Whenever I hear someone utter the word ennui, I automatically assume that they have watched Gilmore Girls & are trying to assimilate everything Gilmore into their lifestyle. It’s probably not true, but at least then I can be civil to them. The day after Christmas seems to be ennui filled. (Hey, I said I knew the word. I never said I knew how to use it correctly.) Lorelai defines ennui as:

“Webster’s defines ennui as a lazy soon to be out of work French concierge who won’t answer the phone.”

Dictionary.com defines ennui as:

“a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom”

Do normal none Gilmore Girls Fanatics say the word ennui? I’ve noticed it in written form a few times but I think that’s because the Gilmores have taken ennui more mainstream

Picking out Christmas presents can be difficult. Here are a few gifts that the Gilmores do not recommend:

• Anything from the cat store, such as hot pads with cats on them or a garbage can with a cat on it. Luke made this mistake the first time when he was shopping for Rachel’s birthday in season one. He repeated it shopping for April’s birthday in a later season. I think someone else once made a tragic purchase at the cat store but I don’t remember who or what. The point is that just because someone likes cats doesn’t mean that they want cat stuff in the kitchen.
• Do not give your daughter in law a hall tree. She will just put it in the basement, or give it to her daughter who will then put it in her basement. If you routinely check their house to see if your gift is there, it probably will be. However, your daughter in law might be complaining about a back ache.
• Very few of us dream that someday our signifigant other will give us a “really confusing Czechoslovakian novel.”

Finally, remember these words from Lane:

LANE: You have to look at what a gift says to the other person, not to you. Remember two years ago, I got my mom that perfume?

RORY: Yeah.

LANE: Ok, to me that said, ‘Hey mom, you work hard, you deserve something fancy’. Now to my mother, it said ‘Hey mom, here’s some smelly sex juice, the kind I use to lure boys with’ and resulted in me being sent to Bible camp all summer.

Cooking for guests is an essential/annoying part of the holidays. There is the pressure of sticking with foods that people will actually eat, but they also need to seem festive. You can always follow Luke’s lead & make a Santa burger. Since, I don’t actually cook & I couldn’t find a picture of a Santa burger online, I had to improvise the recipe. As close as I can tell:

First, cook a hamburger.

The Santa Burger is an open faced sandwich. Cut wonder bread & make a hat out of ketchup & a beard out of cream cheese.

No one will ever ask you to cook again.

What with the economy being in the crapper many people are being faced with losing their jobs. I haven’t yet, but if/when I do I am determined to celebrate new challenges. I love the scene where Lorelai shows up with a bottle of booze to excitedly tell Sookie & Jackson that the Independence Inn is closing.

It can be scary when everything is up in the air, but maybe you’ll get to start your own inn. I know it’s not much, but certainly a Merv Albert cd will make everything better. Do not steal a boat like Rory did that one time. I repeat, do not steal a boat.