My Xmas Plans? Locking myself in the house!

[maseman]

I love Christmas but hate the trafiic, the nutjobs, the drunk drivers and the weather is supposed to suck also.

I got my presents, my food, my drink and the family comes here. I won't leave the house until about December 26th.

How about your plans?

[flycessnas]

1. I've Got...

...a couple pieces of cookware I'd like to replace but other than that, we're staying home.

[marylanddem]

2. Celebrate with our first artificial Christmas tree ever!

I'm loving how real it looks & how you can bend the branches to hang ornaments. Of course, it was made in China...

[frazzled]

3. Going to see Sweeney Todd

probably. Or stay home and work.

Our tradition usually is to go to the movies, since we don't celebrate Christmas. Usually we always try to find a place to volunteer (soup kitchen, etc.), but almost invariably we are told they don't need us (weird). We'll try again at the shelter our neighbor runs, but he hasn't needed volunteers when we've asked him in the past either.

[book_worm]

18. actually it's not so weird if a shelter or soup kitchen says they don't need you

at this time of year because this is the time when everybody wants to volunteer because they are overcome with the "holiday spirit." It's probably at other times of the year when the "Christmas spirit" has passed that they need volunteers. But Good for you for trying! I will probably see "Sweeney Todd" too.

[KatyaR]

4. I'm right there with you--

I came home last night, locked the door, and am not leaving until Wednesday. The traffic sucks, the weather here has turned bitter cold, and I've DONE with Christmas after my boss wished me a blessed CHRISTmas yesterday in an email. Ugh.

I will be playing on the computer, watching some movies, doing some cooking and baking, reading, and maybe a little knitting and spinning. The world can go on without me for a while.

Enjoy your solitude.

[donsu]

5. since I don't do xmas I'll be getting up at 5:45 as usual to work on

my latest project. thankfully the island is small enough that traffic doesn't jam, shoppers are island mates and tourists, as on any other day. temps in the upper 70's.

[sarcasmo]

6. Hey, that's my dream plans.

[kedrys]

7. Gloom and doom chain movies

V For Vendetta, Syriana, and Good Night and Good Luck on Christmas eve.

The Bourne trilogy on Christmas day.

Punctuated by working on my stuff for once, and drinking. :P

[AlCzervik]

8. we stay home on Christmas, when i was a kid we always had to go to someone's

house and i hated it, i just wanted to stay home so now that i have my own family thats exactly what we do, a nice meal, movies and everyone stay in their pajamas all day.

[maseman]

9. Yeah

I hate that rushed forced stuff. I do like Christmas my style. wake up when I want, open presents with the kids, big breakfast my wife makes (she's a great cook,) nap, play with the kids, put logs into the wood stove, watch a movie or two, call a few family members, read, eat dinner, drink and go to bed. Ahhh.

[Irishonly]

10. Very Quiet Christmas

We aren't even doing all of the traditional ham side dishes we usually do. my daughter requested brussel sprouts and no one wants pie. So we are having twice baked potatoes, brussel sprouts, salad, Watergate salad and home made bread. Neither my husband or I could think of anything we wanted so we took the money that we may have spent and donated it for the DU fundraiser and also The Heifer Project. We got our daughter a couple of DVDs and the rest is money. Both my husband and I get her special gifts. I don't know what he got her but I got her a Celtic cross.

Santa Claus Dog comes and sees the dogs. They have their own stockings which will be stuffed with toys and treats. We got them each a big stocking from Petco which has cool stuff and best I could tell wasn't made in China.

Friday night a young man we have known since he was a child was shot and killed. It was hard talking to his brother and sister. While they were growing up our home was their second home. It's hard to keep going right now. It's probably a good thing everything is done. The family isn't going to know anything till after Christmas. I do all of the silly midwestern stuff. I have taken food and took a poinsettia so they could plant it in remembrance of a great kid.

[orleans]

12. my daughter and i went into petco tonight--everything was made in china

it was unreal. all the dog toys anyway. and i think i saw the stocking you're talking about--it was clear plastic and filled with chew bones and a couple toys maybe--i don't remember looking to see where that was made.

china--argh. seems like most everything in kohls is made in fucking poison china too.

sorry to hear about your friend who was killed. how truly horrible. my sincere condolences.

[Irishonly]

15. You Are Right

I could have sworn it said some where else. It's getting almost impossible to find anything made here.

Thank you for your condolences. He was a great young man trying to turn his life around.

[nonconformist]

11. We wanted to stay home, but couldn't get out of Christmas Eve at the in-laws

Without hurting feelings, that is. But we're not staying long this year. We did, however, get out of Christmas Day dinner at another relative's house, so we'll be eating at home alone for the first time in years. Yay!

I do have to trek out tomorrow for some things, though.

[Vinca]

13. The 10 days from just before Christmas until the day after New Years

is the worst time of the year. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. I've got a couple of books set aside to read and I plan to take many naps. Wake me when it's over.

[Swamp Rat]

14. I'm going to stay home and eat the christmas tree.

It's a rosemary bush trimmed like a a christmas tree. ;)

[Pachamama]

16. Your going to stay home and eat a bush?

:)

Hi Swamp'r! Long time no see! I have missed you here on the DU....actually, its me that's been missing in action...the holidays have been keeping me so busy with all the activities of the kids at school etc....I topped it off on Friday by taking the Pachababies to see the Nutcracker Ballet in San Francisco....Now I'm up in Oregon visiting the Inlaws....I think that for Christmas, I'll be stuffing myself with all the delicious food that they have and then taking a long winters nap and catching up on the sleep I've not been getting in the last year thanks to what's going on in our country.

Hope you are well and that you and your family have a peaceful and loving holiday together. Thinking of you....

[Swamp Rat]

17. HAHA! Yes!

If I only saw this post earlier, I'm sure it would have become rated X. :spank:

Pachababies! :loveya: I hope they enjoyed themselves. I'll be at my mom's place in the French Quarter tomorrow stuffing myself full of lobster like there's no tomorrow. After finishing my masters degree this long, hard semester I deserve all the edible goodies and rest I can get. :9

Have a wonderful, restful holiday. We both deserve it. Give Pachababies and Pachadaddy a big hug from me. :hug:

[kineneb]

19. having dinner at friends' house,

three blocks away. Sort of a BYO side dish thing.

We had a Solstice bonfire on the evening of the 21st.

No tree or decor this year...too much effort for my poor stressed-out depressed mind. The bonfire was just the thing- burned marshmallows over the fire with fixing for S'mores, and hot spiced apple juice inside. We listened to twisted Christmas carols and laughed. The family showed up today to exchange gifts.

[KatyMan]

20. My wife has to work,

so we're staying in London over the holidays. She'll be working, and I'll be reading, drinking, and paying a visit to a good friend who is in the hospital, after a heart attack. Beyond that, I'm looking forward to a nice relaxing time, since all transport in London stops on Christmas, it should be quiet in the city....