I Choose Darkness

by Jenny Lawson

so while most families are planning giant feasts with tons of people bringing too much food, Thanksgiving and Christmas are simply days when we must forage to make sure we don’t starve, as most restaurants are closed.

(Just to clarify, “Princess” was one costume. “Bride” was another. The Princess Bride was an excellent movie and an even better book, but no one was dressing as Robin Wright, although that would have been awesome.)

but this was an era where photographs depended entirely on whether your parents had a few untaken snaps available on a film roll they hadn’t finished during vacation,

This was the night I discovered that bored parents can be dangerous