christmas

[rtil]

i'm really not a big fan of christmas but it's coming around so why not share what we're all doing?

jenna's going home for it like she usually does so i'm gonna have one christmas with her in town and another not at my family's house , and my family likes to get extremely festive. every american christmas tradition you can think of is gonna go down.. oh god. but at least there will be good food.

[dilly]

My family usually visits my dad's side of the family a different day, then have our christmas, as well as having fun times with my mom's side, on the day of.

Eggnog. Sweet potato casserole. Honey baked ham. Pumpkin pie.

oh man

[trent bortknob]

yea....i'm atheist....i don't ce


on a more serious note, my family celebrates x-mas, and i'm going over there for a week starting the 20th. i got christmas off at work (it's a fucking miracle holy shit) and i'm gonna go to PA to see my girlfriend, family, and friends, etc. i'm probably not getting a present from my parents, in fact i'm paying for my ticket over there, but hopefully i get some money or something because i've got plenty of stuff i need/want to buy. but if i don't, oh well. at least i get to spend some time with my bros.

dinners will probably be a bunch of meats so i dunno what i'm gonna eat but i'll work it out.

[zhicago]

i love christmas but we dont really celebrate it anymore because nobody is alive in my family anymore
my mom works on christmas and im back on bedrest so i wont be allowed to travel so i dunno what ill be doing
i will live vicariously through others!!!! i am ok with this

[cipher]

going to go back home for three weeks starting this friday


yup.

[emanhattan]

travel back to mx, probably hitchike with my friends for a bit, then go back home and just chill and consume many foods and come back in 2 weeks

[ZennyPLUS]

Be broke and look for a new job, yeah, I'm having a great holiday.

[Ashington]

Big ol family gatherings and scrabble games and making a bunch o lovely desserts.

[trent bortknob]

Be broke and look for a new job, yeah, I'm having a great holiday.

i know how you feel. i have a job and i'm still broke. i can't afford to get everyone presents, and although i don't even celebrate this stupid holiday i feel obligated to give gifts to my brothers and stuff. but i don't even know what to get for them so i might just pass this year

[tmk]

my family hasn't celebrated for a while so I've been going to waffle house on christmas eve these last couple of years to hang with all the lonely truck drivers

[CoolDrMoney]

I fuck christnsmas

[naturally]

probably just gonna play a lot of video games then family stuff/food on christmas day.

[Fluffkomix]

my sister's in london for christmas so she's not included, probably just buy her stuff and wait til she gets back

Rest of my christmas is exchanging gifts with mom and her boyfriend and my grandpa and grandma, and then spend the rest of the day dicking around on the internet until dinner.

I think we're having ham. I fucking love ham.

[Casey Pixmintro]

Called off from the 22nd to the 27th to go home. Gonna see my brothers for the first time in a year. Went home for the first time in a year for thanksgiving a couple weeks ago too.

[trent bortknob]

^ that's a similar story to mine, except mine is a lot cooler because it involves california and rock & roll

[CVG]

I'm going out of state to be with my mom, dad, aunts and uncles and like a bazillion cousins. We all prepare homemade tamales using my grandma's secret recipe and make like 300 tamales the day before Xmas eve, then cook them in like 5 giant steamers outside with a propane pit. Then on xmas eve we all gather at my aunt's house and every member brings their presents (our rule is you don't have to buy a gift for any adults but every kid below 17yrs must get a gift from every aunt or uncle) This masses up to about 7 gifts per kid (little cousins). And we all watch holiday movies and eat the homemade green chile/cheese tamales and red/pork tamales and drink and talk and the kids take turns on the Xbox and Wii. And we all stay up till midnight and count down to it...saying MERRRY XMAS! on the day and we all hug and kiss each other and laugh and joke and then the door knocks and we all go SOMEONES AT THE DOOR! And one uncle (they take turns every year) dresses as Santa, and the kids get all excited and go OMG! IT'S SANTA! :- D And he passes out a little toy (like a yoyo or a slinky) from a sack. And we all take pics of the kids getting the present and they look so enchanted and happy :}  then he says goodbye. And then everyone sits down and opens presents with the kids and we begin to pass out the gallons of eggnog and like 10 pies (haha it's a big family) and then they all leave by like 3am. On Xmas day after sleeping in, my sister and I and my parents go watch a movie at the theaters and have dinner at a nice restaurant. I enjoy xmas a lot

[trent bortknob]

don't go to theaters on xmas, it's crowded and the associates all hate you

[CVG]

Sorry man but it's a tradition in our family. Every year since I was 6yrs old we go to the movies and then a nice restaurant on Christmas. It's not about what movie we see anyways or the crowds, it's about our time spent together while hanging around for the showtime...there is an outdoor ice-rink and park with a lights display next to the theater and we bundle up and walk it while drinking hot cocoa and then sit down to the movie sharing popcorn and just enjoying each other's company. And seeing as I haven't seen them for like 8 months, it's the one day a year I really get to enjoy a whole day with them and my sister together.

[trent bortknob]

i mean it's cool that it's your tradition, and i wish my family had more fun traditions and stuff, i was just making a joke about what it's like to work at a movie theater on christmas.

[emanhattan]

probably no time of the year is so stressful for me as vacations. next years summer/christmas id rather much stay,