Christmas Plans 2009...
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Isn't it a bit early to be talking about Christmas? We haven't even had Halloween yet.
Regardless, my family will be celebrating, so by default, I guess I will be too, even though I don't identify as Christian or really care for the holiday much. I don't mind the gift-giving (or especially the gift-receiving
) and seeing the relatives, but I could do without the hustle-and-bustle of it all. Plus, I'm not one to feel the "spirit of the season" at Christmas.
So I'll just give a "Bah humbug" as well.
Regardless, my family will be celebrating, so by default, I guess I will be too, even though I don't identify as Christian or really care for the holiday much. I don't mind the gift-giving (or especially the gift-receiving
) and seeing the relatives, but I could do without the hustle-and-bustle of it all. Plus, I'm not one to feel the "spirit of the season" at Christmas. So I'll just give a "Bah humbug" as well.
Since my parents live more than a 1000km away and won't be visiting it'll be a low key thing for me. Make a normal dinner, no christmas tree (waste of money in my opinion.. poor tree gets cut down so i can hang some bling on it? Don't think so) and watch some TV or do something else.
After christmas it depends on my workplace.. i get off until New Years i'll probably go visit some friends and celebrate with them. If not relax and party locally.
After christmas it depends on my workplace.. i get off until New Years i'll probably go visit some friends and celebrate with them. If not relax and party locally.
I love Christmas. It's my favorite time of year. My mother goes all out to celebrate it.Coming to my mother's house for Christmas is something I look forward to all year long. I just love buying presents and putting up y own little tree. I have a fake tree, with more than a few miles on it, but with all the ornaments I put on it, who is gonna know? I doecorate my own house, even though it's only the two of us.
TheLonelySquire
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Christmas Eve with family at our house. Friends come over and stay late. Christmas morning with my wife and daughter. Christmas night we fly out of JFK to Sao Paulo to see family in Brazil.
In Brazil it'll be about 100 F. Can;t get any better than that.
In Brazil it'll be about 100 F. Can;t get any better than that.
While the plan isn't firm and set in place just yet, my fiancee and I are thinking of going to visit her paternal relatives in Mississippi. We'd be staying in a house with heat set at hundred YAY! It will be special since it will be our first Christmas as a couple (yeah we got engaged fast).
I have to disagree here! Christmas is better for me because my parents spend more on christmas than my birthday. It doesnt help that my birthday is 6th of january when everyone has run out of money...
I hear ya. My Dad died on Christmas Day of 1987, since then it's always been kind of a bittersweet holiday for me.
My Dad has maybe a few months left in him. Would not be surprised if he passed in the 2 month span between Thanksgiving and my birthday. (My Mom and I have birthdays on consecutive days in January, so holiday time spilled over a couple more weeks)
It will most likely be a more somber time this year.
It will most likely be a more somber time this year.
It's only September! I don't really want to even think about Christmas until at least early December.
Unfortunatly for me I work in a supermarket, and we've already started selling Christmas crap like Selection Boxes
It's lost its appeal for me now I'm an adult, and it seems to come around really quickly too. When you're a kid a year felt like a decade, now it seems like it was Christmas 2008 last week. Ideally I'd have it every other year
Unfortunatly for me I work in a supermarket, and we've already started selling Christmas crap like Selection Boxes
It's lost its appeal for me now I'm an adult, and it seems to come around really quickly too. When you're a kid a year felt like a decade, now it seems like it was Christmas 2008 last week. Ideally I'd have it every other year
We (my wife, daughter and myself) are flying from CA to ND where my dad, mom, brothers and sister live, so that's going to be $1,500 - $2,000. We're looking forward to it, as we haven't been home for Christmas for about 5 years. I also miss the snow during Christmas.
Then next May, my stepdaughter is getting married, so we've been helping her out ($$) and saving for a week long mini getaway.
Long story short, it's going to be a fun Christmas but we're skimping on the presents.
Then next May, my stepdaughter is getting married, so we've been helping her out ($$) and saving for a week long mini getaway.
Long story short, it's going to be a fun Christmas but we're skimping on the presents.
My wife and I are getting ourselves a Wii for Xmas. We don't really need a whole lot of stuff and have wanted one for some time. Seems like a good excuse.
We are picking a few NFL games (straight score, no spread) each week to see who gets to play as the Patriots first in Madden. Given the way they are playing so far though, I may have to start throwing some of my picks.
We are picking a few NFL games (straight score, no spread) each week to see who gets to play as the Patriots first in Madden. Given the way they are playing so far though, I may have to start throwing some of my picks.
TheLonelySquire
Vice Admiral
Mallory and Pookha,
Sorry to hear that. But as you both likely know they live on in our hearts and are part of us everyday. Lost my dad right after 9-11 and he's still right here with me.
Ah Christmas, buuuuut no Queen's speech for me again this year, I shall be sat in the mess room of a ship swilling cheap liquor down my throat with the rest of the crew in a massive desperate orgy of drunken depravity that may just distract us all from the horror of whichever dump of a harbour we're in this Christmas, I shall then head to the dayroom - of course stepping over the various crew members who, high on a heady mix of turky and carlsberg have decieded to provide the rest of us with gossip for the rest of year by copulating in a locker or in the galley, or maybe just the alleyway - where I shall sit with a large amount of vodka and cigarettes drinking in a desperate attempt to shut out the conversations of the various crewmembers I have come to loathe and detest over the years. At some point maybe around 0400 hrs I shall crawl bck to my bunk, perhaps pausing to vomit copiously in someone else's cabin as a little morning present for them, and then I shall slip into blessed unconciousness.
Yes, it's my happiest time of the year.
Yes, it's my happiest time of the year.
I try my best not to celebrate Christmas but somehow I have a feeling I'll have no choice but to get a few gifts this year. It's always been a depressing time of year for me since everyone else I know is with their family that day while I'm stuck alone in my apartment with no work, school and nothing open really to go to.
Christmas is wonderful, but because of the layout of my life I don't have family or friends to spend it with. Because of budget constraints running through the end of this year, I have additional cause not to make any special plans.
The holiday will consist of a 4' fiberoptic Christmas tree on one of my office desks and Christmas movie reruns from my DVD collection. I am crossing my fingers for a more Christmas compatable 2010.
The holiday will consist of a 4' fiberoptic Christmas tree on one of my office desks and Christmas movie reruns from my DVD collection. I am crossing my fingers for a more Christmas compatable 2010.
I love Christmas.
I have a huge money box that me and my son put our spare change into during from June to December. This is our Christmas meal fund. We usually end up with about $250-300.
I buy Christmas presents for my mother, my sons, and my two best friends and I get presents back from them. My mother always gives me money as a present but everyone else buys me a present they know I will like. I collect things so people usually get me something along the lines of what I collect.
We are debating whether we should have Christmas dinner at home (myself, youngest son and my two best friends and possibly myy middle son as well) or whether to have a picnic at the beach.
EDITED TO ADD - My house is an alcohol-free zone so I do not have to worry about any drunkeness (unless my eldest son turns up drunk and unexpected like he did three years ago).
I have a huge money box that me and my son put our spare change into during from June to December. This is our Christmas meal fund. We usually end up with about $250-300.
I buy Christmas presents for my mother, my sons, and my two best friends and I get presents back from them. My mother always gives me money as a present but everyone else buys me a present they know I will like. I collect things so people usually get me something along the lines of what I collect.
We are debating whether we should have Christmas dinner at home (myself, youngest son and my two best friends and possibly myy middle son as well) or whether to have a picnic at the beach.
EDITED TO ADD - My house is an alcohol-free zone so I do not have to worry about any drunkeness (unless my eldest son turns up drunk and unexpected like he did three years ago).
