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this one was shared with me today on Facebook
...it''s the udder tree
My home will do a fake tree but my mum will do a real tree. I rather do a digital tree in ds.
I don't like the cutting of trees just to throw them away like rubbish after two weeks or so. We either take a stylized fake tree (you can use it year after year...), or we buy some small potted trees and plant them into the garden after Christmas. We already have a few there, and this year we'll decorate them a bit, too.
I'm with all those folks who like trees to stay in the ground (or at least in the soil), churning out oxygen and soaking up CO2.
But if you do go with a real tree, please use LED lights, and make sure any extension cords you may use are in good repair. Real trees can get very dry, and they are perfect kindling. Every city of any size just about has one or two fires every Xmas season as a result of some combination of dry trees, hot lights, electricity, candles, stress, relatives, and alcohol. Most apartment buildings in this city (and some condos) forbid real trees for that reason.
My hubby hates Christmas and will only take part if coaxed and cajoled. We stopped doing the Xmas thing it in my family when I was 10. So, while we've had a couple of Christmases in the 18 years we've been married, I've started to enjoy having a stress and debt free season far too much to participate again. Christmas is really most exciting for kids. No kids in this household, so we continue the family tradition of cooking pot roast on Xmas, or -- eating at an Indian restaurant. :)
Not boycotting Christmas or anything. I'd certainly attend a performance of Handel's Messiah, if there were one, for instance. But whenever someone asks, "Are you done with all your Christmas shopping?" it's nice to answer, "Yep." (I usually don't follow it up with: "Bought a bag of gummy fir trees and a chocolate santa. I'm done." unless it's the tenth time that day I've been asked.)
i don't do the presents thing like i did ten years ago. this year i bought a bunch 'frustration free packaging' 8gb flashdrives for stocking stuffers.
i'm making cookies to give, gonna buy some holiday theme tins at the dollar store.
and a giftbox bottle of Bailey's for my closest peeps. the St Brenden's irish creme is even better, but iz hard to find locally.
if i'm feeling better closer to christmas, i'd like to try making the taralli cookies
We had an artificial white tree with red lights one year and it reminded me of a Michael Whelan painting for a series of H.P. Lovecraft horror stories. I don't like the white tree but I discovered a artificial green tree with artificial snow I distrust even more as I walked through the hallowed halls of WallyWorld last night to get an oil filter. The white tree has fortunately been whisked off to the guest room and decorated for the arrival of my unsuspecting non-Gentile In-Laws and in it's time honored spot in the living room now stands a 9 foot artificial tree that the cat has been very inquisitive about.
One week to Thanksgiving and Christmas has begun..
Even though I said "I don't do Christmas", I avoid the gratuitous gifting but I make one exception. I have no kids, just a niece and nephew twins, who are 11 this year. No gifts given to or expected from adults but I do give a couple simple meaningful gifts to the twins. Gift bags, each with two books, a simple toy that demonstrates a basic scientific principle, a small bag of chocolate coins, and a card. One book in each bag is an expensive high quality "coffee-table" book about science, places, people or art and the other is a classic or sci-fi novel. I've been doing this twice a year for several years now for Christmas and their birthday.
I have no patience for gadgets or trivial toys. It's not my place to buy them clothes. Giving money is a thoughtless copout and they'd just blow it anyway. And I know I'm not giving duplicates of things the parents would be giving.
The kids are good readers ahead of their age level so I try not to retard them with books below their level. This is a small town in a stagnant area. I grew up in this area but it was books like those that I had a chance to browse at the home my sophisticated aunt & uncle that woke me to the wonders and possibilities of the wider world. I want them to have a similar chance.
...very nice. I like that.
29 days left until Christmas Eve!
eeeeks i dont have a tree yet, or the choo-choo
time to melt up the smores :cheese:
Although I love Christmas, I don't really "do" it in my home, so there's not much point to putting up a tree or going to great extents to decorate the inside of my home. If I were having people over for parties or dinner, I might spring for a tree.
But I do engage in activities; love Santa, doing food donation drive, and VERY selected gift-giving to children related to me, nephews, etc. Parents won't let me pay for a meal out; not even once in awhile, even though I am financially secure, so the only way I can share in the PROVIDING of a meal is to give a gift card or cook it myself. So I often do both.
So for the adults in my family, I will often just give a $100 gift card for Home Depot, a nice place to eat, or the movie theaters. And then I'll take over my mom's kitchen and cook something delicious like lasagna, burgers, or chilli and grilled chicken, etc. We eat good, everybody I love is hanging out together, the kitchen is my domain during meal prep, somebody ELSE cleans up and loads the dish washer, and maybe best of all, we don't have to argue about who doesn't like onions on their pizza. >:( That I will never understand because I'll eat just about anything that grows in God's dirt!
even pizza with pineapple on it?
...of all, I miss the food. Granddad would bake the holiday Stöllen (A traditional German holiday bread), make Bingets, and other treats. Grandmum and mum would bake the various traditional holiday cookies including the shaped shortbread ones with the sugar sprinkles and what are known as "Icebox cookies". Of course there was the big Christmas pancake and sausage breakfast, and later, the dinner (usually turkey with all the trimmings), all the snacks and holiday sweets (including now hard to find Barley Candy), lots of real hot cocoa (made with cocoa powder, milk, sugar and vanilla, none of this "Swiss Miss" stuff in a packet). Was also the only time I could have a glass of wine when I was young (during the holiday dinner).
For about a week, the aromas of the holidays filled the house, and made one feel just a bit "warmer" both inside and out.
..letsee, tomato sauce, spices, and acidic pineapple Definitely the fast track to heartburn on par with a crucible filled with molten steel for myself.
i'm working christmas eve, prolly stop at a restaurant for fetucini alfredo.
was looking at choo choos on amazon, there be a hogwarts trainset :lol:
luv giant pancakes!!! the size of the pan :) sometimes the middle, middle doesn't cook
Do not know my Christmas eve schedule yet.
Always decorated the tree growing in the front yard and kept the inside decorations simple and easy to set up and put away. This year no tree, a semi didn't quite make the curve and took out the towns tree on the common, donated mine as a replacement. Will probably get a wreath from VFW.
And you don't use tomato sauce with a pineapple pizza. You use a sweet and sour barbecue sauce and chunks of honey ham and sweet onion slices, no cheese.
yumma bbq sauce.
i like pineapple and coconut in my rum. :)
...tomato based sauce is what most pizza places and store bought pizzas use though.
...and pizza without cheese, is well, just not "pizza" to this lover of the east coast and Chicago style.
...tomato based sauce is what most pizza places and store bought pizzas use though.
...and pizza without cheese, is well, just not "pizza" to this lover of the east coast and Chicago style.
My dad is lactose intolerant so he eats pizza without cheese.
Yup, I do very very little. Hide in my cave as my clients all hear. They ask and they hear the same thing every year...
"So Richard, what are you doing for Thanksgiving hon?"
"Hiding in my cave"
"Oh, of course" *laughter*
"So Richard, what are you doing this Christmas Season hon?"
"Well, I'm hiding in my cave until all the nut jobs are done celebrating and going crazy with traffic, shopping and carrying on"
"Oh, of course" *rolling eyes* *laughter*
I'm Wiccan anyway, I would send up prayers on Yule and light a candle. That's USUALLY what I do!
I really like the Krampus figure that Sixus1 did up for Poser. I really wish he liked DAZ Studio enough to rig it for DS. Cool figure!
Yup, I do very very little. Hide in my cave as my clients all hear. They ask and they hear the same thing every year...
"So Richard, what are you doing for Thanksgiving hon?"
"Hiding in my cave"
"Oh, of course" *laughter*
"So Richard, what are you doing this Christmas Season hon?"
"Well, I'm hiding in my cave until all the nut jobs are done celebrating and going crazy with traffic, shopping and carrying on"
"Oh, of course" *rolling eyes* *laughter*
I'm Wiccan anyway, I would send up prayers on Yule and light a candle. That's USUALLY what I do!
I really like the Krampus figure that Sixus1 did up for Poser. I really wish he liked DAZ Studio enough to rig it for DS. Cool figure!
Hmmm, have you noticed that many of us non-celebrators in this forum thread are the anthro-beasts? 8-s
I'm an earth Wolf too so I feel the earth and I'm Thankful to be on it (most of the time). I was never one for all the pomp and circumstance of the holidays. Even as a kid, it was bothersome to me. I know.. bah humbug but it's really not like that. I just don't care for all that stuff. I give gifts during the year "just because" or on birthdays, to LIVING people not some dude that was alive a zillion years ago. I'm sure "he" understands my stance! lol
i need the kind of popcorn to string for christmas trees, don't know if jiffypop would work ?
ever read the wolf nomad series? Rose Estes - forgotten realms
used to enjoy those :)
If it's any consolation, I'm working Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve this year. We can suffer "together"...
:shut:
better with company? :) yayy for T1
Almost any 3 day old popcorn will work. Turns into little rubber lumps! (except maybe in the desert)
Having been a professional grump for the last 20 years. I understand the lack of enthusiasm for pomp and circumstance. I think what got me started was the office birthday shepherd. You know, the perpetually smiling, over perfumed secretary who believes any birthday date in the office deserves a party and organizes cash collections for people's birthday gift, as if they had any idea what type of gift to get for the unlucky birthday person. And naively assumes birthday celebrations are universally desired. Irritating creatures they are! Go away, don't ask me to give cash for people I tolerate but may not like. And fie on you if you organize a restaurant waiter birthday serenade.