Am I the only one that cries this much during the holidays?

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  • comebackwoman
    comebackwoman Posts: 7,271
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    christmas lights piss me off :mad:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URQJqtEKzuQ :D
    There's a light when my baby's in my arms :)
  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    comebackgirl wrote:
    I know what you mean Trixie...but the holidays also brings out a lot of the good and the humanity in people. The domestic violence agency I worked for has a large shelter and transitional housing program and during the holidays we were overwhelmed with requests from people in the community wanting to "adopt" the families in our program for the holidays. The amount of gifts and food they donated was outrageous! We had to turn people away - and then they would offer to pay a utility bill or help with a rent payment. Many did so anonymously. They'd donate Christmas trees and decorations, invite the families to holiday parties, etc. Entire families did this and the kids would get so excited about buying stuff for other kids. The moms in the programs would never put anything on their wishlists for themselves cause they just wanted their kids to be taken care of, so we'd have to sneak to find out their sizes and the things they liked because the people donating would insist on buying things for the moms too. It definitely made the holidays a whole lot brighter to see that. It would be nice if people thought about these things throughout the year.
    A couple of Christmas' ago I worked the holidays on a childrens cancer ward. We asked for public donations of gifts for the less privileged kids who couldn't go home for the holidays. We had mountains of stuff delivered. Everything from games consoles and ipods, to teddy bears, dolls and jigsaws. It was amazing. All the kids had extra presents and a huge christmas party. We donated the extra food to a local homeless shelter. We were given decorations, trees, big boxes of chocolates for the staff, it was fantastic. People always want to help, especially in the holidays. You just have to make it easier for them :)
    A human being that was given to fly.

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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    christmas lights piss me off :mad:

    everything pisses you off :D

    no i dont cry at the holidays... or as we civilised people call it 'Christmas'

    i love Christmas

    i might cry though if my kids gifts got crushed in a freak anvil dropping accident... but otherwise Christmas makes me happy... and for people in shops i dont care... i do 90% of my shopping online... i hate busy shops and queuing.. so i dont see all those idiots rushing around frantically buying crap cos they left it too late to buy good stuff.
    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.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    *Hugs*
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    christmas lights piss me off :mad:
    Someone find out who lives next door to Helen.
    We have to get them to put this up:
    http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=51Hy97GNQxI&feature=related
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • pinot768
    pinot768 Posts: 295
    TrixieCat wrote:
    Someone find out who lives next door to Helen.
    We have to get them to put this up:
    http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=51Hy97GNQxI&feature=related
    Oh, man...holiday rage would spring forth...wonder if I could claim temporary insanity, cause I'd have to hurt someone if this was my neighbor...
    "I was born, and I know that I'll die...the in-between is mine."
  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qsqsiJRiCY0

    Released 24 years ago today :)
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