mom placation was ironing by which mens perrypops in a womansuit is the new child mystericating teats that can taint baconated digestive broads plastercasting gnostically from the great gospel wwjh

off to stoke fire, perhaps nap by it, may return.

As long as you're not napping in it, it's all good.

Good night, fair ITR denizens. I need to get some sleep before tomorrow; I still have a bunch of wrapping to do and I have to get ready.

farewell you voice of reason!

What was all this about teh durnk?

Oh, just the usual holiday cheer, Ned.

Wait, did someone just call me a "voice of reason?" Whoa.

Dear ITR,

I wish you all a very merry Christmas!!! And may you all get to sleep in as late as you want to tomorrow. And there should be chocolate involved somewhere in here, too.

i am set for xmas:

3 x dvds
1 x enormous bar of hershey's symphony chocolate
2 x donuts for xmas day breakfast
1 x enormous tub of 'bear claw' ice cream (dark choc icecream with choc covered cashews and layers of caramel)

^^^ this is called GOOD PLANNING, people

I will be in HSTNGS tomorrow afternoon at my parent's house. There will definitely be chocolate, and also a big turkey dinner. And the kids' cousins will play with them, so I can pass out in front of the fire place.

Happy christmas all.

Merry Christmas all you wonderful people

Merry Christmas to you all!!! :)

(because you are all awesome and dear)

<3 <3 <3

Joyeux Nöel! Can't believe I am eating leftover cocktail shrimp at 9am.

^^^ The perfect breakfast!

Absolutely, but I just got called a bigot again because I asked her to watch something besides Fox for news.

MERRY CHRISTMAS YOU FANTASTIC BIGOTS!

^^^ what he said

suzy, I am looking forward to a similar type of afternoon. My Dad literally went on about how "black people" are "always ripping him off" at Christmas dinner a few years ago. Very festive!

(is it bad that when relatives act like that, I comfort myself with the thought that they will be dead someday? It doesn't seem very Christmas-y of me.)

MERRY XMAS DUDES

i just erased about 20 different responses to saras dad thing.

He can be really great, but sometimes I just want to shake him until his head falls off.

Just be glad you weren't there. I was sitting with my One Cool Cousin at the table and it was verrrrrry uncomfortable.

But if you don't all have a Very Merry Christmas, I will be very angry, so let's stop talking about insane parents and just be happy because we are young and it is Christmas!!!!!

merry xmas itr! <3 all you guys, but you already know that.

my xmas day so far:
slept in laaate (10am)
ate glazed/choc raised donuts for breakfast
chillin out in my leopard polar-fleece robe
gonna go for a walk later

and got some lame-ass movies to watch

sounds super-boring.

f u loser!!

wau, that just made me v v sad :..(

whatever!

<3 to itr for Xmas <3

Merry xmas peeps.

Xmas in Carmel = great as always. Whole family rolling in good gifts. In my case, this includes Criterion double-disc editions of M, The Third Man and Kurosawa's High and Low, the Jesus and Mary Chain rarities box set, Neil Stephenson's Anathem and a book on cocktails plus liquor. And bookplates and more.

So in essence yay me. And yay you all and if you have to escape evil relatives please to do so with vim and vigor. Merry Xmas I sez I sez.

i asked just1n3 if she wanted to get chinese food, and she said she'd rather have indian food. i told that's because she hates jews.

my xmas:

xmas eve pub dinner and stomp across the dunes and marshes home
xmas morning bacon and eggs
knit
pub whilst the turkey is on
late xmas lunch complements on my xmas pudding
presents, I am up in shirts with insects on them
watch 'a christmas story' round the fire
eat and get compliments on christmas cake
a rather good christmas all in all

lovely christmas everyone<3

omg Indian food sounds soooo awesome, you guys.

Everyone had a good day then! (pending reports otherwise)

My day was shockingly fantastic; I think my family has been visited by Jacob Marley's ghost or something. Everyone was jovial, my Dad said disturbingly nice things about Barack Obama (ending in, "but I still don't trust him...," of course), no one said anything insanely inappropriate, and I they gave us lots of presents and a shocking amount of Christmas money.

Also, I drank two glasses of champagne on a pretty much empty stomach before lunch and told inappropriate nursing-related stories to my Dad's brother, which he seemed to enjoy.

Next up: put kids in bed and eat more!

Good to know, Sara -- my mom was not as vile today, but then HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE...

you guys are better than me: i stopped making any kind of effort to go to family xmases 10 years ago! i don't miss them and i'm certain they don't miss me.

I have kids, so getting out of it is pretty well impossible. Besides, presents for kids plus free booze and good food isn't tooooo much of a problem. It's just when the commentary gets out of hand and pisses me off that I hate it.

suzy - hey, your Mom must have been feeling the Christmas spirit some then! (maybe?!)

i can't imagine having a conservative family. i'm pretty damn liberal, and talking to my mom and dad, i still sometimes feel like alex p. keaton.

cosign

envying...

i agree and will admit that i'm totally lucky. i can't imagine the brain-searing rage i would feel if my parents thought that me being liberal, or vegan, or riding my bike instead of driving when possible was just some phase i would grow out of when i grew up. i have become more conservative as i've aged (meaning that i don't still think that all authority is necessarily evil or that any form of government is wrong on principle), but the weird thing is that i think my dad is more liberal now than he was 10 years ago. and my mom is a political space cadet, always has been.

Yeah, you kind of get over the brain-searing rage after a while, but it never ceases to be annoying/appalling. But whatever, they'd be bored if I wasn't around for sure. ;)

my family never talks about religion/race/politics/gay sex

or anything else

one quiet family!

(this is like those conversations I have in sign language with my deaf acquaintance, isn't it? they seem to focus on "how are you" and responses and basic commentary on the weather...)