Vasquez on 15/12/2010 at 05:59
Any other Christmas nuts out there? Are you already counting days and wrapping prezzies and making shopping-lists for all things yummy? :D
We don't give loads of presents, but the few I do, I've mostly already bought. Our plans otherwise are quite simple, quick visits to family at some point and mostly staying at home, relaxing and reading, watching DVD's and/or playing games - if Santa brings any, but we've been good, so why wouldn't he :angel:
I love that timeless feeling of Christmas Day and Boxing Day, the peace and quiet, burning candles, sleeping late and going for a walk in the snow (this year we have LOTS of it, yay!) and then coming home for a cup of hot (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glogi) Glögi.
Eating till you explode is part of Christmas too, of course: The traditional ham and casseroles, cold-smoked salmon, variety of cheese, carelian pies, Christmas bread, red wine. And too much chocolate! :D
Koki on 15/12/2010 at 06:50
I can't even fucking turn the radio on anymore and now this.
Vasquez on 15/12/2010 at 07:41
Well, if you absolutely HAVE to click a thread that says "Christmas"... :joke:
37637598 on 15/12/2010 at 08:39
I second the radio bit, christmas ads are so annoying, and they're everywhere!
On a more positive note, I do enjoy coming home to the warm fireplace, the smell of fresh pine, scented apple spice candles, and the mood radiated from the multi-colored LED christmas lights covering our poor Charlie Brown tree. It gives me this certain homey feeling. Gotta love the chocolate too!
Vasquez on 15/12/2010 at 09:21
Quote Posted by 37637598
I second the radio bit, christmas ads are so annoying, and they're everywhere!
I agree, I hate the noisy-flashy-twinkly-material shit that fills the telly, the malls and everyplace around Christmas. I don't even send Christmas cards (except to my elderly aunt, because I know she really likes them) and prefer not to receive any.
But I refuse to let the commercial stuff spoil my Christmas, I just try to avoid the fuss and concentrate on the quiet, peaceful side of the season :) The little shopping I do is net-shopping or a quick hit-and-run to specific shops, and I always schedule it outside rush-hours.
Scots Taffer on 15/12/2010 at 09:58
Soon I will enjoy my fifth Christmas in the sun... the fun filled day of swimming, presents, barbecuing, drinking, sweating and generally loving life.
While I can safely say that I miss the romantic idealism of a white Christmas, the practicality sucks as evidenced by the havoc wreaked by the wintry weather over the past few weeks in the UK. I love the fact that I don't have to work and live in that kind of cold anymore.
june gloom on 15/12/2010 at 10:37
Fuck warm weather.
Vasquez on 15/12/2010 at 10:43
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Soon I will enjoy my fifth Christmas in the sun... the fun filled day of swimming, presents, barbecuing, drinking, sweating and generally loving life.
Doesn't sound half bad :cheeky: I admit it would be nice to experience a warm sunny Christmas once, even though I really do love white Christmas (and all-round white winter), luckily we've got plenty of snow this year. And I mean
plenty, but we're used to snow in Finland, so the post-blizzard chaos usually ain't that bad. Although these past weeks I've been happy not to be a car-owner...
Dia on 15/12/2010 at 13:39
I turn into a sappy, maudlin, sentimental idiot around the Holiday season starting with Thanksgiving and continuing thru New Year's Day. I don't know why this happens, but it seems this year it's out of control what with my actually hanging Christmas lights outside around my front porch, buying & decorating a small artificial (but very real-looking) Christmas tree, and hanging decorations throughout my house. Maybe it's because I finally got to move back home (after living over 400 mi. away for a year) and will be celebrating with my family again, or maybe all the losses in our family have drawn us closer and though the Holidays are a little bittersweet for us, we cherish every moment because of those sad losses. This year the older members of my family are going to resume the tradition of attending midnight mass, even though it's murder getting up at the crack of dawn on Christmas morn with the kids after that. But that's what it's all about, right?
Whatever the reason, I've lost my rationality but really don't care. I've watched multiple showings at various family members' homes of the 3 Santa Claus(e) movies, Polar Express, the Grinch, and all the Christmas animated features til I'm blue in the face. I've already gorged myself on seriously GOOD food, as my vanishing waistline will attest to and have perused so many kids' Christmas lists my eyes are starting to cross. I've done noble battle with hordes of zealous shoppers at a gazillion stores and remain triumphant (though I did nearly get run over buy an insane little old lady who was going warp 10 with her shopping cart - there oughta be a law, ya know?) and have dodged the Salvation Army people outside the stores with a stealth that equals Garrett's (I've already contributed more than I can realistically afford, but who cares, right?). And I'm still lovin' it. :cheeky:
I just wish I could get my dog to keep the Santa hat on his head long enough so I can get a silly, overly-saccharin pic of him.
Nevermind ..... he just ate the damned thing.
demagogue on 15/12/2010 at 14:55
Some of my best Christmas memories were when I acted in the madrigal dinners at college, which always happened this time of year... A choir would always sing great madrigals, from carols to classical pieces to baudy songs ("I need a sheep o mother" to the tune of Scotland the Brave). Then the food! Hot wassail, loafs of cherry bread, some kind of roast beast, forest sprig salad, rum pudding...
We'd put on an original play every year, usually pretty fantasy oriented, and the courses would come out in between scenes, and we (the actors) would walk around and mingle in character, with the jugglers and magicians and the choir. Really fun and memorable stuff.
