I am LOOKING FORWARD to the encroaching holidays BECAUSE.....

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I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving because I will spend it with my L.A. extended family, which means scotch and guitars are part of the equation, rather than with my family. I mean I love my family, but this makes the holidays a lot more fun. How bout you?

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

- feasting
- not being at work for 12 hours a day, or at all (!!!)
- getting time to paint
- working my way through the stack of 20 dvds on my shelf
- getting time to play gta: san andreas
- getting out of la for a few days
- seeing family
- feasting

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanksgiving: I am making good food. People will eat it and go, "Hm, that there, that's some good food," although there will also be some "why isn't there Stovetop" and "pass the canned cranberry sauce" and "why is there bunny in this," but so it goes.

Christmas: Christmas dinner is foie gras and duck; I will have three weeks to work uncommitted and uninterrupted, before having to get back to my thesis a bit; I don't do holidays with family (this year's Thanksgiving is a rare exception), so don't have to deal with the nonsense of travel and other peoples' stress; I'm getting the World Series DVD for Christmas; my friends in China are getting me "one of each of all the weird American-brand things we find," including steak- and turkey-flavored Cheetos, mint Sprite, blueberry Juicyfruit, et alia. (I won't actually see them until February, but even so.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Somehow there's greater novelty and adventure to blueberry Juicyfruit gum, see, rather than "some blueberry gum you never heard of before." It's like fucking your second grade teacher instead of some other stripper, and my friends understand this.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm just excited to hang out with my family -- word on the street my aunt is fcoming to thanksgiving and i havent seen her since i was 14!!! :0

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

One word: pies.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanksgiving is all about food, which is a damn good thing for a holiday to be all about. Christmas is all about lights and crisp air and hopefully snow and cheer and warmth and did I mention lights? You can't fucking beat Christmas. I used to hate it, but I was just being a mean-spirited little shit. BRING ON THE NAT KING COLE, DAMNIT! BRING ON THE SWEATERS! LIFE IS NEVER AS GOOD AS IT IS DURING CHRISTMAS!

― Kenan (kenan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, add Christmas music and Christmas specials to my list, dude. If the Ghosts of Christmas don't visit Sawyer on the island and teach him the True Meaning of Christmas so that he gives his hoarded goodies to the little kid, the terrorist have already won etc.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

BRING ON THE SWEATERS!

This should be a meme--it perfectly describes the season. I am wearing a sweater as we speak.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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I like all the Scandiphenalia around the house.. straw goats, little angels that spin over candles and ring bells, little trolls and flags and things that only get unpacked for a brief window of time and then are shoved in the attic again. God Jul!

― andy, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, that's way Viking Pagan looking! What is it?

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Christmas lights and 1940's voices on the radio.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Merriment on most days this particular extended weekend, including a superfab get-together on Thursday with a dear friend and her family in Fullerton, roxor.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

18 days off work, and only 9 of 'em as annual leave! I can't wait 'til Christmas!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

18 days off work? holy mackerel! I get... FOUR days off work, and thats a LOT compared to some people in this country.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It's coz of X-mas and new year being on the weekend, which gives us an extra bank holiday! Plus, I didn't go anywhere in the summer.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

The straw goats? I don't know what they are. We have a couple of them around the folks' house.

― andy, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This Christmas will be the first one Nick and I will get to spend alone together - sans family!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

There is no greater joy in life than drinking a high-octane Christmas punch or mulled wine outside in sub-zero weather surrounded by friends, family, and complete strangers.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The opportunity to spend improbable amounts of cash in the city I love.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Two weeks off work
2. Lots of food and drink
3. I know what I'm getting for Christmas
4. It's the only time left like the old school holidays, when you know everyone else is off as well and you can do what you like
5. Catching up on sleep
6. Between Christmas and NYE pub crawl
7. A close friend's birthday which promises to be absolutely fucking rocking
8. Seeing the back of 2004
9. Possible exciting work developments just over the horizon, and a real feeling of renewal
10. Horse sandwiches

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I am Captain Christmas. I am getting my tree this weekend and have already put my lights out on the deck and inside my house.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i get to spend lots of time with my fake nephews and fake brother, i hope.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Spending time with my mum, her delicious cooking, time off work, that's all.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Joining the annual community chorus sing-a-long of Handel's "Messiah". Believe it or not.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, I just remembered that I bought Sarah a book of hot toddy recipes last year, so we get to try out different hot alcoholic drinks. All right!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Mugs of Mountgay, honey & hot water
2. Two weeks off work
3. One week in Italy
4. Seeing my grandparents (the rest of my family I've seen recently/aren't much bothered about)
5. Proper log fire at Mum and Dad's
6. Trifle for breakfast on boxing day

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmmm Madchen I agree with No.1, but I find it difficult to track down Extra Old.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I am happy because I got the menu update for the dinner--all straight-up old fashioned comfort food! Woo-hoo!

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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