How Do You Celebrate Christmas?

[ph03nix]

strictly immediate family , me the kids, my lady.dogs cat..easy ass day no bullshit just really enjoying being together with no stress..usually go and get some vietnamese food..
christmas is one of my favorite times of the year
we all set realistic budgets, get our shopping done before thanks giving, set up the tree on thanksgiving

Usually I'm really disorganised and have almost always needed to go shopping for something at the last minute. I hate that so much... I'm not much of a crowd person. This year though we're pretty well organised. Most of our shopping is already done and it's such a relief... honestly. It's just really the food that we need to organise now, and that's not much really. As we say around here... piece of piss.

Damn thats crazy to think you associate xmas with heat...Well living in the northern hemi its a crazy thought.

I dont get all psyched about xmas like i used to..Now it's kind of a pain in the ass, work slows, and I go broke.

It's kind of funny to live here, let me tell you. I mean, all our christmas cards, decorations, wrapping paper etc, features things like snowmen and reindeer and a fat man in a full, heavy, fur-lined red suit... meanwhile we're sweating our asses off in 40 degree temperatures. And most of us have never seen snow, let alone reindeer... but we accept it as christmassy anyway. For us christmas time means the scent of freshly mown grass and the quiet whisper of the fan blades.....

I think i've stood there before

Oh no... aren't you a nark?... now you know where we live...

Man, Christmas with my family is always the same. All the kids wind up coming back to Mom's and spending the night uncomfortably crowded in one or two bedrooms. We wind up staying up until midnight filling stockings and laughing downstairs while anyone under the age of twelve goes to bed at 9. Then, we all get up again at seven and go downstairs, start a fire in the fireplace, and tear into our stockings. They're usually munchies to make up for the lack of breakfast.

Once Dad gets downstairs, we make a plate of shrimp cocktails and pass 'em around. I guess it's just a weird family tradition, but I don't consider it Christmas without shrimp cocktails. We spend a while going one-by-one through gifts before turning on some Christmas music and talking. We've never done a big Christmas dinner, just munchies. After we clean up ridiculous piles of wrapping paper, we just hang out. Usually, we wind up breaking in a new video game or two.

I need to have watermelon on christmas day or it's just not christmas. When I was a kid we had a patch next to the house and they would be absolutely loaded by christmas time. We'd take one and put it into our big old cement laundry tub, then we'd fill it up with water to cool down the melon. It would always be nicely chilled by the time we cut it up. Sometimes, if we went fishing or camping we'd take an orange bag, put the melon (and/or drinks) inside and tie it to a tree so that it would hang just under the surface of the river. The water movement would cool it down in no time.

 

[ph03nix]

well i generally get up about 9am and have a bowl, then i take a shower and get dressed and what not. Before i leave i smoke another bowl and go to my parents house and open presents and have an awesome breakfast. Me and my sister usually leave about 2 and go smoke a few bowls, i usually give her some weed and she usually gives me some weed so thats always a good gift. About 6 we go back over and have christmas dinner and hang out till about 8 or 9 and then i either go home and smoke some more or sometimes my sister has some people drinking at her place and ill go over their and get trashed. Christmas is always good.

I love the way that every family has their own little traditions. That's a cracker. What a nice way to celebrate.

One christmas I smoked with my uncle, who is gay. We had a ball and at the time I'd have to say that it had been one of the best christmasses of my life... definitely the most memorable.

 

[puffpuffPASSEDOUT]

Christmas is basically just family time nowadays for me. Its a day spent with the anuts and uncles And other relatives. Pretty chill day, We usually are drunk before the nights done...Ill be drunk and high lol

...Christmas isnt really the most important day of the year. This time of year is the best time of the year. Everyones finishing up another sysmester and is awaiting the month or so of vacation from college. Lets just say theres alot of sex drugs and rocking and rolling going on. So christmas is cool, but winter break blows it out of the water imo.

 

[puffpuffPASSEDOUT]

I love the way that every family has their own little traditions. That's a cracker. What a nice way to celebrate.

One christmas I smoked with my uncle, who is gay. We had a ball and at the time I'd have to say that it had been one of the best christmasses of my life... definitely the most memorable.

WOw.

 

[ph03nix]

You know it's almost christmas in Aus when these little guys start showing up. We call them christmas beetles, but they are in fact a jewel beetle. There are heaps of different ones at this time of the year. Most of them are really beautifully coloured and irridescent, but this guy is a little plain. And the photos don't really do him justice anyway... what colour he did have doesn't really show here properly.