I mean Turkey Day's cool or whatever
It sucks your stuff didn't make it but a forum secret Santa sounds cool.
If I stuck to not decorating until Christmas Eve and taking everything down on Twelfth Night
We always put up the decorations on December 17th because that's my brother's birthday. The decoration come down whenever, usually around January 7th.
We always put up the decorations on December 17th because that's my brother's birthday. The decoration come down whenever, usually around January 7th.
I used to demand that my family do that on that same day(coincidentally, it's my birthday :D), the last few years they prefer to shut the kids up by putting the tree up the Wednesday before Thanksgiving...
This year for Thanksgiving I am finally (after two years finally) taking my boyfriend home to meet my family. And then I am throwing a St Andy's Day scotch tasting and making a haggis.
House rule is no christmas music until after thankgiving dinner's over.
Then my wife puts on the Chipmunks christmas album.
Then I put on the South Park christmas album.
Then we can have real christmas music.
I might actually get the lights up before ... no, never mind, that's not going to happen. :roll: :-P
I exchange with a lot of people (roughly 20, between friends, family, coworkers and cats. Yes. Cats. Don't judge me.)
I exchange with a lot of people (roughly 20, between friends, family, coworkers and cats. Yes. Cats. Don't judge me.)
Do you truly exchange gifts with the cats, or do they simply accept gifts from you as their due tribute? And are you sure you'd want them to give you anything in return?
Because, frankly, I've gotten gifts from cats before, and they're usually dead animals. Usually. The mouse wasn't quite dead yet.
Garand, can you clarify what you mean? I'm a little confused. Do you mean that it has the potential to offend people who don't believe in Jesus, or is it the justification itself that is offensive, and not the greeting on its own?
Muppet Christmas Carol is still my all time favorite version of the Christmas Carol. Scrooged is a close second.
http://infolocata.com/mirovia/irrefutable-proof-that-santa-is-odin/Dublin is in Great Britain? I think the cartoonist Eired.
It amazes me that we seem to have a culture where it honestly isn't seen as weird that people pay for things they don't want or need with money they don't have.
I used to rail against the commercialisation of Christmas but I've come to the acceptance of it as part of our culture. After all we commercialise everything else to breaking point, Christmas isn't so special that it doesn't deserve the same treatment.
[snip; signed, Pat]
Yet the heads of each branch of the faith could easily command the ear of the media and the people to openly condemn and divorce themselves from this. It's a shame that they don't have the spine to do so.
It amazes me that we seem to have a culture where it honestly isn't seen as weird that people pay for things they don't want or need with money they don't have.
Fixed that for you.
I used to rail against the commercialisation of Christmas but I've come to the acceptance of it as part of our culture. After all we commercialise everything else to breaking point, Christmas isn't so special that it doesn't deserve the same treatment.
Credit cards are from the devil.A credit card is a tool, like a knife. You can injure yourself with a knife too. Just always bear in mind that any money you don't pay off each month is about the most expensive money you will ever borrow, unless you go to a payday-loan outfit, loan-shark etc. Don't do that. But you all know all this stuff already.
Man Leaps to His Death in Shopping Mall After Girlfriend Insists on More Shopping
by Jon David Kahn 9 Dec 2013, 12:20 PM PDT CHINA - a 38-year-old man leaped to his death after an argument with his girlfriend who insisted they continue shopping. CCTV captured Tao Hsiao and his girlfriend in a mall in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, east China where they had reportedly been shopping for five hours or so before he hit his limit.
Eyewitnesses said Hsiao could be heard telling his girlfriend that they already had more bags than they could carry, but she insisted on hitting one more store where there was a sale on shoes.
An eyewitness said: "He told her she already had enough shoes, more shoes that she could wear in a lifetime, and it was pointless buying any more. She started shouting at him, accusing him of being a skinflint, and of spoiling Christmas. It was a really heated argument."
The argument continued until Hsiao threw the bags on the floor and himself over the balcony, dropping seven stories to his death and smashing Christmas decorations on the way down. He was killed on impact.
A spokesman for the mall said: "His body was removed fairly quickly. He actually landed on one of the stalls below and then fell to the floor so although the store was damaged it meant he didn't hit anybody.
"This is a tragic incident, but this time of year can be very stressful for many people."
It's Breitbart with no sources that I really saw, but I can totally emphasize with this guy.
Just made mom's traditional christmas candy. Albeit I swapped the almonds for pecans and walnuts.
Yes. My kitchen light turns all browns purple for some odd reason.
Merry Christmas from rainy Turku, Finland.
(http://users.utu.fi/lahtonen/Joulu2013.jpg)
This is the official city Xmas tree standing in front of the cathedral. Going a bit further away from the equator does not guarantee a White Christmas (about 40 degrees Fahrenheit now).
I spent a very solid 4 days with stomach flu once. Honestly thought I was going to die at a few points.