81 days till Christmas

[polarmystery]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: Zaitsev
Halloween > Christmas

True.

Fixed

 

[Gunslinger08]

I enjoy Christmas for several reasons:
1. I take off work for a while. I'm off from the 18th to the 4th this year. This means catching up on games I've wanted to play or books I've wanted to read, along with visiting friends and family.
2. It's winter time, so it's cold and might snow. Being off means I get to enjoy the snow anyway I want. I can sit on the couch under a blanket and watch the snow out my window, I can go sledding, etc.
3. We drive around and look at lights and laugh about how crazy some people are, but still love that they do it every year.
4. I get to see my family for a while -- and my wife's.
5. I give and get some gifts.

It doesn't have to be about religion if you don't want it to be. Make it a celebration of your family and your happiness. Take the time to remember what's important in life. Plus, most of us are off work, so it can't be that bad.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Zaitsev
Halloween > Christmas

You forgot a character.

Halloween <> Christmas

Originally posted by: joshsquall
I enjoy Christmas for several reasons:
1. I take off work for a while. I'm off from the 18th to the 4th this year. This means catching up on games I've wanted to play or books I've wanted to read, along with visiting friends and family.
2. It's winter time, so it's cold and might snow. Being off means I get to enjoy the snow anyway I want. I can sit on the couch under a blanket and watch the snow out my window, I can go sledding, etc.
3. We drive around and look at lights and laugh about how crazy some people are, but still love that they do it every year.
4. I get to see my family for a while -- and my wife's.
5. I give and get some gifts.

It doesn't have to be about religion if you don't want it to be. Make it a celebration of your family and your happiness. Take the time to remember what's important in life. Plus, most of us are off work, so it can't be that bad.

My opinion of you just improved.

 

[sash1]

more importantly: 59 days until my birthday

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: destrekor
For Christmas...

It's a family thing for me. Absolutely nothing related to that Christ fella is involved in my Christmas traditions, which involves eating massive portions of deliciousness, spending time with family I don't get to see all that often anymore, and trading gifts. I get to get clothes from my grandma, which I used to hate but I love now.

Yeah, this is me too. My grandmother is the only religious person in my entire extended family, and even she is more into it for the long-term friendships she's made with the other people at her church. We have a Jewish side of the family too, but our typical "Christmas" gatherings are as non-religious as you can get. Mainly it's just a convenient time for everyone to get together because everyone has the day off.

We don't even get much into the consumerism aspect of it either. We pretty much buy each other $20 gifts and that's all. My parents are each getting a small DVD set costing $20-$30. My brother is getting a wired Xbox 360 controller for his PC that I got for $12. My girlfriend will get flowers and a massage. And that's it. I think the most I've ever gotten for Christmas was one year when I had my mom tell all my relatives to give me cash instead of gifts so I could buy a telescope, and I got around $300. Otherwise I figure on a couple small things from my parents and $50 from my well-off grandparents (and no money but a very sweet card from my other grandmother).

I was very confused when I first heard that some people gave each other flatscreen TVs, game consoles, cars, etc. for Christmas. Never understood why you'd put yourself through the stress of buying hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of stuff and piling on massive credit card debt just for a present. Hell, unless I'm getting something small and cheap, I always consult the person I'm buying for first to make sure they want it. When I got my girlfriend a laptop backpack for her birthday a few days ago, I told her what I was getting her up front and went through a bunch of different designs until she found one she liked. I'd hate to have bought one she didn't like.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

BTW, communist? ME? ROFL! I even go out of my way to not purchase goods from Communist countries...AND, remember, I'm a child of the 50's and 60's..."Better Dead than Red," "Kill a Commie For Your Mommie." I enlisted in the USMC so I could go to Vietnam and kill Communists...

You enlisted instead of waiting for your lottery ball to come up?



Sir, you have huevos grande! :thumbsup:

 

[zoiks]

Originally posted by: MartyMcFly3
ATOT Secret Santa is just around the corner too. Amdskip and I are already discussing this year. Can't wait!

I'll join this year. Thanks for organizing this each year.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

A Manchurian candidate if I ever saw one. I know exactly how your Kristmarxes are like.

http://www.rathergood.com/christmas

LOL! That was funny...in a sad sort of way.


I'll bet the Politburo will be disappointed in how I turned out. Never went into politics, ended up a broken fat old man with no return on the training ruble...
Got any Russian Tea Cakes?

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: BoomerD

BTW, communist? ME? ROFL! I even go out of my way to not purchase goods from Communist countries...AND, remember, I'm a child of the 50's and 60's..."Better Dead than Red," "Kill a Commie For Your Mommie." I enlisted in the USMC so I could go to Vietnam and kill Communists...

You enlisted instead of waiting for your lottery ball to come up?



Sir, you have huevos grande! :thumbsup:

Meh...didn't want to wait for the stinking lottery and miss my chance...besides, when you got drafted, you didn't get a choice of where you went, and usually what branch you were stuck in.
I told the recruiter that I'd sign ONLY if he could guarantee me IN WRITING a slot as a rifleman in a USMC rifle company in Vietnam.

The recruiting Staff Sergeant laughed and said that would be the easiest guarantee he'd ever been asked to write...

I was on my way to MCRD San Diego within a week.

 

[JTsyo]

ahh still enough time to travel around the world before Christmas.

 

[zoiks]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
ended up a broken fat old man with no return on the training ruble...
.

Prob need to lay off on the sugar in your cereal.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Apparently so...when I was grocery shopping yesterday, they already had eggnog in stock. WTF?

Christ, can we get past Thanksgiving and Halloween first?

 

[JohnCU]

woohoo can't wait