Scene in Detroit: Breathe Between Parties

By Amelia Kanan, CBS Detroit Blogger 

Christmas is over and there are only a few days to rest up before we start prepping for our next holiday, New Year's Eve.

Whether you are hosting a party in your home, at a venue or just attending a party as a guest, things can get overwhelming. Not only are you dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Christmas but you also begin to stress about figuring out the menu, shopping for that perfect outfit, cleaning, confirming your guest list, getting a last minute babysitter, ordering a limo and if your single, pondering the age old question that is "to bring a date or to not bring a date".

Not to mention, you might even have to work every day this week!

However, all the craziness aside, I feel it's most important during these days to breathe. Relax. Parties and celebrations aren't the things that define our lives, it's the days in between those things that do.

So, enjoy these last few minutes that makes up a sequence of time we look forward to all year. If you have a fireplace, strike it up. If there is a holiday movie you haven't seen yet, watch it.

Also, since the weather has been so warm, soak it up and take advantage by enjoying some outdoor activities that you normally don't get to do around this time of year. Life blows by so fast and it's easy to get caught up in the gust of it. I'm making a point to throw my anchor overboard and allow the wind to blow my hair, not my spirit.

Amelia Kanan is freelance writer/photographer and a returning native of Detroit. A graduate of Columbia College in Chicago, she wrote for an Emmy nominated sketch comedy show and pursued her passion for documentary filmmaking in Los Angeles. An incomplete list of her loves: books, human rights, improv, the smell of new shoes, talking to strangers, libraries, France, yoga, furniture, music, sociology and pushing the limits.