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What are you doing for Xmas?
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20-12-2012 9:20am#1
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I liked all that too, but now I'm the one responsible for decorating the house... meh. I loved how homely and cosy it looked last year but I'm glad to getting the break from it this year - I've been run off my feet just getting the new house ready to move into and I really, really should be run off my feet right now getting the last of this house packed up and cleaned. Again, meh.
I'll do it all again next year but I'm honestly quite relieved to have one year off.0 -
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Have two young kiddies so the house is like something from a Coke ad. Will be fitting in visits to two families on Christmas day and eating a serious amount of Chocolate Kimberlies.
Over the weekend I shall be redeeming 12 months worth of points on my O'Briens Wines loyalty card (that is always a wonderful time of the year).
Lastly, the missis is threatening to take my kids to mass on Christmas morning with her family. Grand so. That leaves me, the Chocolate Kimberlies, and *fingers crossed* Call of Duty Black Ops II for Xbox in peace for an hour or two.
Nothing says welcome to the world, baby Jesus, like shooting strangers on the Internet in the face.0 -
Have two young kiddies so the house is like something from a Coke ad. Will be fitting in visits to two families on Christmas day and eating a serious amount of Chocolate Kimberlies.
Over the weekend I shall be redeeming 12 months worth of points on my O'Briens Wines loyalty card (that is always a wonderful time of the year).
Lastly, the missis is threatening to take my kids to mass on Christmas morning with her family. Grand so. That leaves me, the Chocolate Kimberlies, and *fingers crossed* Call of Duty Black Ops II for Xbox in peace for an hour or two.
Nothing says welcome to the world, baby Jesus, like shooting strangers on the Internet in the face.
Oh - forgot I have to go visit family to play kill sister's plants with nasty sweet sherry.
On the way I will have my annual rant about people coming out of large churches (I pass 3) after their annual visit who just wander across the road looking neither right nor left with me loudly opining that they obviously want to die in a fecking state of b*starding grace or do they think going to Mass means they can't be hit by the large Mitsubishi heading straight for them travelling at 50 kph on a main road. EEJITS. :mad:
Then it's eat, bring dogs to field with ball to exhaust them, DR WHO!! - snooze, eat.
I'm sort of looking forward to it - hope Dr Who is better than last years Xmas special. Hated it.0 -
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Lingua Franca wrote: »D'ya mind not interfereing with my procrastination please, I have dust to be ignoring here!
I have some cobwebs to ignore which OH kindly informed me at 7:30 this morning are cultivating a corner of bathroom. Am thinking of telling her they are an organic substitute for fairylights as they glisten in a pleasing manner when the light hits them.
Teach her to lecture me on Health and Safety and the wisdom of placing extension leads close to showers.
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My Parents have been atheist since before i was born , but everyone in my family loves Christmas. I never even knew there was that big a link between Christmas and Jesus for years, there seemed to be a bigger link been Christmas and Coke.
for us it's just a special time of year that if i don't drop in to see my mom, she'll hunt my down a kill me.
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First time in 2-3 years all my siblings will be home for xmas, so it'll be a couple of nights in the old family home catching up. there I shall play with the red setter I haven't seen in 6 months and my brother's new spaniel puppy, see if my nephew remembers my face, and get good and toasted in the sitting room with a tonne of booze, cigars and excellent food. At least until I realise why I don't live in one house with my family any more and head back to Cork for some peace and quiet. :pac:
Have you moved from Galweh?
I'm going to my wife's family for Christmas for the second time in Tennessee. Not much of a booze fest like back home at all, but the food is wonderful. To be fair I've had way too much booze over the past couple of years. I bought myself an 18 year old Jameson, 18 year old Glenmorangie, 18 year old Glenfiddich, 15 year old Redbreast about 6 weeks ago. They all have about 2 glasses left in them so I'm welcoming a drought for a few days.
I'm saving my boozing for New Years Eve when I go out in Boston with a friend of mine, and then to NYC from Jan 1st - 5th for a serious session with a friend from back home whom I haven't seen in well over a year. We're going to visit a few Irish bars in NYC, along with Mark Geary's brothers bar. He asked me to pop in so that should be a laugh, funnily enough it's called The Scratcher - great name for a bar. :pac:
After that we'll probably lock ourselves my mate's place, get locked, lash out some trad music, smoke cigars and play darts. I'm looking forward to this more than Christmas!0 -
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As hubby is French we tend to do the big dinner on Christmas Eve.
It will consist of 6 courses which I have already planned out and buckets of wine.
Christmas Day is hangover day and will start with Baileys for breakfast.
Followed by more wine and left overs from the night before.
We'll watch a film and as the drink hits us again, a board game and cheating/fights will break out.
Mini Me has hinted that I 'might' (will) be getting my mitts on Assassins Creed 3, which means that's me sorted for ever available minute from then on.0 -
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Early rise as it's my only day off over the xmas. Fry up brekkie. Presents exchanged then doss around till dinner. Food then boardgames (my real big hobby with a back catalogue of almost 100 games to pick from this year!!) and drink. Then muppets xmas carol and bad santa and more drink. Then maybe some online poker as everyone is getting sick of each other 0
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Bannasidhe wrote: »Oh - I LOVE fairy lights. Have 'em everywhere (except bathrooms as there is apparently a 'Health and Safety issue' :rolleyes:)
Would be perfectly safe to run them off a shaver socket (especially if outdoor lights - waterproof) - do lesbian bathrooms not have shaver sockets
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Or get AA battery powered LED lights - fiver in Dunnes.In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.
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Would be perfectly safe to run them off a shaver socket (especially if outdoor lights - waterproof) - do lesbian bathrooms not have shaver sockets :pac:
Or get AA battery powered LED lights - fiver in Dunnes.
Houses that were bought after the electrician had done all the wiring and whose purchaser did not want to fork out another cent as she was already paying more than enough for the damn house don't have shaver sockets in the bathroom.
Worked for Dunnes when I was in school- it will be cold day in hell before I shop in their stores. We hates 'em...0 -
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Slight modification on this, just dug out an xbox 360 that I bought like 2 years ago, played it for 2 months and packed it away, it's been sitting in it's box ever since (I'm really not a gamer, don't know why the fúck I bought it).MagicMarker wrote: »Won't be doing anything, no kids in the family anymore. I won't be visiting any family and hope to christ no one visits me.
It'll be just like any other day for me, except with added mince pies, tins of roses and a bottle of rum.
10 minutes after setting it up I get the red ring of death, but I laid it on it's side which seems to have sorted it, so I'll be doing me a bit of gaming over Xmas. So yeah, anyone recommend any games as I only own 2? 0 -
MagicMarker wrote: »Slight modification on this, just dug out an xbox 360 that I bought like 2 years ago, played it for 2 months and packed it away, it's been sitting in it's box ever since (I'm really not a gamer, don't know why the fúck I bought it).
10 minutes after setting it up I get the red ring of death, but I laid it on it's side which seems to have sorted it, so I'll be doing me a bit of gaming over Xmas. So yeah, anyone recommend any games as I only own 2?
I haven't tried them but maybe lollipop chainsaw or portal0 -
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Bannasidhe wrote: »Houses that were bought after the electrician had done all the wiring and whose purchaser did not want to fork out another cent as she was already paying more than enough for the damn house don't have shaver sockets in the bathroom.
Ooh I know, had to put my own one in - for my gender neutral rechargeable toothbrush. The MAN_SHAVER was content to get a charge once a month from a normal socket through an adaptor, not so the Braun/Oral-B yoke.Worked for Dunnes when I was in school- it will be cold day in hell before I shop in their stores. We hates 'em...
Oranges are not the only fruit Dunnes are not the only store, try one's local euro shop. In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.
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Batman. Get the Batman games. srsly. Batman.
I got the Amiga Batman Pack 20 years ago Sarky, the Batman : The Movie game was adequate at best In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.
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Ooh I know, had to put my own one in - for my gender neutral rechargeable toothbrush. The MAN_SHAVER was content to get a charge once a month from a normal socket through an adaptor, not so the Braun/Oral-B yoke.
Oranges are not the only fruit Dunnes are not the only store, try one's local euro shop.
After a weekend of 4 adults, 2 children and 3 dogs in a two bedroom house I am more inclined to purchase a fecking caravan and move far far away *whinge*.
Oranges + Dunnes = very droll sir, very droll.
Two obscure(ish) references for the price of one.0 -
Parents aren't devout catholics, but still attend mass weekly. The rest of us are lapsed/atheists but never make an issue of it.
We will be doing everything as usual. Wake up, open presents, and spend approx 12 hours constantly preparing and eating food while the rest enjoy some wine, sherry, and baileys coffee. I'll be boring and sober as I will be driving to my mates house in the evening for our traditional christmas poker game while my family will stay behind and play board games.
My main fear is I volunteered to make a cheesecake for the day and I have a bad feling it will taste like crap 0 -
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