christmas day

SUNGOD

christmas day is the most boring day of the year(fact)*.this year im going on a sponsored swim just to do something and get out of the house and away from the quality street, is anyone doing anything different or will it be the usual food/drink and willy wonka/indiana jones overindulgence again this year



*as voted by readers of the "most boring day of the year" annual

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I'm staying in me ma's place.

So. Up at about ten, open pressies while me da does some sausages and rashers and toast. Have some OJ with that.

Shower and head to the cemetary for about 12 to see all of my friends, one of whom died three years ago. Probably be about an hour there.

back to the house, and go in to see the next door neighbours, then back into the house again and just chill, playing with the new toys and that, maybe throw on a comedy dvd that someone got.

Then dinner at about 3.30 to about 5.

Sit and chill til about 6.30 or seven, maybe a whiskey or brandy or two.

Head to my aunty's place for the evening.

Home at about 2am.

Dyr

fry up

drink

drink

dinner

drink

drink

pudding

drink

sleep

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SUNGOD wrote: »

christmas day is the most boring day of the year(fact)*.this year im going on a sponsored swim just to do something and get out of the house and away from the quality street, is anyone doing anything different or will it be the usual food/drink and willy wonka/indiana jones overindulgence again this year



*as voted by readers of the "most boring day of the year" annual

Where is the charity swim?.

I live near Portmarnock and I know there's one up there on Christmas day. I'd like to do it for a laugh.

Pigman II

And to make things worse "It's a Wonderful Life" is on 16/12 this year. Lousy minor setbacks. This life sucks!

s_carnage

Usually stay in the house for the day eating and drinking.

Then round 8 a few of us goes to a mates house for a monster poker game.

JohnCleary

I'm swimming in Galway. It'll be strange to see my balls sucked up beside my lungs... tis gonna be cold!

Kat1170

Working. :(

User45701

damm i hate x-mass day, there is so much .... i dont know its like you have to do stuff. you cant relax, jou have to eat and have to spend time with family (well i do anyway, mother is by herself for christmass and she likes to spend christmass with family and or friends)

I just dont get christmas.

MagicMarker

I'll be staying in.... My brother and mother will probably go and visit my aunt and co but i really couldn't be arsed with all that shíte.

seamus

Christmas Eve - my and my brothers and mates down to the pub of our collective childhoods for Xmas eve beers.

Then we all pile into vehicles and head down to the parents (on Xmas Day, sober, obviously). Get there for lunchtime, sit down for a big dirty fry with tonnes of tea and toast, then hand out the pressies, arse around eating too much for a couple of hours having a larf and a few beers. Then we have our dinner, usually takes around 3 hours with all the chatting and messing and finish off with perhaps a board game, but usually a 5-6 hour game of poker and shedloads more alcohol and really unhealthy food.

I love it.

Oh, there's also a visit to the better half thrown in there, though this year I think I'm staying in hers after the pub. Which is way better than waking up in your own empty gaff on Xmas morning.

Archeron

My mum's in hospital this year, and will be for Christmas day as well, so we'll just spend the day up there with her. Probably bring mince pies and that kind of stuff to cheer her up.
Then I will go home and get pleasantly drunk.

-Leelo-

Up at the crack of dawn to open presents (yes I'm 20 and still get up at 7 on Christmas morning, probably due to the fact that my Mam buys me the best Xmas presents ever), go back to bed once pressies have been opened, get up and dressed at about 11, laze around on the chair eating till it's time to go down to my Nanas house - then sit there and watch everyone get pissed, and curse my luck for being pregnant at Christmas.

HammerHeadGym

I'll be getting sloshed and fighting with some Thais then going to Bangkok to do more of the same with some mates. Then it's back to Ireland, to kill myself.

miceal

I'm working

CantGetNoSleep

I'm going to get pole-axed on Christmas eve so I'll spend most of the morning in beg hungover, should make the day seem shorter

The game of poker idea sounds good though

Pigman II

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

I'll spend most of the morning in beg

How Freudian. What's the matter? Are you not getting any from the missus?

xzanti

-Leelo- wrote: »

Up at the crack of dawn to open presents (yes I'm 20 and still get up at 7 on Christmas morning, probably due to the fact that my Mam buys me the best Xmas presents ever), go back to bed once pressies have been opened, get up and dressed at about 11

Same here, then off to visit the grandad, visit the cemetary, go to mass, go home, lug my presents up to my room, go back to bed and stay there till I smell the dinner.. Go help my sister and her husband set the table and entertain the 2 nephews and 3 neices while dinner is being served.. After dinner I'll probably doll myself up and drive to my bfs place for the night, sure to be a few good parties on down where he lives

MrJoeSoap

Kat1170 wrote: »

Working. :(

miceal wrote: »

I'm working

Same. Don't really mind to be honest, it does tend to be a pretty boring day!

Pherekydes

Midnight: Give wife pressie, watch reaction, get kiss/slap
1 am: Check turkey, again.
2 am: finish wrapping kids' pressies (still believe, LOL)
3 am: to bed, completely and utterly exhausted
6 am: kids awaken, all excited; have to get video camera and shoot them unwrapping their pressies. (would prefer to shoot them)
7 am: check turkey - finally done. Remove from oven and check by eating half a breast; yep, it's purrfick
8 am: bring wifey a cup of tea in bed, get slap/kiss
9 am: go to mass
10 am: turn up at track to run GOAL mile
1003 am: pull muscle, again
1020 am: finish mile
1100 am: visit son in nursing home
1230 pm: start cooking dinner (yes, me)
2 pm: eat dinner
6 pm:finish eating dinner
6 pm: begin eating evening meal/supper; watching Raiders of the Lost Ark; eating sweets; drinking "stuff" (alcoholic)
7 pm: purrfick evening spoilt by relatives/inlaws arriving and talking non-stop during the big movie (STFU)
8 pm - 1 am: eating/watching/drinking continues unabated while watching the big movie(s) and playing with the kids' toys (at the same time).

9 pm: Usual rant at TV announcer who introduces the big "Christmas Night" movie. "Christmas Night was last night, ya big moron."

Yes, technically, Christmas Day ends at midnight, but I really count it until I collapse into bed around 3 am, usually after driving annoying inlaw home first.

May end with another slap (and tickle) from the wife.

RoyalMarine

working this year oh so much fun.

7am - 7pm. then go home.
open pressies. eat dinner.
go see my girlfriend give her pressies.
hope i dont get slapped when she opens them.

maybe go home depending on her reactions

or stay for a few hours if good reactions.

get moderatly drunk, sleep and up for work at 7am again.
also working xmas eve. lovely!

xzanti

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

working this year oh so much fun.

7am - 7pm. then go home.
open pressies. eat dinner.
go see my girlfriend give her pressies.
hope i dont get slapped when she opens them.

maybe go home depending on her reactions

or stay for a few hours if good reactions.

get moderatly drunk, sleep and up for work at 7am again.
also working xmas eve. lovely!

Bet I know what you got ur gf

smemon

where is everyone working? :eek:

only places i can think of that have staff on christmas day are hotels and the odd little shop, plus emergency services.

Pherekydes

smemon wrote: »

where is everyone working? :eek:

only places i can think of that have staff on christmas day are hotels and the odd little shop, plus emergency services.

Army, Hospitals, nursing homes, the westlink toll bridge...

I'm sure people can think of lots of other examples.

cance

Kat1170 wrote: »

Working. :(

i've been on call for the last 3 xmas's.

and every year theres a call right before i sit down to dinner, you get used to it

but this year i am not!! neener neener NEEEEEENER.

Stephen

A lot of factories would have a skeleton staff on as well. Some things need to keep working 24/7. The same places would have security staff etc as well.

MrJoeSoap

smemon wrote: »

where is everyone working? :eek:

You know when you open your new mobile phone on Xmas morning and can't figure out how to switch it on? Who ya gonna call?

Pigman II

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

You know when you open your new mobile phone on Xmas morning and can't figure out how to switch it on? Who ya gonna call?

Ghostbusters!

mc nuggets

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

You know when you open your new mobile phone on Xmas morning and can't figure out how to switch it on? Who ya gonna call?

Ghostbusters

Edit: Pigman II i hate you

MrJoeSoap

Pigman II wrote: »

Ghostbusters!

Exactly. I'm a ghostbuster.

s_carnage

Slow coach wrote: »

the westlink toll bridge...

Don't tell me they make ya pay tolls on Xmas day!!!!

Some person misses the turkey because they can't afford to open up the tolls one day a year!!
Crazy!!!

girliegirl

Pigman II wrote: »

Ghostbusters!

LMAO!!!

Pherekydes

s_carnage wrote: »

Don't tell me they make ya pay tolls on Xmas day!!!!

Some person misses the turkey because they can't afford to open up the tolls one day a year!!
Crazy!!!

You can get a turkey for €1.90? :eek: Or am I reading that the wrong way?

Brian017

I always thought the Toll Bridge was free on Christmas Day too.

phasers

get presents

eat food

sleep

I love christmas

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6am - 7am: wake up, Try to get back to sleep but find the anticipaction is killing me. So wander mylonely self downstairs and open a pressie or 10 (Thats a lie, I only open my parents and sometimes my Uncles)

8am: Go back to bed for a while

9am: Get up again. Bring my lone self down the dweery stairs once more and play with my new fandangled toys for a while untill someone else comes down (sister)

10am: She goes off to bed. Im left to watcha movie or something

11am: Brother and/or Dad come down.

12am: The mighty mother arrives downstairs to open presants/cook grub.

12.30am: EAT

1300hours: Mess around with the rest o ze family

And so on...

1800hours: The diner a reidh.



To be cont.

Wisesmurf

My birthday is christmas eve, its a great day to get all my mates out on the piss as all are off. For as long as I remember we've all went to a pub from the early afternoon to closing and got pissed, good times.

Now getting to christmas day: As a result of the birthday shenanigans I have been too hungover/sick to enjoy the day or even eat christmas dinner in years.

philstar

i like the build up to xmas

but xmas day itself i always find....a bit of an anti climax...there's something about it thats a tad depressing ..like you have to be cheery all the time..stuck indoors watchin telly with relations you don't really get on with..it can get claustrophobic.

but st stephens day is always a relief

Pherekydes

Flunked wrote: »

12am: The mighty mother arrives downstairs to open presants/cook grub.

12.30am: EAT

1300hours: Mess around with the rest o ze family

Your mother starts cooking at midnight. :eek:

Tell us what you do between half past midnight and 1 in the afternoon.

tolosenc

Not being Christian seems to be a lot less stressful.

DesF wrote:

head to the cemetary for about 12 to see all of my friends

*steps back*

BKtje

Usually its get up, eat entire selection box, feel sick till christmas dinner at relatives (whichever relative drew short straw, aunt this year), eat too much christmas dinner, drink too much. Feel ill, go to bed, start looking forward to new years.

This year im gonna skip the selection box and may try goal mile (aint done it in yeaaars or go for a swim down the 40ft (never done on christmas day)). Enjoy christmas dinner and drinks without feeling sick afterwards. Least thats the plan, probably be closer to the first one than the second though. Good intentions never develop passed that with me for some reason

S.I.R

my plans are as usual , 5:10 am get up , have a few beers , breakfast , go to work , get home around 10:00 ish... sleep.


nice and simple eh ?

echter

i love christmas!! i like the hustle and bustle of seeing people and like who wants to sit around eating roses all day???

7:30 or 10:00 depends on who wakes up first, if it's me it's seven but we all wake up simultaneously
(we do this really cool thing where the youngest is the first in line to go down the stairs to get santy and then second oldest etc)

7:30 - 8:45 fiddle with santy pressents

8:45 - 9:40 dad cooks big massive greasy fry with pate and waffles

9:40 - 10:30 get dressed in new xmas clothes while secretly playing with my new toys

11:30 - go to mass, 12;30 scoff pringles and other nice-eties

1:30 neighbours come up for drinks

2:45 go to neighbours for drinks

6:30 go home and eat

10:30 open presents from people who aren't santy

11:20 fiddle with new toys and cracker prizes some more


2:30 bed

SUNGOD

Mairt wrote: »

Where is the charity swim?.

I live near Portmarnock and I know there's one up there on Christmas day. I'd like to do it for a laugh.

the swim im doing is in tramore waterford, advanced forecast is cold to very cold interrupted with bouts of even colder

dionsiseire

Personally i normally go to the pub on christmas eve, normally arrive around 7ish and i think the pubs close at 11.

head home, play some stupid life draining game on the net till the wee hours, i can never sleep on christmas eve. maybe this year will be different.

Normally my overexcited sister will wake me at some unheavenly hours (4am last year, that was rediculous, im hoping i can at very least sleep till 7am this year)

Open Presents, give present that ive bought. have breakfast, back to bed

have christmas dinner with the family. then at around 3-5pm i'll head around to the mates, normally we have an hour or 2 playing darts. then at some point the rest of the mates will become free to which normally copius amount of alcohol are gathered, a house is picked and we grab electronic monopoly and settle in for the night for a big game of monopoly, poker if monopoly is a quick one, and in the background ipods a plenty blasting out the favourite tunes.

at some unholy hour we'll stagger home and then get up on stephens days to head in the see the grandparents and other family

I never start shopping until christmas eve. Woman on a mission, I get slightly stressed. Last year I manipulated possesion of the last available turkey with my first ever fake tears. But generally it is a nice day, lots of pleasant chatting.
I collaspe in a heap in a cosy corner of the pub at 5.45 and stay there until they herd me out at 12.

On christmas morning I am woken up by the first up to do the stupid water and salt thing, in case I might attempt to get away without, sneaky agnostic that I am.
Then we watch crap tv until everyone is up and has the breakfast.
We open presents, I grumble about ****ty present my sister gives me, then decide I like it, bask in the novelity of gift, apologise.
I spend a few hours orchastrating xmas dinner. I nearly have a meltdown because one vital exotic ingredient is missing and the whole thing is possibly ruined. It all works out. We eat. Gloat about well everything turned out. Set up camp for the night in front of the telly. Which we only do on xmas day. Glow with happiness. Partake of furthur sweet eats. Sigh with relief.

Saint Stephans Day, the old schoolfriends meet up in someones house and we vegetate and finish the roses.
That night is the best night out of the whole year.

I love Xmas.

Jigsaw

Get up around 10am after a wild charge of drink the night before. Off to church etc. Home, open presents. Help parents with diner prep. Eat dinner. They both fall asleep, drink heavily in the house, head out and meet old schoolfriends in the only pub that opens on Xmas day. Drink until ten wen it closes. Head home, eat the prawns that were set aside fr boxing day starter. Have a dump then go ot bed

Ruu_Old

Get up, mope about, presents and then alot of the day at inlaws place eating until I can't get up from the table. Then comes the leftovers which last for a couple of weeks after.

tman

Just the usual... play with my 7 year old nephew's toys:p
I'll be bringing my Wii down with me when I visit, so at least I'll have that to keep me entertained if needs be.

Might go for a surf then on Stephen's day to blast away the cobwebs

SUNGOD

tman wrote: »

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Might go for a surf then on Stephen's day to blast away the cobwebs

sounds good to me

MarinoMark

this is my first xmas seperated, dreading it, will see the kids on 26th, as i live alone with no close family I will work my taxi around dublin, Reckon the day will go a bit quicker.Dont fancy sitting in a flat on my own all day. Gonna get a lovely leg of lamb and have plenty of brennans batch in though !!:)