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CHRISTMAS 2010 !
November 16, 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC Post #1

As of right this moment, its 38 more sleeps til christmas!! I adore chirstmas!! From all the cooking, getting and wrapping the pressies for the kids, putting up the tree and decorations, ...EVERYTHING. I just hope we have a White Christmas this year.

Whats everyone hoping Santa will fetch them this year? Do you have any traditions in your family?
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November 16, 2010 7:12:37 AM UTC Post #1

I just love December in general! \o/ There's Christmas, my birthday, and New Year's all in the same week, so the month-long countdown feels even more worth it! There's putting up the ol' plastic tree, hanging all the garland around the house, watching old Christmas TV specials, being forced to sing carols, and spending the night at my grandparents' while shopping for extreme discount prices the day after for pretty much no reason. xD

Hopefully it'll snow this year. Last year it got down to 7 degrees Fahrenheit but it was too dry.

I hope Santa gets me a job.......or not. Maybe tickets to a Stone Sour show? ...socks?
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November 17, 2010 3:26:35 PM UTC Post #2

=JoJo said:I just hope we have a White Christmas this year.

Come up to Norway then, we've got about a foot of snow here in Trondheim now n_n

I quite enjoy xmas as well. We have a great tradition, that all offspring of my nan's coming together. This last few years there's been 15-16 of us, ranging from my grandparents in their late 70's to my youngest cousin at 4. Great fun!
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November 18, 2010 2:14:42 AM UTC Post #3

This Christmas is going to a lot better than last year.

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November 18, 2010 2:22:36 AM UTC Post #4

I hate xmas at the best of times and this year is gonna be mighty fucked up!! *looks forward to january already*
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November 19, 2010 3:21:28 PM UTC Post #5

omg i'm getting SO excited.! Got all the bits i need to make a centre peice for the table this year.... and new table clothe etc. Pretty much finished the pressie shopping...and wrapped them. Just starting now on getting the crimbo food and drink in. FYI for most folk here, crimbo is from 24th Dec - 2nd Jan ( New year celebrations included ofcourse)

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November 22, 2010 1:09:44 AM UTC Post #6

I generally loathe this time of year because of all the commercialism of the holidays. You're so pressured to buy, buy, buy! Now, I'm not one to harp on what the holidays really mean; to me I don't care (secular humanist here), but it's like I get both extremes: on one end I have people telling me Christmas is about Jesus and on the other end it's about buying gifts. Yeah, I get it. But I don't like it!

The holidays are always noisy, boisterous affairs at my parent's house, filled with relatives and their kids, mostly who I don't even know (I've lived out of state and away from my family for 20 years). Since I'm a solitary person, I'm not very good at gatherings like this, and thankfully, visiting doesn't happen all the time for me. But when it does, booze helps out. A lot.

Can't we fast-forward to New Years, please?
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November 22, 2010 9:15:57 AM UTC Post #7

I love ChristmasIts one of the only times of the year I get to see some of my extended family (and I guess I'm pretty lucky to say that I like this lol) and being at uni it's especially nice because I get to go home for 2 weeks. So it's like xmas is 2 weeks long for me!

But the best part about xmas is hands down, the food

But it never snows where I live... boooo
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November 23, 2010 4:35:32 AM UTC Post #8

Christmas in our family is not normal. We have a buffet set up so we can eat all day long. We sit and watch movies all day, after the children open their gifts. The adults do not get gifts. All of the adults make the meal and keep putting fresh food out all day long. I always claim the chair closest to the fire place.

I hope we have a white Christmas this year.
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November 23, 2010 9:04:10 AM UTC Post #9

@Oona E.: Wow, a buffet christmas! My dream come true

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November 23, 2010 10:39:59 AM UTC Post #10

I ADMIT that i go MENTAL, making the lounge look like you just walked into a grotto, i even have a little "village" with "snow" that i put together, and it goes under the tree... been collecting different bits for YEARS now.. so my village grows each year lol. I bake like its an olympic event! making homemade sausage rolls, quiches, sweet mince pies, yule log, marzipan mice, pies, tarts etc etc.. not to mention cooking the christmas dinner... ooooo yummy. I do a 3 course meal, with 3 different meats, crispy roast potatoes... etc etc.. the full works!!

Christmas morning starts whenever my daughter comes flying into my bedroom, squealing with delight .. eyes like saucers, shaking with excitement...cos "santas been!!". (THIS year however, she KNOWS the deal, if you see what i mean). SANTA leaves SOME of the pressies on her bed, so she is allowed to open those ones in her room, whilst i try to wake up with as much coffee as is humanly possible to consume.... no one is allowed into the lounge (where ALL the pressies are) until everyone is awake, and my eldest and her partner arrive...then we open those pressies that myself and "santa" cough... have put infront of the tree and village... then i do a full english breakfast for us all.. which is sausages, bacon rashers, eggs (That this year, will come from my chickens, and laid that morning), grilled tomatoes, baked beans, mushrooms, fried slice, etc.. with a big mug of cofffee or tea... THEN we open the ones my eldest fetched with her...and pull the crackers i placed on the tree. We then spend most of the day drinking, playing games, catching any good movies that might be on TV.. whilst i run in and out of the kitchen preparing and cooking the dinner. That is served over a period of time, with first course being around 3pm... usually its either soup or prawn cocktail... then an hour or so later, i dress the table with christmas table cloth, candles, place settings, wine glasses, every condiment you can think off, IE ; mint sauce, apple sauce, sea salt, black peppercorns in a grinder, mustard, etc etc.. you know how it goes, and get the "special" christmas crackers out, and place them at each seat. About an hour after that, i serve the main course...3 meats (usually Beef, Pork and Lamb) with crispy roast potatos, yorkshire puddings, frog in a blanket ( bacon strips wrapped around sausages) sage and onion stuffing balls, carrots, mushy peas, cauliflower, runner beans, brussel sprouts, etc with 2 different gravys, white wine and pink wine, and ice water... A couple or 3 hours after THAT, i serve third course, which is apple pie that i make myself, sweet mince pies, christmas pudding soaked in alcohol (which i set fire to).. and ice cream, fresh cream, home made custard (not the packet shit?) . There is always food laid out on the table after that, munchie foods.. sweets, cheese and crackers , mini pizzas, etc.. cakes.. etc... Then play more games..by which time the amount of drinking done during the day makes for a RIGHT laugh while trying to play the games... board games mostly, like scattagories, Smart Ass etc, .. but the best ones are when you gotta do stuff, .. and are too drunk to actually do it.. its funny as fuck...and also... electic shock game.. the slowest to react gets a small shock.. its hilarious when you're sober.. imagine it when everyone is drunk!!!

FYI, here in the UK... christmas is celebrated over a 2 week period. Alot of firms have "shut down" over this time... and so for us, christmas is from 24th December, till new years eve... then we celebrate that until Jan 2nd.... which means everything goes back to "normal".

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