CHRISTMAS IS NOT SHIT!
CHRISTMAS IS AWESOME!
WHOOOOO! CHRISTMAS!
Jingle bells! Batman smells! Robin laid an egg!
(wehttamman via B3ta for microwave, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 9:17, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

christmas is a time
for raising expectations then having them dashed in a day of awkward conversations, almost-arguments and never ending TV
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 9:50, Reply)

Who the hell can you have awkward conversations with on Christmas?
It's just friends and family, even for someone like me who hates socialising I love it. Except when I used to go to the ex's on Boxing Day, that was always fucking horrifically awkward.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 10:08, Reply)

its the family bit
it's OK for the first day or so I visit, but there are only so many stories about people I don't know and things me mum wants to buy that i can listen to
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 10:10, Reply)

Spending it in Boston this year.
The only way I have been able to avoid my wife's parents this year is by suggesting we go to the US to stay with her sister - who I get on with.

As I am not in contact with my parents & sister I find being around lots of my wife's family too much at times. I can cope with my sister-in-law and her husband ok.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 10:14, Reply)

i knowwhat you mean
my ex's family were a bit intense and numerous. Familes should be kept at a distance.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 10:16, Reply)

I suppose being away from my family for three months before Christmas helps.
But I love everyone being together drinking Baileys whilst we watch my cousins batter each other with their new lightsabres/guns/remote control cars.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 10:17, Reply)