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1. ditch the cat and get a dog.
2. ignore the fight. you could try talking it out, but odds are it will degrade into a "you did this or that" kind of thing where you try to put out the fire by pouring gas on it.
2 A. instead, do something really christmassy, but cool and in your own idiom, and show her you aren't a total scrooge.
i will share this scheme i have been plotting, maybe it will help: take your wife out to a pre christmas lunch, but instead of a restaurant, take her to a hotel room that you have decorated with christmassy stuff in advance and have room service. then let the stocking stuffing commence. don't know if your wife's boss is cool, but i called ahead to my wife's boss and let her know that i had a surprise scheme in mind and she gave her the afternoon off.
if you need music, i suggest the elvis christmas album or the phil spector christmas album. way more tolerable than anything by jewel. i dated a girl once and i knew if i came home and she was listening to either jewel or tori amos that a fight was pending, because that is classic "all men are assholes" music.
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