Christmas sucks BIG-Time!!

I know... Christmas shouldn't start until next week... I hate Christmas trees going up in October or November, as it builds the anti-climax.

Nonetheless, I could either a) mope, or b) frolick, and so I think I'll frolick...

I'm dreaming of a White Christmas..

0 Replies

I frolick and give year around, I don't need the Xmas season to cheer me up or coerce me into the giving mood. Are you peolple deprived eleven months out of the year? I bet you had Xmas lights on your jack-o-lantern! <running from the swishing sound of the thistle>

0 Replies

Quote:

I bet you had Xmas lights on your jack-o-lantern!

Um, is this some sort of euphemism? If not, it should be.

0 Replies

HAHAHA! That's a whole nother thread!

0 Replies

I buy my Christmas tree (and not one of these grotty, over-decorated ones) and put it up on December 15th, always... there's nothing more stupid that Christmas trees in October.

patiodog wrote:

Quote:
I bet you had Xmas lights on your jack-o-lantern!

Um, is this some sort of euphemism? If not, it should be.

That's awful!

*Wa-tish*

0 Replies

Had a few live trees over the years, but I've never had one since I lived alone. Last year was the first time I ever actually had a tree at all.

0 Replies

I might wrap up a few empty boxes with paper just to make it look better this year. Pretty depressing having a tree with nothing underneath.

0 Replies

Wilso wrote:

I might wrap up a few empty boxes with paper just to make it look better this year. Pretty depressing having a tree with nothing underneath.

Aw, Wilso

... I rarely get many presents either; usually £30 to get a train to somewhere I don't want to go.

If I knew where your nearest post office is, I'd send you a present. Smile

0 Replies

I don't mind that much. I think it should be more for kids anyway. My Mum always wanted to give me something, so a few years ago, I said to her if you really want to spend your money on me, don't do it at christmas, but rather wait until I need some textbooks. I already had the one's I needed for the first couple of years, so she hasn't had to buy me any yet, but I'd rather get something I need when I need it, than some token item on a holiday which none of us really believes in anyway.

Besides which she's got the grandkids to spoil now. Very Happy

0 Replies

Wilso wrote:

I don't mind that much. I think it should be more for kids anyway. My Mum always wanted to give me something, so a few years ago, I said to her if you really want to spend your money on me, don't do it at christmas, but rather wait until I need some textbooks. I already had the one's I needed for the first couple of years, so she hasn't had to buy me any yet, but I'd rather get something I need when I need it, than some token item on a holiday which none of us really believes in anyway.

Besides which she's got the grandkids to spoil now.

I agree; all the magic dies away as you get older; the only real thing that one can do is to give that magic back to the children. I have no kids, and probably will end up with none, but I still try to keep some kind of frame of Christmas alive: without the magic, granted, but with goodwill. The only thing that bothers me about Christmas is that it's an awful time to have no one.

It is becoming more and more a token thing. As for believing in it, there's nothing much to believe in, apart from commercialism. Families try to show goodwill to each other on one day of the year; they should be trying to show goodwill to each other every day of the year. I go to Church and put up a tree; it's better than having things bare. How is your course going at the moment? What modules are you doing? (I heard about your Chemistry result- congrats Very Happy

)

It's good to have the kids to whom you can give something. I do the same thing with my godchildren. Very Happy

0 Replies

Not true - I am 32 and I still love getting prezzies !!

0 Replies

Gautam wrote:

Not true - I am 32 and I still love getting prezzies !!

Ah, I thought that you were around that age; perhaps it was intuition...

There are not many people who don't like getting presents, but at Christmas, it's mostly geared around the children. Of course, this never stopped my mother going into full grotto mode; she still enjoys it more than the children...

0 Replies

drÃ²m_et_rÃªve wrote:

How is your course going at the moment? What modules are you doing? (I heard about your Chemistry result- congrats )

It's finished until March now. And whether I actually do anything more at all, seems to be more and more dependent on my employer. Oz universities just don't have any undergrad classes at night. And while I've managed to get through a couple of first year subjects while missing lectures, I wouldn't like to try it with 200 or 300 level subjects. I really put a lot of work into this years subjects, and don't think I could keep up the intensity. I need the study time. So it's just a matter of waiting 'til I ask the manager, and hope he's in a good mood on the day. I'm not feeling very confident about my chances though.

0 Replies

(crossing my fingers for you, Wilso!)

I do p.r. for a merchant group, and so have been working on their big Christmas event since September. You can't pull these things off last minute, you know. Requires major sponsorship, ads, posters, banners, press releases, working the media, etc. I've been pushing all the business owners and managers to make their Christmas retail plans early so we'll have time to publicize everything. If they wait 'til the first of December to decide, it's too late to get anything out.

This time every year, I threaten to rename my adv/p.r. business Ad Nauseum.

[size=7]Hmmm...there's my story idea for the A2K Storytelling Idol competition! Have been trying to think up an appropriately seasonal tale...gotta go, must start writing...[/size]

0 Replies

My fingers are crossed, too... you sound to me like too valuable an employee to dispose of, and so if your boss knew that continuing this was pivotal to your continuing to work there, and would 'improve' the service you provide, he might give you more time... but then, you can never trust bosses to be reasonable!

Oh no, Eva; when handling Christmas from September, one has to be able to revel! Is your business a one-woman operation, or is it rather big? When does your work on the event finish?

What a good idea! Agh, I can never think of a festive story; when I was twelve, so many moons ago, we were told to write poetry but were never told that it had to be festive. Everyone else wrote about Santa and Cats... I wrote about alcoholism and people being pushed to the side of their own lives. That went down a charm! Still, if there is going to be a competition, I'll think of something festive... but different.

0 Replies

Quote:

Oz universities just don't have any undergrad classes at night. And while I've managed to get through a couple of first year subjects while missing lectures, I wouldn't like to try it with 200 or 300 level subjects.

I hear you there, sir. Was thinking about working this year and giving some of the loans back, but now that it's underway I'm just going to have to suck up the debt. (They've got this awful habit here -- and in Washington -- of scheduling things in short blocks all through the week, leaving no blocks of time during which the needful can make any real money. Would be much better for a number of reasons, I think, to go to two two-hour sessions than four one-hour sessions.)

0 Replies

Well, DetR, reveling is one of my specialties!!!

I have an office out of my home, which is why I am able to drop into A2K off and on through the day & night while waiting on others. I contract out everything I'm not able to handle myself. I'm coordinating this big event from the merchants' association side with the help of a paid event coordinator. It's not a one-person job. We have all sorts of media promotions going, major corporate sponsors, TV appearances, volunteers, and multiple events to oversee at different businesses simultaneously. Food tastings, live music at several locations, Santa, the Grinch, free trolley rides, a parade, a kid's contest...the list goes on and on. It's to be held next Thursday evening, the 11th, so I have penciled in next Friday to collapse.

Thanks for asking! Laughing

I don't know how I'll manage to get my story written in the middle of all this, Mom duties and our own pre-Christmas errands. But I'll figure out something. Would love to read a story from you! Check in under the "Trivia & Word Games" section and look for "A2K Storytelling Idol Competition."

0 Replies

Eva, WOW!!!

Here's a glass of something sustaining! \_/

0 Replies

Thanks, margo...could I have one a little bigger, do you think?

Something like this, maybe...?

\_/

0 Replies

Very cool, Eva. Sounds like a massive job, yet rewarding. I'm scheduled to be at a jazz club on the 11th, so I'll start reveling (& possibly frolicking) for ya then.

Was thinking about this... even on a single-family event schedule, somebody has to make plans so that whatever frolicking goes down, happens with the standard fanfare, food, etc. That kind of planning takes time and generally falls on the female half of the adult head-of-household units... so it is not too surprising that more of them start reveling a little early, especially if there are children and/or far-flung family involved.

0 Replies

Christmas sucks BIG-Time!!

Quick Links

My Account

able2know