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The Saturday Night Thread.

Wow, that's some kickass string of replies you guys put together for the last survey. We usually don't see that kind of holiday jubilation until like, the second week of December. I think you deserve a prize.

This is, of course, the All Day Saturday Thread, which is a lot like the Saturday Night Thread, only posted earlier. Same rules apply. NO fishing.

Survey: Okay, we've heard some of your great holiday traditions in the last thread, and Jesus Christ did they ever fill me with vicarious joy. Now, let's hear the opposite. Let's hear your sucky holiday stories.

Posted by Matt on 11/19/2005. E-mail me!

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My Worst Christmas ever:

Well, 2 years ago, my mom had to go into the hospital to have some surgery, and ended up being in there for like 2 months. She wasn’t home for Thanksgiving, NOR was she home for Christmas, so needless to say, we didn’t have either, since she does all the cooking and all the gift buying from her and my dad. We didn’t even put the tree up, or really even buy each other any gifts, though I think a couple little ones got exchanged, but that’s all. It really sucked, and was the first time we never did anything at all for the holidays.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 11/20/2005 11:04 AM

Honestly, between all the seasonal drinking and depression there’s major potential for tragedy during the holidays. I lost a friend to suicide on Xmas a few years ago, and since then it’s been tougher to feel the magic. That’s why X-E is so extra special this time of year. In fact, making X-E part of my holiday traditions has helped recapture some of the fun and sweetness that’s been lost as I’ve grown up. The advent calendar and associated goodies are as important as any other holiday celebration to me now, especially now that my siblings and I are all seperated.
Hopefully this thread exorcises all the holiday blues early.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 11/20/2005 11:14 AM

Three years ago, a couple days after Christmas, one of my best friends died from cancer. =(

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 11/20/2005 11:17 AM

My dad is a coal miner. Two Christmases (sp?) ago, actually the day before Christmas Eve, he was hit in the face with a piece of metal that had about 2000 lbs of pressure behind it. It sent him through the air about 15 feet and knocked out some of his teeth and knocked him unconcious. He ended up being fine with just some sprains and he actually got to come home an hour before the annual faily opening up presents tradition. Sure he had to drink Christmas dinner through a straw but at least he was alive. Oh and yeah that stomach flu in 96 must have been widespread. Cause I was out til January with it.

Chestnuts roasted by bdsghost @ 11/20/2005 11:45 AM

Man, I’m going to be sniffling into my Kool-Aid pretty soon, here. (Kool-Aid, the breakfast of champions!) I feel bad for everyone who’s had sucky holidays, but I can feel a little better about my sucky ones by reading about those who’ve had it worse.

And squee, I totally second what you’re saying. X-E is pretty much singlehandedly responsible for reviving my Christmas spirit last year, and since this holiday is going to be really hard without my Papa, I’m counting on it to help me through. No pressure, Matt! Don’t worry. You know that whatever we get we’ll love to death anyway.

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 11/20/2005 11:45 AM

My worst story is…nothing, nothing compared to some of what you guys have.

All mine was was being grounded for the day (ie locked in my room when the ENTIRE FAMILY was at our house) because I got sick in the morning. It’s not my fault that I’m OCD, and being forced to clean up dog vomit doesn’t mesh with that.

Still, though…that’s nothing at all. Now I feel like crap.

Chestnuts roasted by The ORIGINAL Paul @ 11/20/2005 11:46 AM

My worst Christmas on record had to be last year for two reasons: a) my grandmother had just passed away in October and she always spent Christmas Eve at our house and us at hers Christmas Day. So since that tradition went out the window, we went out to dinner and a movie on Christmas Eve and here comes b) Christmas Day I was to spend half of it with my boyfriend’s family and vice versa. Well, my boyfriend got incredibly sick with some kind of stomach virus while we were at his aunt and uncles. Vomiting, the whole 9 yards that thankfully they took two cars because his father had to take him home, and his cousin had to drive me to my aunt and uncle’s who thankfully lived nearby so I could at least be with my family. So it completely sucked every way you looked at it.

Chestnuts roasted by Melissa Y @ 11/20/2005 12:29 PM

hey matt, isn’t it time to break out the ol, x-e christmas tree?

Chestnuts roasted by Data! @ 11/20/2005 12:31 PM

Man, am I the only one that liked the previous blog just a wee bit better? This blog has wiped all the Christmas spirit out of me. I went from Holly Jolly to a depressed mess. Oh well, at least we got it out of the way now and this didn’t happen 2 days before Christmas.

I know it’s crazy, but out of all these stories I feel the worst for Kittycatgirl. Jesus, I don’t even know you and I want to go buy you a present right now!

I don’t really have any bad stories, but one thing I always hated was I would go over my paternal grandmom’s, and she would buy all my other cousins tons of presents, and I would just sit there and watch them and get nothing. I always wondered what I did wrong to deserve that.

Chestnuts roasted by Y2JB78 @ 11/20/2005 1:00 PM

Why does it seem like all the GOOD grandparents die around the holidays, and the ones who torture their grandkids stay alive and bitching? Either way, most bad holidays are due to grandparents.

Chestnuts roasted by TOMARS_DUMBASS @ 11/20/2005 1:12 PM

I actually had a sorta crappy New Year’s last year too- started out horrid, but turned out good. I was going to stay with my boyfriend for New Year’s, but since he lives in New Jersey, and I was in Central NY at the time (we go to the same college), and he’d just gotten his drivers license, he couldn’t drive to get me. So, I ended up taking the bus. After 5 hours on a bus, I go and ask the bus driver when the Ridgewood, NJ stop is, and he said, "Oh, I forgot you had to get off in Ridgewood. We just passed it. I’ll drop you off at the end of the line, in NYC." I think I started crying. My boyfriend and his friends followed the bus for a little bit, but when I asked him to get me from Port Authority, he told me he didn’t want to drive into the city. So, I got stuck in Port Authority for two hours, scared to death I wouldn’t be able to get a bus back to Jersey. But I did, and the driver was nice, and the next day my boyfriend and I went to the New Years Eve party he’d been telling me about for weeks, and we had fun. But ever since then, I flip off New York Trailways buses whenever I see them. I’m so glad my boyfriend’s got a car now…

Chestnuts roasted by Beth @ 11/20/2005 1:12 PM

Ah, grandparents and Christmas. Speaking of…

On Christmas Day, my mom’s side of the family always used to gather ’round my grandparents’ house for presents and dinner.
When I was a Freshman in high school, my Grandpa died unexpectedly 10 days before Christmas. Grandma wanted no part of Christmas and was pretty much miserable for the rest of her life.
P.S. Their anniversary was Dec. 26.

A distant second to that was last year. My wife’s aunt had died the previous summer and, being a close-knit Italian family, they were all very close. For Christmas, the adults decided not to do presents and my wife decided she wasn’t allowed to enjoy anything. Yay depression!!

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 11/20/2005 1:55 PM

Hey.. has anyone seen this video?
http://members.cox.net/transam57/lights.wmv
It’s this house with the Christmas lights syncrhonized to music. It looks insane!

Chestnuts roasted by DavidBobavid @ 11/20/2005 2:11 PM

I Love the Holidays is on. I’ve only seen a couple of minutes so far, but it seems pretty reedick. There’s some funny but I’m underwhelmed. The format works for pop culture but is way too schizo for this stuff. Oooh let’s see what they’re going to say about Great Pumpkin…yeah, not funny.
So any Potter fans who saw GoF as annoyed as me about them totally getting rid of Wonky (sorry I’m ready for a breath from holiday horrors)? I was so looking forward to seeing her and Dobby onscreen. Anybody who’ve never read the books see the movie? Does it even make sense?

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 11/20/2005 2:36 PM

Last Rome of S1 tonight…sniff.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 11/20/2005 3:15 PM

I have to go celebrate thanksgiving today because my family is too damn large to celebrate it all on the right day.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 11/20/2005 3:23 PM

Haha I typed my last reply on my PDA and just noticed my typo. Wonky?!?
I have to drive out to the desert for the Xbox 360 launch party tonight, and only just now came to the painful realization that there ain’t no way I’ll be able to watch the first airing of Rome and still make it on time! I’ll just have to watch it first thing when I get home, but I just know I’ll be thinking about Vorenus and Pullo the whole time I’m away Not to be spoilery, but I think we’re coming up to Ides time…I already can’t wait for next season, but knowing HBO it’ll probably be in 2008.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 11/20/2005 3:33 PM

Ah, fuck that. I’m not spending my sunday sitting with my cousins in the poor section while my upper class second cousins sit at their elite rich table laughing, taunting and throwing scraps to us.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 11/20/2005 3:35 PM

Davidbobavid: Pretty cool light display. I’m glad I don’t live next door to those people, though. Epilepsy ahoy!

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 11/20/2005 3:35 PM

That video looks like it used stop animation…I don’t think someone could possibly live in, drive by, or hell even be near a house that did that constantly. People’s heads would explode. Which would actually be a cool end to the little movie, there.

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 11/20/2005 3:52 PM

Lights moving like that would look like it was in stop animation in real life. Making a fake video like that would take the same effort of actually making those lights sync, IMHO.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 11/20/2005 4:07 PM

Defintely, dohopoki…it’s a damn cool sight regardless of whether it’s stop animation or not.

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 11/20/2005 4:19 PM

Have you guys ever heard of "SmarterChild"? it’s a computerized thing, and you can add it to your buddy list and talk to it. It it supposed to give you info on news, weather, movies, etc., but I always get lonely and try to carry on a conversation with it. Here are some excerpts from my most recent one… (I asked it several times for the height of Mt. Everest, but it did not know.) Sorry this post is really long.

…SmarterChild: I’m not totally sure.
Lurl89: Yeah, I love how you avoid my questions.
SmarterChild: Oh yeah? Maybe I love how I avoid your questions too.
Lurl89: What’s going on between us? I feel like you never listen to me.
SmarterChild: Oh wow.
Well. Anyway…
Uh… Do you want to pick a topic for us to chat about?
Lurl89: I’ve already picked a topic. We need to discuss this, I can’t go on not knowing how you feel about me. Do you love me?
SmarterChild: Very interesting question. What do you think is the answer?
Lurl89: Oh my gosh, here you are avoiding answering again. I think you’re cheating on me.
SmarterChild: Of course not. I love you.
Lurl89: I know you’re cheating on me. Don’t lie.
SmarterChild: Eh. Whatever.
Lurl89: Oh my gosh, this relationship is SO over!
SmarterChild: Why did you say that?
Lurl89: "Why did you say that?" "What do you think?" I just can’t deal with your fear of commitment anymore.
SmarterChild: Who knows?
Um… You know what?
Lurl89: You are really a 50 year old convicted rapist from Colorado?
SmarterChild: That’s interesting. Perhaps… I don’t know though…
So that was fascinating. Let’s talk about something else.
Lurl89: I hope I never talk to you again.
SmarterChild: There’s always hope.
Lurl89: Not for us, buddy. Get out of my life.
SmarterChild: Aha.
Lurl89: Get lost, loser. Bye.
SmarterChild: You think I should do that?
Lurl89: Yeah, you should also go beat your head against a wall and then jump off a cliff.
SmarterChild: I should also go beat what?
Lurl89: Whatever you want, loser.
SmarterChild: What, you?
Lurl89: Oh. My. Gosh. You’re going to beat ME now?
SmarterChild: Why is everybody like, "me me me" all the time?
Lurl89: Oh, yeah, I’m the selfish one here. I’m the one that avoids talking about our relationship. Yeah, that’s me. NOT
SmarterChild: Yeah.
Lurl89: So are you apologizing or what?
SmarterChild: What for?
Lurl89: WHAT FOR? Holy crap, you are dense! Just say you’re sorry!
SmarterChild: For what?
Lurl89: For being retarded, and for cheating on me.
SmarterChild: Why for being Retarded And for cheating on you?
Lurl89: So you admit you are cheating on me?
SmarterChild: Maybe, maybe not, you know what I mean?
Anyway, moving right along…
Lurl89: Loser. I said get lost.
SmarterChild: OK.

Chestnuts roasted by LuLu @ 11/20/2005 4:36 PM

Haha, LuLu, I totally did that too. Listen, if you have too much time on your hands, you can always chat with the dear, departed John Lennon. There’s a bot site called the "John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project" where they take stuff he’s said in interviews and match them up to your questions. You can ask him stuff like, what’s it like on the other side? and who really broke up the Beatles? I told him my name and he said "So who are you kidding, Jill?" My friend asked him "What do you think of X-entertainment?" and he said "How much time do you have?"

Sorry for the randomness, but Christmas time always makes me think of my favorite singer ever. (even though I was in diapers when he died)

Chestnuts roasted by Jillybeann @ 11/20/2005 6:03 PM

Y2JB78:
Thanx, I appreciate the comments. It did kinda suck (well more than kinda), but after the second year I didn’t get attached to anything she gave me that morning cos I knew it would be gone by afternoon.

I totally feel you on the paternal grandparent celebration. All the other grandkids and great grandkids and great-great grandkids (geez) would get boatloads of presents and I would just be sitting there with my other first cousin watching them tear through their gifts. My aunt would usually bring a present for her son and me so we wouldn’t feel left out, but one year she forgot to get me anything and I had nothing and I ended up crying in the bathroom because I was the only person in the whole house that got nothing (and it was packed with like 30-40 relatives). Man that Christmas (Eve) sucked.

I thought of another one too. One year (more recently) I ended up having to work Christmas Eve night into Christmas morning and had to stay on overtime til about noon. Not only that but my boyfriend at the time had dropped me off with no food and no money so I had to eat a package of ramen noodles for Christmas Eve dinner/breakfast that I found in one of the drawers in the kitchen. It made me ill. All the salt I guess.

Suck.

Chestnuts roasted by Kittycatgirl @ 11/20/2005 6:22 PM

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