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but oh well. I love Christmas too much to not start this thread early.
I only started this thread because I've begun listening to Christmas music. Has anyone else?
Blahblahdiscuss christmas.
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(http://sarahnelsonwright.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/sufjanchristmas.jpg)
(actually, I really really really dig Sufjan's xmas EPs)
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After working 17 years of retail (the first 8 of those in toy stores), this is my 2nd Christmas in a row I WON'T be on the wrong side of the counter (the bright silver lining to getting fired last year), so maybe I'll be able to untense enough to actually enjoy some of the season this year.
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Shane, Sufan's good, but I'll raise you an even better album.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/BrittanyMarie/333.jpg)
I also stole this last year (http://www.amazon.com/Maybe-This-Christmas-Various-Artists/dp/B0002S94XY) from my radio station and by "stole" I mean copied to my laptop. Some songs are not so great, but I think I'd still rather listen to this album in full than most other Christmas collections. I like the Raveonettes one the best, I think.
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My favourite Christmas music is Vince Guaraldi Trio's music from "A Charlie Brown Christmas".
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Oh man, Low's Christmas album is so good. I had it on my computer last year but then deleted it and haven't tried to find it again.
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Still probably the only Low release that I don't dislike.
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Best Christmas record:
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Melt-Banana - White Christmas
Secret Chiefs 3 - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her - Here Comes Santa Claus
Gastr Del Sol - The Bells Of St. Mary
Hair Stylistics - Sleigh Ride
S.O.B. - Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers
God Is My Co-Pilot - Marshmallow World
Merzbow - Silent Night
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My favourite Christmas music is Vince Guaraldi Trio's music from "A Charlie Brown Christmas".
It's the only pop Christmas music CD that I don't hate. Speaking of which, who else has a family tradition of listening to Handel's "Messiah" on Christmas day? I was the coolest kid on the block!
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I grew up on Elvis, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt, etc for Christmas. I also quite enjoy rocking the Saddle Creek Christmas cd too.
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-ed; idea!
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It's never too early for christmas, apparently. I went to the store on Nov. 1 and saw an entire aisle dedicated to christmas candies and decor.
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They've already started playing Christmas music here on two different channels. I hate when they do that
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I'm surprised the stores even wait until after Halloween to start decorating for Christmas. Does it really help sales? I personally avoid stores these days because I don't want to endure two months of Christmas, but I guess I'm vastly in the minority? Everyone I know hates it. In fact, in my house there was only one day on which Christmas music was allowed to be played while my father was at home (my mother would play it while decorating), and that was December 25th, damnit.
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I really, really dislike Christmas. As soon as the carols start playing in stores I get very annoyed when having to go shopping. My mother would make a big thing about how we had to have a tree and decorate it, where we all had to be there to put the star on, and while that was great when we were kids, after a certain age my brother and I just didn't care, so she got annoyed at us. Plus, after a few years of Christmas Day ended in arguments neither of us actually wanted to be there to pretend to be a happy family.
The only good thing about it is that New Year is really soon after that, and once January 1 comes about then the supermarkets start making hot cross buns, so I get to eat them for months before it is hard to find them again.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one, Hannah.
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who else has a family tradition of listening to Handel's "Messiah"
Every couple of years, when my grandmother was alive, my family used to drive from Canberra, where we lived, to Adelaided, where she lived, for Christmas. That's a fifteen-hour drive. When my brother got old enough to drive we'd do it all in one go, starting soon at dawn and ending well after dark, with my mum, my dad, and my brother taking turns to do the driving. Needless to say, it was not something any of us looked forward to. (This was before the days of budget airlines and cheap and plentiful flights in Australia.)
Anyway, naturally on such a drive you do a lot of listening to the radio. And it being Christmas, ABC Classic FM (the national classical music radio station) would always broadcast a live performance of Handel's Messiah. And one year, I kid you not, while listening to the Messiah and after being on the road for fifteen hours, the Hallelujah chorus started literally the instant we turned the corner into my grandmother's street.
It was pretty amusing.
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Hot Cross Buns are totally all year round things here now. Indeed, I had some for breakfast this morning.
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I can find them in two bakeries in Sydney, so it is not a big deal any more (though they have peel in them, which i don't like), but when I lived out of a major city I couldn't find them anywhere after Easter. Also, listening to Classic FM for 15 hours (not even considering 15 hours of classical christmas music) sounds like torture. Then again, my brother would probably say the same thing of 15 hours of Triple J, so to each their own, I guess.
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I win this one.
Are you ready?
No, you're not ready yet.
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I'm quite underwhelmed by that scrolling.
Anyways: Yay! Christmas!
Fuck all y'all, I god damn love me some Christmas season.
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I actually really enjoy Christmas. This year I am really looking forward to caroling! Apparently, my a cappella group has one night every year where we consume lots of alcohol and go caroling, and I could not be more excited for it.
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Also, there were plenty of shoes here that had christmas displays before Halloween even occured. Wtf
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Costco here rolled out their Christmas displays in late August, no shit.
(I complain and I do honestly think it's pretty weird, but secretly the cockles of my heart are warmed by Christmas kitsch.)
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the cockles of my heart are warmed by Christmas kitsch.
Yes.
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Though my cousins are a hell of a lot more strict about it.
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amidoingitrite?
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Needless to say, it was not something any of us looked forward to. (This was before the days of budget airlines and cheap and plentiful flights in Australia.)
Huh. My family regularly does cross-country trips (this being across the US, from Colorado to Georgia, 1500 miles), and we enjoy it. Of course, we usually start out at night, so we sleep through a good part of it (including Eastern Colorado and Kansas, which is the extremely boring part anyway), and we always stock up on books and games beforehand.
We might be doing one this Christmas, actually. That will be fun, as long as we don't hit any blizzards.
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(http://supplementalscience.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/thanksgiving-meal.jpg)
... what?
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Huh. My family regularly does cross-country trips (this being across the US, from Colorado to Georgia, 1500 miles), and we enjoy it. Of course, we usually start out at night, so we sleep through a good part of it (including Eastern Colorado and Kansas, which is the extremely boring part anyway), and we always stock up on books and games beforehand.
We might be doing one this Christmas, actually. That will be fun, as long as we don't hit any blizzards.
All due respect to your blizzards, but I expect if you were doing it in the middle of an Australian summer you might feel differently about it.
When I was very young we did it in a car with no air conditioning. Ho. Ly. Shit.
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Ah, yeah, AC is important. I think all of our cars have had AC as long as I have been alive.
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I can find them in two bakeries in Sydney, so it is not a big deal any more (though they have peel in them, which i don't like)
Which ones?
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Both are in Newtown, coincidentally, seeing as that is the only place I have looked for them. Newtown Bakery and the Crispy Inn bakery both have them all the time.
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Eating hot-cross buns outside Easter time is just wrong.
Especially when Babka in Fitzroy makes buns that are even tastier than hot-cross buns all year round, anyway.
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The girl and I have discussed it and since this will be our first christmas together, well the first we're living through together, that we should decorate our flat accordingly. Given that we go to metal concerts and goth clubs and the like together we're going to do this christmas thing right. Silver and red tinsel? Yes. Black holly around the flat? Fuck yes. Black Christmas Tree? OH MY GOTH (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDNkjWv-Lhw&feature=related) YOU BETTER FUCKING BELIEVE IT!
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Someone needs to tell NBC that November 17th is way the fuck too early for a Christmas special, especially one based on a mediocre movie franchise.
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Obviously the only 2 Christmas albums worth listening to.
(http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7505/42495093.png) (http://img254.imageshack.us/i/42495093.png/)
(http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4595/r11970561200063542.jpg) (http://img338.imageshack.us/i/r11970561200063542.jpg/)
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Only briefly a few weeks ago; for a review of Tori amos' X-mas thing.
That said, I constantly have the Andrews Sisters stuck in my head. Damn Bing Crosby and my love of crooning.
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FUCK. YES.
(http://www.willa.com/moblog/mobile_images/11-13-06_2008-752765.jpg)
We must spend over $100 on these things every year. They are the best snack ever.
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I miss Christmas Crunch.
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I do this thing where I leave anonymous gifts for people I appreciate, mostly because I really appreciate them, and I don't want to diminish the gifts by having me give them (I have a piss-poor self image). Living on a college campus makes anonymous giftleaving quite easy in practice - all I have to do is approach the dorm room or the office, knock thrice, and run like hell. Not too far, obviously - I do want to ensure that they've received the gift before I leave forever and make no mention of it forthwith.
Does anyone else do this? I actually enjoy it a great deal, and hearing the appreciative reactions like a creepy voyeur actually brings me a bit of calm. I'm going to commence work on them as soon as my schedule clears up, and I can't wait to start leaving them around.
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We have pigeonholes which would make that practice a lot easier! It's a nice idea but I don't think giving gifts would diminish them, it's nice to know who they're from.
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christmas cookies are the best cookies.
beyond that, I could do with or without the holiday and the crap that comes with it.
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My mom always made too many Christmas cookies. By "too many," I mean that we are still working on the previous year's batch when she starts a new one. She has reduced that number since the number of people she can give them away to through me is pretty much zero (since she can't even get any to me until I come visit for Christmas), but it's still impressive. It's also probably why I am fairly into baking myself, though these days I don't really have that much time.
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Well, it's 34 degrees Centigrade at 11 o'clock in the morning, so it sure feels like Christmas time.
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We have pigeonholes which would make that practice a lot easier! It's a nice idea but I don't think giving gifts would diminish them, it's nice to know who they're from.
Most of the fun is running like hell and experiencing them receiving the gift, though I suppose the pigeonhole would make it a security that the gift would get to them.
And you must admit that the anonymity sort of adds to the mystique, even if it does beg the question of 'who was socially awkward enough to leave a gift without the good grace of presenting it personally.'
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(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa219/livbarrob/johnnycashxmas.jpg)
EDIT: Christmas card Capybaras
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I have to organise Kris Kringle for my Big Nerdy Office.
Does anyone have any cool ideas?
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ABC Family is doing some sort of Christmas Countdown to their 25 Days of Christmas
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I didn't watch White Christmas yesterday. Nope, no I didn't.
(Actually yes I did because I told a friend I'd never seen it and she made me watch it and I am ok with that.)
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The girl and I have discussed it and since this will be our first christmas together, well the first we're living through together, that we should decorate our flat accordingly. Given that we go to metal concerts and goth clubs and the like together we're going to do this christmas thing right. Silver and red tinsel? Yes. Black holly around the flat? Fuck yes. Black Christmas Tree? OH MY GOTH (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDNkjWv-Lhw&feature=related) YOU BETTER FUCKING BELIEVE IT!
Please do some sort of chain garland.
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Bah Humbug!
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Bah Humbug!
My sentiments exactly.
EDIT: I like the Christmas season, but it's just so frikkin' depressing.
Don't need no more frikkin' depression.
Frikkin'.
P.S. Lol, frikkin' like the Dickens.
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Christmas time is awesome. Even more awesome, though, is thanksgiving time. It is only nov 10, but my grandma is already starting on thanksgiving dinner ingredients. Which means soon the house will smell like thanksgiving for about a week before thanksgiving it's self. Then it will be christmas season and cookies and candies will be everywhere.
That said, fuck christmas music. I worked in the mall one christmas, and, irritatingly enough, I worked about twenty feet from the stage for the live, awful christmas performances. Nothing will make you hate christmas music like hearing it for 10 hours a day 6 days a week for three weeks.
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Melanie's Christmas album isn't too bad. And I still like Bing Crosby.
My grandmother is having me over tonight so I can help her bake Christmas cookies (translation: So I can do all the stirring that her arthritis keeps her from, but that's okay). Too early, you say?
Bah humbug back atcha.
(That being said, I really don't like Christmas, nor the family get-togethers and drama that always ends up happening, I just want to spend time with my grandmother because I don't think she has long left in this world)
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I think Christmas is pretty cool. When I was 15 I moved quite a considerable portion of the province away from my extended family, and our annual family Christmas party is the only time I get to see them all.
I have a question: Am I a rare case in that I am not particularly fond of Christmas/Thanksgiving dinners? The food is just kind of boring to me. I have been trying to convince my mom to do something more interesting on Christmas for years but the turkey tradition has not released its stranglehold on holiday meals.
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I think that the dinners are pretty awesome, because (1) lots of stuff can be done with turkey (for Thanksgiving) and large roasting meat (for Christmas) and (2) I rarely eat turkey or a large roast, so it still maintains the deliciousness necessary.
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I have a question: Am I a rare case in that I am not particularly fond of Christmas/Thanksgiving dinners? The food is just kind of boring to me. I have been trying to convince my mom to do something more interesting on Christmas for years but the turkey tradition has not released its stranglehold on holiday meals.
This is the first year my grandmother won't be doing either.
My grandmother is an English woman. As such, she cooks like an English woman. Mm, boiled potatoes and steamed cabbage. It's nothing spectacular, trust me.
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I have a question: Am I a rare case in that I am not particularly fond of Christmas/Thanksgiving dinners? The food is just kind of boring to me. I have been trying to convince my mom to do something more interesting on Christmas for years but the turkey tradition has not released its stranglehold on holiday meals.
The trick is to have lots of other stuff as well. I for one am a sucker for turkey because the only time I eat it is during the holidays, and I always end up eating turkey for like a week after thanksgiving because there are always leftovers. It's awesome.
That said you can cook whatever you want, it'll all get eaten. So if you don't want turkey, learn to cook and get to work. Broaden everyone's horizons.
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I've never had turkey on Christmas, that's saved for Thanksgiving. Christmas is the one time of year that my grandma goes crazy with the Norwegian food, and we have Norwegian sausage and lefse and flat bread and krumkake and tons of other stuff that is just full of nom nom nom.
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My family isn't much into the whole christmas thing because we're Belgian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas), so we don't have the big roast and stuff. Instead it's our 'everyone cooks a different part of the meal night'. So basically it usually ends up with my dad or mom cooking the main meal, and my brother or me preparing desert/appetizer. It's always really delicious, and lots of fun.
One year my dad made an icebox cake in the shape of a dragon's tail. It was pretty awesome.
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My family used to cook a full hot lunch with ham and turkey and cabbage and roast potatoes and cauliflower, the whole shebang, when my (very Irish) Grandparents would visit. This is in the middle of Summer, remember, so my parents would be sweating in the kitchen while the oldies would sit in the air conditioned room and relax.
Once we moved 6 hours away from them we went the more logical route and had a cold Christmas lunch, With a small breakfast and leftovers for dinner. Oh, and prawns; lots and lots of prawns, with salt and lemon. Maybe my favourite part of Christmas was sitting down peeling and eating prawns all afternoon until you can't eat any more, then going and laying down for an hour to digest.
You haven't lived until you have experienced a summer Christmas.
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Man I love the Christmas siesta.
Sometimes my family has a salmon, but usually we do the traditional Christmas turkey etcetera, partly because my mum's from England.
Speaking of which, I ought to step in here and defend English food. I spent most of 2003 living with my grandparents in England. My grandmother did all the cooking, and she cooked very traditional English food, which meant that basically there weren't any spices in it. But she was a good cook and she took care to get good ingredients - especially meat - so all the food she cooked was delicious. I'd call it "subtle" rather than "boring".
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so pretty much just like everything British?
England: subtley good, obviously boring
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On Christmas Eve I'll be going to my Dad's place (it's a European thing apparently?) and I am expecting prawns, smoked salmon, lots of fish, various Hungarian foods and other such stuff. Then on Christmas Day I'll be at my mums where I am expecting turkey and shouting. I like Christmas Eve a lot but Christmas Day has been terrible ever since my mum decided she didn't want to go to the big family things that happen every year because she refuses to get over some minor argument she had with one of her sisters. The year my brother and I decided to have Christmas at our place (at which we cooked and did everything so that all mum had to do was show up and have a good time), she told us we'd ruined christmas and were terrible sons for doing so and that we're never having christmas anywhere but her place again. My mum's place is incredibly filthy and littered with useless junk (she's a hoarder so she has piles of magazines from when I was a child and because she has a bad back and knee she can't clean up after her cat which is not really litter-trained).
I kind of hate Christmas Day.
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Jewelry store commercials at Christmas (which apparently now includes pre-Thanksgiving) pretty much make me want to hang myself for being single. Is that a normal sentiment?
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As my aunt always tells me, "Homicide, not suicide."
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So...because I'm single, I should go on a murderous rampage every time I see a jewellery advert? Awesome
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Oh also, Christmas Eve is my dad's birthday so, you know, that's a thing.
Hey, everyone: what date is Christmas? This year I swear I'm gonig to remember! I know it's the 20-something-in-the-middleth. I don't know why I always forget.
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Jewelry store commercials at Christmas (which apparently now includes pre-Thanksgiving) pretty much make me want to hang myself for being single. Is that a normal sentiment?
so basically life isn't worth living unless you're in a relationship and the girl you're in a relationship with is uncreative enough to ask for anything for christmas other than expensive jewelry she sees in commercials on television?
dang man i am sorry if this sounds bitter but in an incredibly superficial capitalist society like this one you have basically got to realize major industries at christmastime profit immensely from this kind of thinking. forget about this nonsense, be happy, life is actually pretty cool.
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While I do enjoy myself some anti-capitalist rhetoric, I believe I speak for all single-jewelry-store-commercial-watchers when I say that it's less about crass commercialism and more about the bitter, crushing lonliness.
Edit: Life is still pretty cool, though. I agree there.
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Eh, I feel pretty okay watching those adverts, and I'm a lonely motherfucker.
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I actually really enjoy Christmas. This year I am really looking forward to caroling! Apparently, my a cappella group has one night every year where we consume lots of alcohol and go caroling, and I could not be more excited for it.
Doing it wrong.
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where we consume lots of alcohol and go caroling
Nah man, doing it right.
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guys we trying to secret santa this year?
i mean yeah its early but are we?
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I just remembered something! This song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB4tQLncmaw) is the only Christmas Carol I don't immediately hate. Too bad I can't just play it over and over again, because that would be really boring.
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Did our first Christmas Shopping yesterday. woo
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I was in a record store yesterday and tried to buy someone the Low Christmas album. She thought I was kidding about it being good and then confessed the only Christmas album she owns is the Soof-yawn one.
Should I stop speaking to her?
(yes)
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(no)
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Best Christmas song ever, guys. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsiKOJOXMJU)
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Christmas is kind of a Big Deal in my house. My mum love love loves it, we have a ridiculously large Christmas tree (we can't have a real one, mum is allergic) and it's 10' tall. It takes about five or six hours to put it up and get it decorate, it's an effort.
We generally do a big lunch with a baked dinner and prawns and whatnot. But mum does a mixture of things, so there's the roast, prawns and cold meats as well. Because I have a sister and step-siblings who do attend their other parent's houses for Christmas as well, it gets a bit mixed up and basically, whoever is there is there. It makes it more complicated with we have boyfriends involved or whatever and we need to attend their parent's Christmas festivities.
My favourite part of Christmas is finding presents for people. I love finding perfect gifts and things that I know people will like. It's lots of fun.
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Do you have an incredibly tall house, or do you have it outside? Ten feet seems kind of high to me, although I might be misjudging.
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I want to Glasgow this evening and it was packed full of people who had just attended the 'switching on of the christmas lights event'.
10 ft. is about the height of an average roof. It's a bit more than three meters?
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a 3m tree is huge, it wouldn't fit in my house, so I am guessing she has high ceilings in her house.
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She does.
I used to own a bunch of christmas decorations and a sparkly tree but it got lost/stolen in the big move/breakup.
I'd buy a whole bunch for this year but I'm saving my money and nobody ever sees my apartment anyway :(
Maybe I should just decorate my desk at work.
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Eris, I love the Fabian song too! You = made of win for reminding me of that one.
Last year we couldn't afford a tree but we hung up all three strands of tinsel and some gold gift shaped present ornaments that we have. It was my first Christmas ever without a tree and I got super sad when I realised we couldn't get one and cried a little bit, but not in front of Jesse because I didn't want to make him feel bad. Then my parents in law invited us over to help decorate their tree and we all had egg nog and sang carols and I felt better. I love Christmas.
This year I get two Christmases. I will have the regular one here in Canada, and then Jesse and I will be going to Australia to visit my family. It will be new years eve when we arrive, but I will insist everyone pretend it's still Christmas or else.
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Best Christmas song ever, guys. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXsikMF_ofg&feature=related)
Fixed.
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I am super excited for Christmas, because my mom and I go Martha Stewart all over the holidays.
We rarely Christmas shop (for presents) at the mall; instead we go to the One of a Kind show, which is this huge expo in this huuuuge convention centre, and a zillion artists bring their wares and we can usually find something for almost everyone. It takes about 8 hours to really shop this craft show. It's great.
Then we pick a colour scheme for the dining room table and begin preparations for the centrepiece! This (http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v165/68/113/1649550139/n1649550139_103031_2222.jpg) was the table in 2007, and this (http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1766/68/113/1649550139/n1649550139_172020_830.jpg) was the table in 2008. Seriously, we go nuts.
The only thing I'm not happy about is working retail. The Christmas music has begun already, and Santa arrives at the mall TOMORROW. Ugh.
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Best Christmas song ever, guys. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsiKOJOXMJU)
Whatever happened to your karaoke video of that?
dang man i am sorry if this sounds bitter but in an incredibly superficial capitalist society like this one you have basically got to realize major industries at christmastime profit immensely from this kind of thinking. forget about this nonsense, be happy, life is actually pretty cool.
It's more "wahhhhhh I don't have anyone to snuggle with", honestly.
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wow. how do you fit food on those tables? or do you serve buffet style?
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We keep all the dishes of food in the kitchen, then pass them around one by one, let everyone serve themselves, then they go back in the kitchen!
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That would probably keep me from eating seconds. Honestly, when I am eating, if I have to get up again to get food I won't. My body either eats tons of food or moves around, but rarely both. That being said, I love that my family has a big dining room table, and I am looking forward to thanksgiving so much this year because it will be the last feast I have for a while.
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We keep all the dishes of food in the kitchen, then pass them around one by one, let everyone serve themselves, then they go back in the kitchen!
Oh man. That would not fly with my family. The food must be the focus, because that's where we are as a family.
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Yeah, we keep our food on the table because we're all basically just a bunch of Fatty McFatPantses. I love my family.
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My mom just serves everyone when they want seconds... put the women to work guys, durr.
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No way! The women drink while the men do the work.
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Great Christmas song, in my opinion. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qljs6phMy8o&NR=1)
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guys we trying to secret santa this year?
i mean yeah its early but are we?
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Hi all! Long time, no see for a lot of you on this forum! (I've been a member since...2006ish? Possibly 2007?)
Anyway - Christmas started the Day after Thanksgiving for me! I love this time of year! My favorite Christmas song is the instrumental version of Sleigh Ride and anything by Mannheim Steamroller.
...and I'm afraid I'm starting to talk like Randy the Bandicoot...so, I'll skedaddle.
La
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Come back soon, La! Like, sooner than in a year or two!
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Hi all! Long time, no see for a lot of you on this forum! (I've been a member since...2006ish? Possibly 2007?)
Anyway - Christmas started the Day after Thanksgiving for me! I love this time of year! My favorite Christmas song is the instrumental version of Sleigh Ride and anything by Mannheim Steamroller.
...and I'm afraid I'm starting to talk like Randy the Bandicoot...so, I'll skedaddle.
La
January 2, 2007 12:59:32 PM
And a happy Solstice to all!
Iechyd Da!
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January 2, 2007 12:59:32 PM
And a happy Solstice to all!
Iechyd Da!
ok, I was almost right... :P
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What I meant to say (in my inarticulate, geeky way) is that we have enjoyed your presence here on these forums.
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Best christmas thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWtEgGl0u6E)
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I am cooking my first ever Christmas lunch this for, for me & the boy. I am scared & excited in equal measures.
I have done all my Christmas shopping as I have to give it to my Mum when she comes up to say hi next weekend.
I am not normally excited about Christmas, but I think I am this year. Mainly as the boy is the most Bah Humbug man you WILL EVER MEET.
As in last year he spent Christmas day on his own & had a pot noodle for foods.
This was all by choice.
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He had pot noodle for foods by choice? There is no force in the world that could get me to do that.
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Like a sort of poor little match girl, but instead of no heat, he has no tastebuds.
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guys we trying to secret santa this year?
i mean yeah its early but are we?
So it's definitely not too early now. Are we doing this?
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I think the deadline for international packages was a while ago.
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Like yesterday.
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Lame!
I'd still be down for an Irresponsible Secret Santa.
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I can ship this for cheap this year (I work for a shipping company now).
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Woo black christmas tree!
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/jimmy5times/Image119.jpg)
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Our dog sure knows how to pose for christmas shots. So cute it might make you throw up a little.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/branston_pickle/xmasdawg2.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/branston_pickle/xmasdawg1.jpg)
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I guess my parents are getting majorly lazy now that they've got no kids living at home. We don't have a christmas tree this year :( and none of the decorations are out, and the stockings aren't hung :/
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My dad wasn't planning on having a tree this year.
He wasn't planning on having all the traditional Christmas foods either.
Jens and I showed him the error of his ways.
He is now £180 poorer.
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Some plant standing around in our house is our chrismas tree.
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According to that logic, we either have a christmas aloe vera or a christmas weed.
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According to that logic, we either have a christmas aloe vera or a christmas weed.
If by 'weed' you are referring to Cannabis, then you sir are in possession of the most awesome Christmas decoration ever.
And you don't have to throw it out after New Years! If it's still around by then...
If you are not talking about a pot plant, definitely go with the Aloe.
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According to that logic, we either have a christmas aloe vera or a christmas weed.
If by 'weed' you are referring to Cannabis, then you sir are were in possession of the most awesome Christmas decoration ever.
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This year my family has a Christmas Wollemi pine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollemi_pine)!
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I have no tree as I had to travel by train & bring EVERYTHING (Even most of the food) with me :(
Here is Dj Yoda doing a Christmas Mash-up.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/70179849ed905173/ (http://www.zshare.net/audio/70179849ed905173/)
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My family held our personal christmas last night because we're leaving to visit my grandmother today, and my father misspelled my name on his gift to me. :/
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It is probably not too early for an xmas thread anymore
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It is probably not too early for an xmas thread anymore
Fuck you stole my thought.
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Merry Xmas you cheap lousy faggots (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrAwK9juhhY)
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No, guys, it's only Christmas Eve. It's still too early.
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I love this song the most and I love this album the most (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlVN8gxHLbo)
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I kind of expected this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4PqzcjTP_M)
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Here is my Christmas present to all of you - Rise of the Triad (http://www.mediaf!re.com/?dmnn2htemqm). I got it for Christmas when I was 10 years old. Added bonus - The game can tell when it's Christmastime, so I just started it up and instead of the normal music it plays "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" when you're blasting away at cult members.
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Merry christmas to all you lovely forum people!
I just realised that my avatar suddenly somehow makes sense again.
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Seasons Greetings to you all.
I have one load of (five) grandchildren for lunch tomorrow, my daughter and some friends the next day, then off to Germany (BA and weather permitting) for a few days with the other lot (two). Meanwhile, I've wrapped going on a hundred packages, and I've got a week and a half's ironing to catch up on (my wife's doing some emergency knitting to try and get it done in time).
As someone just said on the TV: "Christmas is worse than a kitten, because you can't put it in a sack and drown it".
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Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a lovely time doing whatever it is you do for the holidays.
Love, Allison.
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Merry Christmas from me and the Christmas Pronghorn!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/branston_pickle/xmaspronghorn.jpg)
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dang man i am sorry if this sounds bitter but I am extremely bitter
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Guys, I have found my favorite Christmas carol of all.
http://www.myspace.com/itsblackconcrete
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We celebrated tonight, and it was lovely, if I just ignore my cousin and his son. I didn't get a lot of gifts, but the ones I got were pretty good, and the food was delicious, and my parents calmed down from their usual Christmas Eve-freakout around 3PM, and I even got warm quickly after being incredibly, ridiculously cold when we visited the cemeteries. Overall, it was a pretty good day, after noon.
(http://img.skitch.com/20091225-bp52hswncunujm4xk3syd634ww.jpg)
I liked our tree this year! You can't really see much of the decorations in this photo, other than the tinsel and flags, but still. It's a pretty good tree, considering it's not fake.
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Holy shit Nick, I am so jealous of your Christmas pronghorn!
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Merry Christmas, yawz.
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you're all cocksuckers
merry fucking christmas cunts
aaaaauuuugh
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(http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/comics/irreg2524.jpg)
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How Rorschach Stole Christmas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzuDx-9Wyng&feature=player_embedded#)
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:cry: So much win
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My brother is getting an overhead oh my gooooddddd
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I think I may have set a new record for the most last-minute christmas shopping. Bought my last present at around 9:20 AM today, less than 20 minutes ago.
Braid on Steam, if you were wondering.
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Snoopy's Christmas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlf---13Q0g&feature=player_embedded)
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I think I may have set a new record for the most last-minute christmas shopping. Bought my last present at around 9:20 AM today, less than 20 minutes ago.
Braid on Steam, if you were wondering.
I got that for myself this morning too!
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The radio stations are still playing Christmas music for some reason
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What do you mean still?
They're playing christmas music already. and with only 362 days left in the 2010 christmas season, who can blame them?
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There's twelve days, don't you know? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas)