Surviving The Holidays

After a long week of Thanksgiving festivities and awkward family encounters I have finally found myself at my favorite place. The couch. Between driving over 300 miles the past few days and answering all of the typical questions you get at any family gathering I am without a doubt ready for some normalcy and a routine. I have learned over the past few years that I am a type A personality when it comes to a day to day routine. I love schedules. Especially when it comes to scheduling naps.

Anyway, lets get to the good stuff.

This year was my third Thanksgiving as a college student and it was also my third year of answering the same questions that all of us college kids have to answer to the best of our abilities. After obtaining all of this so called experience, I have decided to give some advice to my fellow college gang so that we can easily make it through the next Holiday! P.S. Christmas is 25 days away. So hang around and read on!

Through careful consideration I have decided that the following questions are of the upmost importance to know how to answer.

1.) What are you planning on doing after graduation?

Ummmmm... like most of us even know what we are doing right now. This question is the big kahuna of all questions. The  honest answer would be to make lots of money and travel. But the realistic answer would be this..

I DON'T KNOW.

Easy right? Even though your relatives will probably think you are a slacker and wasting all of that tuition money that your parents work so hard for, it will stop the conversation right in its tracks. Now, on to the next!

2.) How are your grades?

This is something that my grandpa LOVES to bring up. Particularly at the dinner table in the middle of a game of left right center. Why must grandparents do this to us! One, we are on a break. We do not want to discuss our current grades that we are actually stressing out about while we stress eat our favorite pie (you know you do it). And two, like we are actually going to admit that we have a D in college algebra.  So the best answer to this question would be this..

THEY ARE GOOD.

Again this is answer is short and sweet and to the point. No further questions asked and no added on stress eating. So go ahead and skip that third piece of pie.

3.)Why don't you have a boyfriend yet?  or Where is your boyfriend?

Ahhh.. this is a personal favorite of mine. Can we be honest with them and tell everyone that we couldn't bare to let our boyfriend suffer through another family gathering just because we have to? Or do we make up some excuse about how he is out volunteering and making the world a better place when he is really playing Xbox until 4 in the morning in his underwear. Decisions Decisions.. The answer to this question is actually quite simple..

HE COULD NOT MAKE IT.

Then.. walk away.. and go grab that third piece of pie.

The lesson for today is as follows. Keep your answers short, simple and partially true. And you will without a doubt survive your next family holiday.