I consider Christmas as down time so I try and stuff as many duty visits into the day itself and then attempt to avoid people for the rest of the holiday.
Lucky lucky bastard ( Monty Python mode off) Christmas will be the same as it's always is. i'm happy to accept it's Christmas in Dec but not before. Bloody Shops. Working over Christmas as per last year the year before that and so on. I do the staff rota and will be in Christmas Day this year "wooohoo feck it", and will be getting time off when it's my day off Enjoy watching the kids open their pressy, crap TV, Best thing about working over Christmas? not seeing the in laws
Usually, we go out. As i do most of the cooking, it's my treat to eat out on Xmas day, plus i don't have to visit the outlaws etc... This year, the kids didn't want to eat out, so we are staying in. I suggested an Indian take out (you can have a turkey curry?) but the look i got nearly turned me to stone….so, this year the missus is cooking…wahhay. I cannot wait for woodchurch road primary school fodder, and to entertain the outlaws. Bliss, in fact, i shall put the whole experiance akin to twatting a 3 inch nail down my japs eye, with a rusty spoon. I do like Xmas though, not the shite that goes with it.
I love this place. Up until now I was the only grinch in the house. Now I can share it with my imaginary friends.
First thing Christmas Day morning is I get the running around visiting everyone wishing them seasons greetings and I hope they got a new set of legs off Santa, because apparently come Christmas Day they don't know how to get to our home! So thats fcuked my Christmas Eve drinki poos up for a start, while Gills talking bollox with the family,Ill pop to the cemetery for a bit of quiet time, drop some flowers on my boy and Gills parents, and have a wander around some of the lads I've known and lost over the years. Home time and ill have a glass of port whilst getting in the way in the kitchen. Keep the kids entertained watch a film or listen to music, really just chill my beanz and enjoy what I have. Not a religious person, so I don't see it or use it as such, for me it's just 1 day of the year I can celebrate having my family for another year.
What a coincidence. Jeanette usually asks who's driving from halfway down a glass too. The danger of living out of towns is you're always passing someone else's door on the way in and no one else needs to come out that far so 'don't worry, ken will pick you up'. Do you really think I bought a two seater because of some mid life crisis? C'mon. I've got a FireBlade for chris'sake.
I don't get the big deal about christmas.... Songs on the radio in November, all the hype and people going mental buying you shite you don't need!! For me it's two weeks off to chill, love going out Christmas eve for dinner and beers, do the rounds Xmas day, then catch up on jobs round the house until the over rated NYE... And then back to work for suicidal skint January....
Usually have my partner's family round for Christmas meal, all eight of them! I do the cooking which is fine as long as there's a glass of wine on the go and she entertains and keeps the grandchildren happy. It's nice to have family around you but other than that I'm not really a Christmas person. It's also nice when it's all over 'cos it feels like a milestone, you're on the other side looking forward to summer.
Bloody Christmas.....I used to love it when the kids were small but, seeing as they now seem to prefer spending the 'festive period' with my ex wife and her hubby in South Africa, Lapland, Egypt, Canada or where ever else they are might be going this year, Personally I cant see what wrong with the freezing flat lands of the Fens and the Queens speech with my mother, but each to his own. But this year my dick splash of a brother has stepped up to the plate and is at last having our mother so Ling and I are going away. 5 star lackeys on hand to feed and water us. Lavely jabbly.
Xmas is a great time of year , been shit for couple of years , but this time around I get to eat with the family properly , and I can't wait ,
I do like Christmas but not all the hype that goes with it now , Like others have said...songs on the radio in Nov , shops full of stuff in October. If I`m not working it this year (Which I don`t mind as it equates to an extra £1500 for xmas day and boxing day on top of my wages !! ) I have volunterred to do the christmas dinner for my parents this year ! Looking forward to it actually . Will also be trying the preverbial reconcilliation thing again with my sister for the 3rd year in a row . She doesn`t speak to me and has 4 kids and it really grinds on my folks this time of year. So hopefuly this year fingers crossed . Like my folks have said that would be the best present if we could have the family all together again and forget all the gifts an stuff
On a Christmas theme, sat in Asda car park whilst Gill gets the shopping in (I don't do crowds/ditherers/public in general very well) And i can report the shop lifters are very active this morning, they would have needed Husain Bolt as a security guard for that one, only 27 thieving days till christmas hey.
I never really have a typical Christmas on account of having mostly deceased family I never work over Christmas, thankfully. I knock off this year on the 21st and don't go back until the 2nd of Jan. Christmas Eve I'll be out for a few drinks as always with my mates and missus. Then we're up in the morning, open our presents and then get on with preparing the dinner. Then with everything prepped and the turkey cooking we'll head off to the pub for a few pre-dinner pints, then back to the house for dinner and then fall asleep on the couch farting and watching some crap Christmas film or other.
Spot on. That's always how I feel. The corner has been turned and we're on our way back to the lighter nights and FIREBLADING!!!!!
Of course, if the weather's okay, I always go for a cheeky blast on Christmas morning. That way if J wants to visit her evil tribe I can say that I'll meet her there later. Usually just before she is leaving. "What? So soon? Oh well never mind. See you in the new year".
