thank you this will be my first year away from my family... and to me that's everything... so the thought of christmas and other people going on about everything is reminding me how I don't have my family... it's really tough!
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
I love spending time with my family... and we always have a great christmas... I'm just spending this year away from them :(
I usually go all out for christmas.. this year I've been hoping we're NOT putting up decorations.. haven't even shopped for my secret santa yet and it was supposed to be sent today. Haven't even thought about what I'm getting anyone else and would rather not. Just wanna get on with normal stuff and forget about anything else.
Aww I'm sorry. I would've thought they would have cheap flights home. Well, just think how much fun you will have next year when HE goes to Ireland to spend Christmas with the Heinekens.
I hate Christmas movies and Christmas music. Plus, I don't like being home because it gets me obsessing over the possibility of bumping into my ex (we have the same hometown). But other than that, I dig being off school and having time to curl up with a good book. Also enjoy time with the family and playing games and whatnot.
i alway's look forward to christmas. the birth of jesus, a celebration of life. a change, i see it, where all else fails.
this holiday season is the time of sharing, giving, helping other's out in need. (well, that should be done by all, everday of the year), it's just, this time of year, we forget the less fortunate. while everybody is spending money, money, money on presents, and neighbours fighting for who's gonna win the best lighted house on the street etc .. it shouldn't be a time of fighting & hate, or jealousy.
it should be love & happiness & caring. it's like scrooged (will rip that clip again on my facebook account this weekend). when bill get's out of that elevator and just flips out with joy. that's what we should be doing all around, to each other.
it's 2 am in the morning. d'oh! just saying, don't be sad or be let down this holiday season. we got each other. alone? message here, either msn, via video or even call your friend, family out of town, reach out and just .. live life. take a walk, see anybody on the street, take him/her inside a fastfood joint and buy them something, talk to them. something.
i made a huge mistake day's ago, many of you must of read the thread that sunday on the porch. it was wrong, and my temper was uncalled for. i'm sorry. :( i haven't been myself lately. i .. just .. had my heart on somebody, who i cared for alot. but i didn't know how to control that feeling. and, it just fell apart.
the only gift i would want for christmas, is not stuff or things or anything. it's just, would want to go back in time, and fix all that. get that friendship back to normal. and keep that friendship forever. but, that would never happen. as another year comes closing, again .. i keep fucking up. :(
I know I should be looking foward to spending christmas with my family and friends after not seeing them for a year but... for me this year's christmas will be about adjusting back to a hot climate, dealing with jetlag, and missing friends from abroad. Kinda bleak I know... But who knows it could be good.
I just don't have time to think about it this year.
I won't wake up alone but to be honest I'd kinda prefer I did... I'm gonna spend christmas with the boyfriends family... but I'd rather actually just get drunk alone and watch chick flicks all day. This way I'm gonna have to pretend to be happy to be spending it with someone elses family... otherwise I'll drag everyone else down... and I'm not sure I'm capable of pretending to give a fuck to be honest :(
yo should go along and have a good time... stop being selfish... its one day... go and fucking enjoy it...
either that or go back to your family and have a xmas you want.
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
look forward to it...for me, it's the most awaited time of the year...the thought that God sent His only Son to the world because of love is something that we should celebrate and be grateful for (i'm Catholic, pardon me if i sound religious...)
although, the celebration part has become commercialized but being with my family and spending time with them for Christmas is enough celebration for me...
now, spending time with the family of your boyfriend is another thing but i guess a whole new experience...try to look forward to it, for all you know, you might even have a blast with them...try to condition your mind to think positively about the event...good luck HH
look forward to it...for me, it's the most awaited time of the year...the thought that God sent His only Son to the world because of love is something that we should celebrate and be grateful for (i'm Catholic, pardon me if i sound religious...)
although, the celebration part has become commercialized but being with my family and spending time with them for Christmas is enough celebration for me...
now, spending time with the family of your boyfriend is another thing but i guess a whole new experience...try to look forward to it, for all you know, you might even have a blast with them...try to condition your mind to think positively about the event...good luck HH
That's what Christmas is for... it's a shame selfish people have to ruin it (like the people who trampled and killed the Wal-Mart employee :( )
I just enjoy being around family during these days around Christmas... so I always look forward to it..
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I haven't enjoyed Christmas that much for that past couple of years. I get most joy by giving gifts to family and friends. I never get what I want so I never care about getting gifts. Also being single plays into it to I'm sure. The holidays get me down cause well they just do. lol
Yep, but every year of my life I've spent christmas with my family and it's always been my favourite day of the year. Yep, there are really cheap flights home... but most of my family won't be there and it would depress me even more to be with half of my family or only one. It's always been for the kids but now they're the other side of the world.
I WILL go along Dunk and I'm starting to condition myself to it... and I do really really like his family... but it's not gonna be christmas unless I get really really really drunk. Me and Jody were talking about hiring out santa/elf costumes I think something like that would be fun.
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Verona??? it's all surmountable
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normaly I love crimbo just my lil family doing our things spending time with the kids eating playing games very chilled BUT this yr my mum is coming :( she is not a relaxed person and will not like the way we spend christmas so I am NOT looking forward to it.
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Yep, but every year of my life I've spent christmas with my family and it's always been my favourite day of the year. Yep, there are really cheap flights home... but most of my family won't be there and it would depress me even more to be with half of my family or only one. It's always been for the kids but now they're the other side of the world.
I WILL go along Dunk and I'm starting to condition myself to it... and I do really really like his family... but it's not gonna be christmas unless I get really really really drunk. Me and Jody were talking about hiring out santa/elf costumes I think something like that would be fun.
It is!! Sure it will be different but at some point you were going to have to do something different. If it wasn't this year it would be next as presumably the boyf wouldn't have to do 'your' christmas every year and you wouldn't want to spend every year apart.
Variety is the spice of life ... you're going to get to experience something different ... and next year you'll probably go home ... and in a few years you'll probably decide you want to have it just the two of you or invite everyone over to yours
Time to start making your own traditions together
Go get yourself a mince pie and go christmas shopping ... it's time to get your self in the mood
So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
Christmas for me gets less and less exciting each year. We used to go batshit crazy for gifts, I'd pile all of my stuff in the corner and then go return 95% of it in the next week. Now I realize that's lame and don't even care to get gifts really anymore. Now we do the drawing names out of a hat and buy for one person. It was always stressful having to buy presents for people when one is on somewhat of a limited income. Instead of buying a bunch of dumb gifts, we all get one equal gift, less bitching.
My parents always slide me some extra cash once everyone leaves, but I might just give it to my nieces, since they didn't get any money this year for school clothes. Economy has been too tight and I always forget their birthdays
I wasn't looking forward to Christmas at all. I was dreading it in fact. But, it's going to happen whether I want it to or not and so I might as well go with the flow and try to have a good time.
It's going to be a very different Christmas to the past ones for me too, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. Like Chime said, it's a time to start making new traditions, ringing the changes and remembering whats important to you now.
Your family will be thinking of you, whether you're there or not. It's different for them too. Work out what you want, what you need and then let your hair down and have fun
Yep, but every year of my life I've spent christmas with my family and it's always been my favourite day of the year. Yep, there are really cheap flights home... but most of my family won't be there and it would depress me even more to be with half of my family or only one. It's always been for the kids but now they're the other side of the world.
I WILL go along Dunk and I'm starting to condition myself to it... and I do really really like his family... but it's not gonna be christmas unless I get really really really drunk. Me and Jody were talking about hiring out santa/elf costumes I think something like that would be fun.
you've answered your own question
dont you always get really drunk anyway?
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
on a lighter note... my employers, the government, sent round an email saying that the phrase "fairy lights" is NOT to be used this year... for PC reasons... so we've to call them "poof lanterns"
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
In terms of the giving and receiving of gifts, I'm not looking forward to that. Don't get me wrong, I've gotten and given some nice things over the past couple of years, but that magic from childhood just isn't there.
In all honesty, I really just prefer hanging out and catching up with my family and friends during the holidays.
It is!! Sure it will be different but at some point you were going to have to do something different. If it wasn't this year it would be next as presumably the boyf wouldn't have to do 'your' christmas every year and you wouldn't want to spend every year apart.
Variety is the spice of life ... you're going to get to experience something different ... and next year you'll probably go home ... and in a few years you'll probably decide you want to have it just the two of you or invite everyone over to yours
Time to start making your own traditions together
Go get yourself a mince pie and go christmas shopping ... it's time to get your self in the mood
Nice post I hate mince pies... but I just tried doing some shopping... BIG failure though. Just drawing a mental block when it comes to buying for everyone this year
I think it's harder cos nobody has much money so we're all just spending a little bit... it's so much easier when you have a limit of about 100euro pp lol, you can buy plenty with that.
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
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Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
A personal situation kind of spoiled christmas for me last year so with that situation having been corrected since then I am hoping to find a little more spirit this year.....so far though all I am looking forward to is time off from work
All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow
They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
eh...I don't mean to be a grinch but Im not really looking forward to it. It's just a big commercialized friggin thing. Im sick of the influx of stupid jewlery commercial, one sappier and more corny then the next one.
I love the message it's sending..Merry Christmas now spend lots of money on me to show me how much you love me!
It's fucking sad.
Dig a ditch deep enough
To keep you clear of the sun
You've been burned more than once
You don't think much of trust
This year I wish it would just come and go... or that I'd a few more months to prepare... really not looking forward to it AT ALL!
think about it this way, why should you be like everyone else and celebrate Xmas? you celebrate things when you want to and feel like it! use this day to relax and to pamper yourself
think about it this way, why should you be like everyone else and celebrate Xmas? you celebrate things when you want to and feel like it! use this day to relax and to pamper yourself
but I LOVE christmas but I've only known ONE kinda christmas... I'm sure I will have a great time cos his family are great but it's kinda a fear of the unknown I spose.
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
but I LOVE christmas but I've only known ONE kinda christmas... I'm sure I will have a great time cos his family are great but it's kinda a fear of the unknown I spose.
i see now you come across well, i'm sure they will like you just stay away from telling them anything wild you've done in the past and watch how much you drink, and you'll be fine!
Nice post I hate mince pies... but I just tried doing some shopping... BIG failure though. Just drawing a mental block when it comes to buying for everyone this year
I think it's harder cos nobody has much money so we're all just spending a little bit... it's so much easier when you have a limit of about 100euro pp lol, you can buy plenty with that.
Just drown it in brandy cream and I'm sure you'll be fine
Hmmm short on money ... well your sis and family are in Oz it's summer maybe summer clothes you can buy in the sales ... they're light for posting too.
Saving money ... if you're buying for both members of a couple maybe buy them a joint present?
i see now you come across well, i'm sure they will like you : ) just stay away from telling them anything wild you've done in the past and watch how much you drink, and you'll be fine!
thank you I don't think the drinking will be a problem... they all like a few drinks. The mother finds herself explaining to ME that she's not an alcoholic cos she has a glass of wine for lunch when we go out so she obviously thinks I'm not a big drinker lol. I've seen the dad drunk, the sister and I get drunk together a lot and my boyfriend has been known to actually get drunker than me :eek: . As long as his sisters boyfriend doesn't take out his new truth or dare game, I should be fine
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
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What's different about this year Helen?
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Aww I'm sorry. I would've thought they would have cheap flights home. Well, just think how much fun you will have next year when HE goes to Ireland to spend Christmas with the Heinekens.
this holiday season is the time of sharing, giving, helping other's out in need. (well, that should be done by all, everday of the year), it's just, this time of year, we forget the less fortunate. while everybody is spending money, money, money on presents, and neighbours fighting for who's gonna win the best lighted house on the street etc .. it shouldn't be a time of fighting & hate, or jealousy.
it should be love & happiness & caring. it's like scrooged (will rip that clip again on my facebook account this weekend). when bill get's out of that elevator and just flips out with joy. that's what we should be doing all around, to each other.
it's 2 am in the morning. d'oh! just saying, don't be sad or be let down this holiday season. we got each other. alone? message here, either msn, via video or even call your friend, family out of town, reach out and just .. live life. take a walk, see anybody on the street, take him/her inside a fastfood joint and buy them something, talk to them. something.
i made a huge mistake day's ago, many of you must of read the thread that sunday on the porch. it was wrong, and my temper was uncalled for. i'm sorry. :( i haven't been myself lately. i .. just .. had my heart on somebody, who i cared for alot. but i didn't know how to control that feeling. and, it just fell apart.
the only gift i would want for christmas, is not stuff or things or anything. it's just, would want to go back in time, and fix all that. get that friendship back to normal. and keep that friendship forever. but, that would never happen. as another year comes closing, again .. i keep fucking up. :(
night ...
I just don't have time to think about it this year.
yo should go along and have a good time... stop being selfish... its one day... go and fucking enjoy it...
either that or go back to your family and have a xmas you want.
although, the celebration part has become commercialized but being with my family and spending time with them for Christmas is enough celebration for me...
now, spending time with the family of your boyfriend is another thing but i guess a whole new experience...try to look forward to it, for all you know, you might even have a blast with them...try to condition your mind to think positively about the event...good luck HH
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That's what Christmas is for... it's a shame selfish people have to ruin it (like the people who trampled and killed the Wal-Mart employee :( )
I just enjoy being around family during these days around Christmas... so I always look forward to it..
I am a man, I am advanced.....I am the first man to borrow Stone's leather pants!
Not for me. For me, it's about family and trying to brighten up and make the winter a little less miserable with lights and whatnot.
I WILL go along Dunk and I'm starting to condition myself to it... and I do really really like his family... but it's not gonna be christmas
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Astoria,Dublin,Reading 06,Wembley 07,Sheapards Bush & o2 09 thats multiple Jamgasms!
It is!! Sure it will be different but at some point you were going to have to do something different. If it wasn't this year it would be next as presumably the boyf wouldn't have to do 'your' christmas every year and you wouldn't want to spend every year apart.
Variety is the spice of life ... you're going to get to experience something different ... and next year you'll probably go home ... and in a few years you'll probably decide you want to have it just the two of you or invite everyone over to yours
Time to start making your own traditions together
Go get yourself a mince pie and go christmas shopping ... it's time to get your self in the mood
My parents always slide me some extra cash once everyone leaves, but I might just give it to my nieces, since they didn't get any money this year for school clothes. Economy has been too tight and I always forget their birthdays
It's going to be a very different Christmas to the past ones for me too, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. Like Chime said, it's a time to start making new traditions, ringing the changes and remembering whats important to you now.
Your family will be thinking of you, whether you're there or not. It's different for them too. Work out what you want, what you need and then let your hair down and have fun
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It's a religious festival but it's all rushing about and spending stupid amounts of money for most people. Plus loads of pissheads at midnight mass.
The upside is I'm taking my youngest to see KOL for her present.
you've answered your own question
dont you always get really drunk anyway?
In all honesty, I really just prefer hanging out and catching up with my family and friends during the holidays.
I think it's harder cos nobody has much money so we're all just spending a little bit... it's so much easier when you have a limit of about 100euro pp lol, you can buy plenty with that.
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
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I love the message it's sending..Merry Christmas now spend lots of money on me to show me how much you love me!
It's fucking sad.
To keep you clear of the sun
You've been burned more than once
You don't think much of trust
think about it this way, why should you be like everyone else and celebrate Xmas? you celebrate things when you want to and feel like it! use this day to relax and to pamper yourself
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
i see now
Just drown it in brandy cream and I'm sure you'll be fine
Hmmm short on money ... well your sis and family are in Oz it's summer maybe summer clothes you can buy in the sales ... they're light for posting too.
Saving money ... if you're buying for both members of a couple maybe buy them a joint present?
A game that can be played on Christmas day for someone is usually good. One Christmas we were all told we had to bring a game and I went with this one http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hasbro-42383-Bop-It-Extreme/dp/B0006GWQ2S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=kids&qid=1228404987&sr=1-1 ... easy, great fun for everyone ... induces swearing in the drunk
Always find making a list before I hit the shops helps.
I love brainstorming for presents if you want any help just let me know.
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you