With the economy in the tanker, and everything from iPhones to UberTwitter buzzing in sensory overload, Mimi is ready to take a step back from it all this holiday season. See ya, Facebook! Nice knowin ya, twitterverse! Buh-bye, blackberry! Ok, so I’m not going totally Amish, but I will be taking a serious chill pill. (Haha- ’92, much?)

What will Mimi be doing during this HoHoHoHiatus? Granted I am letting my imagination run a little wild, but in between holiday shindigs and fun family follies, I will be curling up by the fire, drinking gallons of hot chocolate and indulging in my favorite holiday movies and books. While I’m talking the classics, this is no run of the mill Frosty, Rudolph, Charlie B. list. O, HighEnders, ya know Mimi’s far more clever than that ;)

Holidays on Ice I have been obsessed with David Sedaris since the moment I stumbled on Naked as a clueless high school freshman. His pitch-perfect wit is like the perfect dirty martini- ice-cold, dry with a “wait…what just happened?” after-effect! Well, Holidays on Ice delivers a bundle of laughs, just with a naughty mistletoe theme.

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Little Women My most beloved memory from grade school was a mother-daughter field trip to see Little Women. I don’t know if I was drinking the Claire Danes koolaid that flowed freely during the ’90s, or if I truly understood how special this story of sisterhood and family was, but something about that day is still so magical to me. Gosh, and how adorable was Christian Bale as Lawry?

Home Alone Three words- Macaulay as KEVVVVIIIINNN! ♥

Steel Magnolias/Imitation of Life Although these two films aren’t particularly Christmas-themed, there’s something about their weepy storylines that goes right along with the hyper-emotional holidays. Imitation tells the heartbreaking mother-daughter tale of a light-skinned black woman who passes for white in the 1950s, thus rejecting her devoted mother and all ties to her black heritage. It was important in its time for tackling tough race issues, and fifty years later it is just as relevant. The funeral scene alone is a weep fest! And speaking of cinematic tears, Steel Magnolias will evoke tears even from the most Grinchly of people with its tale of steadfast friendship between women in a small Louisiana town. If  the phrase “Pink is my signature color” has you coming up blank, find this film NOW!

A Christmas Memory Truman Capote’s poignant holiday tale marks another moment of childhood nostalgia. We would read the story aloud in grade school, and there was always something so stirring and haunting about this tale of precocious eleven-year-old Buddy and his young at heart cousin Sook. This is a classic that evokes simpler times of clementines, a pair of kites, and fruitcakes gifted to everyone from faraway family to Franklin Roosevelt.

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Tis the season, HighEnders, to go beyond shoppin’ and shindiggin’ to satisfy your holiday soul! What are your favorite holiday books/films?