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Christmas Eve

Day: Out running around, some light shopping.  Cooking, Wrapping, etc.  Beer by Noon, mandatory.

Night:  "The Event"  This year @ Karen's youngest brother's place.  Probably 30 people with the entire family.  Light atmosphere.  Good food, lots of drinks, games, exchange gifts(everybody), kids go crazy.


Christmas Day

Day:  Santa will have made an appearance.  Pj's, coffee(with Bailey's), Christmas tunes, relaxing(until I try getting all those toys out of the package, and batteries, stupid little wire tie straps, and and plastic......Why you little!!!!! I'll show you reinforced TAPE!!! Ha!  In your face Korea!)

Where was I?  Oh, yes.  Beer, mandatory by noon.

Night:  Usually reconvene, and eat drink, play more.

We do Christmas with my wife's folks tomorrow and my folks next weekend. Christmas Eve we're home with our 2 girls and a couple of friends may stop by. Christmas morning is the Santa experience and, if this were a typical MN winter, we'd go sledding, etc.

Since we have basically no snow we'll have to improvise.

Very low key and I like it that way ;D

Screw Christmas.  I'm going to a party to get plastered and bang a hot chick on New Year's.   ;D [sm_hump] [sm_hump] [sm_drink] [sm_drink]

is that before or after you put the stuffing in ?

Spend Christmas eve at the house.  Got some folks coming over around 5 for a get together and then we're headed to the Christmas eve service at the Chapel and back to the house for a long winter's nap.

Christmas day - Santa and just relaxing and enjoying the family.

Cook. Eat. watch some games. 

 [sm_devil]

Lunch with family, dinner with extended family, lunch with extended family, dinner with extended family, brunch with extended family, evening off (woo-hoo!), breakfast with same extended family, presents, lunch with extended family, and dinner with extended family.  Then they all go home, whew!

I love my family, but, man, this Christmas thing is a little too much concentrated family time!

Christmas Eve:
Morning- Coffee & Baileys, light breakfast,open stockings, exchange presents w/ mrs s.

Afternoon- Brunch at mom and dad's. Mimosas and bloody Marys.

Evening- Entire family gift exchange. Dinner.

Christmas Day:
Sleep in- drink coffee watch football.

Dinner at my little brother's place (home made Chinese food from his Chinese fiance and her sister). Later, cocktails at my friend Trent's place.

now , maybe it's just me, but that is one bizarre combination

Generally one has one or the other, not both.  ;)

ok...   whew.......

I, of course, will be having Calgary red eye bloody mimosas- vodka, champagne, peach schnapps, orange juice, Clamato, pepper, pilsner, and a raw egg. mmm mmm good.







































 [sm_disgust]

That's grosser than eating raw pork fat straight from the animal.

   [sm_disgust]

High faluttin' snob drinkers.

Immediate family.  Very immediate.

A few waifs and strays we pick up along the way.

Wii, lots of Wii.

Depends how many firends come round during the day as to how much alcohol I have.

I'm just a social drinker, you see.....

 :P

Ditto.

Reminds me of one of my fave Beautiful South lyrics, the first line......

He was just a social drinker but social every night
He enjoyed a pint or two or three or four
She was just a silent thinker, silent every night
He'd enjoyed the thought of killing her before
Well he was very rarely drunk but very rarely sober
And he didn't think the problem was his drink
But he only knew his problem when he knocked her over
And when the rotting flesh began to stink
Cry freedom for the woman in the wall
Cry freedom for she has no voice at all
I hear her cry all day, all night
I hear her voice from deep within the wall
Made a cross from knitting needles
Made a grave from hoover bags
Especially for the woman in the wall
She'd knitted him a jumper with dominoes on
So he wore it everyday in every week
Pretended to himself that she hadn't really gone
Pretended that he thought he heard her speak
Then at last it seemed that he was really winning
He felt that he had some sort of grip
But all of his new life was sent a-spinning
When the rotting wall began to drip

I have an idea about your beliefs IRT Christmas. However, no gift exchange?

The gifts are under the tree.
We don't celebrate Xmas, our families do though.

Eve:

-Finish wrapping presents usually get done around 3:00 in the am.
-Deliver gifts to friends.

Christmas:

- Awaken by 3 kids all under 10 at the crack of dawn.  that's after telling them 3-4 times throught out the night to go back to bed it's not time yet.
- open presents
- fry turkey
- eat
- friends over for games

Now that's Christmas! ;D

Christmas morning will be opening presents with the in-laws, then lunch over there, too.  This is the second year of this for me, and there will be Christmas crackers, funny hats, and mince pies.  It still seems funny to me because it's completely different from the Christmas that I grew up with.

Very English.

There may be some hope for you yet.

 8)

So today we had Christmas pudding lit on fire with hard sauce on top plus coins hidden in it.  Is that a normal English thing or are my in-laws on crack?

We do cake with hidden coins in Greece, but for New Year's, not Xmas. We call it the Pie of St. Basileus, or, among people that spend their holidays outside Greece, Billypie ;)

tell em  who won the coin last year
 :o

Paul did, didn't he? He won the silly plastic shower radio we bought for the occasion (Explanation: You put 1 coin in the cake, then cut pieces for everyone. The person that gets the coin in their slice win a prize and good luck for the forthcoming year).

yup

do you guys go on golfhos to talk when all you have to do is turn to eachother and actually talk?   ;D ;D

sometimes
 :o

When screaming from one room to the other is inconvenient...

Interesting.  I have to admit that I'm kind of weirded out about coins in my food. I think I might be afraid of swallowing one.

Yes.

And yes.

 8)

 ;D

We had a great time with the Wii yesterday after the 'normal' festivities.

I almost crapped/pissed/puked on myself laughing so much playing.......tennis   [sm_dunno]

A guy I know from golf came round to dinner (no family) and he's in his mid 60s, if he's a day. 

He had never played a video game before.

Ever.

He did not leave until about 11:30 last night.  He couldn't get enough of bowling in particular and watching others playing.

Also a French guy that has no family here came for dinner too, he's not 30 yet and the old guy outlasted him by half an hour.

To hear 'just one more game' coming repeatedly from an old age pensioner was surreal.

Great day.

LOL.  sounds like you had a lot of fun.