Is anyone else dreading Christmas now?
I know that's a bit off topic, but all these tales of woe have reminded me how much I hate christmas...mostly because it's spoiled by having to deal with family.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 13 Nov 2009, 14:15, 9 replies)

This is why
i don't see my family at christmas anymore.

Me and Lady S have a nice relaxing time together, maybe have a couple of mates over.
Then two days MAX at her folks, back for new year, then down to my folks for a weekend sometime in january.

I always remember someone on Grumpy old Women saying about how she couldn't understand people who moan about seeing their family at christmas. "You're a grown up. You have free will. if you don't want to go, don't go."

While it's a simplistic attitude to take, I sort of agree.
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 13 Nov 2009, 14:29, closed)

That still sounds like a lot of time with family
I want to sit in my pants drinking beer dammit
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 13 Nov 2009, 14:33, closed)

Yeah, but it's four days
split in two and spread over 6 or 7 weeks

Rather than a HUGE FUCKING FAMILY RUSH all in one go.
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 13 Nov 2009, 14:56, closed)

Christmas is hated by me also.
I hate it withn a passion!
(camomile, Fri 13 Nov 2009, 15:25, closed)

Wise words there...
Definitely take control of that situation, dude.

Family Xmas was grim in our clan until I said I'm not coming one year. They've been a lot better behaved since. Plus I do all the cooking now anyway cos my Ma can burn snow.

rafter
baz
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 13 Nov 2009, 14:41, closed)

Got it sorted
I am leaving the country. Mr Freepens and myself are doing it away this year.
(Free pens 100, 101, 102 is still counting on, Fri 13 Nov 2009, 15:46, closed)

I am away from home...
...for the first time this Christmas. Me and my lovely fiancée will eat interestingly cooked [poultry of choice], drink huge amounts of Pepsi Max, and play an awful lots of Need for Speed and Runescape.

I am 22. I cannot wait.
(jeherrin found it all in the Blackfield on, Fri 13 Nov 2009, 21:12, closed)

I'm not going home for Christmas
Yay no family Christmas etc... only I agreed to go to my friend's family Christmas instead. With our married couple friends. Who fight. A lot. I'm starting to think my own family might have been the better option :/
(xanthine, Sun 15 Nov 2009, 21:23, closed)

Actually
I enjoy Christams. I used to hate it but since leaving the parental abode I look forward to returning and meeting family and friends. I have a quite a large family (Irish Catholics) and a few of us are spread around a bit so Christmas is one time of the year I am guaranteed to se at least a few of them.

Having said that, there are no feuds that I know of in my family so we all get along pretty well.
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:57, closed)