By Cathi Coppinger

Are you counting down the days until you get off work for the holidays? And sometime around December 28th … are you counting down the days until you can get away from your crazy FAMILY and back to the sweet relief of work? Fifty-six percent of people say they usually need a vacation from their holiday vacation, according to a new survey by Priceline. That means more than HALF of us find the holidays THAT stressful. More than half of people would rather stay at a hotel than at a family member’s house for the holidays. Twenty-nine percent of people secretly wish at least one family member wouldn’t show up on Christmas. And 43 percent of people have to fake “holiday cheer” at least once this month.