Ok you Marley's you Scrooges you Christmas Grinches

Lets go for it.

I want Christmas.

I want jokes

I want poems

I want food.

I want past stories about how we spent Christmas: The good, the bad, the so embarrassing you cannot tell anyone ( we can keep a secret). The lovely.

I want : what do you want for Christmas.

I want the best pressie.

I want the worst pressie

Anything, decorations post photos

Do you do the house up? Post them

Are you going to be alone? No damn way, you will be spending Christmas with the Sue team.

Jamie D will volunteer to cook for us all, bet she gives the wrong address again

Kelly in Aus - tell us how to do it properly

Tekla - can you tell us the best and worst Christmas music and concerts!!

Devlynn - Christmas in the forces, I'm very sensitive, so only rude stories please.

Susan - how to take the best Christmas photos

FA - smart wear for the Christmas dude.

Padma - songs


Volunteers for different sections: Wine, soft drinks, fun, games. how to have a party on $5,

Anything you can think of go for it.  Lets give this a BIG push and have heaps of laughs and share our friendships.
Lets go team.

This is a chance for you to shine and join in.

Youngies come on in tell us oldies what you guys and gals want.

How do you want to celebrate.

I'm buzzen' lets go

Cindy

Christmas?

Bah! Humbug!

Can I woman the red hot poker or has Catherine already taken it?

Or can we Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock for it?

Quote from: Jenny07 on November 29, 2012, 04:29:28 AM
Can I woman the red hot poker or has Catherine already taken it?

Or can we Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock for it?

Sis I forgot the festive iron branding season.  You are now  the Mistress of the Festival Iron, first in first user. Feel free. Use your powers freely and with great pain and fun.

I hear and I can't tell anyone so keep it quiet but CS has a new bikini and is going to the beach this weekend. She may need a 'hello sailor' brand to attract the life guards when they are stunned by her beauty.

Don't let anyone know I told you.

AnonyMouse The 13

I promise I will put it good use.

I know I am a little bit evil deep down...

A choice between the holiday season and a root canal with out anesthesia.  Hmm. I think I would rather have the root canal. It always seems to be the four worst weeks of the year.

Ah yes Christmas time. The stolen Pagan festival.  What do I want for Xmas. ...

Quote from: bev2 on November 29, 2012, 04:22:25 AM
Christmas?

Bah! Humbug!

I think Christmas is a lot like Transgender. People who've never experienced it can't understand it.

I wasn't raised in a Christian house and the entire phenomenon baffles me. I can't begin to comprehend why Christian people go through so much effort and experience so much exhaustion just to be festive.

Must be the same thing cis people wonder when they see us doing electroloysis/hormones/surgery etc.

Quote from: agfrommd on November 29, 2012, 06:45:43 AM
I think Christmas is a lot like Transgender. People who've never experienced it can't understand it.

I wasn't raised in a Christian house and the entire phenomenon baffles me. I can't begin to comprehend why Christian people go through so much effort and experience so much exhaustion just to be festive.

Must be the same thing cis people wonder when they see us doing electroloysis/hormones/surgery etc.

Actually 'Ag' I was alluding to Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Scrooge's standard reply to anything he does not like is "Bah! Humbug!!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Scrooge

Christmas here is less about presents (kids are older now) and more about parties and food and so on, but we try to stay very relaxed...

It should be Christmas Time every day of the year! 

I actually celebrate Christmas in July as well.

I celebrate it because Its the day people picked to recognize the birth of Christ, yes it is a blend of pagan things and commercialized things but i don't care i like everything about the Holidays.

Yay!! Christmas!

One of my favorite things is my son and I go and get a new ornament for our tree, every year. We spend the whole day finding the perfect ornament.

I also love watching peoples faces as they open up the gifts I got them. Seeing their eyes light up and a huge smile go across their face makes me the happiest girl in the world.

I celebrate it because Its the day people picked to recognize the birth of Christ,

And those people would be?...Idiots?  Because, if this happened like the account suggests (the 4 Gospels), then we do know exactly when it happened - A decree went forth from Caesar Augustus & all, and if the Romans were nothing else, they were meticulous about records - or at least in the ball park.  And it ain't December, or July. 



Well as usual (it's one of my new traditions) I'll head off to Vegas for some R&R before the actual holiday and the 'hell week' that follows it.  Things stay pretty calm from early December to the 26th, then it's prep for all the NYE shows and festivities.  So taking off before Xmas makes sense.  Doing Mandalay Bay this year, hell of a deal and all, and I can't wait to spend some quality time on the outdoor balcony of the bar on the 65th floor.  And its' currently a toss up as to which Cirque show we'll be attending ("Love" (the Beatle's one) or "Zoomanity" (the sexual one)) - we, and by 'we' I mean my GF, have not done one of the Cirque shows yet (in the past I took her to a big magic show and a traditional Vegas floor show).  I guess I'll have to make up my mind this week as I'd want something hot and sensual to wear to Zoomanity, but I'd want to flying all my freak flags and finest psychedelic clothing if I went to Love.

And - as always, but not the last two years - I'm hoping for a clear, bright Xmas morning so I can participate in The Apocalypse Project.  It's were a bunch of photographers get up at dawn in their respective towns and photograph the city/town with nothing moving.  I always ride Xmas afternoon, rain or shine.

But it's always a no drama day, all that other stuff, that huge deal about expectations, disappointment, family crap and all - that only happens when you buy into it, and you don't have to.

I really would appreciate it if you would stop bashing people tekla, i felt like you were calling me an idiot as well just because I choose to celebrate that event on a certain day.

We all know Christ wasn't born on Christmas day, but that is the day that was choosen to celebrate His birth.

Let's be careful calling people idiots.

I celebrate Christmas in 2 distinct ways.

First, there is the religious holiday which is about Peace, Joy, Hope, and Love. It is a solemn but joyous thing.

Second, there is cultural holiday which is (for me) about my family and making them happy.

And for the record, only 2 of the 4 Gospels describe Jesus' birth.

I also love the music this time of year. Both the religious, and the commercialized. I think it is all good. It's just so cheary! 

Especially the music!

I love those commercials!! They are so cute!

even though I had lots of hell growing up as a kid, my fondest memories of Christmas was actually the specials on cbs of ruldoplh and frosty, these cartoons brought tears to my eyes and much joy. I still watch them to this day.



How do you embed a you tube video on susans? I cant seem to do it.

It's fun. I enjoy putting up the tree, wrapping and seeing presents under it, etc...

Kinda like anything else, I suppose - You get out of it what you choose.