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Plans for Christmas Day

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For the first time in many years I have plans for Christmas Day and I'm really looking forward to it.

When I was living on the streets in Adelaide I noticed a lot of spectacular street art. Christmas Day is about the only day of the year when I can photograph it without parked cars in the way. I hope summer finally arrives and and Christmas Day is 45 degrees with light cloud cover, that helps keep people off the streets too.
 
Awesome! Seeing what you photograph would be a great gift.

Photographing street art is the perfect thing while everyone’s routine is disrupted and the cars are gone. Just being in such a busy place that becomes quiet is alluring to me. I will wish for warm weather in Oz for you!
 
Going to a Christmas party with just the family members I like and not the toxic ones that I have cut out of my life. My uncle banned them from Christmas this year :cool:
 
I like Christmas to be fairly quiet. Just relaxed as possible. Christmases have been a lot more enjoyable since I cut contact with my mother. No walking on eggshells.

I usually make the Christmas dinner. It's a little stressful, but I don't mind too much. I've been doing that for about 15 years now.

I don't drink. I was never good at it. Plus when things are pleasant I like to experience it without being dulled or semi-conscious.

Christmas up until 20 years ago was a mixture of excitement and misery. It would start off ok but usually deteriorate into one of my mother's Cointreau fueled rampages.

No Cointreau is allowed in the house now :smileycat:
 
It's a strange holiday season. I've kind of got into it, but I'm holding myself back, like a pony at the bit. My daughter lives in a dorm, and so it's just me, alone in our home. On the eighteenth, she's coming home to me. And I want to take her to zoolights, and to all the candy cane lanes, and even to see santa, and go mallwalking. Or even just around town, for cocoa in the misty cold. It'd be fun to carol too.

I want to make popcorn garlands so badly. But all that is waiting for together time.

I don't know what we'll do on Christmas day. My house, Mom's house, other Grandparents? It's all up in the air. All I know is that everyone is getting photos for Christmas.
 
My mom is having a guest over for christmas, and my sibling has now decided to invite her boyfriend. So it will be a busy one.

Usually do fondue, but will have to see what happens.
 
Rodafina said:
Just being in such a busy place that becomes quiet is alluring to me.
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One Black Friday I was in a big city to visit a certain museum. I happened to stay in the financial district, so it was dead. Just some offices and (surprisingly) old churches. It was flurrying, so everything felt very peaceful and still. I had fun walking around.
 
Eat. Then eat some more. Now get told off for eating. Bribe Dog V4 to secrecy and pretend not to start sneaky eating when no-one is watching.
 
I'm going to my mom's and we'll play a new game she and her partner bought - Mexican Domino. We meet once a month to play Scrabble, cards, domino, and it's just a cocktail thing. This time it will be a full dinner because it's Xmas, but at least I will eat something I really like.
 
I don't have much to do for Christmas, I'll probably help out at a local shelter or do something to keep my mind distracted from the fact nobody is visiting me
 
merithra said:
I don't have much to do for Christmas, I'll probably help out at a local shelter or do something to keep my mind distracted from the fact nobody is visiting me
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This is a great idea because it is a mutually beneficial Christmas activity. For you it may be a distraction, but you will be visiting with people who are in difficult times, and it is likely you can both gain something from it.

I plan on visiting a few of the elders that I deliver food to who also will have no one with them. Holidays aren’t merry wonderment for all, but we can do our best to make it meaningful.
 
Rodafina said:
This is a great idea because it is a mutually beneficial Christmas activity. For you it may be a distraction, but you will be visiting with people who are in difficult times, and it is likely you can both gain something from it.

I plan on visiting a few of the elders that I deliver food to who also will have no one with them. Holidays aren’t merry wonderment for all, but we can do our best to make it meaningful.
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thank you, I am glad it is a great idea.

that is very generous of you, thank you for making the world a better place and making christmas meaningful for those who don't have people to visit.
 
May be working. Not confirmed yet though.

Planning on spending the PM with fambo.
Work can shove it up their a55 after 4pm. I'll be with my family.
(irrespective of what still needs to be done at work)
 
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