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Badge Of The Month | December 2021
Question: What is your ideal holiday experience? Alternatively, tell us about your favorite holiday treats and eats!
Qualtrics reduces staffing between December 24th to January 1st to give their employees time to celebrate the holidays. If you were given this respite from work and given the means to do anything you wanted, how would you ideally spend that week? Would you travel? See a distant relative? Eat holiday cookies and watch holiday movies? Let your imagination and experience design skills run wild!
, putting up the tree while drinking hot cocoa or cider, listening to music, and thinking about the year nearly passed and the year ahead. This year, especially, it's going to be a sense of both comfort and possibility! ⛄️❄️
This is how we celebrate Christmas in Florida, although every now and then I do miss the snow around the holidays. Looking forward to another holiday with my family. It's always fun to count how many times per hour my nephew asks "Can we open a present?"
I love travelling, but it's so stressful around the holidays. If I could have anything, I'd rent a mountain cabin nearby that's large enough for my whole family to come stay here for a couple of weeks! We could decorate and celebrate together. We could have bonfires every night and open gifts on Christmas morning. Maybe we'd even be lucky enough to have a white Christmas (like last year). 
Oregon Hot Springs
I would like to go to Honolulu in the winter time, where it's summery. I like to do contradicting trips like that, such as an Alaskan cruise in the summer. I think it's because I have a young kid. It's harder to do outdoor activities with them when it's cold, so if we're at a place where daylight lasts longer during winter then it's easier to get out of the house, enjoy the fresh air and scenery and explore the locale. If I'm stuck at home trying to avoid Covid, then I'd like to do some cooking, crafts and coloring with the kid, home improvement DIYs, net flicks, and online shopping. All these things take a lot of time and having a block of time to do it lessens the stress that comes with preparing for them. Honolulu, in particular out of all the Hawaiian islands, offers the best of both worlds where you get the rural serenity and the high end dining/shopping at the same time. Good food does not come cheap there but you get a very different selection than where you live. And having a swim in the ocean always whet your appetite for an incredible meal experience. I could've sworn I had the best greasy wilted fries after coming in from the waves, not to mention the best slumber on the planet surrounded by heat but under the lulling palms. Then when I awake, I call for the beach waiter and he brings me a freshly made piña colada right to my lounge chair. And with the phone in my hand while sipping juice, I'm video-calling my close friends and family back at home who are cuddling under their blankets and adorned in scarves and beanies. 😏 
My best downtime is spent walking in the woods with this sweet face and my sweetheart. And sometimes my kids - but their downtime usually involves laying around in their PJs all day.