I'm DREADING the Encroaching Holidays because.....

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1. Extremely heated political arguments with my blindly Republican family over the dinner table.

2. Flying with an eight-month old .

3. No time nor specific ideas for X-mas shopping.

4. Tourists and crowds in NYC.

5. Busiest end-of-year season at work.

6. New Year's Eve turns NYC into idiot-magnet.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

1 and 3

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, you have to post every single holiday picture outtake of Charlotte.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I get back from the cruise with my family on Dec. 14th, I'm not seeing any of my relatives through the rest of the holidays. I'm looking forward to getting to spend xmas with Sarah for a change, it will be our first xmas together.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

1. not being with Mark
2. family stress over whether things are right/not right
3. only one of us has a valium prescription
4. cramped (and as yet unplanned!) travel schedule that no one in my family will give me a straight answer about

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Not yet having come up with a good excuse for not going to spend any time with my mother.
2. Being as lonely and miserable as last year - I was ill then all through the holidays, and saw no one for a week and a half.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

...there will be a slight money crunch with the gifts (along with everything else I'm trying to do) but I'll survive. I'm more dreading the regular end-of-quarter work crunch.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

As I mentioned on the Santa Claus thread, I am not very Christmas-y at all. In fact, I'd just as soon skip the whole thing.

That said, my girlfriend has talked me into going half on a Christmas tree for her place (aside: fake Christmas trees have come a LONG way since I was a kid), which we'll be decorating soon. She's determined to cure me of my month-long hate-on for December.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I bought a fake tree for the first time this year (I missed having some sort of tree, and don't spend Christmases with family, so haven't had a tree in ten years) and was amazed -- the one I got for $30 is worlds better than the ones my ex tried to talk me into for $100+, and it's six feet tall.

Dread, though. Hands, neurologist. My appointment is December 21st -- I know I will learn virtually nothing, but I will be home alone for the following two weeks and would not like to see the holidays through and the New Year in with bad medical news. The chances of this do seem low, though.

Also, if I run out of Pepsi Holiday Spice, I will have to get more next door at CVS, where it's more expensive.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet I will have to work on the 24th and the 26th, grumble grumble.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I have work on the 26th, yay me! I don't really care, it will be really quiet.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll be away from my family and all my friends for the first time in my life this thanksgiving. it's usually the time when we all drive down to my aunt's house in southern ohio.

on the upside, i won't have to argue politics with them, as chronic insecurity and an ADD-addled brane have made me a poor debater. it wouldn't be fun in a house full of bush-voting relatives(my cousin is a flat-tax-supporting pharma exec) and me still wearing my KE04 pin on my jacket.

and i have to work on this friday, too.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

on the other side, Christmas is one my fave times of the year

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

no way, I am totally excited about the holidays! on Wednesday night me and my fam are gonna watch all the Harry Potter movies and get drunk on baileys and yoohoo! HURRAH!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish my family drank more. Perhaps I should start the tradition.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

or maybe I should just crib Mandee's family plans.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm trying to decide if it's worth telling my parents I wont be coming to visit them this year. I wanted to, and Nick was gonna come with me - but I usually go visit every other year and I went up last year, and this year Nick has no money and I still dont know when he'll get time off, and I dont know who can look after the cat.

So it just seems easier for us to stay home and have a quiet xmas just the two of us. I think it'd be sweet.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god I forgot none of my new inlaws drink, damn them.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

My family offers me copious amounts of beer & wine and then judges me harshly when I take them up on it.

― andy, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG so does mine damn them! My dad absolutely PLIES me with really good wine, I get smashed and they give me shit for being a drunk :(

Fuckers.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus he goes off at me for smoking (he is one of those righteous ex-smokers) and yet he's just had his eighth beer. I mean wtf.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

2. Flying with an eight-month old .

can you take a train instead? it'll be easier to get up and change her, or take her into the lounge car, or what have you. plus, apparently the air pressure on planes is hell on a youngun's eardrums.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

can you take a train instead?

That'd be great, as trains put her right to sleep (via the motion), but we're goin' to Texas. Eeeek.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

if you can fall asleep on trains, the ride goes by quickly.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm dreading the encroaching holidays because they fucking blow in every meaninful way.

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

2004 was bad, and 2005 is looking grim. i though i sorted all this out a few years ago

― ke[hm (kephm), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate to complain, but FUCK , SUCKS HOLIDAYS ELEPHANT COCK THIS YEAR

― ke[hm (kephm), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Being single for the 25th consecutive Christmas.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

1. i may have to work on christmas
2. i probably WILL have to work on new year's
3. at least i have this thursday and friday off!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

DEAR GOD WHY AM I SO SINGLE?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not dreading the holidays any more or less than i dread any other time of year.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm looking forward to Christmas.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

-being around my parents for 2 weeks
-being in Bakersfield, CA for 2 weeks
-not even having a car to escape from that awful place for those 2 weeks

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

- being in Bakersfield, CA for 2 weeks

Where in Bakersfield, TM? I'm gonna be up there for much of the time, too. And also at Joshua Tree with my parents. I will have a car.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

voni is working over xmas hols so i have taken 4 weeks off to be daddy. it should be fun, but...

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

.1. Being single for the 25th consecutive Christmas.

being single for the first time on xmas/nye since i was about 15

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Eh. It'll be my 24th single Christmas/25th single NYE. No prob, though; I recognize the need to work on myself first before trying to get with anyone at all. What I'm still trying to wrap my mind around is that this upcoming holiday season will already be my SECOND without Dad. God. I had no idea time could pass this quickly.

But dread? Um, aside from dreading the interactions with relatives I seriously do not want to see again for a very, very long period of time, I dread little.

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh, alex, you may want to look into Earplanes. although drat, the lower limit is one year old.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I am still trying to figure out what New Year's will be. Xmas itself will be spent zoning and recuperating from life at my parents' in Carmel, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I would love it if I got to spend Christmas with just my family, but I have to see Bloke's family as well. They're nice people and all, but they don't make me laugh till milk comes out my nose like my brothers do, so I'm already resenting the few hours that I'll have to spend with them on Christmas morning. I'm also really resenting not being able to drink on Christmas day because I have to drive home that night, because Bloke doesn't bloody well drive.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

There is no Thanksgiving to celebrate in Japan, and I will have no family to be with on Christmas. Also I have to work all day until 9 PM on Christmas Eve and Christmas. Ho ho ho!

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm looking forward to it more than I have for several years. I'm only spending Christmas Day and Boxing Day at home (them being within walking distance of my flat helps) and I'm not feeling the overwhelming sense of Christmas Pressure (Must Have Fun!) that I usually do. Also practically the entire month is booked up already :)

I do dread what it will do to my wallet and my liver, however.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm looking forward to it also. I fly out to Vancouver on the 18th for two weeks yippee!

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The shopping is the only bit I really dislike so I try to make that as painless as possible (ie avoid Oxford St. or any realactual shops where possible). This year will be the first time I get to spend Xmas Day with the missus which will be teh cool.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Being without Sarah will be the worst bit, unless something terrible happens between then and now. I am expecting a fairly okay Xmas period - I feel prepared to cope with the ennui, and hopefully will find enough to do with myself. I am excited at the prospect of reading lots - I am just finishing a wonderful novel ("Case Histories" by Kate Atkinson) and am hungry for more.

I anticipate being sad at my best mate spending all his time with his new fiancee rather than drinking, playing computer games and going to football matches with me, but hey, that's life.

(sgs, buy a phone card with lots of minutes on it :))

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm getting a bit fed up w/ my in laws. Overexposure. Of course they might be getting tired of me, too.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm dreading having to be feigning joy and surprise, at the gifts we despise over mulled wine.

not true.

although now my sister and her boy might be coming to UK at xmas.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought you said you were doing some sort of massive trip ken?

i'm a little apprehensive at mother (and sister and boyf) coming (and staying over) to mine for xmas. i have never hosted on xmas day before...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i dislike having to share a tv for the 3 or 4 days i'm home and generally being away from my Stuff.

also, we normally eat out for christmas dinner and hotels are rubbish at the vegetarian christmas dinner thing (and set menu prices mean they are bad value).

extra points this year for having to clear out my old bedroom cupboards whilst i'm there. anybody need a zx81 with no keyboard?

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

carsmile, you'll be ok, just don't serve anything exotic like squirrel.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 9 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

[rpt thread title sentiment here]...because Lukas and his mom leave for Texas Dec. 27th.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

:(( not permanenently right?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i want to do something different so have opted not to see any family on Christmas Day itself, instead I will hide in my house armed with loads of DVDs, retro computer games and killer tunes. Might cook a pizza with bits of turkey on it.

But I'm a bit worried my Dad will be put out. I plan to see him on Boxing Day or the 27th tho.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

or I could go sing at the hospital

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, permanently, teeny. At least, until he gets out for summer vacation, at which time he will come back and stay with me.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit, nick, I didn't know about that! I'm sorry.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

My mum's having a knee replacement operation too! At the beginning of the month, so we're all hoping that she'll be feeling better by Christmas itself.

I always look forward to Christmas, I can't imagine ever dreading it...I really don't mind seeing relatives, as they're all okay.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

It's supposed to rain like a fuck tomorrow, the day we're travelling.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

remy are you TERMINALLY SINGLE?

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, if it's at all possible to fly the red eye to Texas - do it. It helped me immensely when flying with Spencer as a wee kid.

Also, Remy, if you don't mind older women, I'll be your christmas girlfriend and you can be my christmas boyfriend and instead of sounding pathetic to all and sundry and getting the pitying "oh we have to set him/her up with that nice Nelson kid down the street,' we can say, 'oh yes I have a significant other, but he/she had to spend the holidays with their own family this year...'

What? It could work. Shut up.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, Marcello, this means you will be in Vancouver for New Year's just barely. I was thinking of going to Vancouver for New Year's myself...

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

As for the holidays:
* Thanksgiving... doing nothing.. staying home, working on personal projects, mainly mp3ing 8 gigs of digitized vinyl.
* Day after thanksgiving : ALL DAY VEGAN THANKSGIVING BASH WITH FRIENDS WATCHING DVDs, MAKING FOOD, GETTING DRUNK, LA LA LA
* Week after thanksgiving : Victoria, BC for my b-day and uncle's b-day celebration weekend

* Xmas : flying down to L.A. from 23rd to 26th, then will be back in Seattle. My family has pretty much dropped the whole gift thing for Xmas. I'm starting to like my family more and more.

* New Year's : Contemplating Vancouver for second year in a row. Need to see what friends up there are up to.

(Yeah, this will be my XXXX holiday season being single, and I don't really give a fuck.. haha.)

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I will be anyone's Christmas ladyfriend. I am terminally single.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I realized I kinda violated the spirit of this thread by avoiding a pointlist of dread, so apologies to Alex in NYC, and I'll quickly make up for it...

* I only dread just some uncertainty of my job situation by December (as my current contract ends in early December), which might or might not grow as the months go on afterwards. Who knows. :/

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Well caitlin, if Remy says no, you and I could work something out. If nothing else, the 'WHAT? She's dating a WOMAN?' screams from around the dinner table would certainly be a more interesting conversation that the usual one about Aunt Dot's bowel surgery.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the "usual" one? Does she enjoy talking about her bowel surgery? How do you apply surgery to a bowel anyway? Do bowel's feel pain?

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, it's been a topic of great interest (to her, anyway) since the surgery 4 years ago.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, at least, Aunt Dot is good for making family lose appetite and keeping from getting pudgy, to find a bright point in all of this...

― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Who would've thought one could find a bright point in Aunt Dot's bowels?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Not since she passed all those dimes she used to swallow anyway.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Tiny bit of not-quite-dread re: Thanksgiving -- L's family were largely indifferent to dinner tonight, the first time they've had my cooking; I was warned that they both like bland food (if I didn't grow up in New England, "I like bland food" would sound like nonsense of the "banana trumpet shapes my apple pants" variety), but even so. If they fill up on rolls I'll have leftovers to carry me through the New Year!

Resume bowel talk.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh just kick them both in the head.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope Aunt Dot doesn't read this thread, and get any ideas for family fun involving dimes this Xmas.

― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"This lady's paying off!"

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"I don't like bland food--I'm so superior."

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Midwest is the ultimate Bland Food country. If they didn't like your food much, it probably means it was good.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The Midwest is the ultimate Bland Food country.

Clearly you have never sampled the cuisine of New England.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't there be a tie for the title? I don't want to have to re-engrave this trophy.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

They're not from the Midwest! They're from eastern Washington. Which is also very bland, granted.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

But they came here cause of the notoriety the region garnered due to my trophy! It's the Bland Food Mecca. Shit, looks like I am going to have to re-engrave this bitch.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

you guys are missing out.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

MARCO POLO LOOK WHAT YOU'VE WROUGHT

― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Spices are just tongue pamperers, symbolic of the weak.

― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Luckily everybody likes pie.

What're we missing out on?

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

See, no, if you're talking about spices, you don't know what I mean by "liking bland food." It's not just about leaving out spices and herbs -- it's about not cooking with too many vegetables in the same dish, either, or there are too many flavors at once; and not cooking with wine or anything else that'll make it rich. Dinner wasn't spicy -- it was chicken vesuvio -- and Thanksgiving certainly won't be.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

well, anyway.. holiday season dreads.

http://www.knottyboy.com/XmasMusicEzine_files/xmasboy.jpg

― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I was dreading these hols because I was going to have to spend christmas with the in-laws, but I have put my foot down and am leaving the state so I'm quite fucking happy about the holidays now.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Rah for Papa! She is bold. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Loneliness: first time being away from family on a Thanksgiving, the friends I've made here are mostly all going away, and the girl to whom I can't talk is probably going off to.

Food: I'll have to find places to eat dinner -- probably by myself -- because where I usually sup will be closed.

Work: if I don't get stuff done, I'm boned.

― λεεετερ φαν δεν, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Not so much dreading the holidays as the mountains of work between now and the holidays, little of which I have any inclination to do.

― the krza (krza), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel the need to update, since the circumstances of my list above have changed. So my mother calls me last night, and lets me know that it'll be totally fine with her if I make my own christmas plans and don't actually make the trip to arkansas for the holidays. (I fully believe that this isn't some kind of ploy on her part.) I have to go to america on the 15th anyway (non-changeable ticket) so now I've got like a blank canvas after my arrival at my mom's house in Massachusetts. I could just stay there for a week and then come back to the UK. I could go elsewhere abroad or in the states. I could still visit my family for a stupid amount of money and airport/xtreme weather hassle around xmas. Thing is, despite griping and the inevitable dysfunction that would play out over the time-cramped holiday, I'd miss seeing my grandmother and uncle and cousin and mom over the holiday. We're not too big on tradition, but the few we have are nice, and I'd hate to tell my grandmother I won't be there.

I dunno. Maybe I should take the opportunity, as my mom says, to "spend the money on going somewhere nice for a change, while you can"...I dunno now.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

martin
you could always get drunk and make notions about the homoerotic fun you had at the boarding school your nephew is about to go to. (added bonus if the uncle hates fags)

im looking forward to cause i cant afford to fly home, and cause i think, if god is willing, i will be going to nyc via train.

― anthony, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, let's see. It'll start with overpriced secret santa and office party hell, continue with my sister throwing tantrums and monopolising the car and then I have to come back to Glasgow on the 29th so a man at the hospital can take pictures of my back. Thank goodness for the nice stuff: university closed for two weeks so I couldn't work even if I wanted to and a trip to Italy.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

MY FAMILY DOES NOT DRINK

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Anthony, I have no nephews, and if I did they probably wouldn't be going to a boarding school, and I had no such fun when I was at one. Also, making my mother hate me even more would hardly make the time there better. I think I'm just going to refuse to go there.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i think that as an adult, you should be allowed to say to yr parent that they have been right royal bitches, and you don't want to deal w. them anymore.

― anthony, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I could say that to her (my dad died over 20 years ago), but I don't particularly see a reason to upset her, so I'll come up with an excuse instead.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

This will be my third year in a row not doing Xmas. Haven't done Thanksgivign for longer but am going over there this year. My mom made a special request and I'm bringing along a friend for back up.

I outlined my mother as to why I no longer participate in the holidays nor attend family "obligations"; everybody's fucking miserable - adults are stressed, broke, harried, drunk; too many fucking kids; too many fights. It just sucks. And when they say 'well we really do it for the kids," I counter back with I DON'T HAVE FUCKING KIDS and then spend the holidays chillin' w/my friends or sitting at home eating chocolate.

yay.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no plans, which is the way I want it, but simply getting a few groceries is suddenly going to become an ordeal because of the Thanksgiving crowds.

― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

That wasn't too bad. And now I have two days off! Away from the madding crowd.

― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I just want to spend christmas in new england for once
where it LOOKS like christmas.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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