What will you be doing?
If there are some of us going to be lonely can we have an internet/chat whatever catch up?
If there are people in same countries states cities maybe we can get together even if it is on the web.
I'll be bringing my wife home from a nursing home for a few hours and will have her family, including 91yr old Mum with us. I'll cook the turkey and the others will bring salads. A special this year is that I will do some hot food as well; I'm in Australia, Christmas day is usually warm. But my wife's family are from the USA, so I'll surprise them. They have some disgusting items including sweet potatoes with marsh mellows, pumpkin pie ( :o), jelly ( I have never worked out what this is, I don't think I won't to >:-))
They then sleep while I clear the place up.
I actually love it.
Cindy
I'm glad that it sounds like you're in for a good Christmas.
I'll be joining my parents and brother and then going to my grandmother's place for Christmas day. I'm not out to any of them, so it's going to be a month of trying to hide the fact that I'm wearing a binder and packer or trying to do without and dealing with a lot of relatives who complain about my short hair. Honestly, I don't know how things are going to work and really wish I could get chat to work so I could talk to all of you instead. Anyways, I hope that you all have a warm and safe holiday season.
I think everyone chatting will be nice if it happens. I'll probably be spending some of my time on here, a little with family, and some time with my friend. My mother is gonna be working more than half the day and since there is no snow it really doesn't even feel like Christmas here. Sounds like a great holiday Cindy :)
Lee: good luck with your family man. Just to point out celebrity females like Emma Watson and Alyssa Milano have way shorter haircuts than your avatar pic. So if it doesn't make you uncomfortable pointing that out to them it might get them to shut up. I wish I was going to have a cold holiday season.
We never have snow.
I and others get really upset by the Australia in the snow pics, I t doesn't happen. It will be 25-30C, which is cool for Adelaide. Where are you Michael? I thought you where in the USA? With no snow!!!l
Cindy
Haha yeah in the USA but stuck in Florida of all the places I could be. Spent more than half my life in Ohio with the beautiful snow and gorgeous Christmas's, now it's a hot Christmas for me :( Could be worse though.
Quote from: Michael Alexander on December 12, 2010, 03:08:25 AM
Could be worse though.
I'll be happy to dump you a foot of the white stuff...
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I'm having the usual Christmas lunch with the family this year..
Actually, not quite the usual.. Firstly, I'm chasing my mum and aunt out of the kitchen this year - no cooking for them! And secondly, it's Kelly's first Christmas! :icon_joy:
I am hoping to be moved into my new rebuilt house by Christmas. I want to invite a veteran or two from a local VA hospital to my place and cook them a nice turkey dinner on my old wood cook stove. As for snow its been just flurries here so far but it may be more very very soon brrrrrrrrrrrrr
This will be the first Christmas since coming out to my wife and kids. And myself. I ended decades of denial last May or June, and since then I've been working steadily at finding out what all this means for me at this time. And what I'm discovering (no big surprise) is a woman inside screaming to get out.
But... Christmas this year will be hard. The "kids" are 19, 24 and 27, and all still live at home, all have significant others, and are poised to launch themselves into life. And then there's me. And my wife is not attracted to women, and is not supportive of me. She is still in the Anger phase of mourning. Our marriage is probably toast, but we haven't talked about it in real terms yet.
So... Christmas this year will be hard at my house. I feel like crying a lot of the time. Music has become a mine field for us - it has had such meaning in our lives, I am a musician and songwriter, and music in all forms has been extremely important in the emotional life of our family. But now all the meanings are twisted or skewed.
Sorry to be such a downer... :'(
Colleen ,
I don't wish to come off sounding inconsiderate. What I think might make you feel better (and I know this will be hard) is to, let Colleen take the lead this year. Have the most fun possible , show your wife and family just how happy Colleen is. Show them how much fun she can be. Let them see the Colleen that we know, Happy and unstoppable. The worst that can happen is that you end up having a very merry Christmas. Let everyone ride on your coat-tails of happiness.
Hugs Roxy
Warning !!! happiness is contagious !!!
I agree with Roxy! Have fun Colleen. The first step to better times is to imagine them.
A fun family game is Catch Phrase. Available at WalMart. We always play that game with large groups. Everyone has a laugh. Very distracting from other things. (just a suggestion)
Well have a great time. Have your outfit ready.
~Hugs~
Patty
Being genuine pagans we do not celebrate Christmas as such. Ours is the feast of Yule, which happens to (more or less) coincide.
In previous years we have acted as hub for our family as we have a big place where a group celebration can be hosted allowing everyone room to attend. We have had about 30 people on occasion, but for the past few years we have been scaling back.
Sadly this year may well be our last in our current abode, after a stay of nearly 15 years, so we are being very selective and on the day itself we shall be just the three immediate family members (Alison, I and Shaun). At 26 Shaun is now at an age where he is no longer particularly taken with the Christmas razzmatazz either. So ours will be a quiet but hopefully restful and relaxing day. Lots of good nosh, a couple of films, and a good walk up one of the local Tors. :)
I would like to wish those of you who are celebrating a fabulous time too.
Oh and Colleen I agree with the Erocse's. Have a real good time and let you hair down a bit girl. Plenty of time for worry the rest of the year. This is one day to take a break.
jelly
They probably don't ship internationally, but this stuff is the Rolls-Royce of jellies. It's a placed just the next town over that has been doing organic farming since the 1940s. This stuff they make out of the estate Pinot Noir grapes. It's sweet like jelly should be, but it has a wonderful bite to it. Yummo! I serve people this and the next thing I know we're driving out there to buy a case so they can take it home with them.
http://www.kozlowskifarms.com/product/Estate_Grown_Pinot_Noir_Grape_Jelly/Jelly_and_Marmalade (http://www.kozlowskifarms.com/product/Estate_Grown_Pinot_Noir_Grape_Jelly/Jelly_and_Marmalade)
All their stuff is good (the apple pie they make it worth running people over to get a hold of) is pretty tasty, but the other outstanding deal for me is the Chocolate Strawberry Fudge Sauce. Though I know people who also swear by their butters.
But that what I do. Cook and eat. The week after is pretty busy for me leading up to NYE so I just like to chill. We try to use as much of the local stuff as we can, from the place above, near there they make a sparkling apple cider that rocks. And some local wine too.
If it's real nice, we go to the coast, the beaches are pretty empty on Xmas day.
I do not have family available and my friends have their own family xmas so i will be alone. I don't like xmas very much. I can't even go out for coffee to be around people. everything is closed. sigh. I will try to remember to buy myself something for xmas. shrug
Having been raised Jehovah's Witnesses we have never celebrated Christmas. I vaguely remember one when I was little about 4. None other than that vague memory. Erocse and I have never developed a tradition ourselves, even though we have not been JW's for 19yrs. The day is not remembered or recounted in our family history. (Last year Erocse made cinnamon rolls and we gave them to our nieghbors and introduced ourselves to the new ones we did not know.)
This week we are traveling to So CA to see two of our daughters and thier spouses, my mom, my brother, (Who will see Erocse for the first time and are happy we are a couple )and other various good friends that time allows. Erocse has made pounds of fudge, chocolate w/ nuts & w/ out. Maple, and white chocolate with cashews. We will box them with ribbons and give them to our family and friends. I have made candles and will share them with the homemade fudge. This will probably be the most we have ever done around this time of the year.
Christmas Day, we will probably be traveling home. Life is good and we are happy. To place too much import on a specific day is a set up for dissapointment. Everyday should be a good day and all we can do is one day at a time. I agree with Dyslexi the fact that nothing is open is a drag Christmas day.
~Hugs & Best wishes to all
Patty~
I'll be having lunch with my mum, aunt and cousin. I'm kinda sad about it, we used to be such a close family but things have happend which made it all fall apart so no more big family christmases.
the fact that nothing is open is a drag Christmas day
It seems weird though when it's not like that. I just kind of expect everything to have that ghost town vibe - except for movie theaters. But when I lived in North Beach it was right next to Chinatown, and you could walk into Chinatown and it's just a normal business day. There is no Christmas in Chinatown, but there is a ton of red as they are getting ready for their big deal, which is New Year (and its not the same date as our NY). I think that's why so many city types do that Kung-Pao and movie deal that the Jewish kids started a couple of decades ago on Xmas.
I actually might spend some time in Chinatown this Christmas. My plan for the holiday is to take a long walk around the city and then go to a party in the evening.
Oh yeah, it's well worth it just for the trip of walking over from Union Square and it's all dead, then you round a corner and POW. Get yourself some Dim Sum, or have lunch. Then when you walk out the other side it goes away instantly. The whole trail system out at Land's End is nice and very empty. I used to always ride out to the Bridge as it only had a few people on it instead of the usual crowds.
I didn't know that about China Town. (Tekla, is there China Town in NY or are you talking LA? It is a good point. I wonder if in other midwest towns Chinese restaurants are open? Not everyone is lucky to have access to the big city. There are more stores open Christmas Day than there used to be. The poor economy will insure that I think.
It's Chinatown in SF, The largest chinatown outside of Asia. It's like walking into another world. Rounding a corner and being transported half-way around the world. And its this huge working deal, not just a tourist thing. It's a highly concentrated population doing the day to day living pretty much the way its been going down for a couple of centuries now. You can buy live ducks and chickens - they'll wring it's neck for you. All sorts of stuff in the produce section that you have no idea what they are. All the writing and speech is all Chinese, some English here and there, but no real effort to incorporate it. That's pretty much how you tell the real from the tourist, the real places don't cater to English. All the products looks similar but not a single one is familial.
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We'll be doing our traditional dinner at a Chinese buffet and then go to a friend's house for games and dessert. You'd be surprised how busy the buffet was last year. We had to wait 15 just to get a seat.
Alex
I want to take my dad to dinner, as the rest of my immediate family is out of town. He'll want to pay, but I won't let him. I'm not sure what kind of food he wants...Living in a multicultural city is so difficult when you like ethnic foods. Where to eat? Do we want Japanese, or Somali, or Indian, or Middle-Eastern, etc.?
My family is not Christian, so as far as we care, Christmas is a time to celebrate the impending disappearance of those endless holiday ads on TV. Also, it's a nice time to lie down on a sofa watching TV, and kick your feet up on the armrest.
I think I'll just eat, drink and be Mary.
Everyone at the Christmas party was feeling merry so Mary got mad and went home. (better said than written) ::)
Christmas is a time to celebrate the impending disappearance of those endless holiday ads on TV.
It is a pretty blessed event in that regard.
Thanks Tekla for the info on China Town. We are due a trip to SF that would be an interesting place to see when we go. :)
Quote from: Mrs Erocse on December 12, 2010, 10:54:38 AM
I didn't know that about China Town.
Rent or buy the movie "A Christmas Story" - the one about little Ralphie who wants nothing more for Christmas but a Red Ryder BB gun. Set in the midwest in the 50's. Peter Billingsley stars. It's been a favorite in our family for decades. The most precious scene is near the end, when the next door neighbors' dogs get into the house and destroy the family turkey. They turn in desperation to Chinatown, and have roast duck for their Christmas dinner. The waiters stand around (since these are their ONLY customers) and sing "Fa-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra". Belly-laugh time. :laugh:
I will try to have a good time. The difficulty is, they will not get to meet Colleen, only my middle son has been so brave, and the very LAST thing my wife wants to do is meet "her". But we will see. Christmas miracles are not unknown. I will have faith, and do my best. Bless you.
I will be going to a friends house for Xmas dinner and then come home to go to bed. Xmas is not a big deal any more. For me it is just another day, without family.
Quote from: Janet Lynn on December 12, 2010, 11:54:11 AM
For me it is just another day, without family.
I know it's been said, but I want to put this out there again. You guys have truly become a family to me, and, though we cannot all get together over the holidays (I doubt anyone would have a table big enough for us), I'll be thinking of you guys and wishing that we could.
I would think there must be a way to set up a video chat? THAT would be a big enough table...
Usual stuff for Christmas; seeing my folks, eating, drinking and making silly jokes. A few films and musics, the odd present and then a bunch of pissed uncles for New Years on the banks of the Thames... I'm also giving said pissed uncles a Jack the Ripper tour (I know very little about him at the moment.)
Jack or your uncle?
Hopefully I'll be able to catch some Christmas specials on my parents television because I'm used to watching the 25 Days of Christmas special and I can't do that because I don't have cable. I'm also going to be cooking a meal of Cornish hen for my parents (assuming we can find some). And I guess that's about it. We'll probably Skype my sister because she's deployed and it'll be nice to talk to her on Christmas.
I also might wind up being able to take some beautiful Christmas pictures this year because there's actually snow in England. xD
With the death of my spouse and then the birth of Kate, I've shed a lot of holiday traditions. This year I think I'll just wrap myself in a blanket, eat too much stuff that's not good for me, zone out in front of the television (football and/or stupid movies), and in the afternoon go for a long walk in the snow. A day of self-indulgence sounds good to me.
Joy to the world.
- Kate
I raised my kids for the most part in Iowa and I always thought the best part of Christmas Day was going out in the afternoon and playing with all snow toys, and then hiking down to the bridge over the river later with the adults and the beautiful peace that is a nice woods in the snow. Tragically all the fun and beauty of the snow ends that day, all the snow from Dec 26th on just sucks.
Dim Sum (always get there when it opens sinfe it gets packed), Powells bookstore and a movie. We do this with a large group of friends every year, take public trans. so we don;t have to drive and have a nice leisurely day. First thin in the morning the kids open their gifts. Then we head down town,
Cheers,
Myles
Possibly working. Someone has to keep things running ;).
I've been told I have the time off, but I don't know for sure for another week (until the rosters go out - which is always a day or two before the fortnight starts).
I know I'm working up to and on the 24th for sure, then heading out with some workmates to the pub for xmas beers after work.
It's not my first post-transition xmas, but it is my first "lads night at the pub with scantily clad, possibly topless women".
Here's hoping I can still pull off the straight act after a few beers and surrounded by topless women. Hopefully I'll remember to keep my eyes on the women! :laugh: (Luckily, the guys I'm going to the pub with are not my type).
Pretty sure I have the 25th off, so I'm staying home and having friends over for lunch. If I have the 26th off (also possible) then I'm going to my folks house for lunch.
I'm not Christian (or religious for that matter) but I figure - big cluster of public holidays, rampant consumerism, and an excuse for parties? Why not! Sounds like some fun action to get in on if you don't take it too seriously :laugh:
I've already spent about $3500 on "gifts" for myself in the last month or two... I'm writing it off as "Christmas Cheer (tm)" :P :laugh:.
Well xmas is convieniently sanwiched between coming out and going full time, so I guess I'll be playing that traditional xmas game 'A million and one awkward questions with a hundred and one relatives!!'
Yeh hey!! I love being trans ::) :-\
Oof, good luck Millie!
This xmas I'll be waving my engagement ring under my single, brother-in-law-to-be's nose and being disgustingly happy.
(Last xmas he got drunk at our house, hit on me in front of my fiance and called me a '->-bleeped-<-' when I rejected his advances)
I guess I'll be going to my sisters for xmas as far as I know it'll just be so we can open presents and just hang. I think I already have a idea of what she got me for xmas :/ she kinda spilled that she got me something I could use. And knowing her that could be anything from body wash to some really girly pjs or clothes :/ But anyway she better keep a leash on Jack (that's my nieces dog) cause if he tries to bite my daughter again I will bust his a double s.
Quote from: Mrs Erocse on December 12, 2010, 10:54:38 AM
I didn't know that about China Town. (Tekla, is there China Town in NY or are you talking LA? It is a good point. I wonder if in other midwest towns Chinese restaurants are open? Not everyone is lucky to have access to the big city. There are more stores open Christmas Day than there used to be. The poor economy will insure that I think.
My jewish friends always eat Chinese on Christmas Day, then usually go watch a movie.
Quote from: regan on December 13, 2010, 12:22:39 PM
My jewish friends always eat Chinese on Christmas Day, then usually go watch a movie.
I think that's the Jewish tradition.
"kung pao and a movie" also known as "Kosher Xmas" round here (and for my ex who taught me about this in Chicago, her family did it when she was a kid, back in the 60s). The funny thing about Christmas Story is that they are the only ones in there. Any of the good places in SF, well you better be making reservations now 'cause you aren't just showing up and getting in. The other funny thing is how much this deal in places with large Jewish populations (Bay Area, LA, NYC, Chicago, all of which have substantial Chinese populations) has become this strange bi-cultural support for two groups that didn't do that specific holiday. It's a beautiful deal about some parts of America where the importance of how we intersect with other people, and other cultures is always there to see.
Also, FTR, the other big, huge bustling deal that is open on Xmas are the top line hotels. Most serve a huge gluttonous banquet, and most of the services, the bar, a short order food place, the recreation stuff is all up and running.
I'll probably be sitting at home, surfing the internet.
Well, we canceled my trip back home with my family ... it was a huge stressor for me ... and my mother responded to this email - after months of no responses to emails or phone calls. Usually our family waits until everyone can get together - well she said they were going to have x-mas without us. It kinda hurt but at least I won't be around that negative energy.
My wife's parents have both passed away and she doesn't have a strong relationship with her brother. So, we are staying home with our kids and celebrating the day together. It will be the first time in our 10 years relationship that we are not going somewhere for x-mas.
Rob, that sounds like a nice, relaxing way to spend the day.
I'll spend Christmas with my parents, aunt, and her boyfriend. If all goes well I'll speak on the phone to my grandparents for the first time since coming out. Mom and I are planning an Alice in Wonderland themed Christmas Eve Tea, the teas being a tradition... and they always end up being even better than Christmas itself. It will also be my first tea while on T, which I'm incredibly enthused about.
Rob, I'm sorry about your trip cancellation... but you're right, it's better to not be around negative energy. Going to my grandparents' house used to be a tradition, this year my grandmother's attitude made it too hard... sad to have happen, but it wouldn't be wise this year. I hope your small celebration goes well. :)
Enjoy your T tea :P
Many thanks, I'm sure I shall. ;D
I have been working on an old house built in 1820's and is very quaint yet was infested with squirrels etc when i bought it back in october. I have been puttying window panes 240 of them, plastering walls with holes 4ft by 6ft and installing wood stoves and repairing chimneys and rebuilding the front porch and many many things and well it looks like i may be moving in dec 23rd or the 24th. The house never had plumbing and has no electric on 2nd floor and is heated by wood and coal if i can get some soon. So this will be a happy christmas sitting next to the wood stove and not this ceramic heater in a 18ft camper brrr.. Yes christmas will be quaint. I'll light up some candles for the windows and light up some kerosene laterns and stoke the fires and feed my two cats who i took in and have run out all the squirrels etc. Yes it would be nice to have a visitor or two. I have had a father and a son here yesterday who painted two bedrooms while i continued spackling the kitchen getting ready to paint it. I have been busting my bunns every day now for 80 some days and well its coming to fruition. anyone near central pa ??? It is surounded by 5 acres and a trout stream and the appalchian mountains and amish farms and the closest town is 2 miles away which hase one intersection with about 12 houses and a PO so yes it rural and quaint and well its the kind of place one thinks isn't still possible in todays world but i searched high and low all over the east coast to find this place 50 miles NW of harrisburg pa between harrisburg and state college Pa off route 322. anyone doing anything christmas or alone ?? I have a cute room for you to stay in and you will feel like your living in the 1800's..
PS: I do take care of my 88 yr old mother who is also here and loves the country and the simple life how about you ??
I am and will be staying away from home. I just can't bare to have to be someone I am not around them, especially when most of them know who I truly am. I'll just be with my partner and her family. They don't know so I still can't be myself but at least I won't have to look at the rejection in my own family's face.
It's increasingly looking like I shall be all by myself...not through choice but due to adverse weather and it being extremely likely that there won't be any trains running.
I are not a happy bunny indeed.
Quote from: Helena on December 19, 2010, 05:54:38 PM
It's increasingly looking like I shall be all by myself...not through choice but due to adverse weather and it being extremely likely that there won't be any trains running.
I are not a happy bunny indeed.
But...but... whole extra days to work on a giant snowman... not a compensation??
There is an informal group in town that gets together regularly for potluck suppers. Most in the group are in their forties, I think, and the evenings are very low-key. I'm friendly with a few in the group and have been invited to come to the Christmas potluck. I think that I'll go.
- Kate
I'll be seeing my close family on the 24th, and my mom's side on the 25th. My dad's side doesn't get together anymore, which I'm actually not disappointed at all about. It'll be the last year that they don't know me as Kay, so it'll likely be the last year I'm invited. We'll see. If my dad weren't there, I'd probably really look forward to going, rather than feeling wary about the whole thing as I usually do.
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On the up-side, I'm doing a lot of baking this year, and I rather enjoy it. Sugar cut-out cookies, PB Blossoms, Chocolate covered PB&nut balls, Almond Roca...even a Cheesecake. :) I guess it's my new hobby. :)
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People are funny though. After a year on HRT, close to done with electro, not really even trying to hide rather fem hair/nails/brows....and what do co-workers show their concern about?
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"So 'Kay' (with a rather concerned look on their face) ....why are you making so many cookies?" :eusa_eh:
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Seriously? :icon_blink: That's what they notice and are worried about? Holiday cookies?
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It's hard not to laugh at the absurdity of it all sometimes.
The forecast for Christmas Day in Adelaide is now 35C. So while all my friends in the UK, Europe and USA are freezing their protuberances off; Cindy will be sun-baking in her bikini, drinking ice cold champagne.
This message is of course sent with Christmas Cheer >:-)
Cindy; and pass the sunblock.
*builds fancy machine and trades places with Cindy while she is sleeping*
Enjoy the snowfort I built for ya.
This year, my adopted mom and I are spending Christmas Eve and Day together. And we're having a couple trans friends over as well. I'm also spending the night at her house so Santa can come! lol.
I miss my biological family but I can't fix the fact that they disowned me so I'm trying to be happy with the family I DO have this year.
Lot's of people (and for a lot of reasons, being trans is just one of many) have families that they have created as opposed to the ones they were born into. So it goes. Family is family after all. So enjoy that. In a whole lot of ways the family I've created is a lot more interesting and fun than the one I was assigned by birth.
I'm likely going to be sitting right in this chair online, or in the recliner in the living room playing the PS3. Sadly my mother lives too far for me to make a trip up there and my roommate's family completely hates me so, yea. eh, might decide to cook a gumbo or BBQ, so I can at the least have a good holiday meal, and food for the next week without needing to cook again.
What games do you like to play on the PS3? I love games...I got a wii, ps2, ps3 ...
Quote from: Rob on December 21, 2010, 11:28:12 AM
What games do you like to play on the PS3? I love games...I got a wii, ps2, ps3 ...
Bayonetta is a good one just finished it last night, Devil May Cry 4, Smackdown Vs Raw, Assassin's Creed, Bioshock, Final Fantasy XIII, stuff like that, I mostly stick to action games but I like a few fighting games and RPGs. Also have the old PS2 for when I wanna hit up the older games. Man, the lack of backwards compatibility is a letdown with the PS3.
Man, the lack of backwards compatibility is a letdown marketing gold with the PS3.
FIFY
Quote from: tekla on December 21, 2010, 11:42:14 AM
Man, the lack of backwards compatibility is a letdown marketing gold with the PS3.
FIFY
True, for a marketing perspective it can be since this means they haven't made their previous product obsolete and can continue getting sales on them, just makes me glad the old PS2 still works for me so I don't have to buy anything new to play my older games. Now if they redid the old games with the updated graphics, weeeeell, I might be tempted to repurchase a few titles >_>.
I agree the backwards compatability is a downfall...but love that it has a blue ray player and it cost me as much as buying just a blue ray player.
I haven't gotten many games for the ps3 yet...but I am working on it ... paying bills came first. I tend to like the adventure RPG games the best.
Now if they redid the old games with the updated graphics, weeeeell, I might be tempted to repurchase a few titles
Ahh, the head of marketing just pops a chubby right there at his desk thinking the same thing. Watch, I'll stroke it for him and make it even harder --- "Hey boss, we don't even have to update them, just wait three more years make them compatible and nothing more and re-release the original as 'retro.'" OMG! He's about to explode, the thoughts of profit margins have his motors racing full speed, he's telling me "Oh Kat, I love the way you think outside of the box." Then I'll give him the Karma Sutra move #3245, the one that's only in the hidden editions, and say: "Yeah, about the box, we need to use the original artwork on that box, that way we're keeping it familiar and nostalgic for them, and we already own that art school graduate dreck so that's not going to cost us anything either."
After he cleans himself up by typing a memo to his boss about his great new idea, he'll at least be a gentleman and take me out to lunch.
Here in Britain we're currently gripped by the BIG FREEZE Cindy!
And buuuuhrrrggh tis darn cold..... at the weekend I had to dig ma car outta 15cm of fresh white stuff.....lol
Christmas for us living amongst Christo based cultures.... is i guess one of quiet reflection, love and family..... and thinking too of others far less fortunate than ourselves...
For me (tends to move me to tears still) this clip says it all....
It's a wonderful life ending (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k_Vsmqf6X8#)
Have a kool, yule yall!! :P
And an absolutely spiffingly ab-fab 2011...
Cheers
Auntie C xx
OK Tekla, that just cracked me up. Though I do know they would make a total killing if they re-released FF7 with updated graphics and voice acting, fans have been yelling at them to do that for years, they still haven't done it, they added onto the storyline, but still haven't updated the original like people been fussing at them to do.
Yea Rob, can understand that one, I tend to wait for games to drop in price a bit then buy them myself, the good ones end up on the $20 greatest hits rack most the time anyways, I'm in no rush, a better price is worth waiting for. I'm very very critical of RPGs though, they have to be done right, with a good, strong storyline, I'm like that with most games, it has to have storyline or it ends up becoming one of my "I just feel like beating stuff up" games that I won't buy any sequels of.
Anyways, ummm, seems we've kinda gotten off the topics here, uuuuhhhh. . .yea, oops, my fault.
OK, here is a great Christmas idea, if it's not raining too hard here I'll go do it in Santa Rosa.
http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2008/12/25/deserted-london/?fark (http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2008/12/25/deserted-london/?fark)
A couple of years ago I had the idea that it might be fun to take photos of London without humans – yes, I was motivated by that scene in Westminster from 28 Days Later. Unfortunately, not being a film director I was not really in the position to have half of London sealed off for photos – but realised that on Xmas morning there could be an opportunity.
Quote from: tekla on December 21, 2010, 12:32:18 PM
OK, here is a great Christmas idea, if it's not raining too hard here I'll go do it in Santa Rosa.
http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2008/12/25/deserted-london/?fark (http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2008/12/25/deserted-london/?fark)
A couple of years ago I had the idea that it might be fun to take photos of London without humans – yes, I was motivated by that scene in Westminster from 28 Days Later. Unfortunately, not being a film director I was not really in the position to have half of London sealed off for photos – but realised that on Xmas morning there could be an opportunity.
This is a pretty sweet idea. A touch of photoshop would remove any wayward hominids that intrude.
I guess its going to be a bit special this, my first Christmas as a married woman, I'II be spending Christmas Day with my Husband, 2brothers and their Wifes will spend some of the day with us.
Im a little excited, Id say Mark has a surprise present, Santa is definitely coming to this girl.
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Quote from: Jerica on December 21, 2010, 11:00:49 AM
I miss my biological family but I can't fix the fact that they disowned me so I'm trying to be happy with the family I DO have this year.
That a super attitude to have - one I am trying to emulate :)
I'm going to be having Christmas dinner with my roommates family. She recently came out as a lesbian, however her girlfriend is out of town visiting her own family for the holidays. So my roomie is going to be stuck explaning to all her family that I am not her girlfriend while I'm going to be dying inside from the hilarity of it all and chowing down on turkey.
Beat's last year :D