Status Updates From My Favorite Holidate

Athletes. Food is a tractor beam for them.

Why should I invite Brady's new girlfriend anyway? She's coming to the wedding. I don't need to invite everyone to the shower.

And maybe you could come over in advance?

To help you get ready?

No. Because it wouldn't make sense if you're seeing my home for the first time when everyone else is. You should know where things are, like the library. The movie room. The bathroom ...

The bedroom.

Women can't survive shower planning solo. It's a special kind of task that requires not one, not two, but three girlfriends for support.

(Josie = "The Boyfriend Goal"; Max = "The Romance Line"; Asher = "The Proposal Play"; Rachel = "Plays Well with Others")

I'm not simply showing Brady how a woman should be treated. I'm showing her, and she deserves to know how it feels when a man pays attention.

She [Tinashe] did a cover [of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"] that sounds a little like -

Like a seduction.

It usually snows at my cabins in Evergreen Falls ...

They're hardly cabins.

The snow doesn't care about that.

And it's romantic. When you look out the window and you see the flakes falling and everything goes hush, it makes you want to spend the day, and the night, with ... that special someone.

I like snow. It's soft, it's quiet, it's peaceful. Snow makes everything beautiful. You can have the busiest day, a million things going on, but when the snow falls, it calms the whole world down.

Leftovers are the unsung heroes of the food world.

Because the flavors have had time to hang out together.

Antique maps cover the walls. “Do you collect?”

“I do,” he says.

Why?

I like knowing what the world was.

To know what it can be?

Yes. Exactly.

“That’s very you,” I say. “Especially with your new businesses, like the energy ones.”

You think so?

Yes. You like to understand the future. To help shape it.

I hope so. And I hope to shape it for the best.