I have vowed to change things up this year. I'm trying to bring back that christmas feeling I used to feel as a kid. After reading some of the reasons people hate halloween, I can understand why people might not feel so festive around this holiday season. I too had been scrooged but it's time for a change.
One thing I have noted that keeps that 'feeling' alive is having a tradition. Maybe because things have changed over the years, and nothing has been consistent in my life, I haven't observed any of the old traditions my family used to have...but it's not too late to start new ones. What are some of the traditions you follow during this holiday?
Quote from: hbionic on November 28, 2011, 02:37:36 PM
What are some of the traditions you follow during this holiday?
Binge drinking and supporting capitalism beyond my means seem to be the predominant 2 in my household.
I sort of hate this time of year. Too much family, too much pretending to be happy to see people, too much driving from place to place, too much shopping. I guess it's cliche to hate the holiday season but I seriously can't stand it.
I've been like you most of my adult life...I've been like that for all holidays mostly. I even hated christmas songs for no particular reason. We don't have snow over here. There's tamales in the mix. But if I don't do christmas, then there's really nothing to really look forward to. Yes, there are birthdays, countless of them. Random parties here and there but I was tired of being the member of The Fellowship of the Sour Grapes like most everyone else here. Sorry I asked?
By the way, I bought a Christmas counter (countds down the days to christmas). I'm going to watch all the christmas shows, and I'm going to tell my girl to farg me with a candy cane dildo....only until christmas. It goes back to old blackie after that.
christmas loses most of its luster after you become an adult...after that you either live it thru your kids dont care about it anymore or hate it
i just dont care about it anymore
Quote from: ice grillin you on November 28, 2011, 05:16:17 PM
christmas loses most of its luster after you become an adult...after that you either live it thru your kids dont care about it anymore or hate it
i just dont care about it anymore
Couldn't have said it better. I decorate for my daughter and feel obligated to buy shtein and participate because people buy shtein for me.
Those are good ways to look at it.
Quote from: hbionic on November 28, 2011, 05:08:32 PM
I'm going to tell my girl to farg me with a candy cane dildo....only until christmas. It goes back to old blackie after that.
This is funny.
And I do look forward to the holiday for the most part. I admit though that as I've moved further and further away from my old religious beliefs, I don't get into the 'holiday spirit' as much as I prefer getting into a bottle of holiday spirits.
Over the years, I've stripped away nearly every religious aspect of the holiday except for the gift giving. No religious decorations go up, I replaced my star tree topper with Santa Claus, no religious holiday music or movies. It's just a day to get together with family and give them lavish gifts to make up for a lack of attention or affection that we have failed to show each other over the previous 364 days. Then we cook enough food to feed the neighborhood, watch some sports and go to bed.
If that isnt the american christmas spirit, I dont know what is.
You dont have to be religious to have the spirit. Religion fargs things up anyway. I too dont highlight the religious aspects of christmas...but santa claus is not christian either. He's actually a demon that gets one night of freedom per year. The christmas 'spirit' can be felt (unless you are jehovas witness of course), but its all what you make of it. It can be corny as hell, or cold and lonely, which isnt bad either, or anything in between. Mine's been dormant for years.
By the way...dont use candy on your shaft or balls. I damn near ripped my skin off trying to get that shtein off. Dont ask me what I was doing.
I like Christmas because I like giving people presents. Every year, I manage to give someone a fantastic present that they really love.
Other than that, meh.
I'm farging awful at giving gifts. Couldn't possibly be worse. It doesn't help with my overall distaste for the season.
Quote from: Diomedes on November 28, 2011, 06:10:20 PM
I like Christmas because I like giving people presents. Every year, I manage to give someone a fantastic present that they really love.
Other than that, meh.
I was ordering drinks the other night at a bar, and there was this couple waiting...I ordered my round and told the bartendress to put their drinks on me. The couple was so thankful and amazed, that if the dude's girl wanted to blow me to thank me, he would have held her hair up while she performed.
Giving is cool.
I should finish my thoughts before posting. Forgot the second half of what I was going to type.
That would require some level of competence in the matter. I am utterly incompetent.
One thing that has started taking the fun out of xmas for me are the dreaded company/work section xmas parties. My first 4 or 5 years in the Marine Corps, we didn't do that ish. Then all of a sudden the section I work in or the entire farging unit wants to have a xmas party and play secret santa.
Great. So aside from the fact that you want me to give up my Friday or Saturday night and spend 3 more hours of my life with the idiots I work with, I also have to buy a $10-$20 gift, then wrap it and then watch as the one person I can't stand more than the rest inevitably ends up getting the gift I bought while I end up with either another travel mug or cheap ass emergency roadside kit. Farg work xmas parties and farg secret santa.
so who bought their hannukah bush?
pg? dh?
:-D
I love this time of the year from Thanksgiving until Christmas.
I am a total Christmas nerd - much like Chevy Chase in NLCV.
I can't even begin to imagine what people like about this time of year.
some people like their families and like giving things to other people.
those people are farging retarded but they exist.
Quote from: rjs246 on November 28, 2011, 07:51:30 PM
I can't even begin to imagine what people like about this time of year.
the weather...after 7 months of hot humid swamp hell, this is nirvana
Quote from: MDS on November 28, 2011, 07:52:17 PM
some people like their families and like giving things to other people.
those people are farging retarded but they exist.
Haha. Amen, dummy.
some people like their families and give things to other people the other 11 months of the year too
yea but it only counts for one morning of the year when commercials tell you to do it
the og clydesdale commerical might be the best thing about xmas
another underrated factor in the ruination of xmas is global warming...im so sick of it being 58 degrees on xmas every year now
It snowed on Christmas Day here last year.
Quote from: ice grillin you on November 28, 2011, 08:52:47 PM
the og clydesdale commerical might be the best thing about xmas
another underrated factor in the ruination of xmas is global warming...im so sick of it being 58 degrees on xmas every year now
Not me...today was gorgeous, give me this all winter and I'm thrilled. farg the cold.
you arent fat...id take six months of fall and six months of winter every year if i could get it...and i absolutely love snow
heres a thought: dont be fat
Quote from: ice grillin you on November 28, 2011, 09:20:53 PM
you arent fat...id take six months of fall and six months of winter every year if i could get it...and i absolutely love snow
I'm not thin either. And I love the fall and the winter up until Jan/Feb/Mar when it gets ridiculous out.
Not much better then 2 foot snowfalls in the dead of winter.
I hate when it's ridiculously cold then warms up to 37 degrees just in time for it to rain. :boom
Quote from: ice grillin you on November 28, 2011, 08:52:47 PManother underrated factor in the ruination of xmas is global warming...im so sick of it being 58 degrees on xmas every year now
Didn't know it could get that cold during xmas.
When we first moved away from PA the first place my stepdad was stationed was Alabama. It was 90 degrees on Christmas and I hated it.
I spent last Christmas in Peru with my girls family and it was hot and we went to the beach the day after.
I don't dig heat at Christmastime.
Any way you look at it, Jesus really is the reason for the season and he put the Christ in Christmas. Obviously the holiday has been commercialized, but the root cause is still religion. I don't celebrate any religious holidays.
I haven't given a shtein about Christmas in probably ten years but I don't hate it. I just don't care. Holiday parties are great though. Anything that makes people drink more is fine with me and the extra days off are cool. But Christmas music does suck ass. Worst music ever.
thats a good point...by far the best part about the holidays (btwn thanksgiving and jan 2) is that people dont do a god damn thing at work....coming into the office for a month straight in a super relaxed chill festive atmosphere is great
Really? Most people seemed to be stressed out around the holidays. I for one can't stand them. Massive amounts of food, booze and seeing old friends is about the best part of it all.
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haha
Quote from: ice grillin you on November 30, 2011, 02:35:36 PM
thats a good point...by far the best part about the holidays (btwn thanksgiving and jan 2) is that people dont do a god damn thing at work....coming into the office for a month straight in a super relaxed chill festive atmosphere is great
Usually I'll bet your office is the picture of efficiency in the public sector.
:-D
my job sucks around the holidays because schedules have to be met and losing even one day for thanksgiving or christmas is crippling
Quote from: SunMo on December 06, 2011, 08:16:52 PM
my job sucks around the holidays because schedules have to be met and losing even one day for thanksgiving or christmas is crippling
Same.
Midterms. Common course exams. Three different inservice trainings that all have the same due dates. Seven different after-school meetings downtown.
It'll be 100 mph until Dec. 21. Then... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Ah, the kids. Those precious little angels. Now that my son is older it's all about cash and surf gear. My wife and I look back every year at all the gifts we bought him from his first xmas to the most recent. We figured out after his tenth xmas we could have been living on the French Riviera if we bypassed all the crap Santa got him. So much garbage he hardly used or outgrew in weeks. Yet as my mother-in-law says in her Hawaiian pidgin english accent "Christmas is for da keeds!".
Need some gift ideas for Dad. Usually I get him an Eagles/Flyers/Phils/Sixers sweatshirt/jersey/jacket but this year I'd like to get him something different. I usually spend $50-$100 on his gift. Any ideas?
how about a bag of weed and a fire extinguisher?
hooker
Last year in that price range I got my dad a blood test that showed he had no genetic link to me after all. He was surprised and really liked it, so you could try that.
Doesn't SD's dad already know there's no genetic link to you?
I knew that was coming, just didn't know from who.