...and you're invited! You are welcome if you are: sad, happy, alone, connected, excited, bored, introverted, extroverted, queer, straight, quirky, normal, conventional, unconventional, spendy*, frugal, scared, confident...
The party is Festivus/Christmas/Early Kwanzaa/Belated Solstice/Nothing/Post Hanukkah/A Day/December 25th.
If you will feel happy to be with Friends With Mustaches on December 25th, grab your drink of choice, pull up a chair, and look for a thread here along the lines of Mustachey Christmas Café, or some other reasonably obvious title. It may well be started by any of our MMM friends in China, New Zealand, Australia, etc. Whoever is interested, bring your own set of keys in case you arrive first. If so, open the door, put on the kettle, and prepare to be joined off and on throughout the day, as everyone feels like. (You get to take off at whatever point you like, too; one of the rest of us will lock up.)
Bring: nothing, a poem about the day, a poem having absolutely nothing to do with the day, a note about the TV shows you're taking the opportunity to binge on, a map of the hike you're about to take, a link to you singing us a carol on YouTube, photos of your hot tub, a list of things you hate about the season, a description of the nachos you're enjoying, your enthusiasm about the book you've just opened, highlights of the spending you avoided this month, the scent of bubble bath you'll be immersing yourself in and a reasonable estimate of how high the bubbles will go, the cause you're writing a letter on behalf of that day...
Merry (or Crabby) Anything! See some of you then! :)
* That's right: Even you!