Christmas Traditions?

SlipperyPeople

How do you spent the christmas period each year?

For myself:

Christmas eve spent in the same pub drinking with all my friends since we were 17 from about 3pm until I've 3 missed calls from the family telling me I'm late for Xmas eve family dinner that I show up trollied to about 7/8.

After food its cards and more drinks until myself the uncle and the old man slip off to watch something like the godfather.

Christmas day: The family head off for the Christmas swim while I make an irish coffee to cure the head and make the breakfast for when people return.

then its family and friends while we have light lunch and crack open the good whiskey. Drink and have craic all day until dinner which is always @ 8. After it's watch christmas film or comedy special until people doze off and decide that's its time for bed.

Stephens day: Sandwiches, Football on telly then out that night to meet all the friends.

Lets hear your christmas traditions folks!

B.A._Baracus

"Christmas eve spent in the same pub drinking with all my friends since we were 17" - if you're something like 30 that's actually nice. But if you're like 21? get lost! :pac:

SlipperyPeople

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

"Christmas eve spent in the same pub drinking with all my friends since we were 17" - if you're something like 30 that's actually nice. But if you're like 21? get lost! :pac:

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andekwarhola

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

"Christmas eve spent in the same pub drinking with all my friends since we were 17" - if you're something like 30 that's actually nice. But if you're like 21? get lost! :pac:

Well you'd assume they weren't in the pub Christmas Eve when they were all 7

B.A._Baracus

SlipperyPeople wrote: »

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Then impressive :pac:

andekwarhola

Used to do the same Christmas Eve as OP, great times. Have kids now, so Christmas Eve just spent preparing stuff for next day, eating crap and watching movies. Settle the kids to bed and wait until they go to sleep. Have one or two quiet drinks with my wife, put out the presents and relatively early night.

Christmas day, up very early with the kids. Big breakfast. Collect my parents in the afternoon. Dinner with my family, parents and siblings. Can't drink that much as I drop my parents home in evening. Drinks with my wife when the kids go to bed.

Stephens Day, usually meet friends for pints and chill out.

fonecrusher1

Christmas Eve. Erraah I wouldn't be fond of the drinking, but when I do go at it I go at it awful hard. I'd have about 45 pints in about 2 hours, and I'd have an aul packet a crips then or an aul packet eh peanuts, and I'd have 3 more anyway. And I'd get up in the morning then, and Maureen'd have the fry on. And I'd go at it again Christmas day.

And I tell ya one thing, there'd be no fückin stopping me. I'd drink the shirt off any man's back. Bastards.

Merry Christmas.

Dr Strange

I love these threads. Gets me in the Christmas mood.

Fr_Dougal

SlipperyPeople wrote: »

How do you spent the christmas period each year?

I’m male, don’t have one.

branie2

Opening presents from under the tree after Mass on Christmas Eve

Winning_Stroke

Christmas morning:

6 a.m. - 5 miles run to start the day
7 a.m. - Festive breakfast of carrot sticks
8 a.m. - Swimming
11 a.m. - Start the dinner prep
12 - Get my mindfullness in
2 p.m. - Sit down to a cracking dinner of grilled chicken and green veg.
4 p.m. - Hit the gym for an evening session

2lazytogetup

try and get out with the family for a walk somewhere in the fresh air. blessington or the sugar loaf. nice to get some fresh air and exercise otherwise can get cabin fever.

fonecrusher1

Winning_Stroke wrote: »

Christmas morning:

6 a.m. - 5 miles run to start the day
7 a.m. - Festive breakfast of carrot sticks
8 a.m. - Swimming
11 a.m. - Start the dinner prep
12 - Get my mindfullness in
2 p.m. - Sit down to a cracking dinner of grilled chicken and green veg.
4 p.m. - Hit the gym for an evening session

12:04 p.m - Hop on boards to tell everyone how active and healthy you are...

whisky_galore

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

12:04 p.m - Hop on boards to tell everyone how active and healthy you are...

12.05 p.m. Share health status in Bookface to friends who've already unfollowed you.

debok

Winning_Stroke wrote: »

Christmas morning:

6 a.m. - 5 miles run to start the day
7 a.m. - Festive breakfast of carrot sticks
8 a.m. - Swimming
11 a.m. - Start the dinner prep
12 - Get my mindfullness in
2 p.m. - Sit down to a cracking dinner of grilled chicken and green veg.
4 p.m. - Hit the gym for an evening session

5 pm . - Remember I have no friends because I dumped
them because they weren't up to my standards.

6Pm. - Convince myself I'm not a narcissist

Seamai

My 4 brothers and I used to go for a few pints on Christmas Eve afternoon in the Long Valley in Cork, all quite civilized, home for tea time but once kids started arriving on the scene it fizzled out. It was always good fun, there was always plenty of in jokes that nobody else got. Now it's lunch and drinks at my mum's on Christmas eve, everyone brings something to take the pressure off her having to cook.

jimgoose

Winning_Stroke wrote: »

Christmas morning:

6 a.m. - 5 miles run to start the day
7 a.m. - Festive breakfast of carrot sticks
8 a.m. - Swimming
11 a.m. - Start the dinner prep
12 - Get my mindfullness in
2 p.m. - Sit down to a cracking dinner of grilled chicken and green veg.
4 p.m. - Hit the gym for an evening session

Happy Christmas, Aongus!

The last one I had (heading to the pub to meet everyone from the old days) died a death a few years ago.

JohnnyFlash

Stephens Day is a fry, watching soccer, backing horses, and hoovering back pints of porter.

jimgoose

Nothing too out-of-the-way. Down t'Woolpack for a couple of hours on Christmas Eve for jars with the usual crew. Dinner at around 4pm Christmas Day, followed by a half-hour walk to get the blood moving. Then TV and drinks for the evening. I personally love Stephen Zuzz day, the feeling that the pressure is off and the actual holiday can get under way properly.

Pherekydes

Christmas eve: a blur of potato peels, sprouts, carrots and last minute shopping. Put the bird in the oven.
Christmas Day: Midnight - give the wife one (a present) and exchange pressies with the rest of the shower.
10 am: Goal mile.
11 am: Collect my son from his place.
12 pm: Start preparing the dinner in earnest.
4 pm: Get stuffed!
6 pm: start thinking about dessert. Nah, forget it. No one, bar my son, wants any. He's an eating machine. Welcome any late callers. If the wife's brother is one of them gag him while the "big movie" is on. He never shuts up.
8 pm: Think about driving my son home. I'm 'dry' until I come back from that trip.
9 pm: Pig out on sweets, biscuits and whatever alcoholic drink takes my fancy. And that reminds me: we've no Malibu! :eek:
11 pm: Hopefully everyone has gone home by this point. Things can quieten down and I can replenish my blood alcohol levels. :pac:

freshpopcorn

There a thing that we do on Christmas Eve such as pick up food for the next day and some years we might do some prep but I wouldn't consider them traditions.
We do light the Christmas candle on Chrostmas Eve night and light it ever night until the 7th of January. Also the decorations stay up until the 6th of January.