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The Christmas Tree Drama

This year having a beautiful dying form in my living room seems particularly sad. (i gotz teh grays in mah greys)
Usually, finding a tree to grace my home through the holidays is something I look forward to. I take great great pleasure in its presence, pondering it and its life close up, enjoying its beauty and complexities, simplicites and feeling light in its glorious company till all its life fades and it is once again time to become part of the earth and then a part of all it nourishes. May my life follow that cycle.

I *heart* trees

I don’t like the fake trees, plastic and metal, too much of that around as it is.

and so, the midgets and me are going to make a cristmas tree of sorts. Splat is away for a week in Nashville bringing his genius to the deprived and we are going to mess up the house proper. I dont know what we are going to make it out of, but it will be a hoot.



so, what are your plans for the holidays?

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I can't say as I really have any.

Usual dinner at the broadmoor with the queers, hang around the house christmas day.

Fall on my face drunk on new years.

Damn, I'm exciting.

Then again, maybe I'll run away and join the circus.

-m

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I just got done decorating my tree with the new guy. In about a week and a half, I'll have my annual holiday dinner party (pretty casual, lots of wassail and various dead animals), and then head back to Indianapolis, some time after compiling final grades for my students. Weee!

I never really celebrate New Year's because I can't really care less. But I get together shortly before with the folks I went to high school with, and we whoop it up a bit.

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so, what are your plans for the holidays?

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Week before Christmas we drive around different neighborhoods to check out their displays,every night a different neighborhood. My kids are getting too old for this shit so it's up in the air;at least my wife and I may still do this.
Christmas eve we go to bingo and go home and sleep.
We open presents in the morning,watch gay parades on tv,then eat turkey and shit.
My life is predictable,(sigh) But I wouldn't change it for the world.

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Biding my time until January, at which point I plan on fucking cw senseless.

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Christmas in New Jersey. With real live dying tree, I suspect.

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Change!

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Originally posted by Large Filipino
Week before Christmas we drive around different neighborhoods to check out their displays,every night a different neighborhood. My kids are getting too old for this shit so it's up in the air;at least my wife and I may still do this.
Christmas eve we go to bingo and go home and sleep.
We open presents in the morning,watch gay parades on tv,then eat turkey and shit.
My life is predictable,(sigh) But I wouldn't change it for the world.

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OH, YOU'LL CHANGE IT ALRIGHT. YOU WILL! I'LL SEE TO THAT I GUARENTEE! LIFE IS ABOUT CHANGES...CONSTANT CHANGES. DON'T PULL THIS "Bingo & Turkey" shit with me buddy! It just doesn't fly!

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but it's what we do......

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quote:

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Originally posted by Large Filipino
Christmas eve we go to bingo and go home and sleep.
We open presents in the morning,watch gay parades on tv,then eat turkey and shit.

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Not sure what the plans are for Christmas this year. If it's the usual Christmas at Dads house, then I'll head over there a coupla days before, have a meal on Christmas eve, Dad and his woman will go to midnight mass, ask me if I want to come along, to which I will reply "no thanks, I'd rather poke my eyes out with a spork". Hopefully my bloke will be able to stop by at some point to say hello.

Christmas morning will start with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast, then I will hint that we have to open presents as is tradition in my family but Dads other half will try and push for opening presents after dinner (WTF!?!?!?!) as is tradition in her family. I'll make a fire, I'll win the present opening argument, then we'll stuff our faces with dead bird and get a bit tipsy and watch shit television.

Boxing day will consist of eating left over bird and tidying up the house.

Then it's the most important day - HAPPY SLAPPYMAS - on the 27th. No idea what I'll do though. People are normally far too skint/stuffed/hungover to do anything. I'll probably just try and study lots.

New year is vastly overrated and overpriced if you go out in London. I'd rather stay in where it's nice and warm and there's no money to be spent.

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slappy has a bloke? I thought you were still married?

On the 22 I get to catch the first train to teach first period classes, give a chapel lecture (guess the topic) then dash to a plane and travel for 28 hours, yet arriving at my destination a mere 11 hours after I woke up. A day of fatigued recuperation before a day at dad's on christmas eve, then mom's at christmas. Christmas is me drinking wine all day, reading books, and watching football in real time. One more day of kicking back, then back on a plane to come back to Japan in time for new years, which consists of more drinking and watching of rugby matches.

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Surely she is referring to RiZZ.

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I'll be spending the days around new years eve in a mountain cabin in Norway with my beloved (if she can get her finals prep work done in time).

Cheers
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Think I might go to Berlin, get drunk till next year, record a CD, then fuck off to the otherside of the world where it's summer, stopping on the way to pick up some cheap electronical stuff in Singapore.

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Surely she is referring to RiZZ.

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I was actually referring to you... does this mean that you're NOT coming to see me at Christmas??

*heart breaks*

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Hopefully, I won't be spending christmas in the UK. Money providing, I'm off for some winter sun and some diving in the canaries (and as far away from the madding crowd as possible). Anything has got to be better than a cold UK, and yet another christmas dinner with the relatives.

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I feel for you, Cockney. It's a shame that so many people dread Christmas because they have to put up with their family. I'm so glad I adore my family, and always have a laugh with them, whether it's Christmas or not.

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God I hate trees. They are such a pain in the arse to set up and even more to put away. Nothing but a chore. It doesn't help that christmass is the lamest time of the year.

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Phorbie, why don't you find a tree with the root ball still on? Then you can plant it out in your back yard after the holidays and watch it grow. My uncle has done this every year since his kids were born (He has a big yard) and it's really neat to still be able to enjoy the christmas trees from 10, 11, 12 etc, years ago.

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Just cut a tree (first one they sold this year, although a bunch of other people came in just after).

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I was actually referring to you... does this mean that you're NOT coming to see me at Christmas??

*heart breaks*

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From "buying the first Xmas tree of the year" to comparing a friend with a "WAL-MART crackwhore", in two posts.

I worry about you sometimes, Smuggles.

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