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the happy christmas thread.
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you may not post here if you're going to moan about christmas.
it must be so hard getting 2 weeks of school and having to endure people buying you stuff and having to eat nice food.
anyone do anything obscure and a bit different for christmas?
half my family's polish, so we have a traditional polish christmas on christmas eve, and then a semi english christmas on christmas day, and then just a party on boxing day.
it must be so hard getting 2 weeks of school and having to endure people buying you stuff and having to eat nice food.
anyone do anything obscure and a bit different for christmas?
half my family's polish, so we have a traditional polish christmas on christmas eve, and then a semi english christmas on christmas day, and then just a party on boxing day.
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i love it. best day of the year.
Go to sleep crimbo eve
wake up at 2 am and hunt santa(ive actually done it on numerouse occasions with friends who sleep round....last year we hunted santa with spoons heheh)
fail at catching santa
have a snowball fight if its snowing
go back to bed
wake up crimbo morning
moan that the amount of prezzies i get is getting smaller by the year
give ppl prezzies
have a full english breakfast
go to see all my friends and there new toys (i remember when my ex neighbour got an air rifle, oh what fun)
come home and eat a propa bo crim....bo dinner
moan that im full and consume wine
go outside and abuse passers by with snowballs
come in and get changed
spend the rest of the night getting stupidly drunk with friends
go to sleep
wake up boxing day morning before everyone else
shout GOOOOOOD MORNING WEEE AT NAAAAME! as loud as i can down the whole street and round the house(they actually started expeicting it and one crimbo they woke me up at 4am....every single one of the bastards)
go back to bed
wake up yet again and think...roll on new years
Watch a christmasy film (usually a Muppet Christmas Carol). Go to bed...
Chritmas day
Wake up, around 6.30, open sotckings with my brother and sisters. Wake our mum and dad up around 8ish. Go downstairs, open our main presents. Argue about whose going in the shower first...get dressed...our family come round...we all go out. Have a meal, drink lots. Everyone comes back to our house, we drink more, play stupid games, and hurt ourselves in stupid fireplaces. (damn thing shouldnt be so near me.) Go to bed.
Boxing day
Wake up to the smell of cooking. Lounge around the house for a bit, get dressed. Eat another meal. Get ready (in fancy dress) for Talk. Get drunk, dance, do normal clubish things.
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how truuue
Xmas eve
xmas day
boxing day
27th
new years eve
new years day
Midnight communion Christmas eve.
Sleep
Get up about 10
Drag my bro out of bed
Open presents
eat lunch
watch queens speach
everyone falls asleep but me so bored off my arse
feel sick from eating and drinking too much
go bed
boxing day....every other year (this year being that year) same old routine as xmas day cos my bro and wife come, drags christmas out and being stuck not allowed to go anywhere for 2 days. oh what joy christmas will be this year and no Asa around to cheer me up.
Sorry Christmas was fun when I was little and my dad was alive to join in it all. Ever since he died it's been one long drawn out process with smething/someone missing.
christmas eve - odd mix of polish tradition, and my family being odd:
in the morning you put up your tree and decorations. traditionally you're not allowed to eat anything in the daytime, and my mum and aunt still do this, but the rule has been relaxed a bit for the young'uns.
all of my mum's side of the family gets together. it's the one night of the year where no one is excused.
we wait for the first star to come out, and then we start. we have sheets of this stuff called oplatek, which is basically blessed rice paper, and the deal is that the oldest person in the family goes to the youngest, both armed with oplatek, and they wish each other well for the coming year, either something specific, or just general happiness and fun stuff. then they each break off a bit of the other's oplatek and eat it. then everyone does the same to each other until you have all done everyone. then we eat.
polish food at christmas is one of the most horrific parts of christmas. we have carp in jelly, beetroot soup, potato and cheese pasta things cooked in butter, other ming fishy things and bread. that's all you're allowed. no meat. until my grandma died 4 years ago i just had bread and butter, cause i didn't like anything else, and she was so fiercely traditional that she wouldn't let me eat anything else. these last few years my mum has relented and cooked me pasta. it's all washed down with the traditional home-brewed spirit (some kind of lemon vodka) called titrinuwka. eating will stop randomly to offer toasts to people who need them, or, as everyone gets drunker, just about anything.
after the meal you have to sing for your presents. no word of a lie. you sing and sing until it is deemed that you have sung enough (which can be about 2 hours). the newest addition to the family has to do a solo.
then you get your presents. then everyone gets very very drunk. then they go to midnight mass and highly embarrass themselves. sometimes this is followed by a bout of paraletic carol singing, to whichever unfortunate neighbour they feel is worthy of their vocal talents that year. then we go to bed.
christmas day:
we all trundle off to my aunts for english christmas lunch. after all the fish it's quite the relief. we don't have any presents on christmas day unless it's a joke present. the whole family proceeds to get drunk again.
boxing day:
as christmas day, but with much crapper telly and leftovers.
Working in Dundee (which is 100 miles south of home) supposedly till 11. Now if it is 11, then I'm fucked. Or rather, my dad is, as he'll have to drive down and pick me up.
But apparently I'll be on till 9. This means I can bomb down and get a train to Aberdeen, get picked up and driven home by the time Santa comes. Which Mrs Claus says takes too long
But yes, tiring.
Xmas Day
Get up about 9-10 at a guess, see what Santa left. Then faff about till lunch (which I'll have to help sort out) gobble up lunch, more pressies in the afternoon.
Then more falling asleep, faffing about. Dunno who's all gonna be there, just lots of annoying family.
The last two Xmas Days, I've been in bed by 10pm. So I'll be fucked.
Boxing Day
More faffing about.
Get driven back down south sometime in the evening.
27th December
Over to Miss Bri-namite's for a good feed. Two Xmas lunches, we like the sound of that :yes:
Then hopefully sex at some point.
I actually really fancy going to the football that day, but I'm leaving well alone :nervous:
28th - 31st December
Working.
Hogmanay Night
Getting totally fucking wasted in town with Miss Bri-namite and co. With an added surprise
Then more sex, ideally
New Years Day
Hangover, with a nice lunch yet to be decided. She's cooking this time :yes:
Then sleep before 2004 kicks in.
22nd - drive to switzerland
crimbo eve - ski then open oysters and drink buliney things (champagne with peach stuff)
argue a bit over how long ago the thing with the mushrooms was (a meal)
crimbo - get up, get washed and dressed, eat brekkie, argue over when will be prezzie time, ski, shower, get dressed, eat, crash out on sofa, about 10.30 remember it's crimbo and start opening prezzies.
but this year we're staying home so we dont have to endure the joint christmas with my mums friends family abroad.
but my grandmas going to be here so i may commit suicide
then me and the fella play on our xmas game - this year its Mario Kart Double Dash and drink Becks and go to bed.
Lily comes and wakes us up on xmas morning and my boyf has to go check if he's been....he shouts through to us and her little face lights up as soon as she sees the pressies....its sooooooo magical!
Then boyf makes brekkie for us while we play. Then we go visiting. And to my mum's for lunch
Xmas Eve
Xmas Day
Get up really early
Go down stairs and open Birthday prezzies
Mess about trying out all the stuff for a few hours
Have family over
Get a few mates over to chat
Eat nice lunch and get a Cake:D
Put up stockings and go to bed
Ilove christmas eve...:D
Christmas day
Get up early again
Get prezzies
Try out me new stuff
Go round to me grandparents for dinner
Come home and have a party with other mates til the wee hours of the morning
Boxing day
All the family round for a party
we're spending christmas eve travelling down to cornwall, should take a few hours. this isn't until after i've been at work since 2pm the following day till around 6am on christmas eve morning :eek2: :rolleyes:
it'll be different this year, as we're spending it in a posh hotel. so; no christmas tree :eek2: the presents will just be...on the floor i guess.
me and my sister are sharing a room, so we'll open our stockings first off..then after that, I guess we'll wake the parents up..then probably meet the grandparents. they'll be no getting drunk for me, my grandad certainly wouldn't approve.
boxing day: not sure..
day after boxing day: travelling back up home
christmas eve: working 6am-12, then getting rather drunk
99% of shopping done ...what a relief. notice xmas has gone genetic this year. theres a santa in nearly every friggin shop ...must be santa clones!
Will go out with my mates and probably toddle into town and buy each other little gifts, just to get rid of the last of our actual earned money, as opposed to the easy money that comes the next day, and laugh at parents who can't find the Barbie that little Amber wants.
Will get home, piss around, then answer the door and *shock* my godparents have bought my presents ( which, while I do not want to seem ungrateful, is always a T-shirt/sweatshirt made by Adidas/Nike etc., a budget game and some sort of naff compilation CD) so I give them hugs and be polite, and make drinks for them and my parents.
Bugger off to bed at about 12.
Xmas Day
Wake up, look up and realise my brother is there, laugh at how hungover he will be when he wakes up to an excess of alcohol the night before with his mates "on the town". Go downstairs to find my eldest sister on the couch because my other sister/cousin both snore really loudly.
Try and be quiet as possible and open the presents from the aforementioned godparents.
Wait around for siblings and cousin, then open the presents that we gave each other, and the ones off our friends/partners.
Dad puts the shite Xmas compilation from 1985 on, usually "Hawaiian Christmas"
Help make dinner
Eat dinner, which is your traditional meal with a couple of Ghanaian additions, such as Gari Photu, which is kinda like maize in a tomato sauce, and other things like that.
Try and keep the family in the same room without watching the TV
Fail, then bugger off to my room to find my brother ringing all his friends organising another ridiculous night out, so go and play with new plaything.
Go to bed.
Boxing Day is just like any other day, but we are guarenteed to have Salmon for lunch, and the same on New Years Day.