So those of you who were privileged to hear John Cougarstein’s Spbakt song will appreciate Pete Posing With A Supermarket Pie:

Those of you who were in the trenches of the Yankee Swap/No Yankee Swap debate will understand Pete’s point of view better when you see what we got at my family’s Swap. Please note that it inexplicably plays “La Vida Loca”.

Those of you who know I am not friking kidding when I say that my cousin lives in a McMansion and regularly spends over $100 on her tree each Christmas can glory in the following photo that depicts just one small section of her home (please note that I love my cousin, she is a lovely person and simply makes life choices that I do not):

Those of you who know me know that while I love my extended Eastern Mass. family I prefer to hang out with people like this:

and this:

and this:

Love