christmas day

girliegirl · 12-12-2007 05:13PM

Pigman II wrote: »

Ghostbusters!

LMAO!!!

Pherekydes · 12-12-2007 05:14PM

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 · 12-12-2007 05:27PM

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

phasers · 12-12-2007 06:36PM

get presents

eat food

sleep

I love christmas

g5hn710m4xpdwy · 12-12-2007 07:08PM

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 · 12-12-2007 07:15PM

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 · 12-12-2007 07:59PM

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 · 12-12-2007 07:59PM

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 · 12-12-2007 08:21PM

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 · 12-12-2007 08:44PM

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 · 12-12-2007 08:56PM

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 · 12-12-2007 09:22PM

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 · 13-12-2007 01:42AM

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 · 13-12-2007 02:36AM

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

13-12-2007 03:29AM

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 · 13-12-2007 04:01AM

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 · 13-12-2007 04:03AM

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 · 13-12-2007 04:06AM

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 · 13-12-2007 11:52AM

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 · 14-12-2007 06:03PM

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 !!:)

christmas day

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