Energize

Tis the season! Of cheer! Of joy! Of revelry!

Also: energy drinks. It’s a good time to stock up on some energy drinks.

You see, between Halloween and Thanksgiving, the ‘holiday season’ exists a flicker in the back of your mind. It only really crystalizes in the week leading up to Turkey Day, and even then, you’re too busy getting ready to really enjoy the true holiday magic.

It’s this period of time–the days after Thanksgiving–when it really set in. The cheer is not somewhere over the horizon. No, it’s here, and it’s overwhelming. Hanukkah starts in just a few short days. Then there’s Christmas. Kwanzaa. New Year’s Eve.

It’s just hit after hit after hit.

Which makes this time so weird. Like, how are you expected to get anything done when there’s cocoa and egg nog to sip and fruit cakes to eat and movies to watch and lights to hang and music to listen to and presents to wrap and all that? Wouldn’t it be better if we just canceled everything for the month of December and basked in the holly jolly glow of it all?

Maybe. But, alas, we don’t.

No, unfortunately, if you have a few too many mulled wines and stay up watching ‘It’s a Wonderful Lifetime’ Christmas romances straight until the channel turns the reigns over to ‘paid programming,’ you still need to get up the next day and fulfill your various professional and personal commitments.

And, actually, you might have more commitments than usual. You might spend a day at the office and then get home and have to whip up some sugar cookies for your kid’s holiday bake sale the next day. Or some pigs-in-a-blanket for the holiday potluck at work. Or some hot buttered rum mix for the cocktail-and-ugly-sweater party your friend’s hosting next Friday.

Will drinking some cold cans of Rowdy energy drinks–each one packed with 160mg of natural caffeine and a calorie count of -135 (seriously, they claim each can burns up to 135 calories)–help with all this?

Yes and no.

Like, you’re not going to be functioning at 100% during the holidays. There’s too much going on. Just accept that and keep on trucking. But this stuff might, at least, help keep you awake for all the hours you need to be awake if you have any chance of getting everything done on your to-do list.

And then, come January, when you resolve to work out more, they’ll be great for that too.

So get some, and pump a little energy into the holidays this year!