Lauren Mayer: How To Combat Post-Holiday Let-Down

The decorations are down, the kids are back in school, and the New Year’s resolutions have already been broken – yes, it’s time for the post-holiday blahs.  But before you sink into a pit of January despair, feeling like there’s nothing fun coming up for ages, here are a few ‘glass-half-full’ thoughts to help keep your spirits up.

– You don’t have to listen to any more Christmas carol muzak until at least next Halloween.

– It’s much harder to get a sunburn in cold, foggy, gray weather

– You have over 300 shopping days left.

– The dreaded ‘fiscal cliff’ turned out to be as anticlimactic as Y2K

– The kids are no longer sleeping til noon and then complaining they’re bored.

– Your inlaws have all gone home.

Meanwhile, there are tons of minor Jewish holidays coming up which we are happy to share with everyone else.  In fact, it feels like we have one every other week, although most of us couldn’t define more than a handful.    So with this week’s video, I’ve tried to clarify some common themes among Jewish holidays, as well as providing some upbeat gospel music to start the New Year on a positive note.  (And yes, I know Jewish gospel music is an oxymoron, but this is the era of fusion where genres and ethnicities get blended in everything from social groups to  cuisine, so think of this as fusion Jewish gospel . . . )