My Favorite Holidate

by Lauren Blakely

“Here you go. I don’t have any food allergies, but you should know I can’t stand mayonnaise. I love spicy food, ideally as hot as inhumanly possible. I drink coffee, a lot of it, probably too much. But my dirty little secret is I prefer hot chocolate, only I never order it when I’m out. I make my daughter do chores and clean up after herself, but admittedly I do spoil her at the holidays, and I justify it because she’s such a good kid and I’m so damn lucky she is. Also, she wants a secret door for Christmas, but I think that’s mostly because she’s been reading books with secret doors in them. Speaking of reading, I often stay up late reading, and I wake up early every day to exercise since cardio’s not only good for the body but for the brain too. I speak Mandarin and learned it in college. I think ice cream is proof of the existence of a higher being, I never sleep with socks on, I don’t walk around in my house with shoes on, and I’m an Aries.”