Any chance your family could join you at work on Christmas Day...help share or serve a meal? Our former Pastor and his wife would cook breakfast at the Homeless Shelter every Christmas morning...it was a wonderful way to start the day. However you spend that day, it will be time well invested David.
Funny you should mention Planes, Trains and Automobiles...Mr.Alffe makes me watch that movie every year...we own it and I know it by heart.

He refuses to watch my favorite....It's a Wonderful Life! Says it's too schmaltzy.

I love schmaltzy!
I'm glad you liked the Letter from Jesus...I received it in an email from a dear friend who winters in Florida....God and I don't correspond...*grin, but I do talk to Him on a daily basis. (He keeps whispering "forgive" to me...I'm trying.)