The Grinch Thread

[Lady Resin]

I use to adore Christmas. Loved buying the tree, going to the mall and shop, baking and cooking. I'm over it. Now we have a 3' fiber optic tree and shopping on line. Instead of cooking, ordering from a local deli.

http://justgrits.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/grinch_santa.jpg

[west milly Tom]

I use to adore Christmas. Loved buying the tree, going to the mall and shop, baking and cooking. I'm over it. Now we have a 3' fiber optic tree and shopping on line. Instead of cooking, ordering from a local deli.

http://justgrits.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/grinch_santa.jpg

remember this post people. this is what happends if you smoke too much.:laugh:

[jennysmurf]

I don't even have a tree this year. Did all my shopping online. Didn't even bake any cookies. What's going on!!:unsure:

[~Katja~]

I certainly looked and sounded like the grinch when the damn tree topper kept falling off the tree... the things we do for our kids.. seriously

[jennysmurf]

remember this post people. this is what happends if you smoke too much.:laugh:

Smoking turns you into the Grinch? I knew it!

[Gvac]

It's sad, but Christmas is only fun for kids. Unfortunately it becomes a stressful event the older you get.

Bah humbug!

[BlackSpider]

I haven't had a tree, or decorated for any holiday in over 14 years...

[west milly Tom]

This is bologna. You guys have to get into the spirit. watch Rudolph, and Frosty and then tell me you dont feel like baking cookies, and firing off one of those long ass family update letters that we all love.

[Foster]

this year its gift card for everyone

the joy of getting your shopping done in 20 minutes

[Foster]

This is bologna. You guys have to get into the spirit. watch Rudolph, and Frosty and then tell me you dont feel like baking cookies, and firing off one of those long ass family update letters that we all love.

I'll eat the cookies, you can keep the letter

[jennysmurf]

This is bologna. You guys have to get into the spirit. watch Rudolph, and Frosty and then tell me you dont feel like baking cookies, and firing off one of those long ass family update letters that we all love.

Notice there's never anything bad in those letters...little Johnny knocked up the school guidance counsellor and Mary came out of the closet this year...What a year for the Smith family!

[Friday]

i feel no stress. i must be a freak.

christmas makes me happy... sad too sometimes, for obvious reasons, but more happy and appreciative of everything i have and the people in my life.

and christmas carols rule.

i am going to Gvac's house to sing O Holy Night and throw some egg nog at him.
wheee!

[west milly Tom]

Notice there's never anything bad in those letters...little Johnny knocked up the school guidance counsellor and Mary came out of the closet this year...What a year for the Smith family!

I perticularly like them when they dress up the family pet like a reindeer.

[jennysmurf]

i feel no stress. i must be a freak.

christmas makes me happy... sad too sometimes, for obvious reasons, but more happy and appreciative of everything i have and the people in my life.

and christmas carols rule.

i am going to Gvac's house to sing O Holy Night and throw some egg nog at him.
wheee!

Pictures please! :thumbup:

It's not so much stress as a general sense of "blah" when it comes to Christmas.

[jennysmurf]

I perticularly like them when they dress up the family pet like a reindeer.

Don't forget the matching sweaters!

http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:DcUfd3v0u0LTBM:http://www.plaidstallions.com/images/family.jpg

[Lady Resin]

It's sad, but Christmas is only fun for kids. Unfortunately it becomes a stressful event the older you get.

Bah humbug!

Thanks to my sister who decided to have the first kid in our family at the age of 46, we will all be getting together on the 25th. He's 20 months old. I bought him a couple of cool gifts. And the kid's a maniac. I almost feel like I'm the grandmother. I get to enjoy him for the day and then they have to take him home. :clap:

[jennysmurf]

Thanks to my sister who decided to have the first kid in our family at the age of 46, we will all be getting together on the 25th. He's 20 months old. I bought him a couple of cool gifts. And the kid's a maniac. I almost feel like I'm the grandmother. I get to enjoy him for the day and then they have to take him home. :clap:

That's all it takes to bring the spirit back! Congrats!:clap:

[sr71blackbird]

There is this guy a block away that has one of the most decorated houses on Long Island and he must spend months getting ready and I bet his garage is full of all this stuff when the season is over. Its insane. I cant imagine having that kind of time.

[SatCam]

Instead of cooking, ordering from a local deli.


now i'm stavin. I think my uncle has had christmas catered for the past 10 years from the same damn place. Only the deserts are home cooked.

[biggestmexi]

I hate christmas so much i ran Christmas trees over.

[cougarjake13]

loved christmas as a kid
late teens to early adulthood couldnt care less
now married and still dont care much

prob will care again when i have kids

[mikeyboy]

I think it's easier to get into the spirit when you have kids. I think I'm actually more into it than usual this year. Of course, the fact that all of my shopping has been done online this year probably helps. Christmas shopping sucks.

[razorboy]

I don't much get into the spirit until Christmas Eve when I sit down with a bottle of bourbon and watch Bogart's We're No Angels. Sometime around midway through that I get misty and start calling up family.

[Thebazile78]

I must be a freak because I don't even mind shopping at the mall, although I am choosy about which mall I will go to. (I have plenty of malls to choose from, though, so it all works out.)

I've been baking cookies since Thanksgiving and have wrapped most of the gifts I've purchased, either as soon as they arrived for online orders or as soon as I brought them home from the store for brick-and-mortar things.

Maybe I'll get anxious about it in a couple of years, but not this year.

[Dougie Brootal]

for 8 years i have begged my family to not involve me in christmas. "please dont buy me anything, as i will not be buying anything for anyone, i dont want to do the whole christmas thing. ill come over for dinner but i dont want presents or any of that shit." i feel like its a childrens holiday, and im an adult now so leave me out of it. and every year it never fails, i get there and everyone has a gift and is all upset that i didnt get them anything. i fucking hate it. i got into a huge fight with my dad today about it too. why after 8 years do you still have to force this bullshit on me?!?! do you really need to give a gift to validate yourself? just be respectful of my wishes. i dont want you to buy me anything, if i want something i buy it myself.






rant over.