Escaping Holiday Chaos: Hilarious Vacation Tales

Have you ever found yourself daydreaming about escaping the chilly holiday season for a sun-soaked paradise? Join Chrisy and Kerry, as they navigate the rollercoaster of emotions that the festive season brings, all while sharing a bold new idea—imagine neighborhoods lighting up with inflatable rooftop decorations of Karen from the 1969 classic "Frosty the Snowman." Prepare for a hilarious journey through the imperfect world of family vacations, where we recount unforgettable memories.  Whether it's the comedic mishaps of a sinking rental car or our aversion to the confines of a cruise ship, we explore how these stories shape our view on vacations and family life. Tune in for a heartwarming and humorous take on tackling life's little quirks, one inflatable rooftop display at a time.

Chapters

• 0:08 Holiday Dysfunction and Vacation Stories
• 7:52 Disastrous Family Vacation Stories
• 16:52 Vacation Preferences and Movie Memories

Transcript

DJ Nick: 0:08

Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast, where we may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. And now here are your hosts, chrissy and Keri.

Kerry: 0:20

Hello, hello. Welcome back Dysfunction Junkies. I'm Kerry

Chrisy: 0:25

And I'm Chrisy

Kerry: 0:25

And here we are today, still deep into the holiday season. How you feeling, chrissy?

Chrisy: 0:31

I'm feeling okay but I need to talk real quick about something we talked about in the earlier episode Still worried about Karen up on that roof and Frosty and I'm feeling cold for the poor kid I just came up with in honor of Karen, because we know she's still out there somewhere on a roof. You know how you guys like these decorative inflatable decorations for holidays.

Kerry: 0:57

That's the new thing now.

Chrisy: 0:58

I did express my not-so-craziness about those, but if there is ever a need to get one up on your roof, forget putting Santa up there. Santa's gone. Okay, we saw that in.

Kerry: 1:11

Frosty, he took off.

Chrisy: 1:12

He took off. Yeah, he's gone. He's not on your roof, but Karen, karen is still on the roof. I really want to see. By the way, I'm not using Karen in the sense that because that's a word Current day, karen. We're talking. This little girl's name was Karen.

Kerry: 1:28

Back in frosty 1969. Yeah.

Chrisy: 1:32

So I think, in honor of Karen, if you're going to get something up there on your roof for the Christmas decoration, it's got to be Karen Standing up there waving at the moon, waiting for somebody to get her off that damn roof so we need whoever are the makers of these blow-up inflatable things to create a karen from frosty and I deserve a cut for this on every sale so, but we need one so we can put it especially on chrissy's roof and you know what I would love to see what?

Chrisy: 2:03

because I know we got a lot of talented people out there that create these decorations. I know decorating especially for Christmas is almost a competition between some people oh, yes, yes, yes, and they go all out. So I would love for all of you listeners out there to send us pictures of your Karen on the roof that would be fantastic. Here is your project, people Let on the roof. That would be fantastic. Here is your project, people. It's all come together for Karen. Rip, karen, but we didn't forget you.

Kerry: 2:33

Merry Christmas. Oh, that's great. That's great. You know, I will have to say, listening to some of our episodes back and even as we're recording, you know we've said from the beginning that this is our safe space. This is where we can talk about things. So here you are a week later still talking about the Karen and how that's. You know, you've given this a lot of thought. I've had an epiphany as well. So a couple episodes I was talking about how my family always took us for ice cream, and so ice cream became like a traumatic thing for me. After that episode it was like healing, like I finally made that correlation of why I don't like ice cream, and now that's been lifted from me. I've been eating ice cream left and right. I'm constantly telling my husband like we need to go to this place for ice cream. We need to go to this place for ice cream because like I can enjoy ice cream again, like I'm liberated. So thank you, dysfunction junkies, thank you Chrissy, thank you.

Chrisy: 3:24

This podcast, yes, we are solving the world's problems one teeny, tiny thing at a time. So I don't. I want to say you're welcome, but please don't. When you start to have an issue with the ice cream, don't, don't become, don't hate on me. End of the project.

Kerry: 3:43

Have Karen eating ice cream on the roof.

Chrisy: 3:45

Oh, there we go, oh my gosh good advice.

Kerry: 3:48

Now who the hell?

Chrisy: 3:49

brought her ice cream is what I want to know santa left.

Kerry: 3:52

Santa dropped it off, but then left her there again probably oh my. So oh yeah. We're so close to the holidays. We've been through so much. We were doing the christmas shopping. We're watching the movies. It's snowy, it's icy, it's gloomy here in Ohio. I'm just ready for a vacation. I'm ready to get away. What about?

Chrisy: 4:10

you. You're going to need to talk to me about that.

Kerry: 4:13

This is not your world.

Chrisy: 4:14

I am trapped here. I have always been trapped here, with the family, with the nightmare. I don't have any vacations to look forward to. I know there's lovely people who go out there and they travel for the holidays. They don't want to deal with them back where they are. They go to beautiful tropical places. So, carrie, I'm giving it to you Tell me some great stories about traveling for the holidays.

Kerry: 4:36

I know and I really do need to make some clarification, because you know we do talk about family a lot here. We talk about all these dysfunctions and stuff. And you know we do talk about family a lot here. We talk about all these dysfunctions and stuff and I do love my family. I really hope everyone understands that. But I'm just recognizing the dysfunctions of my family and my situation of I grew up in again, had a lot of trauma happened to me and had a lot of you know, different types of abuse happened to me, so especially during the holidays.

Chrisy: 5:00

So disclaimer Gary is speaking for herself, right now.

Kerry: 5:03

I am speaking not for Chrissy.

Chrisy: 5:06

When she's expressing love for family. That is a carry, not a Chrissy. Continue, make sure people understand.

Kerry: 5:19

It's very important. Yes, thank you. So, so, no, it's not that I don't want to be around family, it's just that it's again like I said before, juxtaposition of I want to be around family. I love the holidays, but it brings up a lot of PTSD for me. So, at the same time as I love them and I want to be around them, I don't want to be, and so this is the yin and yang and the struggle that I am dealing with. So, as I mentioned before in one of our first episodes or second episode, you know we tend to go away a lot around the holidays and it's what helps keep me sane, grounded, not having panic attacks.

Kerry: 5:56

So recently, just a couple of weeks ago, we went on a vacation. It was a different kind of vacation than we've ever went on before, because I will say, when I go on vacation I do want to be lavished. I want to not think about things, you know, I want to be spoiled. But we took a different vacation. We went with friends to the Bahamas and we rented a house and we had basically a whole mile of beach completely to ourselves. We didn't have anybody around.

Kerry: 6:21

We went to this very small island, not a lot of people. We literally saw maybe only 10 people the entire week that we were there. So it was just basically the four of us my husband and I and our besties were there, and it was fabulous. It was fabulous Just the idea of it to me sounds Even though we did have to make our own meals and we did have to make our own drinks, so I didn't have a butler service bringing them to me. So I know that sounds pretentious, but you know what the being away from everybody for a week was so well needed and it's kind of what has grounded me to get through these tough times right now of all the busyness, all the chaos, all the everything and yeah. So that's kind of our recent vacation story. But yeah, growing up, though, we didn't do a lot of vacations, we did camping. Did your family ever go camping? Uh, no, look on your face, I was like she's not gonna ask me if we ever went camping and she's not really gonna ask me that.

Chrisy: 7:19

No, no no, my father, no no. Camping no no no, no.

Kerry: 7:25

If you went on vacation at all as a kid, what did you do? Was it just a daycation or did you go anywhere?

Chrisy: 7:31

Well, no, we as far as, because there is some age difference between me and my sisters.

Chrisy: 7:38

I only remember one, I only remember one vacation in my mind where all of us me, my two sisters, my mother and father went. It was to Busch Gardens in Virginia and we did go on a vacation all of us. Prior to that, I don't have a memory of it because I was only like a year old it was to Washington DC. To let you know how old I am and how long ago this was, richard Nixon was still in office, so I don't remember. But I I've seen pictures, so there is proof that this had happened. But the bush gardens one I do remember, probably because I had the shits the whole time. I remember not feeling I was like five years old. I just turned five because it was like the end of summer, my birthday's earlier in the summer. It was wonderful, I was five, I got to use my whole hand to tell everybody how old I was.

Chrisy: 8:31

And then we get to the gate to get into bush gardens yeah, and I'm standing there and my sister's going, my father, I guess I'm stuck there with my mother and the lady looks down, comes in down on my level and she goes honey, how old are you? And I grabbed my hand out and flashed the five and my mother grabbed my thumb and practically broke it to bend it back down to four, and you want to know why people, kids four and under get in free. So you're not five today, asshole, you're four. And so then my mom had to be, you know, explaining herself a little bit, because this lady's now horrified that my finger got busted and she says, uh, she just she's, her birthday is not until the fall, she's gonna be five. She gets confused. So now I'm an idiot. Thanks, I don't know, I'm five, I swear. A couple months ago you told me I was five. Besides the fact that you guys are all crazy, you know, you're liars too, which you know because you told me I was five.

Chrisy: 9:34

Now, today, I'm not five you're four, you're, you're four and a broken thumb yep, my thumb's still crooked over that, but so that was a fun vacation, so you went to bush gardens with a broken thumb with a leaky leaky dupa yeah, I don't even know what I ate.

Kerry: 9:50

That made me sick, I don't know did you get to go on any of the rides, or were you tall enough?

Chrisy: 9:55

I don't remember rides. I remember there was a big eagle walking around like a mascot thing, because I think it was a bald eagle because it was bush gardens supposed to be americana?

Chrisy: 10:03

I guess remember it was 1977. So Gardens supposed to be Americana, I guess Remember it was 1977. So I guess we just came out of the big 76 year and we were still have a hangover for all of our celebrating back then. But yeah, so that's the only one I remember with family, all of us. And then I kind of had to be tortured because my sisters were gone, but I was still young, because my sisters were gone, but I was still young, and once in a while my parents had like a lapse in, you know, feeling guilty, I guess, because they would take me with them to these horrible trips.

Chrisy: 10:32

Okay, I remember going to the Henry Ford Museum, or is that a? I think it's in Michigan, detroit, I guess. I don't know.

Kerry: 10:37

Oh, that makes sense. That makes sense yeah.

Chrisy: 10:40

You know, I know it's important, I like history and stuff like that, but when I was this age it wasn't that great, didn't want to see all that crap, but I went. I had no choice, I had to go. Oh, when I was really young well, not real young, but early 80s I had to go to Florida with them in October because my parents' anniversary was in October and they would usually plan something around that. And so we went to Walt Disney World and stuff. And outside the fact that, I remember my mother and father fighting a lot because my mother hated rides but my father wanted to do rides and she freaked out because he tricked us into going on Space Mountain and it horrified her. So, outside of them arguing all the time, we made it to the beach and I have a really crazy story and I actually have pictures somewhere to prove that this really did happen?

Kerry: 11:24

What happened at the beach?

Chrisy: 11:25

So we rented a car and it was a. Everybody remember Chivit, yes, the Chivit. We had a rental car, it was a Chivit, and we went to Daytona.

Kerry: 11:34

Okay. And it was October, wasn't real warm even though it was Florida, but you can drive on the beach there in Daytona, can't you?

Chrisy: 11:41

Back then.

Kerry: 11:42

I guess you could Well, yeah, I think you still can I.

Chrisy: 11:49

My father remember we're in Ohio. We don't have an ocean. I don't know what the hell my dad was thinking, but my dad was a bit of a neat freak. So his whole idea was I'm going to park the car closer to the water. Oh God, because when we go to get in the car after being romping on the beach, we can slosh our feet in the ocean water to rinse off the sand and then jump in the car and go oh, oh no, this is crazy, oh no, and it happened.

Chrisy: 12:18

No, it didn't so we're out romping on the beach I guess not paying much attention to that chevette and the tide comes in. No washes the sand out from under the tires no that goddamn thing started sinking. It was slowly getting buried into the beach and and no one noticed this.

Chrisy: 12:35

Well, we noticed oh, but it was too late. My father gets in the car, tries to get it going, spinning the tires, all to do it, and then he leaves me, my mother, to push. No, hey, you too. Two dingy broads get in the back and push this thing out of the sand. So the sand's just hitting us like what sand In our face, smacking it. This thing ain't going nowhere. I mean, I know it's a Chevette and it's light, but we're not heave-hoing this thing out, oh my God. So then we get sent to walk down the beach in October in Daytona. There's not like a group of people hanging out at the beach In October In Daytona, there's not like a group of people hanging out at the beach.

Kerry: 13:15

Oh my God, at this time, so you didn't draw even a crowd because there was no crowd.

Chrisy: 13:19

Well, eventually we did so. We finally, I feel like we walked 10 miles down that damn beach to try and find somebody. Help us, help us Dumb tourists. Servette Going out to ocean, Please help us. Servvette's about to be a yacht, the Chevette's going to go. We found somebody who happened to have a truck, oh my gosh. And they came down and I was snapping pictures. You have pictures of this, I do. I have to find them.

Kerry: 13:46

We'll post them. I hope I can find them.

Chrisy: 13:48

My father was not happy. I'm sure he was not happy with me snapping pictures. I stayed far enough back where I couldn't hear his profanity at me, but I got you know the embarrassment of it. Oh my God, you know. I think later on it was still. It was fun to talk about and even he had a bit of a sense of humor about it.

Kerry: 14:07

Oh my gosh.

Chrisy: 14:08

Yeah.

Kerry: 14:09

So that I'll never forget. Oh, that's a good one.

Chrisy: 14:13

And pretty much after that they just went on. Well, I think we went to the Ford Museum after that. Oh, the one thing that my parents did do, really nice. I won't spend a lot of time on it, but we did go to Graceland. When I was growing up, I was a huge Elvis fan, you were Loved Elvis.

Chrisy: 14:33

So my father was kind enough to take me to his home back in the 80s. Actually, graceland hadn't even been open that long to the public. Once we went it was probably only a couple years and I do believe that there were still people living in the house who were Presleys at the time. So we went there and then the following year we were supposed to go to Nashville. But when we went to Nashville, for whatever reason, my father felt the part of Nashville we were in was not, was not, nice. I guess I don't know what the travel agent hooked us up with, but it was a horrible hotel and it just didn't seem clean. And my father said we'll drive back to memphis. I don't mind driving a couple, two, three hours, whatever it was, from nashville to get to memphis. And we ended up going to graceland again. Oh wow.

Kerry: 15:09

So I've been to there twice and so I can see why maybe vacationing has took a rough start for you?

Chrisy: 15:16

Yeah, it was never, and it hasn't gotten better.

Kerry: 15:18

It sounds like.

Chrisy: 15:20

Well, once I got married and my husband we actually are honey we honeymooned in Florida, okay. And then we have gone. We never because my husband I don't believe his family didn't really vacation.

Kerry: 15:31

Yeah.

Chrisy: 15:31

So it wasn't really anything that he felt he was missing because he had never really done it Right, but I was always into history so I did, unfortunately, drag him to some shitty trips. I made him take me to Salem Mass.

Kerry: 15:44

Oh my.

Chrisy: 15:45

Because I was into the history when we went, which was back in like the mid 90s and I don't know if it's different or if it's worse and this is again just our opinion we felt like it was a little hokey. Yeah, they were more focused on the witch thing, which really wasn't what those people were Right, and not the history of the fact that these people were wrongfully accused and put to death over accusations that weren't true. I mean I went, it was good. I dragged them to Rochester, New York. True, and I mean I went and it was good. I dragged them to Rochester, New York. These sound like everybody start making your plans to the places Chrissy tells you to go on vacation Salem, Rochester, New York. Man, where do I sign up? So that was the reason I was interested in going into film preservation.

Kerry: 16:27

Yeah.

Chrisy: 16:28

In the George Eastman house there, if anybody remembers what Kodak is he had, it was the sort of the main hub for preserving film. I think at the time Martin Scorsese actually had his motion pictures housed there okay in their vaults and stuff. So I was interested in maybe doing that. So we went there just to check out the program. I don't really remember much about it. I mean we went to the George Eastman house, but these.

Kerry: 16:52

This is a whole different type of vacation. Oh yeah, it's just work.

Chrisy: 16:56

It's just, it's not vacation it's generally, and I would make my husband stay in these god-awful bed and breakfast because I want to stay in historical houses dj next rolling his eyes yeah, he was not. He didn't like it.

Kerry: 17:09

I have a five-star hotel, yeah so for me, vacationing is like a whole different, and we did not vacation much growing up. Like I said, we would go camping and that was vacation. Until it got to be, what did you?

Chrisy: 17:22

do camping. I'm just curious. I never did it. Please explain to me what you did on camping.

Kerry: 17:26

So we had one of those like army tents Like I can still smell the canvas just thinking about it.

Chrisy: 17:33

You didn't even have a camper.

Kerry: 17:34

We were literally camping On the ground, mattress Army canvas tent. Yes, because there was like five of us, you know, and well, five plus my parents, so seven of us crammed under here One tent. Yeah, it was a big canvas army kind of tent thing. And then, you know, we my mom, had one of those little two propane burner things, and so she would, you know, cook us whatever on there. And then we did a lot of. We called them hobo pies, but it was like a pie iron, and you would make these sandwiches and you'd put them in the fire, so like you could take two pieces of bread and put a little bit of spaghetti sauce and pepperoni and cheese, and that was a little hobo pie pizza, and then it's a hot pocket. It's a hot pocket, yes, it's the original hot pocket. Yes, cool. And then for dessert you take the two pieces of bread and then instead you add the apple pie filling and you put that in there and now you have a little, you know, a hostess pie. A hostess pie or a McDonald's apple pie.

Chrisy: 18:34

I know my fat food, hot Pockets and hot food, s'mores, that was another.

Kerry: 18:38

You know, the traditional s'mores Hot dog on a stick over the fire. You know, s'mores, hot dog on a stick over the fire. You know, that's. That was. That's what we could afford. So we did.

Kerry: 18:44

But then, whenever it got to be just me and my one sister who was a little closer in age, we went on a real vacation to the beach. We went to Myrtle Beach, we stayed in a hotel and so I think that's what started the vacation beach love for me. And then so when I got older you know, chris, always working and putting myself through school and everything when I would get time off, you know I relished the peace, the quiet, the serenity. So that's when I started going on real vacations. And when I met my husband, jim, you know he was, he work, work, work, work and he would never go on his vacations. He'd have like five week of vacation and at the end of the year they would just pay it out. So when he met me and we were talking about going on vacation, this was a novel idea to him and he says, oh, I get this five weeks vacation. I never use it. I'm like, oh, you're not using it.

Kerry: 19:29

You're using it now, don't get used to that payout and so. So I do joke around because we we work hard to play hard, so we we do vacation a lot, but this that's, it's what is important to us. You know, everyone spends their money in different ways. We've actually been how do I politely say this? And I know I probably don't need to be polite here- who are you talking?

Chrisy: 19:51

Does anybody? See anybody here who needs politeness, Not me.

Kerry: 19:53

We have been accused of things because of our vacation on where the funding for this vacations come from. Let me just leave it at that for right now.

Chrisy: 20:05

But and it's like like well, we work hard for it.

Kerry: 20:06

You know, we work hard for it we're not taking anybody's inheritance to go on vacation, so, oh, but in any case, okay, I think that might be another episode later. I'm not quite ready to totally dive into that, but yeah, so we do go to a lot of vacations, we do. We do like to go the caribbean, the beach, but the one thing I will never do is a cruise Like I don't understand why people like cruises, people do love them, I know.

Chrisy: 20:28

And for those of you that love them.

Kerry: 20:30

I'm so glad you do. I'm so glad you have a place that you love and do it. But see like I just took a deep breath because that just gave me anxiety thinking about it.

Kerry: 20:38

Oh, my God, Are you okay, I know, okay, I know. Really, is it a love boat flashback where everybody's having sex and there's like stds running rampant on the boat? What is tell me why you're having such anxiety? It's all those people. But, like, when I go on vacation, I want to get kind of away from people, I want to get away from a lot, I want to decompress, you know. And so the thought of being on vacation, crowded with everybody and stuck on one boat and there's only one way to get away from that.

Chrisy: 21:05

I know it's overboard. I know A lot of people think somebody got pushed overboard. No, probably was people just jumping to get away from all the other people.

Kerry: 21:15

And I have all these cruise people tell me oh, no, you would love it. You really you do find? No, no, I would not like it. I know I wouldn't. What did I say in the beginning of the episode? We just went on vacation to an island where I saw 10 people and I was in heaven, which, again, is so crazy Because in my day life, you know, I'm around people all the time and I like that, I like my job, I love my job, and in order for me to love that, I have to get away from that, I have to be like you know right, I have the other side of it. So, yeah, cruises could never do a cruise, could never do a cruise. That. And my husband cannot swim, and so, god forbid, if we went on a cruise, trust me, he'd be the one who somehow would find he'd be looking over the rail like, oh, look at the dolphin, and he'd fall in, and then I'd have to go rescue him. So, yeah, we're not doing cruises right.

Chrisy: 22:02

Well, that's beyond my whole. I saw the poseidon adventure I'm not talking about the titanic here. I understand that's like a long time, although I did sit through titanic uh, for those out there, just real quick eight times in the movie theater, watched it eight times, eight times, oh my god, because I just had to be sure I saw what I saw no, I can't explain. I don't know, I can't explain it wasn't.

Chrisy: 22:26

I don't. I'm not in love with Leonardo. I didn't want to see Kate's boobs. It wasn't that I mean I saw enough of them in that movie, but it's, I think I just I have some sort of sick part of me that enjoyed watching those people fall off the boat at the end and no, I'm kidding, that's horrible, it's horrible.

Kerry: 22:43

It's a tragic event.

Chrisy: 22:45

You know what it was. It was the actual what that guy did with that film, the technical achievement he made at that time, showing a historical event that we could only imagine in our minds. There was no pictures of that, there was nothing. And I remember when that guy found the we remember what it was like when we didn't know where the Titanic was.

Kerry: 23:03

And we were at YSU and Robert Ballard came and spoke at YSU.

Chrisy: 23:10

I went to that talk. I can't believe I missed that.

Kerry: 23:12

I went to that talk because he was talking about finding it.

Chrisy: 23:15

Yes, and it was like a big deal. So I did sit through that. But the Poseidon Adventure the boat flips over. For God's sakes. And that seemed possible to me. It's possible. I guess I don't know. It's possible. Everybody was upside down. Why did they send Shelley Winters, the heaviest, most out of shape woman, to go and save everybody? She ended up dying. They killed her because she used to be a swimmer when she was younger. Well, that's fine if you're young. Nobody knows what I'm talking about. Watch, she used to be a swimmer when she was younger. Well, that's fine if you're young. Nobody knows what I'm talking about. Watch the movie. Watch the movie. Shelley Winters saves the day but then drops dead. I don't know. Towering Inferno was a horrible movie too, and then that's not even any fun, because anybody who lived through 9-11 doesn't want to see any sort of tall buildings on fire.

Kerry: 23:57

I don't even know that movie.

Chrisy: 23:58

Oh, 70s was just about disaster, like my vacation you had way too much cable.

Kerry: 24:03

You had way too much cable, oh man, Did I ever? Oh? But that's these thoughts of vacations and getaways. What's getting me through right now with this holiday season and the snow and the ice, oh God, I can't wait till it all goes away.

Chrisy: 24:16

I like all that.

Kerry: 24:17

Why? Because you get to stay home and not be around people.

Chrisy: 24:19

Well, I appreciate that. Not only do I get to stay home, but everyone else. But everybody get in your house. Why are you outside? Why do I hear you outside?

Kerry: 24:29

They're trying to put the.

Chrisy: 24:30

Karen on the roof? Well fine, do it and get back in the house. I don't. And when it starts getting warm I get agitated, because now I got people outside making noise, running up and down the street doing stuff in there. What are you doing in your?

Kerry: 24:46

yard. You gotta cut the grass again, really, do you? Do you? Really we're so opposite. It's a good thing we're not neighbors. I'd be pissing you off left and right because I love.

Chrisy: 24:52

No, because you know to live where you have property. I wouldn't hardly see you because you'd be far enough away no, no it's okay.

Chrisy: 24:59

It's okay, yeah, but no, I like, I do like the gloom up till Christmas, I like all that. Now, that time period between January and March Although my husband gets mad because he's got a January birthday and I always tell him how much I hate January through March, he's like but my birthday, well, I love your birthday, yeah, but the another week in the Bahamas, just to get away from the gloom to get me through until spring. I wish I could go with you. I don't know.

Kerry: 25:31

I would not even know what to do with myself on vacation like that I can show you, trust me, oh my.

Chrisy: 25:36

But yeah, those are my vacation stories for the most part. I mean you got anything else. I mean as far as the holidays here and good, I Got anything else. I mean as far as the holidays here and good. I know there's people who don't stay home for the holidays. They actually are away at Christmas. They don't go shortly after. I mean they're gone during.

Kerry: 25:55

I've only. The only time we've actually gone away during Christmas is a few years ago. We went to Las Vegas to visit my grandkids and we wanted to be there, you know, when they woke up Christmas morning but other than that, no, but anyways, yeah, you have to envy those people.

Chrisy: 26:05

They don't have to decorate.

Kerry: 26:06

Oh, I don't they don't have to, I don't Wait a minute. What I don't?

Chrisy: 26:10

decorate. Wait, you don't go away, but you don't decorate. What's happening over there? Well, this is, this is my.

Kerry: 26:26

Is this a religious choice? This is my thing. So if my son and his family and wife and kids come home at thanksgiving. Then we will go get a tree and we will decorate a tree, a live tree.

Kerry: 26:31

Yeah, we'll probably talk about that another episode, but but if they, don't come home and then we go away at any time period between thanksgiving and christmas, then to me it's like then why bother decorate, because I'm not going to be home, there's no one to enjoy it, it's just going to. Why bother decorate, because I'm not going to be home, there's no one to enjoy it, it's just going to be us and that's a lot of work so I don't decorate.

Chrisy: 26:54

What about a little tabletop?

Kerry: 26:56

tree there, Carrie.

Chrisy: 26:56

Come on, no, no, no, some multicolored lights in the house somewhere.

Kerry: 26:58

No A bulb, a bell, no, as much as you people might think.

Chrisy: 27:00

Chrissy hates the holidays To hear somebody say they don't decorate.

Kerry: 27:05

I know, and I do love Christmas. I like the lights, like we will always go. Here's a plug Columbus Zoo. You should be paying us right now for this plug. They have their zoo lights. It's probably the best light show anywhere. So I love going seeing it. I love going and being absorbed in it. It's just too much work seeing it, I love going and being absorbed in it. It's just too much work. I don't want to do it. Stocking, no, oh well, with your, we do. We do pull out our stockings if we do christmas presents or anything, which again we'll get into another episode. But yeah, I might have a stocking out, but that's just christmas eve, that's it. Wow, I know you are so strong. No, I'm so dysfunctionally traumatized that's what it is.

Chrisy: 27:44

Let's just say it's strength, because that's what we do here, junkies we turn our trauma into strength.

Kerry: 27:51

That is true, that is true. So on that note, everybody, keep your strength up. We got one more week till the holiday season, and it's what reaches its pinnacle with Christmas next week. But other than that, Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah and all the other happy holidays and everything else to all of you Merry Christmas, everybody All right, we'll see you next week. Bye, bye.