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    #2342
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,246 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Congrats Whispered!! A very Happy Christmas to you and yours :)


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    #2343
    gypsylee
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭gypsylee


    Congratulations to Loughc and Jwacqui - wishing you many years of happiness.

    Congratulations Whispered on the birth of your son, a truly blessed early Christmas present. Enjoy every minute with him.


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    #2344
    gidget
    Registered Users Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭gidget


    Congratulations Whispered on your new arrival :)


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    #2345
    liz lemoncello
    Registered Users Posts: 247 ✭✭liz lemoncello


    Hello. (This is actually my second post in the Christmas forum. I made a rather abrupt one in one of the music threads. :o )

    I have always loved Christmas. From a very young age the giving was always very important. I remember how excited I was to pool my money with my sister to get something special. A particular memory is of buying my grandfather his "favourite" chocolate mints. Every year for about five years until we could afford Quality Street. Years later, my grandmother confessed that he never actually liked them; he just made a fuss over receiving them for our sakes.

    The magic of giving seems to have passed my brother's children, but my sister's son, aged 10, called me last week to ask what I would like. I now he's excited about shopping for it, wrapping it and making a card. I don't know which of us is more excited, him or me. (I bought him a Doctor Who sonic screwdriver set, which I expect to play with as well. ;) )


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    #2346
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,761 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Today is my last day in work for 2 weeks!!! Eeeek!!! :D


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    #2347
    Jude13
    Registered Users Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭Jude13


    Me too, flying back to Ireland tonight, I hate flying :(


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    #2348
    Alicat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    Loughc wrote: »
    Today is my last day in work for 2 weeks!!! Eeeek!!! :D

    Ugh, jealousy levels at an all time high! :(

    I'd say you'll enjoy every minute of it :)


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    #2349
    DenMan
    Registered Users Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DenMan


    Second last day in work today! Roll on Friday! :D


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    #2350
    gypsylee
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭gypsylee


    Hope you have a safe flight home Jude13.

    Tis well for ye all finishing work this week. I finish at one o'clock on Tuesday and back on the 5th of January. Counting the hours at this stage.


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    #2351
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    gypsylee wrote: »
    Hope you have a safe flight home Jude13.

    Tis well for ye all finishing work this week. I finish at one o'clock on Tuesday and back on the 5th of January. Counting the hours at this stage.

    That's a nice long stretch to have off. :)


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    #2352
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,246 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    I'm finishing tomorrow and off until 5th January!! YIPPEE!! :pac:


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    #2353
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,761 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Alicat wrote: »
    Ugh, jealousy levels at an all time high! :(

    I'd say you'll enjoy every minute of it :)

    I will indeed. I get to kick it off tomorrow with my birthday! :D


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    #2354
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,533 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    I've just heard the Ronan Keating version of Fairytale of New York playing in a shop.



    My Christmas is ruined.


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    #2355
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Posy wrote: »
    I've just heard the Ronan Keating version of Fairytale of New York playing in a shop.



    My Christmas is ruined.

    Noooo!

    It's not ruined. We can fix it! Look!

    https://twitter.com/OfficialSanta/status/545471951666675712


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    #2356
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,761 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    How am I not following Santa on Twitter? :O


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    #2357
    Alicat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    gypsylee wrote: »
    Hope you have a safe flight home Jude13.

    Tis well for ye all finishing work this week. I finish at one o'clock on Tuesday and back on the 5th of January. Counting the hours at this stage.

    Quit yer whingin', I'm finished at 5pm on Wednesday and back in the following Monday! :p

    Any other retail workers want to hold hands with me, united in sadness and exhaustion?


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    #2358
    SMJSF
    Registered Users Posts: 600 ✭✭✭SMJSF


    Alicat wrote:
    Quit yer whingin', I'm finished at 5pm on Wednesday and back in the following Monday! 


    yeah, I'm finished college on Wednesday afternoon! :-( My Xmas buzz is gone at this stage :-(


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    #2359
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    what do you think of white xmas trees

    tacky, chavy bit common ???


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    #2360
    Deenie123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 481 ✭✭Deenie123


    fryup wrote: »
    what do you think of white xmas trees

    tacky, chavy bit common ???

    Not a fan myself...


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    #2361
    DenMan
    Registered Users Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DenMan


    fryup wrote: »
    what do you think of white xmas trees

    tacky, chavy bit common ???

    I'm a huge fan of them actually! Think Scandinavia and all the huge forests they have! All dusted in snow. There has to be some green though.


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    #2362
    bladespin
    Registered Users Posts: 7,334 ✭✭✭bladespin


    Love the green firs absolutely plastered with snow, always stops me in my tracks.


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    #2363
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    My fiancé and I don't spend Christmas together so always have a mini Christmas the weekend before. Today is our Christmas day so making a Christmas dinner and having presents and films and games :D

    We went out last night and saw White Christmas at a club, I wore a 50s style red dress and a Christmas fascinator, so much fun!


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    #2364
    In Lonesome Dove
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 479 ✭✭In Lonesome Dove


    Princess Peach wrote: »
    My fiancé and I don't spend Christmas together so always have a mini Christmas the weekend before. Today is our Christmas day so making a Christmas dinner and having presents and films and games :D

    We went out last night and saw White Christmas at a club, I wore a 50s style red dress and a Christmas fascinator, so much fun!

    What a great idea. I hope you have a good day.

    I almost didn't get up this morning to finish off the rest of my Christmas shopping but I made it into town just about and just after having breakfast. Now standing in a long queue for the atm. I don't have a lot to do and I know what I'm getting so it shouldn't be too bad once I get started. I hope anyways. Debenhams were great. I ordered boxes of wrapping paper of them earlier in the week and they came on Thursday so that's one job of my back today. I got a head start on the grocery shop too and ordered a shop online for delivery last night so that's a bit of my back for Xmas eve.

    I'm hoping to stick up the Xmas tree tonight but we'll see. Knowing my luck my phone will start hopping for work later.


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    #2365
    Alicat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    Present shopping done! Woohoo! We surprised my bro and his girlfriend at the airport this morning, wearing big Santa Hats and beards, and a big printed canvas of the two of them in Christmas jumpers... Like a bunch of lunatics :D

    Chrrrrrristmaaaaaaas!


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    #2366
    In Lonesome Dove
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 479 ✭✭In Lonesome Dove


    I was standing in queue for ATM when I wrote last. Got to ATM and my account was cleared. Money all gone. Got onto online banking. Transactions made that I never made. Got onto the bank. My card has been cancelled and details sent to the fraud unit.


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    #2367
    In Lonesome Dove
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 479 ✭✭In Lonesome Dove


    And making my way home with nothing.


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    #2368
    Alicat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    Oh no! :( That's dreadful! Oh I really feel for you :( How long will it take the bank to reimburse you?


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    #2369
    In Lonesome Dove
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 479 ✭✭In Lonesome Dove


    There's a form on the way in the post for me to fill out and to get back. It would be a few weeks anyways.


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    #2370
    In Lonesome Dove
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 479 ✭✭In Lonesome Dove


    Missed my bus home and I'm crying my eyes out in a coffee shop.


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    #2371
    In Lonesome Dove
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 479 ✭✭In Lonesome Dove


    I love Christmas so much. It's very important for me. No body knows what the future holds and I like to live it like it's the last. I wanted to make Xmas as good as possible at home for Mam. We've been hit hard with emigration in our family and my mam became a granny from my brother abroad this year. Xmas will be hard on her because there's much of the family away.

    I wanted to have movies and goodies in the house for watching during the Xmas together. I was due to go to aldi and lidl today to start on a grocery shop of goodies.


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