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My kids are with the ex tonight, and my extended family already celebrated last weekend, so here I am on x-mas eve all by my lonesome :D I see a few others here that are either on their own, not celebrating x-mas, or sick of their family, so let us chitchat to pass the time!

I'm drinking some fantastic Chilean sauvignon blanc, whilst I dine upon smoked salmon with cream cheese, along with a side of baby potatoes and asparagus cooked in a chicken/garlic/wine sauce. It's so damn good I almost can't stand it!

What are you doing?

I'm waiting for my dinner to be done cooking. Lobster, potatoes, clam chowder, salad.

I'm waiting for my dinner to be done cooking. Lobster, potatoes, clam chowder, salad.

That's an awful lot of shellfish, jewboy :p

Only people's kids annoy me. I mean really little kids like 2-6. I try to stay out of their way but they tend to get bored and find me. I hate pretending to care about entertaining kids. What am I, a British nanny?

That's an awful lot of shellfish, jewboy :p

We cheersed for Christmas and I yelled L'chaim, and dad yelled "mazel tov" when my sister knocked over her wine glass.

How's that for Jewish ;)

We cheered for Christmas and I yelled L'chaim, and dad yelled "mazel tov" when my sister knocked over her wine glass.

How's that for Jewish ;)

Hahahahhaah, well I've got no bannock, but the smoked fish is at least semi-traiditional :D

k seriously make me stop eating omg it's so good!

Well, I just finished a traditional Danish Christmas Eve dinner (a nice duck) with the family (as we do every year-- my mother is Danish), and we will, after a dessert, dance and sing through every room in the house, again in keeping with her family's traditions. After that is the exchange of gifts.

But yeah, my father is driving me insane this visit. He and I can be a bit... strong-willed, and he's a Republican. He also has certain incredibly annoying habits and mannerisms. But I can deal with it just fine, as long as I drink enough wine. :D

I'm more bored by my family right now.

Haha. I have the old 'urban family' around for Xmas. So yah, annoyed, not alone.

I'm only alone for Christmas Eve. Tomorrow morning my son will come over for dinner and to exchange gifts. We'll spend a good portion of the day together, then he'll drive on to Denver. He's spending Christmas Eve with my ex. All in all, a good Christmas.

My daughter will by flying in for the New Year.

It actually works well this way, as the two of them get along only for short periods of time and the three of us are a volatile combination, largely because of politics and religion. He's far to the right of center, She's pretty much at the center and I'm somewhat to the left of center. None of us is religious, but we're all non-religious in vastly different ways - go figure.

Right; my mother has flu, and, in consequence, is more of a miserable, judgemental and critical cow than ever. Other than that, everything chez mois is hunky dory, my knee being the size of Wales and as flexible as Margaret Thatcher notwithstanding.

Well last night I was up late, and didn't get much sleep, not a big deal because, I had a half day at work, and planned on napping. So got out at 1, went straight home, got home by 2, not having eatten lunch, and with a bagel at around 9am. Come home to find my cat having distressed noises. Seems like a urinary tract block, so, a quick rental car later (by now it's 3) and we're off to the only vet open on christmas eve day, the MSPCA emergency room. Crowded emergency room, christmas eve, skeleton crew...you see where this is going. Flash forward, it's now 7pm, and my vet informs me that my cat is too agitated to get an xray, and is raising hell (that's my boy!) so they have to sedate him, which means he won't be out until 8.

Problem, my rental expires at 7:30 and someone else has it booked. So while I leave my agitated and hissing cat with the not so competent medical staff (he's a fucking cat, deal with it!) who is drugging him, I race back to my neighborhood, return the car, get ANOTHER car, the only one they have left being a BMW. So I drive back to the animal hospital, retrieve my cat, turns out he was having bladders spasms, which mimicked a blockage.

Problem being two fold. One, to fix it, they gave him something to essentially loosen and stop the bladder from spasming. Which means he has, in consequence, peed all over himself, and in his carrier, which of course leaks out..on to the seat of the rented car. The BMW. It's now 8:30, the cat is home, lying ON MY CARPET, and, as mentioned, covered in his own pee. Also, during the struggle between him and what I can only imagine was the entire veterinary staff, he snagged his claw, cracking it, and he's now bleeding slightly. Cat blood and urine, all over my carpet. On top of a $500 emergency room bill for my god damned cat.

Fan-fucking-tastic.

By the way, if you've been keeping this chronology, you'll note it's 8:30 PM, and that 9 AM bagel was the ONLY DAMNED FOOD I've had all day, because, as I said, I planned on eating when I got home. I'm also on 5 hours of sleep and planned on taking an afternoon nap. My cat had other ideas.

So now it's about 9,, I've successfully cleaned up the god damned BMW (my carpet being not even worth it right now, it'll wait til morning). The place where I got this car is half a mile from my apartment. It's raining. I left the umbrella in the first car. That car is gone now. Great.

So now I'm home. I'm wet. I'm tired. I STILL haven't eaten. But, like the good jew I am, I knew just what to do.

Chinese food will be here in 15 minutes.

So yeah, happy fucking holidays.

Well last night I was up late, and didn't get much sleep, not a big deal because, I had a half day at work, and planned on napping. So got out at 1, went straight home, got home by 2, not having eatten lunch, and with a bagel at around 9am. Come home to find my cat having distressed noises. Seems like a urinary tract block, so, a quick rental car later (by now it's 3) and we're off to the only vet open on christmas eve day, the MSPCA emergency room. Crowded emergency room, christmas eve, skeleton crew...you see where this is going. Flash forward, it's now 7pm, and my vet informs me that my cat is too agitated to get an xray, and is raising hell (that's my boy!) so they have to sedate him, which means he won't be out until 8.

Problem, my rental expires at 7:30 and someone else has it booked. So while I leave my agitated and hissing cat with the not so competent medical staff (he's a fucking cat, deal with it!) who is drugging him, I race back to my neighborhood, return the car, get ANOTHER car, the only one they have left being a BMW. So I drive back to the animal hospital, retrieve my cat, turns out he was having bladders spasms, which mimicked a blockage.

Problem being two fold. One, to fix it, they gave him something to essentially loosen and stop the bladder from spasming. Which means he has, in consequence, peed all over himself, and in his carrier, which of course leaks out..on to the seat of the rented car. The BMW. It's now 8:30, the cat is home, lying ON MY CARPET, and, as mentioned, covered in his own pee. Also, during the struggle between him and what I can only imagine was the entire veterinary staff, he snagged his claw, cracking it, and he's now bleeding slightly. Cat blood and urine, all over my carpet. On top of a $500 emergency room bill for my god damned cat.

Fan-fucking-tastic.

By the way, if you've been keeping this chronology, you'll note it's 8:30 PM, and that 9 AM bagel was the ONLY DAMNED FOOD I've had all day, because, as I said, I planned on eating when I got home. I'm also on 5 hours of sleep and planned on taking an afternoon nap. My cat had other ideas.

So now it's about 9,, I've successfully cleaned up the god damned BMW (my carpet being not even worth it right now, it'll wait til morning). The place where I got this car is half a mile from my apartment. It's raining. I left the umbrella in the first car. That car is gone now. Great.

So now I'm home. I'm wet. I'm tired. I STILL haven't eaten. But, like the good jew I am, I knew just what to do.

Chinese food will be here in 15 minutes.

So yeah, happy fucking holidays.
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So Sark, we on for the 3rd?

I has had ten pints and no meals. Christmas eve with the family is done, and I have doubts as to just how much family-Christmas I'll actually be seeing. First Christmas in three that I shan't be on the beach. Bloody countries-that-aren't-Australia.

[Bed]

{{{hugs}}} for Art's cat. Is he doing okay now?

Well, maybe not actual hugs for the cat, but you get the idea.

So Sark, we on for the 3rd?

I'm down. I think I'm going to take off untill the 4th because...well...I hate my job, and I should be back in Boston either the 2nd at night or 3rd in the morning.

My kids are with the ex tonight, and my extended family already celebrated last weekend, so here I am on x-mas eve all by my lonesome :D I see a few others here that are either on their own, not celebrating x-mas, or sick of their family, so let us chitchat to pass the time!

I'm drinking some fantastic Chilean sauvignon blanc, whilst I dine upon smoked salmon with cream cheese, along with a side of baby potatoes and asparagus cooked in a chicken/garlic/wine sauce. It's so damn good I almost can't stand it!

What are you doing?

I just got back from my roommate's parents house, where we hung out, watched some TV (On their 52" Sony LCD), and I enjoyed turkey, mashed potatoes, and green beans. :D Only wish my sister was making turkey tomorrow, instead of ham. :(

My kids are with the ex tonight, and my extended family already celebrated last weekend, so here I am on x-mas eve all by my lonesome :D I see a few others here that are either on their own, not celebrating x-mas, or sick of their family, so let us chitchat to pass the time!

I'm drinking some fantastic Chilean sauvignon blanc, whilst I dine upon smoked salmon with cream cheese, along with a side of baby potatoes and asparagus cooked in a chicken/garlic/wine sauce. It's so damn good I almost can't stand it!

What are you doing?

I'm listening to the perennial family debate between the Russian and American sides of the family about when to celebrate christmas, which will undoubtedly end in one Christmas party now, and one on Jan.7th, with none of my father's family attending the Dec.25th edition, and none of my mother's attending the Jan.7th one.

I am so glad the Eastern European elements of our family faded away. (Ukrainian, never EVER to be confused with Russian)

No, I'm not a Jew. *sigh* Though I wish I controlled the world...

I got pissed Christmas eve and will be having 3 different Christmas dinners this year :)

I hope to be pissed, stuffed and getting lots of use out of my new Santa girl dress (well you never get the present you want anyway) maybe even chatting other peoples family's up >.>

Only people's kids annoy me. I mean really little kids like 2-6. I try to stay out of their way but they tend to get bored and find me. I hate pretending to care about entertaining kids. What am I, a British nanny?

...am I? :eek2:

edit: also I'm awake because who the fuck sleeps on Xmas?

I am so glad the Eastern European elements of our family faded away. (Ukrainian, never EVER to be confused with Russian)

No, I'm not a Jew. *sigh* Though I wish I controlled the world...
I thought you all were one of them lost tribes things.

I thought you all were one of them lost tribes things.

Yeah but apparently the whole ruling the world thing happened while we were getting lost, so we didn't get a cut.

Though I'd like to know where Jews today would be without smoked salmon. Hmmm? Yeah.

My father's Irish side had a Ukrainian or two in the woodpile. Family shame.

ah, well i don't celebrate christmas....so i'm just chatting on YouTube now too.

Hinotama, we are all affected by Christmas in one way or another. How many stores in Japan have giant sleigh bells and Santas?

Had dinner with the family, found out that the ham sammich I had for lunch today is getting me sent straight to hell, went to blockbuster- got 3 movies, went to Turkey Hill- got a pack of smooths and a sugar free red bull, came home, had some more cabbage pierogies with saurkraut, blew some bubbles, played with my dog, and now I'm watching the South Park Christmas marathon and debating whether I want to get drunk, or high, or both.

"My father's Irish side had a Ukrainian or two in the woodpile. Family shame."
Sounds like you have a big extended family, Neesika! Mazeltov and L'chaim!

Here's something I say to people who brag about their pedigree:
How many parents have you? (2)
How many grandparents? (4)
How many great-grandparents? (8)

What's 2 to the power of 25?
This stumps them and they have to get out their calculators.

Then you say, so in 25 generations, you have how many ancestors? Boy you're multicultural!

According to the local news, NORAD sez Santa is near my area.

Maybe I should skip the drugs and get to bed?

"My father's Irish side had a Ukrainian or two in the woodpile. Family shame."
Sounds like you have a big extended family, Neesika! Mazeltov and L'chaim!

Here's something I say to people who brag about their pedigree:
How many parents have you? (2)
How many grandparents? (4)
How many great-grandparents? (8)

What's 2 to the power of 25?
This stumps them and they have to get out their calculators.

Then you say, so in 25 generations, you have how many ancestors? Boy you're multicultural!
When I was in Vegas, we visited the Pauite Reserve and I almost bought a shirt that said "I'm part white but I can't prove it" :D

Yup, huge family, lots of influences, so I get to be a perogy eating, irish whiskey drinking, bannock making aboriginal :D

Pierogi.

I want a Shamwow.

Pierogi.

Listen. Canada is full of Ukrainian influence, particularly in the Prairies. So take your bullshit Polish spelling elsewhere.

Also, welcome to the largest pyrogy (http://members.mcsnet.ca/glendon/pyrogy.html) in the world!

My family is either:
A) Drunk past sensibility or
B) At the midnight church service

As the only atheist who can hold his liquor in the family, I'm sort of alone right now, but I'll be back in the skirmish tomorrow morning. Whee, Christmas!

I need to digest this salmon so I can continue eating. There is bannock now, fried in bacon grease, and full of cranberries.

Got back this morning from an all-nighter with my best friend up in S.F. and came home to see my dad, home for the next three weeks, as he is every four months or so. So far he's spent the last seven hours sleeping, so I haven't had to interact with him much, thus preserving my sanity that little bit longer.

I intend to spend Christmas day stuffing myself with ham, reading from the many fine books I bought myself for the holidays, and doing whatever I damn well please, including, if I want, holing myself up in my room and telling family to fuck off.

You know what's sort of amazing? I've been trying to get my family et al. to stop buying me presents for xmas...this is the first year that was successful.

When I was in Vegas, we visited the Pauite Reserve and I almost bought a shirt that said "I'm part white but I can't prove it" :D

Yup, huge family, lots of influences, so I get to be a perogy eating, irish whiskey drinking, bannock making aboriginal :D

Sometimes I just say I'm descended from farmers. Because no matter where they came from--Germany, Ireland, England, France, Western New York--my family farmed. Give us a patch of dirt, we'll farm the hell out of that sucker no matter where it is.

I need to digest this salmon so I can continue eating. There is bannock now, fried in bacon grease, and full of cranberries.
You stop that, you stop that right now. I've just finished the annual Christmas Eve Feast of Cold Cuts and Assorted Cheeses. Three hours of wine, cheese, meat, mustard, crackers, bread, Christmas movies, and progressively more nonsensical arguments (movies->music->economics->politics->international relations->Who would win in a fist fight between Ban Ki-Moon and Lars Ulrich).
If you make me hungry enough to start eating again, I fear I might explode.

If you make me hungry enough to start eating again, I fear I might explode.

Then I won't tell you about the quick tolberone chocolate fondue I just made to eat my grapes and bananas in. Topped off with whipped cream.

Do I want the crab cakes now, or should I wait until I'm high?

Do I want the crab cakes now, or should I wait until I'm high?

high, clearly. And you should send me one.

Do I want the crab cakes now, or should I wait until I'm high?

Depends...pot or pills? If pot, wait for the muchies. If not, eat now.

Then I won't tell you about the quick tolberone chocolate fondue I just made to eat my grapes and bananas in. Topped off with whipped cream.
You're an evil, evil woman. I love you. Don't ever change.

high, clearly. And you should send me one.

Mmk, and mmk. You want butter?

Mmk, and mmk. You want butter?

nah...tartar sauce will be good.

Eeeeewish.

And now it's nearly time for the traditional xmas eve masturbation.

And now it's nearly time for the traditional xmas eve masturbation.
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Do you at least use a Baby Jesus and/or crucifix, in order to keep it seasonal?

And now it's nearly time for the traditional xmas eve masturbation.

I'm dreaming of an erotic Christmas ....

I am happily alone on Christmas Eve here in sunny San Diego and not with my family in bitterly cold, snow-covered Idaho.

Tomorrow I plan to go to the World-Famous San Diego Zoo. I may wear shorts. That is a great X-mas.

I am happily alone on Christmas Eve here in sunny San Diego and not with my family in bitterly cold, snow-covered Idaho.

Tomorrow I plan to go to the World-Famous San Diego Zoo. I may wear shorts. That is a great X-mas.

This coming from a kid who does every other Christmas in the Caribbean, but it just isn't the same without the cold and snow.

This coming from a kid who does every other Christmas in the Caribbean, but it just isn't the same without the cold and snow.

It isn't the same at all -- it's better! :p

Don't miss the cold or snow at all. For many years running now.

It isn't the same at all -- it's better! :p

Don't miss the cold or snow at all. For many years running now.
I love the years we're down in the Caribbean...but it just isn't the same. I love the snow. I actually took a 15 minute break from work for no other reason than to go have a coffee and cigarette in the snow.

Mmm, crabcakes.

mmm, crabcakes.
gimme.

I am happily alone on Christmas Eve here in sunny San Diego and not with my family in bitterly cold, snow-covered Idaho.

Tomorrow I plan to go to the World-Famous San Diego Zoo. I may wear shorts. That is a great X-mas.

Aaaah. My daughter is in beautiful, snow-covered Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. She makes long, complaining phone calls about having to shovel snow off her driveway while dressed in her blues. As I live in Colorado Springs and have people to shovel my snow for me, I laugh.

gimme.

About that..

About that..

Mind you, if I don't get them, I WILL kill you.

Yeah, I get annoyed with my family during the holidays.

I'm my Mom's helper in the kitchen (only I can do it because everyone else gets in her way and doesn't know how to assist her in a way she can accept). So while everyone else has fun I basically have an assistant catering job to do with my Mom. Like tonight when everyone was having dessert I was loading the dishwasher.

Even during like the opening of presents and stuff. My Mom likes to keep everything nice and organized, so I have to help her with that. And my Grandmother always needs something or my stepdad does. And my sister has a newborn now, so she can't do it.

I'm basically the errand boy during the holidays.

It basically sucks. I feel more like the hired help than I do like a family member most years, honestly. Was never a big fan of the holidays cuz of that.

Mind you, if I don't get them, I WILL kill you.

*takes you out of will*

*takes you out of will*
*kills and plunders*

It isn't the same at all -- it's better! :p

Don't miss the cold or snow at all. For many years running now.
no kidding! snow is so over rated. its great to live in a place where you can go skiing in the winter but not have to deal with snow if you dont want to.

not that central new mexico is san diego that way but great big snow storms hit north and of here when it was in the 50s here every afternoon.

Well last night I was up late, and didn't get much sleep, not a big deal because, I had a half day at work, and planned on napping. So got out at 1, went straight home, got home by 2, not having eatten lunch, and with a bagel at around 9am. Come home to find my cat having distressed noises. Seems like a urinary tract block, so, a quick rental car later (by now it's 3) and we're off to the only vet open on christmas eve day, the MSPCA emergency room. Crowded emergency room, christmas eve, skeleton crew...you see where this is going. Flash forward, it's now 7pm, and my vet informs me that my cat is too agitated to get an xray, and is raising hell (that's my boy!) so they have to sedate him, which means he won't be out until 8.

Problem, my rental expires at 7:30 and someone else has it booked. So while I leave my agitated and hissing cat with the not so competent medical staff (he's a fucking cat, deal with it!) who is drugging him, I race back to my neighborhood, return the car, get ANOTHER car, the only one they have left being a BMW. So I drive back to the animal hospital, retrieve my cat, turns out he was having bladders spasms, which mimicked a blockage.

Problem being two fold. One, to fix it, they gave him something to essentially loosen and stop the bladder from spasming. Which means he has, in consequence, peed all over himself, and in his carrier, which of course leaks out..on to the seat of the rented car. The BMW. It's now 8:30, the cat is home, lying ON MY CARPET, and, as mentioned, covered in his own pee. Also, during the struggle between him and what I can only imagine was the entire veterinary staff, he snagged his claw, cracking it, and he's now bleeding slightly. Cat blood and urine, all over my carpet. On top of a $500 emergency room bill for my god damned cat.

Fan-fucking-tastic.

By the way, if you've been keeping this chronology, you'll note it's 8:30 PM, and that 9 AM bagel was the ONLY DAMNED FOOD I've had all day, because, as I said, I planned on eating when I got home. I'm also on 5 hours of sleep and planned on taking an afternoon nap. My cat had other ideas.

So now it's about 9,, I've successfully cleaned up the god damned BMW (my carpet being not even worth it right now, it'll wait til morning). The place where I got this car is half a mile from my apartment. It's raining. I left the umbrella in the first car. That car is gone now. Great.

So now I'm home. I'm wet. I'm tired. I STILL haven't eaten. But, like the good jew I am, I knew just what to do.

Chinese food will be here in 15 minutes.

So yeah, happy fucking holidays.

I don't usually do this, but I think you've earned it: :fluffle:

Here's one for Loki, too. Poor pee-covered kitty! :fluffle:

I hope your Chinese food was yummy.

I am so glad the Eastern European elements of our family faded away. (Ukrainian, never EVER to be confused with Russian)

No, I'm not a Jew. *sigh* Though I wish I controlled the world...

It's actually not the Russians who are the main source of the problem in my family. Their point of view is more "we celebrate on your day... drink... on our day, the old calendar day, we go church. after, we celebrate again... more drink... borscht... we are happy..."

The small southern Baptist part of my mom's family, on the other hand, has a point of view of "why, how dare you even suggest that we could celebrate the birth of Jesus, who by the way died for you you idol-worshipping heathens, on a different day... We would not even think to attend your celebration, because jesus, who, by the way, died for your sins you idol-worshipping heathens, if it was not on December 25th... Even if it was, we still would not attend anything that has do do with you, you idol-worshipping heathens..."

Re-reading the OP, I envy you the Sauvignon Blanc, by the way.

*kneecaps Sark*

turkey just went in, it's going to take 5 hours and apparently I'm in charge of it. Shortly will be starting on bacon and eggs.... Give it a few more hours and I will become bored to the point of euthanasia.

Right now I'm waiting for my brother to wake up, and let me play Ace Combat 6 which I got for Christmas.

turkey just went in, it's going to take 5 hours and apparently I'm in charge of it. Shortly will be starting on bacon and eggs.... Give it a few more hours and I will become bored to the point of euthanasia.

Christmas isn't Christmas without food poisoning :tongue:

Right now I'm waiting for my brother to wake up, and let me play Ace Combat 6 which I got for Christmas.

take all the Christmas decorations down and act like he missed it

take all the Christmas decorations down and act like he missed it

My sister, mum, grandma and granddad will wonder what am I doing if I do that.

Right now I'm waiting for my brother to wake up, and let me play Ace Combat 6 which I got for Christmas.Download the CFA-44 Nosferatu(Prototype) at your earliest convenience. It will save you many a thrown controller/broken TV screen. :p

Download the CFA-44 Nosferatu(Prototype) at your earliest convenience. It will save you many a thrown controller/broken TV screen. :p

Does it cost Microsoft Points?

Does it cost Microsoft Points?I'm not sure if it does anymore, but it did back when I got it.
(Or you can just beat the campaign on the hardest difficulty that isn't Ace of Aces.)
Edit: Beating it on the hardest difficulty is what makes you want to throw your controller so much, though. But it's how you get the real Nosferatu, so, I suffered through it.

I'm not sure if it does anymore, but it did back when I got it.
(Or you can just beat the campaign on the hardest difficulty that isn't Ace of Aces.)

A friend of mine has the same game and he says that you gotta complete it on every difficulty level to get everything, but I've completed Ace Combat 5 on Medium(or would have if not for the Scrappy Level). There's only one problem and that's about the fact that I got it as a present. He says that I can't play Left 4 Dead when he buys it cause he can't play it. Although, I've never said he can't play it. Oh well, I get Halo 3.

A friend of mine has the same game and he says that you gotta complete it on every difficulty level to get everything, but I've completed Ace Combat 5 on Medium(or would have if not for the Scrappy Level). There's only one problem and that's about the fact that I got it as a present. He says that I can't play Left 4 Dead when he buys it cause he can't play it. Although, I've never said he can't play it. Oh well, I get Halo 3.Huh. That explanation did absolutely nothing to clear my confusion on just what, exactly, that you're talking about. Congratulations. :p

Kidding, dude, kidding. Yeah, I understand. Halo 3 is a decent game, but not the 'zOMG epicz' game that some people make it out to be.

Huh. That explanation did absolutely nothing to clear my confusion on just what, exactly, that you're talking about. Congratulations. :p

Kidding, dude, kidding. Yeah, I understand. Halo 3 is a decent game, but not the 'zOMG epicz' game that some people make it out to be.

Yeah, I don't expect it to be it. With games with a lot of hype, you gotta be careful with either slipping into unrealistic expectations or hype aversion. BTW, I'm right now in what I call a ''mild game overflow''. I still got Fallout 3 play through and when I'm gonna buy a new game , that I also gotta play through.

I work, all day, 12 hours from 6 am to 6 pm. My Christmas Dinner consists of a Ham and Cheese Hot Pocket and some strawberries.

I work, all day, 12 hours from 6 am to 6 pm. My Christmas Dinner consists of a Ham and Cheese Hot Pocket and some strawberries.

I'm at work right now...and the day shifts left all the shoveling for me to do. :mad:

Thankfully, I'm off the clock in about 15 minutes. Home and to bed!!!

No, I'm not a Jew. *sigh* Though I wish I controlled the world...

Are you aware of how much work that is? :eek2:

Take it! You can have it. And no backsies!!

*Flees*

I spent Christmas Eve with my parents, brother, sister-in-law, nieces, sis-in-law's cousin and sister, and friends.... fiance.... and then my friends at services.

A pretty good Christmas Eve. :)

Today my parents are coming for Christmas dinner. The fiance and I are roasting a goose I prepared, with homemade stuffing from I made from scratch, a nice salad (with toasted pinioli, orange slices, marinated artichoke hearts, pimiento, tomato, cucumbers, mixed greens, EVOO and rice wine vinegar), homemade mashed potatoes, peas, my dad's bringing a shrimp ring and my mom's bringing her famous pumpkin cheesecake.

:) Should be a good day.

"My father's Irish side had a Ukrainian or two in the woodpile. Family shame."
Sounds like you have a big extended family, Neesika! Mazeltov and L'chaim!

Here's something I say to people who brag about their pedigree:
How many parents have you? (2)
How many grandparents? (4)
How many great-grandparents? (8)

What's 2 to the power of 25?
This stumps them and they have to get out their calculators.

Then you say, so in 25 generations, you have how many ancestors? Boy you're multicultural!
Hee!

I'm already a mutt, I know it, and it didn't take that far back to find it. ;)

*hugs Big Jim P* just for his abbreviated appearance here.

I'll be online with friends.

I'm at work right now...and the day shifts left all the shoveling for me to do. :mad:

Thankfully, I'm off the clock in about 15 minutes. Home and to bed!!!

You're lucky, I work until 6 pm, making a 12 hour shift.

My kids just destroyed the house and are now on the way to their grandmother's house to destroy hers. :D

My kids come home sometime today so we can open up presents here...that's three x-mases for them, lucky shits! Then my brother and the kids are going to see the new Adam Sandler movie.

Oooh, the Queen is giving her x-mas message. Too bad it's not a massage. I love that the CBC airs this shit. It's not all a happy happy joy joy message either, excellent.

My kids come home sometime today so we can open up presents here...that's three x-mases for them, lucky shits! Then my brother and the kids are going to see the new Adam Sandler movie.

Um, Adam Sandler?

Um, Adam Sandler?

Yes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0960731/). It's a kids' movie.

Yes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0960731/). It's a kids' movie.
the best part being that the kids will love it but YOU dont have to sit through this piece of shit.

My kids come home sometime today so we can open up presents here...that's three x-mases for them, lucky shits! Then my brother and the kids are going to see the new Adam Sandler movie.

Oooh, the Queen is giving her x-mas message. Too bad it's not a massage. I love that the CBC airs this shit. It's not all a happy happy joy joy message either, excellent.

Would a massage from the Queen even be that good?

-snip-

Sorry to hear about your cat. :( Hope your cat feels better soon.

And now it's nearly time for the traditional xmas eve masturbation.

Going to masturbate to Santa and his elves are we?

The small southern Baptist part of my mom's family, on the other hand, has a point of view of "why, how dare you even suggest that we could celebrate the birth of Jesus, who by the way died for you you idol-worshipping heathens, on a different day... We would not even think to attend your celebration, because jesus, who, by the way, died for your sins you idol-worshipping heathens, if it was not on December 25th... Even if it was, we still would not attend anything that has do do with you, you idol-worshipping heathens..."

I was wondering if all Southern Baptist were idiots or just my mom side of the family and those who try to "save" me.

I work, all day, 12 hours from 6 am to 6 pm. My Christmas Dinner consists of a Ham and Cheese Hot Pocket and some strawberries.

My parents had to burn a paid time off today. Apparently in the health care field, they don't get holidays off, so if you want Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc off, you have to either take a vacation day or a paid time off.

As for me, Christmas Eve, my mom, dad, brother, sister-in-law, and nephew spent time together at my brother's house. I got a picture of my nephew (like I don't have 500 of them already..) and money.

I then went to Midnight Mass with my family, because my mom asked me to, and eh why not, it made her happy. I like giving my family false hope that I'll come back to Christ.

Christmas Day, I got $100 from my parents (because I didn't really say what I wanted for Christmas), and I basically gave present to my friends, deposited my money, came home, watch "Christmas Carol" (the one with Patrick Stewart in it), and took a nap.

Christmas has actually become boring for me, it feels more like another day every year than a special time of year.

Anyone else feels this way?

Well I am working a 12 hour shift, that should be an indication about how I feel.

Well I am working a 12 hour shift, that should be an indication about how I feel.

*gives you a slice of cheesecake*

*gives you a slice of cheesecake*

Sweet!

Oooh, the Queen is giving her x-mas message.

The Queen? THE QUEEN?

She's our Queen. Get your own. :mad:

I've been bitten by the family-lives-in-a-rotton-locale bug as well.. In one brief flight I went from 7 degrees above to 35 below..

The Queen? THE QUEEN?

She's our Queen. Get your own. :mad:

Sure, as soon as you exorcise the old twat from our currency.

The Queen? THE QUEEN?

She's our Queen. Get your own. :mad:

She's a killer queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime

Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?

Drunk again, had a really nice day.

Drunk again, had a really nice day.

Drunk always and I bet my day was better cuz it involved GoG getting naked on Skype.

Drunk always and I bet my day was better cuz it involved GoG getting naked on Skype.I think my day was the best of all. I survived a surprise family visit of no less than twenty relatives (Total ambush, defied the rules of war. Bastards, I'll get them next year.) that I have met possibly twice in my entire life. It was interesting, to say the least.

I think my day was the best of all. I survived a surprise family visit of no less than twenty relatives (Total ambush, defied the rules of war. Bastards, I'll get them next year.) that I have met possibly twice in my entire life. It was interesting, to say the least.

Sorry, but barring naked pics of your kin, I'm pretty sure I still won :D

Sorry, but barring naked pics of your kin, I'm pretty sure I still won :DLet's not plot a course into that particular black hole, shall we? It gives my mind bad ideas that I might use at next years Christmas party.

Let's not plot a course into that particular black hole, shall we? It gives my mind bad ideas that I might use at next years Christmas party.

Muahahahahahahahhahahhhah!

Muahahahahahahahhahahhhah!Bad, Nessika, bad! *closes eyes* Not reading anymore of the evil! Am not! *peeks*

Drunk always and I bet my day was better cuz it involved GoG getting naked on Skype.

I bet it was equally good for us.

Today was a new kind of good, I've never had a Christmas feel this way.

Anyway, I've already seen GoG's penis, so what did he do defferently?

I bet it was equally good for us.

Today was a new kind of good, I've never had a Christmas feel this way.

Anyway, I've already seen GoG's penis, so what did he do defferently?

He shaped it into a G.

Hahaha!

what is this thing called "family"? my mom's almost 90 and in attended care, my dad's ashes have been six feet in the ground for more then a decade. their syblings in similar context, those of them i've ever met. cousins, et al, i have no idea. my wife's kids (and their kids) i met once, at our wedding. i did meet some of her other relatives, but none of them live within any sort of reasonable travelling distance, at least not within the capacity of what virtually nonexistent resources we have.

what is this thing called lonely? the happiest times in my life have been when i've been utterly and entirely alone.

which i'm not. wife, one of her Baha'i friends, and myself, had a nice little yum yum (easy chicken caccitori, string beans, cranberry sauce, cheesecakepie for desert) the afternoon of the solstice and opened presents together at that time.

lets see, we've got some lights up inside, and some pine trimmings from the little trees i keep kind of halfway bonasaied in our little garden.

even said a couple of prayers (Baha'i prayers) for world peace and for my mom to get better.

totally mellow and absolutely no big deal.

Back at home after spending two days alternately being bored out of my mind, being harangued about cooking, and being nauseatingly civil to people I have nothing in common with.

Oh god, it's good to be back wasting time on my PC and drinking a beer. And tomorrow, more of the beer and sod all!

It was a good day. A pleasant time with my son, a good dinner, then the evening alone with a good book and a fire in the fireplace.

Hungover.

I hate you all.

Ruffy! I was drinking some rúfina wine and thought of you. :fluffle:

My kids are with the ex tonight, and my extended family already celebrated last weekend, so here I am on x-mas eve all by my lonesome :D I see a few others here that are either on their own, not celebrating x-mas, or sick of their family, so let us chitchat to pass the time!

I'm drinking some fantastic Chilean sauvignon blanc, whilst I dine upon smoked salmon with cream cheese, along with a side of baby potatoes and asparagus cooked in a chicken/garlic/wine sauce. It's so damn good I almost can't stand it!

What are you doing?

xmas day was spent with family, turkey and a fire. boxing day was spent recovering, and now today will be ferrying said family back and forth back home before picking up girlfriend for our own xmas day. its almost 1am and i'm just bored, eating cookies and drinking Appletiser. need to get more liver and cranberry pate tomorrow, cos i've eaten sooooooo much of it over the last two days :p

*gorges on Maltesers*