Flight of the Conchords Saved Christmas!

Thank god for Flight of The Conchords. They totally saved Christmas from being a re - run of last years total disaster of a Christmas Eve. Without going into details about stuff, all I can say is that my mother in law - who I love and respect a lot - has got some anger management to work with when it comes to christmas. Every year she says : "I don't want to fix a big fancy christmas dinner with a hundred different things to choose from..." and we all say that's ok and where happy with little and so on. And still each year she works her ass off fixing all these things that nobody is really asking for and by the time we all come over to her and her husband's apartement, she is so angry and mopy that there is no end to it. Irritable and...well, just not very pleasant to be around. Last year was a disaster and I had to tell her to shut up and start acting like a grown up, which of course didn't cheer things up.Yesterday I felt like it was about to turn down than crocked old dead end street again, but instead we put on the Flight Of the Conchords dvd that my wife and I gave to her sister and boyfriend. Me and my wife both love the Conchords, so does her sister, but I was pretty surpriced to find out that the one laughing the most was my mother in law! Both her and her husband were laughing hard all through the 6 episodes that we watched. Yep, instead of talking - we all sat down for hours watching Flight Of the Conchords on Christmas Eve. May be a good recipy for the future - don't sit down around a table, just put that dvd on and laugh together instead!
And we did. Laughing, drinking beer, eating dinner and afterwards way too much chocolate.
Tomorrow I'll be doing double bikram yoga classes to set straight my poor body from all that meat and candy. And the beer, let's not forget about the beer...