Let me take a stab at this:
One, you are guilt-tripped into spending the holidays with your family; Two, you show up, however, you spend most of your time reading the Lord of The Rings trilogy while swigging bitter home made espressos hoping that some sort of alchemy will occur between Tolkien's turgid prose and the caffeine that will blot out all the family joy and merriness; Three, you raid the liquor cabinet and attempt to create a new drink out of a mix of cheap tequila, rum, whiskey and allspice; Four, when you are feeling sufficiently festive you collapse on the couch and watch Comedy Central; Five, you forget steps five though eight; Nine, as you leave "home" you think "hey, work isn't so bad;" Ten, Happy New Year!