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amanda
12-03-2002, 09:15 AM
I don't about the rest of you, but I simultaneously love the month of December...

And yet, at the same time, wish it would all go away.

I love...

Christmas lights- giving the world a warm, magical feeling, despite the cold.

Christmas carols- for about a week.

The old Christmas television specials that make me feel like a kid again, despite the loss of everything else from my childhood.

And Chia Pets make me cringe, yet for some reason, I just can't look away...
AllegroNg
12-03-2002, 09:21 AM
I love the smell of December! It almost always smells like snow and presents:D

The best thing about December is the spirit. We're all grinning! And why shouldn't we grin - what with all the presents and family involved. Not to mention Frosty the Snowman on NBC!
amanda
12-03-2002, 09:26 AM
Not everyone is so lucky. Or grinning as big as you, my dear.

But I'm happy that you are. :D
masterofNone
12-03-2002, 10:06 AM
Yeah, that's me... the guy walking through the grocery store whistling Christmas songs. I think that's my favorite part. A whole month when all the music is whistle-able.
bealeblues
12-03-2002, 10:50 AM
i suppose i should be grateful/thankful that i have family to actually visit, but i still can't help but complain when i have to make the 1500 mile round trip to deliveranceland

but i do like that 'a christmas story' is played on TBS about 4 times a day for a month and a half.... i don't know what it is about that silly movie that draws me in like a mesmerized 8 year old- maybe it's the fishnet stocking leg lamp.....
amanda
12-03-2002, 10:55 AM
AAAaahhhh!! A Christmas Story!!! What a great movie.

Who doesn't want a Red Rider B-B Gun with compass on the stock and a clock that tells time?

I'm SO tempted to find a pink rabbit suit and send it to my nephew... When he grows up, he'll kill me, but my brother and I would have a great laugh now. :D
bealeblues
12-03-2002, 11:06 AM
i think that the pink bunny suit gift should be a requirement for aunts with nephews....
NekoPunk
12-03-2002, 12:17 PM
"i had said 'it'... the mother of all words...." *LOL* that movie cracks me up. the other week when i had the crud i pulled it off the shelf and watched it 'early'. ^_^ his dad is my grandfather. *lol*
bealeblues
12-03-2002, 01:41 PM
yep-- it was on last night and i caught it right at the changing of the tire scene, when "it" was said---- actually felt a little holiday cheer there when i was least expecting it
dickieC
12-03-2002, 07:37 PM
I wore my scarf for the first time this season today. Brrrrr
lapietra
12-03-2002, 10:31 PM
I like December for all the reasons you all said and also 'cos of my birthday. :)
masterofNone
12-03-2002, 10:43 PM
I like the crowds. Call me perverse, but I love the crowds and the lines and the shopping mall parking madness. I guess it's because everybody is out there dealing with the BS just to buy a new pot holder for their cousin who they don't even think about for 52 weeks out of the year.

I think that's amazing.

I mean, yeah it is commercial. And, yeah, it is over schmaltzed and over marketed. But at it's heart it's people doing their damndest to make even the insignificant people in their families smile on Christmas morning.
saskuoch
12-03-2002, 11:01 PM
Sure, the commercialization annoys me, and I'm not the hugest fan of most Christmas songs. To be perfectly honest, I've never seen A Christmas Story, having grown up in a home where we rarely watch television.

But I still really love Christmas, because all the stuff I end up buying is for my family and friends who I get to spend time with.
And of course, the food. There's nothing like Christmas food. I get back to Houston at 7:30am on Dec. 23, and I'll spend my day making our Christmas tamales, and I'll spend the next day cooking and eating as well. That's what I really love the holiday for.
amanda
12-03-2002, 11:02 PM
I'm with you nyc- for all my bouncing around, somehow, I've always made it back to Oregon in time for Christmas.

Except this year.

I know that even if I went back, it wouldn't be "Christmas" with the family I know and love. Just wish I could move both time AND space...

Anyway, I was sort of hoping that Japan wouldn't make a big deal about the holiday, being that it isn't a christian country and all. Hoo boy, was I ever wrong! Christmas is EVERYWHERE. Not only that, but since I'm the token foreigner, I'm expected to make a BIGGER fuss over the holiday...

To top it off- there's no egg nog here. No "A Christmas Story" either. Oh well, I'll just have to make my Christmas grog and get shnockered.

Mmmm...grog.
Miss Malevolent
12-04-2002, 01:03 AM
I'd like it more if I didn't have to walk to the bus stop on a sheet of ice.

And also if I didn't have to shovel the snow.

I need to move some place warm.
saskuoch
12-04-2002, 07:27 AM
It was hot here today. I wore short sleeves, and we turned the a/c back on.
amanda
12-04-2002, 12:48 PM
Well, at the request of my boss, I've put up a Christmas tree in my apartment. That's what I get for teaching at home.

It sort of reminds me of the Charlie Brown christmas tree. No, not the sad little one that can't hold more than one ornament. More like the after-result of Linus wraping his binky around the base and the kids put Snoopy's lights on.

It's sort of nice, actually. Even it is fake- the pine smell will have to be imported in some other way.

Another smell that reminds me of Christmas- believe it or not, bourbon. My mother would make potent bourbon balls, a kind of refridgerator cookie, every year for as long as I can remember. (The recipe is in Betty Craper, circa 1975). It was my first introduction to alcohol- at the ripe old age of three. Now, I can't have bourbon except around Christmastime.

Rum does a bang-up job rest of the year. ;)
dinzdale
12-04-2002, 01:36 PM
Ahhh the smell of Christmas. Just dont ask my brother about that one.

Xmas 1979 and I went out on Xmas Eve, drinking of course, and proceeded to down 20+ pints or so. Lo and behold, in the last pub was a contest to eat as many pickled onions as possible, to wit I scoffed 15 or so. Even better, as I won the onion contest it was then time for the pickled egg eating, surpisingly finishing 4 before retiring undefeated. And so to bed at Mummy's house.

Next Morning :
Big brother walks in DOWNSTAIRS and goes into panic mode, trying to save the family etc...from a mystery "gas leak".
Following his keen sense of smell he traced the build up of noxious vapours to my slumbering form within my cosy upstairs chamber.

He was quite irked, and surpisingly without Xmas cheer......
amanda
12-04-2002, 01:40 PM
Hahahaha!! yuck! :p

What did I tell you? You'd better not fart during the night....
Red Princess
12-04-2002, 01:49 PM
Hey fart boy! how much is your fire insurance?
dinzdale
12-04-2002, 01:54 PM
"Tis the season to be jolly smelly..."
amanda
12-04-2002, 10:14 PM
Originally posted by Red Princess
Hey fart boy! how much is your fire insurance?

Ding! Ding! Ding! We just found a nickname for dinzdale- Fart Boy.

Just so you're all on the same page...

MoN- Mushrooom. Mushie for short.
dickieC- Doc
bealeblues- no nickname yet, but we all think he/she is a 13yo girl posing as her lawyer father. And a damn fine lawyer at that.

The women get flirted with and the men get...nicknames.

Yep. I think this is a pretty fair exchange.
Red Princess
12-04-2002, 10:17 PM
Works for me!
NekoPunk
12-04-2002, 11:55 PM
you mean it isn't that way in real life????
dinzdale
12-05-2002, 10:18 AM
Thank you Amanda, it's a talent....

Maybe we could emphasise your talent of juggling oranges and name you "Jugs" for short ?
masterofNone
12-05-2002, 10:23 AM
Speaking of Christmas, I just awoke to a 3 inch blanket of freshly fallen snow. It's beautiful. I'm glad I don't have to drive anywhere. I'm gonna make me some snow angels.
RuneT
12-05-2002, 10:35 AM
ohhh, jealous!

This freaking climate is all screwed up; we used to get tons of snow. Now? Nothing but the odd rain shower.

I’m getting new skis today. Pointless.

Arrrr