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Christmas Eve, 2007.

I have to get 20 hours worth of stuff done by 7 PM, so this will be quick: Merry Christmas! #24 is up! I hate stuffing mushrooms! The final AC entry may be a bit late, but since those are usually short epilogues, we'll be okay.

Hope everyone has a great Christmas Eve, Day, Day After and Day After The Day After. Talk about your holiday adventures in the comments, from gifts to guests to food to reindeer.

Posted by Matt on 12/24/2007. E-mail me!

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Old Jim
No, Boxing Day comes from England. It was traditionally the day which the rich masters would box up the leftovers from their Christmas Day feast and distribute them to the poor.

Although Now, Boxing Day is just a huge day for sales.

I probably won’t be up late enough to post in the fallout thread, and I’m driving home tomorrow…so it might be Friday!

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 12/27/2007 1:01 AM

Matt,
Oh yeah, I was a beneficiary of some of that 90% off Halloween goodness. Unfortunately, I couldn’t wait those kinds of savings because our store was already getting wiped out today.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 12/27/2007 1:03 AM

I just got off the phone with my Aunt. Apparently there was some family hijinx at Christmas she didn’t go because she just had surgery but there was fighting and stuff!

And the gift card I got my mom, my Grandma thought I got it for her! I got this summer a little gorilla that is like a Valentine’s Gorilla that looks like it’s hugging something and I thought oh well I’ll slip the gift card in there and it’ll look like it’s hugging the gift card! I wrote on the tag to mom from Jodi (Hi I’m Jodi) $25 I hope you enjoy whatever you spend it on! (or whatever I wrote, it was something to that effect) Well my Grandma said to my Aunt over the phone I don’t want to hurt Jodi’s feelings (me being Jodi, still with me?) but I want to send this gift card back because she shouldn’t be spending money on me! She said she’ll keep the t-shirt but the gift card is going back.

My Grandparents announced that they didn’t want any more presents EVER because if they wanted something they would go out and get it and they have enough crap they don’t need more on their pile.

My Grandparents love the Portland Trail Blazers (being in Portland) and so I saw that t-shirt and thought hey that would be great for my Grandma and she wouldn’t mind. She thought the gift card I sent for my Mom was for her. I wouldn’t send my Grandma money! Wtf!?! That is a weird logic lol.

But I wrote in the letter the gift cards were addressed accordingly. I guess I should of been more specific. I should of duct taped that gift card to that Gorilla or something lol. Oh dear this family of mine.

My mom is on social security she is disabled so when your on a very strict income a little extra spending money is nice to go out to eat or buy something nice for herself. She can spend it on whatever she wants as long as it makes her happy. I don’t like telling my Mom everything because she is a blabbermouth but I want to tell her some things because she is always positive and supportive. She’s probably one of the most supportive. I don’t have many in my family

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 12/27/2007 2:48 AM

Hey Matt, are you ever going to do another advert calendar again? I miss those, I actually prefer them over the advent calendar.

Chestnuts roasted by Joe @ 12/27/2007 3:22 AM

Joe Matt said that he won’t do those anymore because he ran out of commercials to review. He got to the point of reviewing commercials that were just slightly Christmasey and that wasn’t good so he quit. He might do a commercial review now and again when he finds one that is Christmas themed but he doesn’t want to have to force it.

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 12/27/2007 4:14 AM

Did Matt fall asleep at the computer?

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 12/27/2007 8:09 AM

I’ve been holding my list for 8 hours and boy are my arms tired :O

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 12/27/2007 8:39 AM

kittygirl: Sounds like you had a nice Christmas! I really enjoyed reading your post and it was so sweet & thoughtful of you to get those nice presents for your little cousins. I find it hard to believe that anyone would not understand why you were doing this for those little girls. I hope they enjoy their toys very much and I have the feeling that those girls are very lucky to have a cousin like you (although really calling you a cousin doesn’t seem as much the right word as calling you their Aunt!)

Chestnuts roasted by TheToyFairy @ 12/27/2007 11:00 AM

Looking forward to the fallout thread, can’t wait to everybody’s full lists of activities and goodies.

Mentioned way earlier, but I absolutely hated that gingerbread man GoPhone commercial, especially the end where the dad gingerbread man is just standing there looking stupid. It made me think of Digital Max and how I just want to punch him in the face.

Chestnuts roasted by nork @ 12/27/2007 11:15 AM

I liked the commercial..but then I’m partial to norm mcdonald.

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 12/27/2007 11:39 AM

Oh, I love Norm Macdonald.. just annoyed by the commercial.

Chestnuts roasted by nork @ 12/27/2007 12:01 PM

Well, my family made it through the holiday without our usual “Airing of Grievances”, which was pretty danged nice not to have to yell and scream and cry for a change. Hopefully it will last and become a new tradition.

Can’t complain about my Christmas too much, except for the time spent in the car, but hey, it could be worse. Now I’m sitting here at work, killing time and watching the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals Game Six on my new video iPod Nano and feel all kinds of sneaky and cool. Hehe.

Chestnuts roasted by Lemur @ 12/27/2007 12:58 PM

So I am wondering if December 25th never came for the gang since they didn’t get a new Santa. My theory is that the old Santa didn’t want to exhaust himself this year after the battle so he is saving his energy for next year in hopes a new Red Hatted wonder will emerge from the magical Advent Calendar.

I am also wondering when Mista Snowman will realize his wife is dead!??!

OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe Kuse will take on the Santa gig so he can quit the corporate life!!!! I would think that being Santa pays well since they only have to work for one year and then they get to retire. That would be CHRISTMAS MAGIC!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Cricket @ 12/27/2007 1:11 PM

I think Waiterbot will be santa for next year..afterall he is 3/4 santa already

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 12/27/2007 1:14 PM

Goob:
My grandparents didn’t want anypresents this year either.
In fact… their presents to us were a bunch of their older “memory-laden” items since they were going to take them to the thriftstore anyway…
I think they think they’re not long for this world.
I got two pieces of silver diningware from her, which made me happy- but very sad and confused.

Chestnuts roasted by kittymao @ 12/27/2007 1:39 PM

Ok, still excited about seeing the final post in the advent calender, and still waiting for the Fallout Thread!
thejyav: I think Matt did pass out at the computer!

Chestnuts roasted by mindy j @ 12/27/2007 1:39 PM

Call out the dogs, Matt’s dead.

Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws Cole @ 12/27/2007 1:42 PM

either that or matt went…you know I should play this mario galaxy game before writing about it. Then early this morning inside E-X headquarters this exchange took place. “Matt did you ever come to bed?” “wha?……playing….talk later”

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 12/27/2007 1:42 PM

I passed out, though not at the computer. Working on it now.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 12/27/2007 1:45 PM

It now feels like Christmas is truly over seeing the creature without that santa hat

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 12/27/2007 2:10 PM

oh yaaa.
sadness.
but-but…
THE FALLOUT THREAD!
whee!

Chestnuts roasted by kittymao @ 12/27/2007 2:22 PM

Merry Christmas Matt!!

WOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Chestnuts roasted by Steffanio @ 12/27/2007 2:29 PM

thejyav

The Creature is still wearing the Santa hat on the home page and the blog’s main index. In case you want one last look. As well as Krang!

Chestnuts roasted by nork @ 12/27/2007 2:53 PM

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