Merry Christmas to you too, Dalyn.
And, HypnoToad, that’s an awesome postcard. Are you the artist, or is it your missus that has the talent?
I hope every single CHEWER has a Merry Happy Holiday Christmas Hanukkah Kwanzaa Whatever-it-is-you-celebrate!
I celebrate Capitalist Christmas, the non-religious bifurcated exchange of material goods.
A cherished memory I’ll never forget: My dad telling me at age 6 that “Santa Claus was invented by K-Mart.”
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Hey hey -it’s Christmas 2017 ~
Got any funny Santa pics or cartoons? Any cool Christmas YouTube video shorts?
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Not really feeling it this year. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and I couldn’t get myself amped for that until the morning of.
My sister and I are in our 30s now, and my dad in his 50s. It really should just be a nice day to get together for a meal, exchange a gift or two and watch some football. But my sister lives for Christmas, and keeps dragging us into a big gift-giving affair each year.
When you’re a kid, Christmas is fucking awesome because it’s all about you and the magic of getting all that rad shit you waited all year for. When you’re an adult, you get what you want when you want it (with some saving or planning ahead, if it’s a bigger purchase). Giving and receiving gifts as an adult is fucking awkward because you basically tell the other adults what you’d like, then act surprised when you get it a couple weeks later.
I just hate pageantry.
I hate the presents thing…
I never know what to get the other person. And I’m always worried I’ll screw it up so it turns into an anxiety filled trip to overcrowded shopping malls. Screw it, this year everyone’s getting a half-gram of coke and some over the pants action from the local streetwalker.
Well, I guess fuck me and the new bugatti veyron I got for you this year. That shit’s going RIGHT back to the store!
I call Codename for Secret Santa.
Nevermind, I call Freeman for Secret Santa.
I respect any man who will willingly dress and adopt the persona of Santa Claus,
weather out in public or for a photo shoot.
But this mustache...
I usually get my siblings a little joke gift paired with an Amazon gift card. The joke gift covers the “It’s the thought that counts” angle, the Amazon card covers the material angle.
My siblings and their spouses generally draw names every year. Rather, we did until last year. It got to the point where everyone may as well have just swapped two 20 dollar bills, so we stopped. Everyone pretty much buys what they want, when they want it, so doing any sort of gift giving is rather pointless. We all still buy gifts for the next generation (in their 20s) because they’re dirt poor, but that’s about it.
My favorite holiday and time of the year is Halloween. Always has been and will always be. I dig Christmas because of that holiday cheer vibe; people seem to be a bit more merry this time of the year. Or, at least, a bit more hopeful.
Sure, when I was a kid, it was all the presents. But what I loved was all the presents under the tree. All wrapped and just looking right out of a Rockwell painting. I’ve never liked the unwrapping/opening part because it destroyed the composition. I do love decorating for the holidays, too. Must be the artist in me.
Maybe things will be different this year because of…well, because of how awful shit seems to be. Plus, my sister and I have disowned our parents and have decided we’re orphans. And my sister lives in Kuwait and I’m here now in LA. And my housemate doesn’t “do” Christmas. I know that once I get my own place, I’m decorating. But I am still getting a tree for this year! A fake tree, but A TREE and decorating it.
AND I’m adding to my Krampus kids. Got a Krampus dog, cat, femme, and next, a bear…
Christmas is my second-favorite holiday, but it’s been tough to get into the spirit for me so far, because the upper midwest has been unseasonably warm and we haven’t had any snow yet. As a person who loves the different seasons and is ready for winter, it kind of sucks!
Even so, tonight I threw on Henry Mancini’s wonderful SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE score and did some decorating inside while drinking several hot chocolates, and things finally started to feel right.
AI’ll get to sleep in on a Monday, so I’m looking forward to that.
AMy wife and I have been in full Christmas mode for a few weeks. Thought I would share a picture of our living room.
We always do a new jigsaw puzzle every year on the coffee table.