Now here’s an image worth a holiday chuckle: a dozen naked women in the gym locker room rushing to get their pants on to the tune of “Jingle Bells.” <\/p>\n
“I wish they would just kill the music,” one woman says, and we all laugh.<\/p>\n
For the moment the gym is my support group. These women, I\u2019m guessing, are going after the endorphin buzz during the holidays because alcohol and recreational drugs don\u2019t work anymore. Like me, they can\u2019t pray or meditate right now either. Every time they close their eyes, they have visions of the angry Santa Clause at the mall, infinite check-out lines at Toys-R-Us, and the crisis of no stocking-stuffer ideas. The only peace available to me and my soul sisters is acquired by getting our heart rates into the fat-burning zone\u2014running, cycling, or climbing the calories away to the North Pole, where we will eat them up again.<\/p>\n
If it weren\u2019t for the two-hour childcare limit, I\u2019d stay on the treadmill all day this week, getting off only to consume candy-cane cookies and coffee. That\u2019s how much I love Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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