Define YOUR Christmas!

Mar Mar Marmalade

What makes Christmas, christmas for you? Watching a certain holiday movie? Late night mass on the Eve? Singing carols? Getting into some themed kinkyness? Collecting money for the poor? The list goes on and on..

I have this thing of watching this god-awful movie titled "Christmas & The Kranks". It's been a kind of ritual so to say for years. Not the greatest movie ever but couldn't imagine Christmas without it. Things like this are what make Christmas actually Christmas for me.

So what's yours?

25th of December.

Manach

Christmas eve mass with carol songs. But not snow, never again snow.

Sir Arthur Daley

Snow, cant get enough of it.

FloatingVoter

About the 7th of January I start celebrating the festival of "11 months freedom from enforced gaiety". Yup, thats Christmas for me.

Gongoozler

Eating celebrations for breakfast. And snacking on pringles while waiting for dinner. Then just when you can't eat any more, even a couple of hours after dinner,getting a bowl of trifle, just cause, ya know, it's Christmas.

FatherLen

a month of gluttony.

Agricola

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping on your nose. Yuletide carols being sung by a choir, And folks dressed up like Eskimos.

LizT

Love doing the GOAL mile on Christmas Day, nice to get out of the house for a while.

thegreatgonzo

Watching the Muppet Family Christmas, it's where the Muppets meet the Sesame St gang AND the Fraggles. Just brilliant. Also midnight mass and carol services too. And I love dinner on St Stephens day, even though it's basically the leftovers from Christmas day mushed up a bit, it just tastes better. Oh and getting up early to watch old black and white films they show on RTE like when they do a series of Laurel and Hardy. I love Christmas!

Having to see/make small talk with annoying relatives you see once a year.

Mar Mar Marmalade

thegreatgonzo wrote: »

Watching the Muppet Family Christmas.

The Muppets Christmas Carol is a new one for me. Not done it enough to call it anything but it's making 3 years in a row of being watched on Christmas Eve.

kneemos

Letting the Gimp out of his crate..

Raminahobbin

Our parents still wait until we are in bed to put presents under the tree (youngest is 21). We still get up stupidly early to open them. Then we eat chocolate santas and Capri Suns until we feel sick. Everybody disperses for a few hours, to sleep or to watch a box set of some sort (this year it'll be a season of the good Simpsons).

Dinner is early enough, 3 or 4pm, then board-games and wine or beer for the rest of the day- once the parents get bored and wander off it becomes Buckfast and drinking games.

It's the only time of year we all play them, but byjaysus Christmas wouldn't be Christmas in my house unless extensive board games were involved.

thegreatgonzo

Mar Mar Marmalade wrote: »

The Muppets Christmas Carol is a new one for me. Not done it enough to call it anything but it's making 3 years in a row of being watched on Christmas Eve.

Oh I watch that every year too. I prefer the Muppet family Christmas though. Animal meets the cookie monster, the Swedish chef tries to cook Big Bird and they all sing Christmas songs.

Hawkeye1

Beer

SV

FloatingVoter wrote: »

About the 7th of January I start celebrating the festival of "11 months freedom from enforced gaiety". Yup, thats Christmas for me.

Christmas for me is listening to he miserable shîtes complaining unfortunately

Vito Corleone

I eat so much food! 12 pound Turkey between 4 people, and so much more food. :cool: Home Alone the movie as well.

flas

the game frustration,and playin it with my uncles and brother and cousins for money over cans of coarse!

jantheman91

Family.

MonstaMash

Get up, light the fire, fry-up on, barricade the front door, crack a beer, fire up the bong...chill until it's time for viddles & repeat

hynesie08

Wake up, open beers, jingle all the way, shower, beers, breakfast, beers, Willy wonka, beers, beers with family, Santa Clause, beers, dinner, more family, go to bed with beers and roses.

Temptamperu

I like to drink all day and then lash out at people who care about me.

Courtesy Flush

Christmas means I can get the GOOD drunk

spankysue

Every Christmas Eve night for the last 13 years or so, after we've had tea with his family in his aunts house, my fiance and I watch the Muppets Christmas Carol with a few whiskeys and have a sing along with it.

Then out to the mammies Christmas day to witness the annual Christmas row between her and me dad, and out to the OH's sisters house on Stephens Day to witness my OH and his family rip the pi$$ out of their dad.

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without any of these things

oldyouth

Christmas Eve
Mass (just because it is a family outing that we always did) followed by dropping in to our former childminder with the now 21 and 25 year olds she raised for us. Lots of laughs and a few scoops

Christmas Day
Family dinner and no on really stirs out. A great day when 4 busy people catch up and talk until we fall asleep

Stephens Day
Always go for early scoops with my mates and back to someone's house for sambos, beer and craic with wives, kids, pets etc

I hate all other aspects of Christmas but like those 48 hours

Call Me Jimmy

Raminahobbin wrote: »

Our parents still wait until we are in bed to put presents under the tree (youngest is 21). We still get up stupidly early to open them. Then we eat chocolate santas and Capri Suns until we feel sick. Everybody disperses for a few hours, to sleep or to watch a box set of some sort (this year it'll be a season of the good Simpsons).

Dinner is early enough, 3 or 4pm, then board-games and wine or beer for the rest of the day- once the parents get bored and wander off it becomes Buckfast and drinking games.

It's the only time of year we all play them, but byjaysus Christmas wouldn't be Christmas in my house unless extensive board games were involved.

My house to a tee. I was relieved to hear my friend (26) admit that him and siblings (youngest 22, oldest 30) get up early, together, the same way as they used to. I thought we might have been the only family who kept it up!

Riddle101

Die Hard, what a great Christmas movie that is. Arguably the best action movie franchise of all time, although personally I prefer Terminator 1 & 2, when it comes to the best action movies.

Hitchens

Carol singing............if her sore throat is better

Pumpkinseeds

Watching it's a Wonderful Life, cooking the roast on Christmas eve, champagne cocktails, smoked salmon on soda bread.

hoodwinked

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation to kick start Christmas for me....

Spanish Eyes

Not to put a damper on things,

But my younger sister and my Dad died, and sadly Mam is ill Also.

We will make the best of it, but TBH, the thought of those two empty chairs this year has me in floods of tears.

For the kids sake we will motor on..

It will get better, in time, I know.

Hello and good thoughts to anyone else who has lost someone dear to them. It is an emotional time of year at the best of times. Hope you will be OK.

Hitchens

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Watching it's a Wonderful Life, cooking the roast on Christmas eve, champagne cocktails, smoked salmon on soda bread.

never could fathom out why that film is popular...........at any time of year

Pumpkinseeds

Hitchens wrote: »

never could fathom out why that film is popular...........at any time of year

:eek::eek::eek: You have no soul, get back under your rock:D:D:D

hynesie08

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Not to put a damper on things,

But my younger sister and my Dad died, and sadly Mam is ill Also.

We will make the best of it, but TBH, the thought of those two empty chairs this year has me in floods of tears.



For the kids sake we will motor on..

It will get better, in time, I know.

Hello and good thoughts to anyone else who has lost someone dear to them. It is an emotional time of year at the best of times. Hope you will be OK.

Sorry to hear that man, 2 years ago I lost my granddad 5 days before Christmas, genuinely the most difficult time of my life, But like you said we had to get through it for the sake of the kids in the family. No matter what though, walking downstairs that morning and seeing his chair empty was the worst gut-punch I've ever had.

So yeah, I know how you're feeling, and I know that it ****ing sucks, but let me tell me tell you, while it never gets "better" it does get easier to understand and while there'll always be that black cloud in time you may even enjoy it again.

Happy xmas.

Spanish Eyes

hynesie08 wrote: »

Sorry to hear that man, 2 years ago I lost my granddad 5 days before Christmas, genuinely the most difficult time of my life, But like you said we had to get through it for the sake of the kids in the family. No matter what though, walking downstairs that morning and seeing his chair empty was the worst gut-punch I've ever had.

So yeah, I know how you're feeling, and I know that it ****ing sucks, but let me tell me tell you, while it never gets "better" it does get easier to understand and while there'll always be that black cloud in time you may even enjoy it again.

Happy xmas.

Thanks. That is a lovely post.

Bog Standard User

finish work on xmas eve, go home to mam n dad xmas morning... listen to them bicker while cooking dinner ... eat food... get in car and go back to my empty flat get up next morning and go to work. thats my xmas

Red Pepper

Xmas day swim! Brrrrrrrr :eek:
Followed by roaring turf fire (using the old seasoned turf saved 2+ years), lots of fancy food, few beers, movie, bed, sexy-time!
Long run on Stephen's Day to burn the 6000 calories!

Hitchens

Red Pepper wrote: »

Xmas day swim! Brrrrrrrr :eek:
Followed by roaring turf fire (using the old seasoned turf saved 2+ years), lots of fancy food, few beers, movie, bed, sexy-time!
Long run on Stephen's Day to burn the 6000 calories!

1 mince pie = 1.5 hours walking off

Ilyana 2.0

Getting up at 8am to open presents, a fry-up breakfast, getting the glad rags on and having people over for drinks, lots and lots of crisps and chocolates, fancy steak dinner in the evening and then a DVD to fall asleep in front of.

Oh, and wine. Lots of wine.

Kylo Ren

Up at around 11.
Open some presents.
Food
Die Hard
Food
Home Alone
Dinner
Xbox
Die Hard
Food

All accompanied with cans.

Sh1tbag OToole

Wake up.

See that it hasnt snowed outside

Spend ages having breakfast, watch people eat sweet sugary stuff I dont like

Unwrap chinese sh1te people got me

Watch others unwrap chinese sh1te I got them

Think "wow the Chinese are doing well out of this fest they dont celebrate or believe in"

Watch people eat soup, maybe have a slice of bread to stave off the hunger

Ask does anyone want to go for a stroll?

"Yes but no more than 500 meters"

Everyone is kind of old and senile so nobody does strolls of any great lenght now.

Suffer cabin fever

Have a row with a family member.

Everyone else gangs up on me.. "Sure you have been in a grumpy mood all day, it has to be your fault and you're wrong"

Have dinner. The dinner is usualy quite nice in fairness. Though im not mad on the desert


Spend the rest of the evening on boards, can beside me while the rest of the familywatches downton abbey or similar depressing sh1te

Walk into the other room, which is about 30 degrees C by now.

"Are you still watching downturn abbey? Is there not enough misery in real life that you have to watch ficticious misery to supplement it?"

"No"

There is only one bathroom in the house. Which is grand but means the dash to the jacks starts about 9 and finishes at 12. The usual culprits taking up to an hour in there..

Go to bed.

Bog Standard User

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Wake up.

See that it hasnt snowed outside

Spend ages having breakfast, watch people eat sweet sugary stuff I dont like

Unwrap chinese sh1te people got me

Watch others unwrap chinese sh1te I got them

Think "wow the Chinese are doing well out of this fest they dont celebrate or believe in"

Watch people eat soup, maybe have a slice of bread to stave off the hunger

Ask does anyone want to go for a stroll?

"Yes but no more than 500 meters"

Everyone is kind of old and senile so nobody does strolls of any great lenght now.

Suffer cabin fever

Have a row with a family member.

Everyone else gangs up on me.. "Sure you have been in a grumpy mood all day, it has to be your fault and you're wrong"

Have dinner. The dinner is usualy quite nice in fairness. Though im not mad on the desert


Spend the rest of the evening on boards, can beside me while the rest of the familywatches downton abbey or similar depressing sh1te

Walk into the other room, which is about 30 degrees C by now.

"Are you still watching downturn abbey? Is there not enough misery in real life that you have to watch ficticious misery to supplement it?"

"No"

There is only one bathroom in the house. Which is grand but means the dash to the jacks starts about 9 and finishes at 12. The usual culprits taking up to an hour in there..

Go to bed.

it sounds like you love xmas then

Rabelais

Back to Ireland to visit my parents and siblings. A wonderful day spent eating too much, wearing a silly jumper, falling asleep on the couch, before drinking about 12 cans of Guinness.

Up the next day to tattoo the back of the porcelain with a massive yuletide log, before sending it on its long journey down to Ringsend.

diomed

One of the things that sticks in my memory was the time about a week before Christmas was when my mother said each of us (five children) could choose what we wanted for breakfast on Christmas day.
I remember I wanted Sugar Puffs, so she added that and what the others wanted to her shopping.

mfceiling

Woken at 4 a.m by 3 small girls who fall in to my room with the "can we go downstairs and see if santa has come"

3 hours of shouting, fighting, screaming and messing and then it's a proper breakfast (after the selection box one at 4.30).

Everybody puts on new clothes and heads to mass - the atheist in me should be groaning but i secretly enjoy it.

Come home and listen to herself bitch about different ones at mass, their clothes, how they ignored her, they weren't singing etc...

And then this year - straight to the mother in laws for the mother of all dinners - an old school irish mammy who basically force feeds you for the entire day.

Sit down that night with a can of bulmers while watching some shite movie on rte.

It truly is the greatest day of the year.


...i once heard someone describe the roast dinner as the king of all dinners, and the christmas dinner as the king of all roast dinners.

Mar Mar Marmalade

mfceiling wrote: »

...i once heard someone describe the roast dinner as the king of all dinners, and the christmas dinner as the king of all roast dinners.

Haha, well said.

Metacarpi

The dinner, it's literally the only day of the year where the whole family is around to share a meal so it's pretty special. Christmas eve is by far my favourite day though, I just love the buzz

krudler

Bottle of Jack, tin of Quality St, Die Hard.

Oh yes.

kowloon

Hitchens wrote: »

never could fathom out why that film is popular...........at any time of year

It didn't do particularly well on release.


Christmas is all about the dinner for me, used to be about the presents, now it's the dinner.

zcorpian88

Getting up early, to the smell of turkey and trifle wafting around the house.

Opening presents

Watching the Christmas telly, usually movies I've seen 100 times, Back To The Future I, II, and III, Wizard of Oz, Indiana Jones etc

Getting the feed of turkey and a glass of wine then after eights and ferrero rocher and then trifle because its the only time of year you'd see them in my house. Followed by more Christmas telly and dosing off due to being full of food.

Picking at the boxes of roses and listening to the father complain about leaving the wrappers in the box!

Possible Christmas party in a relatives house, can involve a game of cards and a few drinks.

Just when you thought you never wanted to see another bit of turkey as long as you live, the mother comes in with a giant plate of turkey sandwiches which we all wolf down...well because it's turkey!