Things that ruin Christmas

[Snaggletiger]

Love Christmas.  Best time of the year.  We had our house on the Christmas Tour of Homes down here about 10 years ago.  Had 7-8 trees up.  Every inch of the house decorated like a small town in a Hallmark Christmas movie.  We've certainly scaled way back and the decorating is lot simpler, but we still hit it pretty hard. 

A couple of keys for us in getting to enjoy the season is to get the decorations up early.  We were 90% done days before Thanksgiving.  I know, I know...but once you hit December, there's something going on seemingly every night and certainly every weekend.  So, at this point, I don't want to be dragging stuff down out of the attic and spending all our time putting up trees and decorations.  It's long since done and we can kick back and enjoy.

Second, my daughter is grown and living on her own.  My son is a senior in HS. We no longer have to make sure they have 15 presents apiece under the tree to open.  Just find out a couple of things they really want or need and limit it to that and cut the shopping by 3/4 or 452/615ths.  Plus, the get togethers on each family side are more Dirty Santa type dealios. There's very little thinking about what to get people anymore.     

[GH2001]

Love Christmas.  Best time of the year.  We had our house on the Christmas Tour of Homes down here about 10 years ago.  Had 7-8 trees up.  Every inch of the house decorated like a small town in a Hallmark Christmas movie.  We've certainly scaled way back and the decorating is lot simpler, but we still hit it pretty hard.

A couple of keys for us in getting to enjoy the season is to get the decorations up early.  We were 90% done days before Thanksgiving.  I know, I know...but once you hit December, there's something going on seemingly every night and certainly every weekend.  So, at this point, I don't want to be dragging stuff down out of the attic and spending all our time putting up trees and decorations.  It's long since done and we can kick back and enjoy.

Second, my daughter is grown and living on her own.  My son is a senior in HS. We no longer have to make sure they have 15 presents apiece under the tree to open.  Just find out a couple of things they really want or need and limit it to that and cut the shopping by 3/4 or 452/615ths.  Plus, the get togethers on each family side are more Dirty Santa type dealios. There's very little thinking about what to get people anymore.   

You watch hallmark movies?

[Snaggletiger]

You watch hallmark movies?

Well lately they've been recycling the old ones and I thought they were running like 17 new movies this seas......wait, I mean.....Hallmark movies?  Me?  Come on, you're kidding, right?  Hallmark movies.  Pffffffft….

[Snaggletiger]

Okay......I watch Hallmark movies.

[GH2001]

Okay......I watch Hallmark movies.

Christmas in Evergreen: The Vermont Trip Part 5. I’m so excited. Premiers this weeken....I mean yeah. F those movies. Who watches that shit anyway

[The Six]

Okay......I watch Hallmark movies.

[Kaos]

Christmas in Evergreen: The Vermont Trip Part 5. I’m so excited. Premiers this weeken....I mean yeah. F those movies. Who watches that shit anyway

My girlfriend is a busy professional.  We are both immersed in our work. She just inherited a Christmas tree farm from an aunt she hasn’t seen in years but she used to spend the holiday season there when she was a child.  There’s a small country inn attached to the property. Some guy she knew when she was a kid is the groundskeeper. She’s going up there December 19. Im staying back to work until Christmas Eve. Gonna surprise her with a plan to raze the farm and turn it into a ski lodge. 

Might propose too.  Gonna be a great holiday 

[GH2001]

My girlfriend is a busy professional.  We are both immersed in our work. She just inherited a Christmas tree farm from an aunt she hasn’t seen in years but she used to spend the holiday season there when she was a child.  There’s a small country inn attached to the property. Some guy she knew when she was a kid is the groundskeeper. She’s going up there December 19. Im staying back to work until Christmas Eve. Gonna surprise her with a plan to raze the farm and turn it into a ski lodge.

Might propose too.  Gonna be a great holiday

Post of the Holiday season 

[ssgaufan]

I'd say getting caught with your pecker in your sister in laws mouth would ruin a Christmas pretty quickly.

[Snaggletiger]

I'd say getting caught with your pecker in your sister in laws mouth would ruin a Christmas pretty quickly.

Post of the holiday season.

[Snaggletiger]

Post of the Holiday season

Let me warn you.  There's a real good chance that you're going to get stuck in a snow storm on the way up there, most likely stranded at the airport.  There's also a good possibility the childhood groundskeeper friend, is someone who looks like a male model and had his chances to leave the small town life for the big city but things just never worked out, so he stayed.  And, while he's off duty, they'll most likely keep bumping into each other in the coffee shop or hardware store.  And she may wind up having feelings for him and him for her, but both will make sure they don't express it, but will knowingly smile every time they part ways.  Eventually, he'll get the nerve to ask her to the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, which has been THE big even in that small town for the last 47 years.  She'll think of you and decide it's not a good idea, so she'll call to check on you but the snow storm will have knocked out all service, so on a whim, she decides to go with him.

In the meantime, there's also a good chance that while you have been stuck at the airport, you'll run into an old friend named Stephanie that you dated a couple of times in high school until her family moved off to Chicago.  Turns out she was married to someone in the military, but he was killed a couple of years ago and she's just been focusing on her career since then and hasn't had the time or desire to date again.  But admits that lately, she's thought that it might be time to loosen up a little and see what's out there because she can't let that painful memory control her life forever.  It may also just happen that where she lives and works is within an hour of your home.  Meanwhile, cellular service remains out and the storm shows no signs of letting up.

I'm just saying that's one possible scenario.  Then again, everything may go smooth as goose shit and you marry your girlfriend. 

[Kaos]

Let me warn you.  There's a real good chance that you're going to get stuck in a snow storm on the way up there, most likely stranded at the airport.  There's also a good possibility the childhood groundskeeper friend, is someone who looks like a male model and had his chances to leave the small town life for the big city but things just never worked out, so he stayed.  And, while he's off duty, they'll most likely keep bumping into each other in the coffee shop or hardware store.  And she may wind up having feelings for him and him for her, but both will make sure they don't express it, but will knowingly smile every time they part ways.  Eventually, he'll get the nerve to ask her to the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, which has been THE big even in that small town for the last 47 years.  She'll think of you and decide it's not a good idea, so she'll call to check on you but the snow storm will have knocked out all service, so on a whim, she decides to go with him.

In the meantime, there's also a good chance that while you have been stuck at the airport, you'll run into an old friend named Stephanie that you dated a couple of times in high school until her family moved off to Chicago.  Turns out she was married to someone in the military, but he was killed a couple of years ago and she's just been focusing on her career since then and hasn't had the time or desire to date again.  But admits that lately, she's thought that it might be time to loosen up a little and see what's out there because she can't let that painful memory control her life forever.  It may also just happen that where she lives and works is within an hour of your home.  Meanwhile, cellular service remains out and the storm shows no signs of letting up.

I'm just saying that's one possible scenario.  Then again, everything may go smooth as goose shit and you marry your girlfriend.

I will fuck Stephanie in the airport bathroom.  Rent a SnoCat, drive it to the tree farm, shove a broomstick up the ass of the groundskeeper, throw the girlfriend down and act like I’m going to go down on her but never quite get there.  Then I’ll ram the stinky rod home once. Hard. Then I’ll leave.  Call Stephanie. Take her to Jamaica and spend three weeks trying to break her back. 

[Snaggletiger]

I will fuck Stephanie in the airport bathroom.  Rent a SnoCat, drive it to the tree farm, shove a broomstick up the ass of the groundskeeper, throw the girlfriend down and act like I’m going to go down on her but never quite get there.  Then I’ll ram the stinky rod home once. Hard. Then I’ll leave.  Call Stephanie. Take her to Jamaica and spend three weeks trying to break her back.

Well, then there's that possibility too.

[Kaos]

Well, then there's that possibility too.

In all seriousness?  I've toyed with the idea (and written down a rough draft) of a Five Years after "Hallmark Ruined My Life" screenplay.  

[AUJarhead]

I'd say getting caught with your pecker in your sister in laws mouth would ruin a Christmas pretty quickly.

Why is Buzz telling you about his holiday parties, and not the rest of us?

[Godfather]

Why is Buzz telling you about his holiday parties, and not the rest of us?

That would also explain his problems with HR for last years Christmas work party

[Buzz Killington]

That would also explain his problems with HR for last years Christmas work party

HR says I can't talk about that anymore

[CCTAU]

On a more somber note, family passing at Christmas does not make for a good holiday season. There are many people out there who have to deal with this every year.

My younger brother's birthday is the 12th. He passed 4 days before Christmas two years ago at the young age of 46. We are all happy now that he is out of pain, but it still weighs heavily on my parents. It's not right to lose a child.
So when I see these types of posts, I have to remember that it could be much worse than just "bah humbug".
So I remember all of the good times. I suggest you guys do the same. Life is too short to be sad at Christmas time!

[Godfather]

On a more somber note, family passing at Christmas does not make for a good holiday season. There are many people out there who have to deal with this every year.

My younger brother's birthday is the 12th. He passed 4 days before Christmas two years ago at the young age of 46. We are all happy now that he is out of pain, but it still weighs heavily on my parents. It's not right to lose a child.
So when I see these types of posts, I have to remember that it could be much worse than just "bah humbug".
So I remember all of the good times. I suggest you guys do the same. Life is too short to be sad at Christmas time!

Now I have one. This post.