Savvy shopper Christine Mitchell is here to save your procrastinating ass

We're the kind of people you see sprinting frantically around the mall on Christmas Eve, mainlining food-court coffee with sweat streaming down our red faces as we elbow other hapless procrastinators out of our way because WE SAW THAT SCARF FIRST AIGHT? But we're not proud of it.

By now, we hope you've checked out all the parties, shows, and opportunities for some end-of-2011 debauchery in our New Year's Eve listings. But if you're more of a gourmand than a hard-partier, perhaps a classy dinner for two (or more...whatever you're into) is more up your alley. We rounded up just a few of the many, many restaurants around town offering special prix fixe New Year's menus.

Don't cry....we've got your holidays covered.

Phew, we're almost there. Just a few more work days and we can all dive headfirst into a man-sized vat of egg nog and marinate there until next year. What with all the shopping, stressing about the strain said shopping is having on your wallet, and forced merriment, your holiday spirits are probably already drooping.

 This clip from a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live has been making the rounds, and we think it's just the perfect thing for getting you and yours into the holiday mood.

With less than three weeks until Christmas (and less than two until Hanukkah) it's time to get focused and get into the holiday spirit...whether you're ready or not. Check out all the festively fun shit around town this week...pub crawls, holiday trivia, gift fairs, theater, and more!

HARPOON HOLIDAY PARTY | Eight Harpoon beers on tap, complimentary appetizers, and live music by Radio Riot, proceeds benefit Toys For Tots | Friday, December 9 @ 8 pm | $5 or a toy | Harp, 85 Causeway St, Boston | 617.

Only 25 more shopping days left. . . . so begins the jolliest (and undeniably the most stressful) time of the year. Especially these days, with the economy wallowing in the shitter. So what's a cash-poor holiday shopper to do? Well, we suggest checking out the many handmade and DIY craft fairs popping up this week (and throughout the rest of the month.

Just when you thought the Internet had reached its full capacity of clever Antoine Dodson spoofs: we found this. And just in time for the holidays! Liberty University's choir has composed a Christmas re-mix of Dodson's impassioned rape PSA. Did we mention that Liberty University is a conservative Christian school, founded by Jerry Falwell? Hide yo' kids, hide yo' wife: the Moral Majority has discovered the power of Internet memes! We give it about two days before someone auto-tunes this video.