How will you be spending Christmas Day?
By Malyck
@Malyck (3425)
Australia
December 8, 2007 9:43pm CST
So Christmas means something different to everyone, and is celebrated differently in different cultures.
I'd love to know how all you myLotters will be spending your Christmas Day '07!
I live in Australia, down in the Summery Southern Hemisphere, and my day will probably consist of:
A large party of friends, family and extended family and various people who get invited along.
There will be a long outdoor table covered with salads, Christmas ham, meatballs, fruit platters, pasta and potato salad, jugs of water, punch and juice and a big fridge full of beer, wine and spirits.
=)
Everyone will sit, laugh and chat around the pool (occasionally choosing to swim or, alternatively, being pushed in - much to no-one's dismay but your own =P)
Listen to a collection of music and dance (poorly) the day away!
Celebrations will go from early afternoon to very late in the evening and the house will be open to everyone to spend the night.
Boxing day consists of consuming all the left over food and grog, more laughing and a whole lot of fun.
In between all the excitement, we'll be applying big repellent and sunscreen and peeling our Christmas hats (from Christmas crackers, of course) from our sweaty foreheads =P
Presents are optional, and we will open then with the whole family in the morning, before the festivities really begin.
So how will you be spending your Christmas?
With your family? Your partner's? Both?
=D
And with that:
Ho ho ho, merry christmas and a happy new year to all!!!
Mal.
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12 responses
@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
10 Dec 07
I love Snoopy! And Snoopy dances.
This is the first Christmas we'll spend with Snoogs. We're not too into Christmas, too pagan I guess. Winter Solstice, now there's something to celebrate. I love stockings though and stocking stuffers. Bubbha enjoys all the pretty lights - we have something called The River of Lights at the Biological Park (all kinds of cool gardens - indoor and out) which consists of lots of christmas lights - many of moving animals. There's also live music. He loves it! Its a great season. I wish though there wasn't just one month of the giving spirit. The Christmas spirit. I wish we were giving and compassionate all year round.
As a Pagan, Protestent Jew, I'm certainly not against Chinese food on Christmas. There's a joke in the states - mostly in NYC about Jewish folks having Chinese on Christmas. However, we'll likely have dinner with our neighbors - a pot luck type thing with others in our new little Community.
Happy belated Thanksgiving!
@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
11 Dec 07
In our very biased history books ( you know where the big bad injuns live) the pilgrims who came and settled here (read massacred the original natives so they'd have a place to live) and the indians came together in peace and ate a meal together, the natives teaching the pilgrims about the food they grew (read the infiltrators didn't really want to grow stuff and so made the injuns do it for them).
Essentially its an excuse to pig out!
I love faery too - ever hear of the artist Amy Brown? Go to pyramidcollection.com for some yummy stuff.
I miss you too - have to tell you about the neat place I moved to. You'd likely prefer some of the other places I've lived NYC or beautiful San Francisco, but I yike it.
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@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
11 Dec 07
The neatest things is they have these huge glass enclosed bio-climate places - and they had all sorts of neat lights inside. But yeah - I think there were faeries and other magical things.
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@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
11 Dec 07
Oh, The River of Lights B/P sounds AWESOME and magical =D
Are there faeries? *hopes* I might have to jump on a plane and check it out some time =D
I agree about the compassion and giving being a year round, constant thing.
I know it is for some people, but unfortunately it's a tiny comparative minority ='(
I don't really know what Thanksgiving is *blush*...
Ignorant Australian =P
I miss you!
xox
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@BayleighGray (4334)
• United States
11 Dec 07
Hi Mal,
That sound's like SO much fun!! Way more fun than the traditional Christmas in the states. lol We can't very well go swimming, least not where I live! It's going to be cold and yucky I'm most positive.
Just another day to us, hubby will have to work part of it. I'm sure I will cook, but that's about it. Just like Thanksgiving, we will eat and get really full and probably nap the day away. We'll make phone calls to family and friends, but other than that nothing special.
Bay Lay Gray xx
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@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
11 Dec 07
It is kinda trippy to thinking of her applying bug spray and sun screen likes it the middle of summer. I like the dancing part!
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@BayleighGray (4334)
• United States
12 Dec 07
I knew that Australia had the opposite seasons as the states, but you really don't see too much winter as in coldness though do you? I guess some parts of Oz might, I don't really know about that. I just know that right now, it's winter here, and summer there. lol And that your like 9+ ahead of us. Something like that. I did some contract work for a company and I had to work Oz time here and there when I dealt with their clients.
I would love to relocate to UK or Australia! Mostly Australia though, I think there might be more sunshine and that's what I'm looking for! lol I'm just fascinated by the beauty both places has to offer, the history and the character of people. Seems so different from the States when I have watched documentaries or something about either place. I've never experienced for myself, but would love too!
Bay xx
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
9 Dec 07
Every year I spend Christmas with my parents, I think in all my 36 years I have only spent TWO Christmas'es not at my parents, the first when I was 2 I was in hospital and when I moved into my new home with my ex, we wanted to spend our first Christmas in our new home, our first and last! I just have a lazy Christmas at home with my mum and dad and cat! We are a small family and it's a small gathering, we still have fun, plenty to eat, drink and we usually play card or board games. We stay in because we prefer to have a nice quiet Christmas in together.
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@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
9 Dec 07
I definitely prefer the sound of your primary Christmas celebrations rather that your two alternatives.
=)
I love family, I love food and drink, and I LOVE boardgames and card games.
I actually can't believe that I left that out in my rather detailed description.
I hope that this year is no exception to your nice, happy, quiet Christmases together =D
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@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
9 Dec 07
My Christmas day will be warm I hope, because we are driving 18 hours South to Mississippi from New Jersey.
We will be with mostly my family but both mine and my husband's children will be there (plus the one we have together). We are very happy about that. We are going to my parents house for the week.
There will be loads of food, loads of people and loads of presents. I can't wait to leave and get down there!
@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
9 Dec 07
Sounds great to me!
It will be great to have all the children together, too!
Sounds to me like even if the climate isn't warm, the celebrations will be,
With lots of family, love and good food!
That all makes for a winner Christmas!
Have a great Holiday!
=D
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@UnselfishShellfish (1306)
• United States
9 Dec 07
Unfortunately, my animals do not think that I ever need a break from them, so as the other 364 days of the year start, I'll be tending to them first.
Then after that's done, I'll probably cook Christmas spaghetti as I have for the past 10 years. Then we'll eat that and probably head over to my sister's house to watch her 2 kids enjoy what Santa brought. Actually only one of her kids is old enough to enjoy Santa. My brother's kids are getting to that age where one of them knows Santa isn't real.
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@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
9 Dec 07
..What do you mean Santa's not real. *blubbers and sobs* lol.
Well as long as that child doesn't ruin it for the other.
I've always thought it cruel that school kids insist upon ruining everyone elses innocent beliefs as soon as they find out the "truth". =P
I love spaghetti.
May I ask if there is anything particularly Christmassy about it?
Ahhh, animals will be animals - I'm sure that they love you very much and appreciate your devotion =)
Have a very merry Christmas!
=D
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@UnselfishShellfish (1306)
• United States
10 Dec 07
One year I did use food coloring and dyed the water green so the noodles turned out green. My little nephew screamed when his father (my brother) served him green spaghetti.
Other than that, it's not festive or Christmassy. I just hate ham with a passion and refuse to be in the same room as ham, and turkey gets old, so spaghetti it was.
It all got started one year when I was hungry at 10PM and I was at my neighbor's. We went to the gas station to get some cupcakes and fountain drinks (healthy I know) and he bought a package of spaghetti from the gas station. We cooked it and as a tradition, I know I continue to cook Christmas spaghetti and if I'm not mistaken, he does too. So we sort of started our own tradition.
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@angelface23 (2494)
• United States
9 Dec 07
we will probably open our presents on Christmas Eve and then Christmas Day we go to my grandmas house and open more presents. Then we have dinner and watch football.
@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
9 Dec 07
My husband and I kind of celebrate from my holiday (Winter Solstice) to his (Christmas) so I have no idea at what point in our celebration we'll be doing what. :P
Since the bank is closed on Christmas, I have it off, so that's a plus. We'll probably wait to do the present thing until then, since Christmas is the holiday that's usually associated with presents. And presents will be lots of fun, since I have a 1 1/2 year old son! :)
We don't really deal with our families, but we do sometimes spend time with friends sometime during the winter holiday season. We don't have any concrete plans yet, but we might still wind up seeing friends.
@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
9 Dec 07
Hehe yup presents and babies is awesome. What amuses me so much is that at his first birthday, my son was far more interested in the wrapping paper than the presents themselves. We'll see how he does with his holiday presents. :P
It's neat having ours so liquid since we celebrate two separate holidays at this time of year. It lets us both feel like we get to do what we want, as well as being part of each other's celebrations! And since we have friends that celebrate different holidays, it gets even more fun! We could just celebrate all the time!
Oh, great idea for a Christmas plan! Hehe!
@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
9 Dec 07
That's so the fun of babies, though.
Sometimes the wrapping paper makes the present!
I have to personalise my paper to its recipient every year - I think it gives it some kind of "special touch", but I may be demented :P
My sister loves pretty kind of paper, and frogs, so I generally vary between the two.
My mum's obsessed with bubble wrap, so every present is bubblewrapped and then rewrapped with red or ladybug paper.
Dad refuses to have a gift that isn't wrapped with news paper and taped with masking tape =P
Who am I to disagree.
lol.
I like the sound of your holiday celebrationary mix.
=) It is good that you both get to do your own thing, but together =D
I think it's a wonderful plan, then again; I'll take or make any excuse =P
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
12 Dec 07
Now I'm jealous! People here are so upset whenever we don't have snow for Christmas but I'd be so happy to be able to have a pool party for the holidays! There would be no worries about anyone having trouble reaching their destination due to snow or ice on the roads, you could have a bunch of company of celebrate outside, I think it would be wonderful! As for me, I'll be spending the day with family. I stay with my mom, who's 91, to care for her so I'll most likely be with her in the morning. Then my husband and I will go to my daughter's house and spend time there and see what my grandson and granddaughter got. We'll probably have dinner there, that hasn't really been decided for sure yet. Then, we'll hopefully make our rounds to see some other relatives like my mother-in-law and my sisters-in-law and their kids and grandkids, and all the nieces and nephews. However, because it's yucky winter here and we'll probably have bad weather, who knows, we might not be able to do all the visiting we'd like to do. That's why I'm jealous! Anyway, ho ho ho to you too, and Merry Christmas! (Hey, are you allowed to say ho, ho, ho in Australia?)
Annie
@kurtbiewald (2625)
• United States
9 Dec 07
I don't even know yet
my folks are old and they said if it snows they won't travel
my bro is rich and will be here this year instead of Texas, and his mother in law is coming
my sis has asmall house and not enouh room room for everybody, yet she wants to stay home and celebrate
my older sis has not commented
I figure I will see how it plays out
my folks don't like to drink so that affects it
it should be interesting
@prettiemammie (835)
• United States
9 Dec 07
I will be spending christmas with my husband, since he is my only family here in america. I don't have a gift for him yet, its just so hard to give a gift to someone that has everything. I'm thinking of making it special, like cooking something special for him. Or maybe baking him a cake. What do you think?
@fanji008 (775)
• China
9 Dec 07
Hi,there! I'm not sure about that yet.I went out with my close friends last year and we had a good time.Many people were celebrating and dancing as well as singing.We saw people wear funny Christmas hats and held interesting sticks:) I also had many nice small gifts with me.LOL! I guess this year I would also hang out with friends and maybe we'll watch some fireworks and attend some parties if there're some.I'd like to see how other people celebrate it.I guess the street would be so crowded and there would be many interesting views probably. Thanks for the discussion and Merry Christmas in advance.Have a nice day^_^
