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What are you doing for Christmas?

FeatheryGoose

FeatheryGoose

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I'm curious to know what everyone is doing for Christmas this year? And if you don't celebrate it what will your December be like?

I personally love Christmas, mostly because it is just a really fantastic time of year as it seems to bring the good out in everyone, like seeing people sing carols and people being more giving.

I used to love seeing my family so excited and happy at this time of year as well.
For me that's what really makes Christmas special for me :)

What will you be doing this year and do you enjoy Christmas shopping and gift giving?

I don't like Christmas shopping really, I find gift giving very complex and shopping too stressful because of how loud stores are and how busy they get. But overall I enjoy the Christmas period.
 
I'll be flying on a plane for the first time to go see my brothers who live on the west coast. I haven't seen them since around the time I graduated high school.

I've always enjoyed shopping for the holiday, but I've never been too good on accepting gifts for myself, I much prefer seeing the joy on someones face when I give them their gift.
 
Contrary to universal expectation, I was invited by friends to stay in a cabin at a snowy place where I shall attempt to ski for the first time. :eek:
 
Illkurok said:
I'll be flying on a plane for the first time to go see my brothers who live on the west coast. I haven't seen them since around the time I graduated high school.

I've always enjoyed shopping for the holiday, but I've never been too good on accepting gifts for myself, I much prefer seeing the joy on someones face when I give them their gift.
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That sounds like a really nice way to spend Christmas :)

Fino said:
Contrary to universal expectation, I was invited by friends to stay in a cabin at a snowy place where I shall attempt to ski for the first time. :eek:
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Aw cool, best of luck! :p
 
I love christmas! I'll be spending it with my family, me + my sister and her family stay at our parents for the week. We don't have any other family in the country so it isn't stressful. Yearly traditions include going out on the boat, going for a walk along the beach to see the baby seals, and of course the normal things like stockings, presents, and eating far too much.

This year will be my first christmas not being the youngest in the family as I now have a nephew, which makes it a bit more exciting although he's far too young to have a clue what's happening.

I really hate shopping and the over commercialised hype over november and december though. Bloody christmas adverts do my head in.
 
Christmas music. Listening to my Larry the cable guy Christmas cd again. Trans Siberian Orchestra. Watching Die Hard. Love watching Scrooge both Disney versions. Obssessing over trailers for new games the whole month. Always the yearly delimmea. Ehich game to play until Christmas. Right now its fallout 4. But it could change.
 
Less is more, as far as Christmas and most other holidays go.

Some years I put up a tree and some years I do nothing. Last year I did nothing. This year, I bought some blue LED lights which I plan to wrap a porch pillar with.

It's nice to have no rigid expectations. When there have been, it did not always go well.
 
Wolf Prince said:
Christmas music. Listening to my Larry the cable guy Christmas cd again. Trans Siberian Orchestra. Watching Die Hard. Love watching Scrooge both Disney versions. Obssessing over trailers for new games the whole month. Always the yearly delimmea. Ehich game to play until Christmas. Right now its fallout 4. But it could change.
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I love Christmas music :) It always puts me in such a happy and fun mood. My favourite Christmas song is below...

 
Organising a 'family do' at my sons house.
He has much more space in his house to seat everyone around the table.

Am also organising some quizzes and games and chances to win some fabulous prizes.
(I have a sense of humour, so I'm not talking about a luxury cruise kind of fabulous, I'm talking something out of the ordinary kind of fabulous)

That's the plan so far anyway.
Anything can change,
and probably will !
 
Gracey said:
Organising a 'family do' at my sons house.
He has much more space in his house to seat everyone around the table.

Am also organising some quizzes and games and chances to win some fabulous prizes.
(I have a sense of humour, so I'm not talking about a luxury cruise kind of fabulous, I'm talking something out of the ordinary kind of fabulous)

That's the plan so far anyway.
Anything can change,
and probably will !
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That sounds like a fantastic Christmas for you and your family. I hope it will all go really well and you'll all have a great time.

My mum used to do games and quizzes as well. I will miss that this year.
 
Taken the fortnight off work so I can have Christmas & New Year in blissful peace. Just me, Mrs Autistamatic & Jimmy the cat. We'll have Christmas lunch with the in-laws (who are lovely people and real friends) at a country pub as we usually do, but apart from those couple of hours, no contact with anyone, especially family for two, whole, lovely weeks.
 
I'll likely order some books that I wish to read over the holidays. And spend at least one or two days reading, drinking herbal tea, taking naps, listening to carols, walking in the snow to look at the lights.
Christmas morning if there's enough snow, I'll snowshoe into a local forest with a thermos of hot chocolate. Hoping to see some birds and mammals. Who I usually bring fruit and nuts for and a backpack with some greens in it to leave for them.
Make some sort of special meal, vegan for me, meat for my spouse. With a dessert of some sort. Will meet up with two friends the following day, for lunch at a local place which is a bakery and coffee house.
 
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Taking a break from work, not much else. The gift giving is stressful, I have stopped doing this in recent years and usually just phone or write to people to wish them Merry Christmas.

Also, the constant hoilidays at that time of years is stressful for the disruption they bring, shops closing regularly and for two days in a row, not being able to get anything done, services not working or understaffed, etc. Chaos.
 
We don’t celebrate Christmas with gifts for the family. However, my mom’s birthday is on the first day of Christmas, so we always celebrate that with a lavish family meal.
 
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