you left hand is itchy, you are going to lose money. Right hand, get money. Bird flew into the house? Yeah, someone’s going to die. And whatever you do, never, ever leave a house from an entrance different from the one that you entered in. Trust me.
So, you can just imagine how I am around Friday the 13th. I become a walking encyclopedia of dos and don’ts that is borderline Sheldon Cooper fanatical.
And because technology sometimes has a tendency to kick us all in the butt sometimes, I am VERY cautious around my technology when Friday the 13th rolls around.
Here’s what you should look for and what to avoid with your technology on Friday the 13th. Please don’t ask me for the reasoning behind this. Just do as I say.
Essentially what I’m saying is, if you’re like me then tread lightly on Friday the 13th for anything to do with technology. Treat your devices, laptops, and computers with the ultimate care. Don’t overwork them. Let them sleep.
Trust me on this one.
I watched a video this morning that made me smile and simultaneously cry. I hate it when that happens, but at the same time, I want to share what made me feel that way with the world so we can all do the ugly cry together.
This video recently published by WestJet as part of their Christmas Miracle contest is one of the most original holiday season promotions I’ve seen for a long while. While our media and social media airwaves are inundated with messages of commercialism that focus purely on the financial aspect of gift-giving, this unique video sends a different message altogether.
Take a look and see:
Now, yes, the people on that lucky flight got gifts — some of them big ticket items that technically do fall into the commercialism category, but beyond that, from the very beginning you get a sense of magic and wonderment about what WestJet did for these people.
When you saw the people’s reactions to the gifts, obviously they were happy about the actual item, but then you could tell that they were thinking “What?! Seriously? How did that happen?!”
That’s magical.
That’s Christmas.
Well done WestJet. You won the internet today.
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