Thanksgiving is long past and now we’ve settled into the most awkward part of the winter season: the wait between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Behold! A field marginally more interesting than the holiday lull.
However, fear not! All is not lost for I have put together a list of things to pass the time until the holiday season!
1. Get your Christmas shopping done early!
Despite the long, arduous wait, Christmas will be here before you know it. Take advantage of the gap between celebrations by getting your holiday shopping done now! Crowds will only grow the longer you wait, so get a head-start!
2. Take up a creative hobby!
Taking up some sort of creative hobby is a great way to keep you occupied and to keep your mind busy. Additionally, you can choose the difficulty of your task! Make whatever you find fun--paper snowflakes, cotton ball snowmen, time machines, collages, etc.
3. Reorganize your house/dorm/apartment!
One good way to break up the monotony of life without a holiday is to reorganize your living quarters. It’ll spruce up your surroundings and breathe some life back into your--well, back into your life. Move the couch to free up some space. Switch out some pictures on the wall. Rearrange the furniture to allow easier access to all of the wall outlets.
All of them.
4. Binge-watch a TV show or movie that you’ve been meaning to see!
Before the holiday rush might be a good time to sit back and check out that movie you’ve been wanting to watch, like "Primer" or "Looper," or maybe you’ve been wanting to catch up on "Doctor Who." Either way, this is the perfect opportunity to relax and consider the opportunities.
5. Do some leisure reading!
Just like catching up on your favorite films and shows, maybe now is the time to do some light reading before the holiday rush. Maybe you want to catch up on fiction, like Michael Crichton’s acclaimed technothriller "Timeline," or perhaps nonfiction is more your cup of tea, like Stephen Hawking’s "A Brief History of Time."
6. Debunk Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity!
Everyone likes a challenge and uprooting conventional knowledge of spacetime certainly qualifies. Doing intense mathematical proofs is a great way to put the old noggin to use.
7. Build your own particle accelerator!
Now here’s an idea! Put all that knowledge that you got from that time machine craft project and all that free space in your home to use by putting together your own particle accelerator. Capable of generating small black holes, it’s a great way to play with the very fabric of the universe. Plus, there’s nothing like subatomic activity to warm your house in the cold winter!
8. Use all the exposed outlets to plug in your time machine!
Honestly, this seems pretty self-explanatory. How else are you going to use that time machine of yours?
9. Use your time machine to jump ahead to Christmas!
Now, with all of time on your side, just travel forward in time to Christmas morning! There can be no possible negative repercussions to playing God with the universe, right?
10. Get yelled at by all of your relatives because you skipped forward in time and didn’t buy them gifts!
Christmas shopping was literally the first item on this list. You should’ve gotten that done already. You should go back in time and fix that really quick.
11. Bump into yourself in the past, create a time-paradox, and accidentally destroy all of reality!
Well, I hope you’re proud of yourself. Now you’ll have to wait a couple billion years for Christmas to exist again and I’ll have to make a whole new list for that.
