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Christmas; Hate It or Love It?


I hate Christmas. Bah humbug!
  10% (5)
I love Christmas!
  36% (17)
I do Christmas, and its OK
  19% (9)
I do Christmas, but only to keep family happy
  21% (10)
I am contemplating an expedition to Everest, to get away from Xmas!
  12% (6)


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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 6:20:51 PM   
sweetnurseBBW


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Status: offline 		I love the Christmas holiday itself . The commercialism that has taken over I am not thrilled with. People get crazy in the stores. The want to fight over stupid things. I love the baking and family get togethers. That is more of what christmas means to me.

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Don't care for it. - 12/3/2006 6:28:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		As of this year, I no longer celebrate Christmas, along with many other holidays.  I have, in the past, celebrated it with family, but this year was a year of spiritual growth and re-evaluation of my beliefs.  I decided that the holiday does not hold any meaning for me, so why celebrate it?  I will have dinner with family, but as far as present buying goes, Santa, Jesus and the whole bit... for me, every part is meaningless. 

Blessed Yule, guys and gals. ^_^

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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 6:30:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Christmas is really the only holiday I really enjoy.  I go all out for it, decorate like crazy.  Just put my tree up a few mins ago.   I love sitting in the dark with just the lights on the tree.

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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 6:35:13 PM   
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....I love Christmas with all my heart.


Me, too...  it's the best.  And one year I received a present from Santa and the Stork...  my female UM...  a lovely present, esp when the nurses brought her to me in a giant Christmas stocking.  (thought I was hallucinating from the pain meds!) 


LOL........ so she's a Christmas baby, very cool.


Yes...  and she just loves it. 
Tells people she has the most special birthday in the whole year, esp. when they say stupid things like, "Oh, you poor thing, Christmas and your birthday on the same day? That's awful."  Makes me want to smack igonrant people, like I planned it and did it to torment her...  *sigh*  She's very cool about it and says, "I share my birthday with Jesus, who do share yours with?"  (pretty clever for an elementary aged person, I think...) 

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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 6:51:40 PM   
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ORIGINAL: cuddleheart50

  I love sitting in the dark with just the lights on the tree.


 
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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 6:56:32 PM   
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ORIGINAL: cuddleheart50

I love sitting in the dark with just the lights on the tree.


 
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Stop that!!  I laughed so hard I almost peed on myself!!

"she said in a perverted way"...

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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 7:00:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes LaM...lol...it gets cold here too.  Maybe not negative numbers, but freezing and below. 

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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 7:00:29 PM   
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I almost peed on myself!!

"she said in a perverted way"...


*watersports?*    

(typo)

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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 7:17:27 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Daddysredhead

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ORIGINAL: cuddleheart50

I almost peed on myself!!

"she said in a perverted way"...


*watersports?*    

(typo)



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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 7:31:54 PM   
Daddysredhead


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ORIGINAL: cuddleheart50

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ORIGINAL: cuddleheart50

I almost peed on myself!!

"she said in a perverted way"...


*watersports?*    

(typo)



I'll never tell. 


Naughty minx... 

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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 7:38:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Jingle Balls.. Jingle Balls... Jingle all the wayyyyyyyyy... Oh what fun it is to ride the mindfuck train today, hey!


Lub Lub Lub IT!

Merry Christmas!

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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 7:49:25 PM   
gooddogbenji


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Oh what fun it is to ride in a one whore open sleigh, BED.

Hate Christmas.  It's a holiday, much like many others, which is great for a very small percentage of people.  Anyone who has no family to share it with, it sucks.  Anyone who's having financial difficulties as of late, it sucks.  Many people with families only do it because they have to.  Much better for people to just say they aren't going to do any of it, and avoid the stress.

If you want to give, give.  But neither expect anything in return, nor give to someone you don't want to.  That's what it's about.

Yours,


benji

Edited because I did not feel inclined to give you that many typos.

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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 8:00:16 PM   
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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 8:11:59 PM   
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  I Love Christmas!
I love it even more now that the Evil Rat Bastid is going to be home for it!
 
yayayayayayayayayayayayay!!!!!
 
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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 8:15:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		Tell P I said hi, and good job.  And I wish you guys many more, smiley.

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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 8:15:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's funny: I just got back from helping my aunt decorate (on the scale of several department stores!) for Christmas, so my love-hate relationship with the holiday is in my face.

I do enjoy seeing my family, the Messiah (really an Easter piece, I know), the carols, the excuses for celebrating, the wrapping, rereading A Christmas Carol, and (in recent years) making the plum pudding according to my great-grandmother's recipe. And there are times when I do glimpse that elusive Christmas spirit, when the season really does feel like, in Dickens's words, "the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely...."

That said, I have very little patience with the commercialization, with my family's tendency to make the decorating such a project that it eclipses the joy, with the cultural wars over whether clerks at Wal-Mart say "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays," with the hysteria.

Two things help me stay grounded (well, as close as I get) during the madness.

One is that I take time for Advent, the four weeks before Christmas. I love sitting by the light of the Advent wreath, being still and praying. I also spend the second weekend of December on retreat with great folks from a quirky Episcopal church.

The second is that I've recognized that I can opt out of a lot of Christmas "musts." I don't send cards unless I feel like it, and I seldom bother with a tree in my small apartment. I skip the mayhem of toy stores, giving books and money to the kids in my life. I don't bake any cookies. Not taking on all these things helps me enjoy what celebrating I do.

Warmest wishes of the season to all of you!

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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 8:17:27 PM   
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BAH HUMBUG!



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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 8:22:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		I love the season.  I love celebrating the solstice, the cold heart of winter with the promise of new life in the next year.  I love taking a chunk of earnings and putting it solely towards giving to the people I love and being able to show them how I appreciate them.  I love having the one time of year I can dedicate solely to that. 

Since I don't practice a weekly day of rest and contemplation like so many follow, it's nice to have a month for me to devote to understanding the world and embracing what there is- what's constant through the centuries.  How the holidays themselves are so much a mish-mash of cultures and politics and frivolity.

I love that I can light a menorah and sing a christmas carol.  I don't think I'm "watering down" any religious act, I think I'm observing it and giving it due.  I love feeling connected to the past of human history and celebrating the present- by giving presents!

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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 8:22:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thank you Ron.  I will certainly pass on the greeting, i am sure He will pop in as He is able.
Hope you have a great Holiday too!!

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RE: Christmas; Hate It or Love It? - 12/3/2006 8:45:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have a love hate relationship with the season. There is the good and then there are so many reminders of loss, I particularly detest the commercialism.  But I have to say, this past weekend I did attend one of the most fun office parties ever, even if the music sucked.  My friends' co-workers (mostly the ones seated at my table,) were a hoot.  I doubt they will be looking at promotions coming their way anytime soon.  Due to their rather boisterous behavior, I was one happily embarrassed woman pretty much most of the evening. I guess at the moment thinking back on Friday evening, I love Christmas   Bring on the booze

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