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GypseeWind
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posted December 15, 2009 07:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GypseeWind     Edit/Delete Message
and why???

Feel free to whine or exude gratitude, I'm sure there will be supporters on both sides! Examples would help too!

*I'm thinking before I answer, trying something new here*

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Yin
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posted December 15, 2009 07:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Yin     Edit/Delete Message
So, are you Holly-Jolly or Bah-Humbug...

Both, depending on the weather , of course.
I do wear the "Bah-Humbug" mask most of the time but it's in my culture. It's like acting all morose not to attract the evil spirits or something. Superstitions - what can I say...

Or maybe that's a justification for my melancholy. Hmm.

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T
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posted December 15, 2009 08:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message
I cant stand this time of year. I always dread it. Today i had to run out to the south end where the major shopping is and what usually wouldve taken maybe a half hour took ALOT longer because of all the people running and driving around like crazy people.

I also hate Christmas music and people who sing it. And Christmas decorations everywhere. And people who try to get you into their holiday spirit, like my roomate did last night when he made me watch two Christmas movies in a row with him. They were the stupidest movies I've ever had to sit through (i didnt tell him that though). What was even more weird was he found them entertaining and was laughing out loud (they were both kiddie movies - one was Elf and i forget the name of the other). I just want to hide until it's over. Can't wait until everyone's doing their family thing that day and I can have time to myself. I have two people convinced they are going to take me to their family's house for Christmas. Sorry, & that's nice, but no thank you.

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Yin
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posted December 15, 2009 08:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Yin     Edit/Delete Message
Aww, T! A Christmas elf just died. LOL.

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T
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posted December 15, 2009 08:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message
I also hate snow and cold weather.

bah humbug!

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T
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posted December 15, 2009 08:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message
LOL Yin. Good!

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koiflower
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posted December 15, 2009 08:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for koiflower     Edit/Delete Message
A Holly-Jolly and let's leave it that way

ps - I thereby exude my gratitude

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GypseeWind
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posted December 15, 2009 10:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GypseeWind     Edit/Delete Message
One gratitude noted, thank you, lovely Koi.

I used to love it, but I think I've turned into my Father, mumbling about commercials and consummerism.....lol. And I do not like Christmas movies except for the orignal Scrooge, which my daughter and I watch together after midnight mass on Christmas eve, so doing the math there, (mass ends at 2am, plus traffic, then a 2 hour movie, and then children up in my face at 6 or 7) maybe we are just all TOO DANG TIRED!!!!!!!!!

*and I am broke. People insist on giving me gifts when they know I cannot reciprocate, this is frustrating to say the least.

Christmas music belongs in church sung by choirs of angelic voices, not by Alvin & The Chipmonks in Wal-Mart.

ok. The eggnog is good. and the gifts that are bottle shaped.

I'M TRYING HERE!!! Mistletoe??? That's always good, unless it isn't, then just be an artful dodger, or a quick sprinter.

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stopandstare
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posted December 15, 2009 11:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for stopandstare     Edit/Delete Message
hey gypseewind,

i gotta give a thumbs up to christmas. i'm all about family and friends and good times and christmas is one of them for my family and friends. we decorate and have a big christmas gathering at the house. i love watching christmas cartoons and movies and listening to the popular christmas music. my favorite part is wrapping the gifts then giving them away. we have our usual traditions and things we do every christmas and i look forward to them next week. we also take time to donate to charities and to remember relatives who have passed on at the cemetery.

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Dervish
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posted December 16, 2009 12:02 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dervish     Edit/Delete Message
Both.

This is typically one of my busiest months of the year for my crafts (November likely to be even more so), but also the most money I'll make. I usually make the most money from my proxy mail service (as people use me to receive gifts they order for them) and I also tend to get high paying entertainment gigs for Christmas parties, too (since I've done good in the past). And so far it looks as if that's still true.

I have a lot more domestic duties this year, too, but that don't bother me. At least not yet. After the kids are off for Christmas vacation next week, I might find myself overwhelmed.

Consumerism doesn't bother me either. It's just background noise for me. I've heard some "canned caroling" before that DOES bother me, but that's more from the poor sound quality than anything (I'd think if either government or businesses were gonna pay for it, they'd pay for higher quality playbacks).

But I do partake of intoxicants at this time of year, which probably makes my nerves a little less able to handle stress and the increase in activity (not that I notice, but still). And--much more significant--early this month, malice was exposed to me that makes me wonder if me and others will be out of a place to live come January and it's over something completely stupid (I don't feel like sharing details, just there's no reason for this malice, it's completely irrational as well as hypocritical). Having just spent a lot of money to move in that's NOT something I needed. To make it worse, they have tried to pull the kids into their hate, but I like to think that so far we've shielded them from the brunt of their malice. That is VERY MUCH casting a pallor over my holiday season. Not ruined it, mind you, but I've been reflecting on how much our species sucks lately. I even have moments that I wouldn't care if I found an asteroid were about to wipe us all out as I think the cosmos would be better off without us.

So it's kinda up and down for me now.

ETA: Yesterday was my roomie's birthday, and that was fun.

I also have my tradition of watching The Nightmare Before Christmas while getting drunk on eggnog with peach brandy and eating chocolates, which I haven't done yet (I get drunk enough to sing along, too, typically in time for "Jack's Obsession," and sometimes even early enough for "What's This?"). I'll probably invite a close friend for that, but I don't know if she'll accept. I wonder if the kids will join me. Or maybe I should see it at my friend's place instead...

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Dee
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posted December 16, 2009 12:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dee     Edit/Delete Message
im not a holiday type person

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teasel
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posted December 16, 2009 12:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message
Not really Bah Humbug, but I'm not feeling all that Holly Jolly, either.

*edited... now more Holly-Jolly. Thankfully.

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AcousticGod
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posted December 16, 2009 02:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message
I guess I have to be Holly-Jolly. On Thursday I go on vacation for 10 days, and I've needed it. Time to relax and reset.

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wheels of cheese
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posted December 16, 2009 06:31 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for wheels of cheese     Edit/Delete Message

I've got no problem with Christmas, I just don't want to go to Midnight Mass when I'm not christened. Can't we go to Mecca instead? I do not want to play Jenga. I am tired and I have worked non-stop since July. I have a cold, I always have a cold. I do not want to catch a packed train to your house with a load of drunk pikeys who have been out on the razz and are wearing sequins. I do not want to sleep on the sofa for five days, waiting for everybody to go to bed at 1am so I can get some sleep, only to be woken up at 2am by some toddler smashed out of their skull on e-numbers asking "Has he been yet?". No he has not been yet, in fact he is dead. Yes, that's right, dead. I do not want to watch re-runs of Indiana Jones, I do not want to discuss which neighbour has a tumour and I do not want to be shafted with the washing up because I am the youngest. I do not want to do you a favour and go to Asda again for the third time that day because we might need more than 38 lemons. I do not care about the final of Strictly Come Dancing. I do not want to have to dispose of the manicure set and nail polish you will buy me which is all individually wrapped in toughened plastic to stop it rotting or whatever, I do not want to have to think "Do they not know me at all?" again.

Other than that, I ******* love it!

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wheels of cheese
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posted December 16, 2009 06:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for wheels of cheese     Edit/Delete Message
quote:
I also hate Christmas music and people who sing it.

Excellent.

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bunnies
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posted December 16, 2009 08:28 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bunnies     Edit/Delete Message
I once heard a saying
"In order to escape horror, one must immerse oneself in it"
I used to fight Xmas but now I embrace it.
And since I stopped fighting it and truly embraced it, it became a joyous thing.
Throw on the music (can you honestly say Bing and David Bowie don't send a chidlike shiver through you, when you hear the doorbell ring at the start of "Little Drummer Boy"?
Ah c'mon!!!!!
You will be with your families. Love 'em or not they're yours and they choose to be with you, so at least thank them and love them for that.
Does it matter what crap they buy you?
At least they made an effort.
This Xmas I will have twelve at my dinner table.
My wonderful kids, my sister and neice,my first ex husband, my daughters friend who's parents have disowned her over her choice of career, two lodgers,a friend from Canada,
my two best mates Helen and Jacqui, my ex lodger who's Portuguese (and vegan) and probably a few other drop by's. Lovely!
We will go to the pub en masse till 2 (turkey/ nut roast in the oven), come home to a wonderful aroma when we open the door with Xmas music playing in the background
I do a Xmas quiz and bingo which always causes mayhem.
We will all drink and eat way too much, collapse in heaps and swear it was an amazing day.
I am so festive I might possibly explode but fear not it will just be a cascade of goodwill and smell of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and just a hint of orange peel!

And I will remember the one's who aren't with us anymore and how I wish they were.
Enjoy them while you can.

Deck the halls with boughs of holly fah la la la la la la la la

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bunnies
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posted December 16, 2009 08:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bunnies     Edit/Delete Message
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ-8jYpa1-o

And tell me this isn't the most angelic thing you have ever heard.
Merry Xmas Knowflakes xx

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wheels of cheese
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posted December 16, 2009 08:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for wheels of cheese     Edit/Delete Message
Oh bunnies, now you have made me feel guilty. It must be Christmas!

Bowie sends a shiver through me for sure, but it's not exactly childlike.

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bunnies
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posted December 16, 2009 08:43 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bunnies     Edit/Delete Message
Oh and I always watch the Little Match Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSzQBaWq0Q

Reminds me how lucky we are, because it was based on a true incident.
My mother had to come and collect me from school when they read the story because I cried for 2 days as if my heart would break.
I couldn't bear the sadness of that poor little girl.
I still have a snot fest when I watch it now!

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bunnies
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posted December 16, 2009 08:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bunnies     Edit/Delete Message
Don't feel guilty wheels! Just throw yourself at it with joyous abandon!

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wheels of cheese
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posted December 16, 2009 08:51 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for wheels of cheese     Edit/Delete Message
I will try, I promise!

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blue moon
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posted December 17, 2009 02:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for blue moon     Edit/Delete Message
Bah-Humbug

- yesterday at the supermarket tills me and the checkout lady were saying how no matter how much you try to economise you always end up spending too much

- having to keep squabbling siblings apart. It's not the kids I'm talking about, it's the grandparents who have carried it on for over 60 years. The kids break it up!

- the whole country seems to shut down for 2 weeks. A problem if you need to get hold of help for a friend, just as one recent example, and all the social workers are off on holiday.

- missing people who aren't here any more

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Coffee
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posted December 17, 2009 08:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Coffee     Edit/Delete Message
Holly-Jolly. All for decorations, winter, lights in town, and christmas songs. Love this time of year.

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WinkAway
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posted December 17, 2009 11:51 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for WinkAway     Edit/Delete Message
Well kinda both here...

I love the feel of Christmas. And say what you will... I don't really know what I believe in as far as religon goes. But it's hard not to get caught up in the celebrations.

Such as today at work. We are having a pot luck. In the other room as I type this there are rows and rows of crock pots with various yummies.

And they are also having a couple of contests. It's dress up as your favorite Who from Whoville...you know, from the Grinch movie. And at the same time a horrible Christmas sweater contest. Kinda fun to see everyone with their hair all standing on end.

But anyway... happy shopping! kidding, kidding.. lol.
I still haven't done mine yet...ugh!

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GypseeWind
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posted December 17, 2009 02:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GypseeWind     Edit/Delete Message
BUT THE LET DOWN, THE ANTI-CLIMAX!!!!

Months or weeks of planning and saving for gifts you can't afford, which are ripped open in 5 minutes and then set aside.

The bags and bags set to the trash. OMG that throws me in a state!!! I tried wrapping in newspaper one year, actually painted on it and everything, didn't go over, I was labelled cheap!

Then the Take Down process. What fun, you tell me, what fun is it to repack all those decorations and freeze your tooshie off taking down your outside lights.....?

Ok, so it's festive and pretty, but it's also expsensive and hard work. And I really liked it when my Mom did it all. Now I'm my Mom! The cooking! OY! It is not enough I do all that other stuff, but I must plan, purchase, cook, and clean a giant meal? Ho, Ho, my butt!!!

I do admit to a little peaceful feeling after all the hoopla, on the night of Christmas. You know, when the real stress is done. And the following week leading up to New Years, but, I have New Years issues too.....be....continued.

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