That's funny.



That's because you focus on the negative.

I like most of the volunteer stuff I do, some crap out though. I like Yoga, swimming, strength classes, softball, kickball, dodgeball, laser tag, trail hiking, and that ifly thing. I like cooking, looking for house stuff or house projects, crafts, drawing, painting, making gifts, grocery shopping especially if I'm out of town. I like food, food festivals, food related parties, and restaurants. I like my husband, my kids, my parents, most of my aunts and uncles, most of my cousins, neighbors, and a couple people from school and hockey. I keep in touch with a couple of college friends, and high school friends. I like having people over. I like bad movies, 80s music, watching hockey, and the comedy channels on siruis. I like sitting on the beach, thunderstorms, convertibles, board games, puzzles, candy crush, and most dogs.

so pretty much anything that is not work.

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If you didn't have a sweater tied around your waist and a pumpkin spice latte in your offhand while writing that, it's the upset of the year.

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Well I'd say Christmas itself is a holiday for me since, whether through work or school, I'm typically off and so are other family members. There's no religious element to the activities we do over Christmas but, again, it's cool to soak in the enjoyment/merriment of others. Irrationally, I get a bit bummed out when there's no snow on the ground on Christmas day or, even worse, when it's warm enough to get by without a coat (I guess it's my misfortune to be born during a naturally occurring period of global warming ). I've got other holidays for sure but there's nothing like November-January mainly because it's holiday season for everyone here, regardless of whether you personally celebrate or not. Lots of fond memories for me around this time.

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A lot of those things can be done during Christmastime.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I used to do Habitat for Humanity but when I had kids I stopped that because it didn't really fit with the schedule. I'd consider most of the other volunteer stuff (PADS, PTA, church, and school) work and I like some of it. It can go wrong and it sucks when it does. I might check out FSS but you need to take training classes and I haven't looked into that.

Working out is work but I like the activities I listed. Having people over can be a lot of work. Having kids and a marriage is work but I like it. I like having a clean house but I wouldn't list cleaning my house as something I like.

I think I'd like and have been looking for a retail job or a job in food the industry. I need help getting stuff together and haven't had a lot of time in the last few months. A lot of people would not say they like "work" when asked to list the things they like. I'm not sure what you are pointing out here.

per kid. the grandparents spoil 'em rotten. They're all under 4.

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See this is why I don't share. I don't like coffee.

I would have listed sex and booze but I thought you guys knew that already.

What does that have to do with anything?

Spaulding is more beta than half the guys on this board.

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That you are doing Christmas wrong if you don't enjoy it.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

It's 4 nonstop weeks of having to be places and having to do things while spending money I don't really want to spend and thinking of things I don't really want to think of while trying to be gracious about it. Half the time I disappoint people and my husband's family is just nuts. It's way too much socializing crammed in to a few weeks. Hey Spaulding we love you Merry Christmas now do what I want you to do or I'll be pissy. It makes me stressed and tired and depressed.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Potter.

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You know me like that.

This seems to counteract a good portion of the list of things you like.

The holidays are what you make of them.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

So whoop de doo and dickory dock... and forget to hang up your sock

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Pix or it didn't happen.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I love Thanksgiving and 4th of July.

Christmas is falling short of everybody's expectations and demands.

It's always more of a had to be there sort of thing.

<insert pineapple joke>

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Thank God you said "joke".

That was 2 seconds of horrific images.

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You know me like that.

this woman was having a bad day at Michaels:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... c#comments

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Shake them haters off, Spaulding!

Also, the above only matters if you give a shit about everybody's expectations and demands. Live life as if no one is your equal.

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We used to do Thanksgiving with my side of the family and Christmas with my wife's side.
We decided this because my side is way further away and it's not as hazardous a drive in November as it is in December.
For reasons I won't go in to, we've basically bailed on doing anything with my side, and do both thnxgvng and xmas at my MIL's and that's perfectly fine with me.
I'm usually miserable even on my own birthday.
It just stresses me out, and my wife spoils our daughter 12 months out of the year, so it's really not even that much of a special occasion. But at least our kid isn't spoiled 'rotten', like a lot of kids. She's always just getting more shit that eventually she gets tired of and we end up donating it to charity at some point.
I'm pretty meh on all the holidays.

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the only reason I began reading your post is for those reasons you won't go into

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my side has become so splintered for so many reasons, you could take a shot in the dark and take wild guesses and you'd probably be right......

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I had inferred that you were an atheist? True?

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I'm not trying to be a dick, but I don't understand what you're trying to say.
Those are the names of the holidays, correct?
What am I not getting?

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

Don't sweat it...hatchetman is a moron.

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How is Thanksgiving related to religion in any way?

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Because Jesus created turkeys and pumpkin pie.

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