Can we just skip on ahead to January?

[Atropine Mama]

I have been the biggest fucking holiday grinch this year. I nearly ate the heads of my neighbors for putting out that stupid laughing pumpkin Halloween decoration on their lawn again this year -- the one that had a motion sensor set to about 50 fucking yards.

This year's Thanksgiving is probably going to be yet another clusterfuck of uncomfortable family moments, and with my current bronchial and two ear infections I'm tempted to drop the damn cheese ball off on my parents porch and go back home. In a festive manner, of course! I won't even get to see the sister I do like, because her husband is recovering from a tonsilectomy + adenoid removal. FUCK.

And then there's Christmas, normally a holiday I like a lot, which promises to suck enormous elephant balls this year. I would like a speed conversion to Judaism so I can celebrate Hanukkah instead, please. I even have a great Kugel recipe.

Can I just tell the holidays to come back and try again next year?

[Limper]

Stop being so damn crabby. The holidays are not for you and not for your husband or any other adult involved... they are for the kids.

Do shit with the kids and fuck the rest.

[Atropine Mama]

Stop being so damn crabby. The holidays are not for you and not for your husband or any other adult involved... they are for the kids.

Do shit with the kids and fuck the rest.

Limper just told me to stop being so crabby.

I... I think I need to go lie down.





Did the Halloween crap with the kids, will do the rest for the kids, yeah yeah, doesn't make it suck any less.

And with my family, everyone is painfully aware that it's all about my mother. Even my older daughter is catching on to her crap and would rather eat toejam than get another guilt-laced "gift" from her.

[Limper]

Limper just told me to stop being so crabby.

I... I think I need to go lie down.





Did the Halloween crap with the kids, will do the rest for the kids, yeah yeah, doesn't make it suck any less.

And with my family, everyone is painfully aware that it's all about my mother. Even my older daughter is catching on to her crap and would rather eat toejam than get another guilt-laced "gift" from her.

Blow the bitch (your mom) off and have your own TG, invite thems you like and not thems you don't.

Bribe someone else to do the cooking cause if I recall correctly you hate cooking.

[Lady Fury]

I'll gladly jump to January with you Bella. The holidays are very stressful for me. I use to enjoy them before I became the one in charge of everything. We are having Thanksgiving dinner here at our house. And Christmas will probably be the same arrangement. We have no money for gifts this year so the extended family will have to just deal with it. The kids will get 2 gifts from us and that's it. (I hate having to charge Christmas but the kids deserve something under the tree.)

One good thing is I don't have to deal with my family coming over since they live just far enough away to make it too much of a hassle to come over.

Your mother sounds a bit like mine. That's why I try to limit my conversations with her. She's always criticizing and making me feel guilty about things I shouldn't. I finally told my mom off several months back. I didn't speak to her until the day after I had the heart attack. She apologized up and down. Too bad it took a near death experience for her to realize that I'm not that bad of a daughter after all.

[Limper]

Thanksgiving at Limpers House of Holiday Cheer.

1) Toss Halloween candy in a bowl for the kids

2) Pickup 10-15 40's of Camo and other Urban Malts of Taste for the big kids.

3) Hit White Castles and grab 2 crave cases one with cheese one without.

Invitify friends and family.

There the perfect Holiday.

[Atropine Mama]

My mother will bitch and whine all year about how put-upon she is for having to host the family holidays, but if my sister asks to host one she acts as though physically slapped. How dare someone take away her martyrdom!

No wonder I dig holidays at Deathe's family so much. Besides not getting fucking roasted for being a baby-killing liberal, and all.

[Atropine Mama]

Perhaps we should hold a KT Holiday celebration at an ocean resort in the bahamas and drink until it's January? Limper, you bring the sliders.

[Critter]

I'm getting suckered into going to a friend's of mine for Thanksgiving, which is fine, I suppose.

Christmas though, will be awesome. My roommate and I have already put money aside for a good bottle of Scotch and that's all were doing for the Holiday.

[Megamieuwsel]

My roommate and I have already put money aside for a good bottle of Scotch and that's all were doing for the Holiday.
Now, THAT's real sensible talk.
(Which brand?.....)

[Name Lips]

I'm ok with Christmas, so long as society again becomes sane and remembers it's a day, not a season.

I'll even be generous and allow Christmas music on the radio starting on the 23rd. But no earlier.

[The Winslow]

I'm ok with Christmas, so long as society again becomes sane and remembers it's a day, not a season.

I'll even be generous and allow Christmas music on the radio starting on the 23rd. But no earlier.

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[Critter]

Now, THAT's real sensible talk.
(Which brand?.....)

Probably Johnny Walker, which is what my roommate enjoys the most. Not sure which type, being as money is right at the moment. Probably Black though.

[azrael]

so there are times I wish I didn't cruise the forums through the new posts button...

I thought this was going to be a political thread...


in general, I agree with the wishing it was january...

had our thanksgiving plans changed relatively last minute after I sold what was left of my soul to get the weekend after off, so I'm missing two days of work and NOT going out of town:(

oh yeah, and in january we leave for hawaii for two weeks... another reason to hurry up and get here:D

[Random Encounter]

I'm not dreading the holidays but I HATE how early I get slammed with Christmas decorations and music.
A museum on my way to and from work Put up Christmas decorations last week all of the outside of the building. And I made my coworker I carpool to work with turn off the radio when Feliz Navidad came on Nov 14th. Her response: "But I like Christmas music". I'm sorry but halfway through November is way too fucking early for me to be dealing with Feliz Navidad.

And the first news report about "The WAR on Christmas" this year causes some reporter to lose a testicle, if it's a female reporter I'll settle for an ovary.

[The Winslow]

By the way, this is not an Obama thread, as I first expected from the title. ;)

[Enk]

I have been the biggest fucking holiday grinch this year. I nearly ate the heads of my neighbors for putting out that stupid laughing pumpkin Halloween decoration on their lawn again this year -- the one that had a motion sensor set to about 50 fucking yards.

That's what I call being in the Halloween spirit!

[Dawnstar]

I swear the holidays just bring out the worst in everyone. WIth my family it is trying to get my parents in the same room for a couple of hours. They have been divorced for a couple years now and we asked them to only be in the same room for a couple hours and first it was okay, then my mother changed her mind. so we made plans, then she changed them back so we had to change plans again. My mother says she wants thanksgiving to be a relaxing day, funny thing is it has not been a relaxing day since they got divorced.

I am just so glad that for Christmas it is always at my house in the morning. So the kids are here for Santa to find them. I really enjoy cooking for Christmas Eve which i have done the past two years and overall it is a much more relaxed holiday than thanksgiving.


Oh and I can not stand the people who put up Christmas decorations as they are taking down their halloween decorations. A guy across the street from us has had his christmas lights on and lite each night for the past i think two weeks.

[doc]

Stouffer's Hungry Man turkey dinner for me this year.

Bella I have a problem with motion detectors myself

[Utrecht]

Well, I have to say, totally stoked for the holidays

Halloween was a blast - 50 degrees during trick or treat time - and both myself and I got loaded while taking the kids.

Thanksgiving - always been sort of a meh holiday for me - but that is due to the fact that my mom is a horrible cook - but it is still just one day.

All of December - advent calendars - kids are totally stoked to be getting a little present each day.

Dec 5th - Sinte Klaas! Kids are already counting down - and it is a great time to talk about Dutch History and some of the family heritage

Xmas - well my wife and I are already 90% done with our shopping - basically stocking stuffers left - so the stress is basically off.

[shiningbrow]

I have been the biggest fucking holiday grinch this year. I nearly ate the heads of my neighbors for putting out that stupid laughing pumpkin Halloween decoration on their lawn again this year -- the one that had a motion sensor set to about 50 fucking yards.

This year's Thanksgiving is probably going to be yet another clusterfuck of uncomfortable family moments, and with my current bronchial and two ear infections I'm tempted to drop the damn cheese ball off on my parents porch and go back home. In a festive manner, of course! I won't even get to see the sister I do like, because her husband is recovering from a tonsilectomy + adenoid removal. FUCK.

And then there's Christmas, normally a holiday I like a lot, which promises to suck enormous elephant balls this year. I would like a speed conversion to Judaism so I can celebrate Hanukkah instead, please. I even have a great Kugel recipe.

Can I just tell the holidays to come back and try again next year?

My mother used to terrorize us with the full panoply of scary white trash holiday decorations, including a plastic life size light up santa coming out of a plywood chimney on the front porch. I sympathize. Maybe you can figure out a way to short out that motion detector for next year.

We don't have kids. So we take it easy, go for a walk on the beach, make a nice dinner, watch a movie and sleep when we feel like it. Of course when we are old, we will be drooling childless idiots at the nursing home, so cheer up.

[Trainz]

I thought this was a thread about Obama and his coming investiture.

Yeah... holidays...

[Schizm]

I'd like to skip ahead to January, just to get back to my non holiday-schedule.

See, where I work, we're open on the holidays. Holiday shifts are a special thing though - you have to volunteer or be volunteered in order of reverse seniority, and this is outside the normal schedule process.

So, what happens when Every single holiday falls on the new guy's days off? Overtime. Lots, and lots of overtime.

My days off right now? Thursday and Friday.

I'm working straight through thanksgiving (12 days straight).
Christmas day? on a Thursday.
New Years day? on a Thursday.

:grey:

[Trainz]

I'd like to skip ahead to January, just to get back to my non holiday-schedule.

See, where I work, we're open on the holidays. Holiday shifts are a special thing though - you have to volunteer or be volunteered in order of reverse seniority, and this is outside the normal schedule process.

So, what happens when Every single holiday falls on the new guy's days off? Overtime. Lots, and lots of overtime.

My days off right now? Thursday and Friday.

I'm working straight through thanksgiving (12 days straight).
Christmas day? on a Thursday.
New Years day? on a Thursday.

:grey:

Yeah... I used to work full time in retail, but now I've moved to part-time. It so happens that I don't work wed-thu-fri, so this year I'm pretty happy about it.

I know what it is, so I can share your pain. It fucking sucks, and brings out the Scrooge in you. You have my heartfelt sympaties.

And now, I'm off to bed.