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Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time for ... - 11/24/2009 11:30:39 PM   
MstrPBK


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Status: offline 		in the spirit of our youth (and possibly even the peanuts, and the Ed, Edd and Eddy characters), what does the holiday you celebrate BRING TO YOU?

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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/24/2009 11:32:14 PM   
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... and of course the annual gordgeing of Christmas Cookies.

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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/25/2009 12:02:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ususally, I work, but this year I am going to spend the holiday in CA with a dear friend. 

So THIS Christmas, anyway, is going to mean the joy and love of friendship. 


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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/25/2009 1:54:19 AM   
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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/25/2009 2:44:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		we do giftmas, it'll be after the 25th again this year because we wait till the beastlyboy is here, he lives with his dad.

so turkey day is at TheEngineer's sister's house, yay for her freaking "i have a new g/f, dont bring up polyamory or BDSM or the fact that you're pagan, kitten!!"  no scaring of the new family?  why the hell not??

honestly my favorite holiday memory is from when i lived in japan...i was supposed to go on a church group outing so my mama and brother went to visit a friend at another military base.  and after they left, i developed a fever.  so i stayed home, alone.  yay for hallucinatory dreams and pneumonia!! 

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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/25/2009 4:59:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yule is a time for family to me. This year will be the first in 10 years I have gotten to spend with them.
No one expects elaborate gifts or 100's of presents. We're going to spend the day with each other and share our blessings and do the homemade gift thing!
My favorite memory from childhood is the year it snowed us in to the point Dad had to dig out the doorway so we could get outside! The snow was so beautiful, the Christmas lights outside twinkled off it and made it look like billions of colored diamonds.

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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/25/2009 7:43:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		To me, Christmas is for kids. Watching our two granddaughters and their 5 or 6 little cousins open stuff is prescious.

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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/25/2009 2:54:32 PM   
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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/25/2009 5:17:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am thankful that we are all together for one more holiday.  During the holidays we live in AZ, far away from family as do our friends. We range in age from 78 to 54.   Some have had battles with cancer.  Some don't remember the same as they used to remember.  There is a new hip among the friends this year.  I'm grateful that Gary is now at 8 1/2 years since his lung transplant with no problems. 

We will all get together, friends and extended family by choice to rejoice that we can again share a special meal on a special day. 



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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/25/2009 6:59:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Christmas is for remembering childhood, with roasted chicken and ham, and Dad leaving after eating to make hay, and going to the beach Boxing Day.

Now, it is deliberately not putting up a tree - because i don't want to, and putting the nativity on the hearth, and a wreath on the door and decorating is finished, and cooking for Sir and i and my ums, and opening pressys, and washing lots of dishes.

Its for thinking of sacrifices, and motherhood and family and traditions. Its for contemplating how things are different now than they were when i was young and deciding which bits of memories are the important ones. Its remembering Midnight Mass and sitting on the choir step and listening to my Dad sing Christmas carols while holding a candle - carols can still make me tear up. Its trying to suppress my yearnings to be a child again with none of the work , none of the regrets, none of the ambiguities of being an adult.

99% of the time i love being an adult, 52, and independent (so-to-speak), but Christmas time makes me long for utopia, and that rings out as a child. Not the one i was, but the one on tv - innocent , carefree, and never cross or angry or frustrated.

ack !!!! - apparently Christmas time can also make me maudlin!!!

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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/26/2009 7:53:20 AM   
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... but then again in some small way I find something to celebrate every day, so it doesn't matter.

However holidays are still special for me for what they bring to other people. A few days ago I saw that a neighbour had put up their tree and decorations and even if you do accidentally step or slip on a pool of vomit on the pavement after some Christmas party or get held up in a major queue at the supermarket it's good to just pause a moment for reflection, maybe even remember, and think about the smiles, warmth, love and kind gestures which are shared by so many people at this time of year.

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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/26/2009 8:17:08 AM   
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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/26/2009 8:37:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well we all know what it should have been. And that is what i remember so well from my childhood days where the money was small, but the love and the time to spend with family was paramount. That stressfilled madhouse of overspending, over eating and overdrinking it has become today is really a sad joke.
The americans really was the first to head that way, we followed later which is why that allready in 1954 the american folksinger Tom Lehrer wrote a wonderfull humoristic song called "A Christmas Carol". It is still so apt and the only thing he is wrong in, is if you listen today. Then it was the american christmas he was on about, now it should say the world. I remember and honour him with my head hanging in shame, as it was on my watch the commercial world fucked up christmas and i did squat about stopping them.

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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/26/2009 4:59:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		As a kid we ALWAYS went to visit relative on dads side on Christmas eve.   There was a logic for this.   The next day the toys might get broke if we waited.  LOL.

Moms side of family was Easter.

As an adult we do something different each Christmas.

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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/26/2009 6:11:33 PM   
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What the holiday means to me? Each one celebrates light...the hope for peace and miracles. I celebrate Hanukkah, Winter Solistice and Chrismas all wrapped up in one holiday...all one thought...let a miracle of peace come to our world for everyone.

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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/26/2009 9:08:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am going to be hibernating this xmas, probably with a bottle whisky, which might be medicinal in more ways than one, as I might be getting surgery on my gob on the twenty second of the month, for I have finally got  a long awaited for appointment with the  gob hospital.

But generally, I have always hated xmas, the expectations and  all the lonely people, but the last few years a dear friend has changed my thoughts on the event, from being a yuck time of year, to a time for family and friends.


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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/26/2009 9:18:21 PM   
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ORIGINAL: MstrPBK

what does the holiday you celebrate BRING TO YOU?


My favorite Christmas was the one that brought me Thing 2... at 6:38 a.m.  She was the best Christmas present ever and a big surprise since she wasn't due for a couple of weeks. 

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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/26/2009 9:37:34 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

I am going to be hibernating this xmas, probably with a bottle whisky, which might be medicinal in more ways than one, as I might be getting surgery on my gob on the twenty second of the month, for I have finally got  a long awaited for appointment with the  gob hospital.


Not to pry, but what's a gob? I don't know whether to congratulate you, fear for you, or share with you how much I've always liked your posts and how badly I'm going to miss you.


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RE: Christmas, or your celebrated holiday, is a time fo... - 11/27/2009 8:19:46 AM   
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I'm being hassled by all the younger members of the family to break down and buy a deep fat fryer. If so I may even make my own, otherwise it's to Dunkin Donuts we go.

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