The movie I have chosen to watch is A Shoe Addict's Christmas, one of Hallmark's new Christmas Movies this year. The beverage of choice is a sparkling cranberry vodka, this was honestly the most festive drink I could think of, I'm more of a beer person to be honest. Now buckle up it's going to be a wild ride. Fair warning, this post will contain spoilers for the movie, also if you need a reference here's the Hallmark Christmas Drinking Game rules sheet.
We then meet her love interest, Jake, who is a fireman. Jake talks about taking a new desk job but doesn't want to leave because the fire station reminds him of his father, who used to be captain. Drink again, there's another dead parent! The cut back to Noelle, who is at her job at the department store, decorating the store for the holidays and ogling the shoes. Jingle Bells is playing in the background, so take another drink! Then she heads back to her apartment only to find boxes all over the lobby. Turns out she has a new neighbor, and you guessed it, it's her handsome fireman love interest. He introduces himself, she's does the same, and he cracks a holiday joke at her name, DRINK!
The next day, Noelle is back at work and her boss gives her a special task, to find the name of an employee from the 90s as part of a present he's putting together for his mother, the owner of the store. Noelle has to go down to the basement to find it, eventually she gives up for the day and heads back up to the store. Turns out a blizzard struck and her boss closed up the store and sent everyone home early. She's snowed in, TAKE TWO DRINKS!
While waiting for someone to rescue her, Noelle meets her Christmas Angel, who is wearing an ugly Christmas sweater, drink! The Christmas Angel offers her a pair of shoes that will take her back to Christmas past. She accepts the shoes and take a drink for the magic deal with the Angel! She goes back to her past Christmas and takes the advice of her Christmas Angel. She makes a different choice and now she's on a different path. After getting a glimpse of this new path she is brought back to her reality, still snowed in at the department store. However, the fire department has showed up! Guess who saves her? That's right her hunky new neighbor.
Flash forward it has been a couple of days, Noelle has been hard at work planning the Annual Firefighter's Gala. She heads home after one day of work and gets hit by a snowball. Turns out Jake was having a snowball fight with some local kids, take two drinks. Then they find out they have to work together to plan the gala. So the fun begins, Noelle's Christmas Angel, still wearing the ugly sweater so drink, starts pushing the two together. They take a horse drawn carriage ride together and jingle bells plays in the background, DRINK! Noelle resists the Christmas Angel at first, but she starts to come around. She takes the second pair of shoes given to her and is transported to another event where she could have had a different outcome. This time it is to strengthen her relationship with her father. They drink hot cocoa, take a drink, and bond over how much they both miss Noelle's mother, and take another drink.
After that trip to the past, Noelle starts to lighten up. She grabs hot cocoa with her Dad in real life, drink. Then on another errand for planning the gala, Jake and Noelle end up making Christmas cookies thanks to the Christmas Angel, and take another drink. Jake and Noelle start to get closer, they decorate the Christmas tree together. That's a holiday tradition right? We're going to take a drink here anyways.
Noelle wants some answers about this alternate future that she could have had, so she asks her Christmas Angel for the details. The Angel obliges and gives her this cheesy Christmas metaphor. She compares every opportunity to a sleigh, which that alone deserves all of the drinks. Noelle takes her Angel's advice and starts to fall in love with Jake. But oh no, her boss and the mean owner of the store don't want her to plan the gala with Jake anymore because he's too free spirited and the gala is a regal affair. Also Jingle Bells is playing in the background. Drink! Man that department store really likes to play Jingle Bells. Noelle, not wanting to hurt Jake's feelings, bakes him some Christmas cookies to try to break the news to him. Drink! After seeing how excited he is for the gala, Noelle is unable to break the news to him. Instead he asks her to be his date to his fire station's Christmas party.
Eventually, Jake finds out he is longer allowed to help plan the gala and he's obviously upset with Noelle. Noelle then gets upset with the Christmas Angel. Ya da ya da, Christmas magic, everyone makes up. Noelle and her Christmas Angel are friends again and she gets one last look into Noelle's possible future. It's with Jake! Noelle and Jake make up and the gala, the store owner apologizes and says the gala could use a little more fun. It starts to snow and ends with a Christmas kiss, and then you finish up your drink!
A Shoe Addict's Christmas definitely lives up to the Hallmark Movie Formula. It's a great cheesy movie to watch with friends and family and enjoy a cocktail or two. Luckily, playing the drinking game with this movie wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, I had a total of three drinks. Enjoy all the Hallmark Christmas movies that are currently playing. And if you choose to play the Hallmark Christmas Drinking Game, please do so in a responsible manner! Until tomorrow.
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