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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!



Discussion Thread: 248 comments

Here we is, and I am about to do my own last-minute run-around. Merry What-its-face, and Happy Thingamajig to one and all! Give your loved ones hugs, eat however you want, enjoy what you give, and please think of the bunnies!

See you Wednesday, posters!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash the holly-infested @ 12/24/2007 7:07 PM

After spending most of the day working on a giant papier mache wizard Mickey Mouse for this year’s Christmas theme (we have a different theme every year on my mom’s side), it’s nice to kick back and read the advent for a couple minutes while skipping church. Later I’m going to spend Xmas eve with the Italian relatives, luckily they don’t do they fish thing. The AC has been especially nice this year because all the tapes with my favorite Christmas specials are missing or broken. I loved the defeat of Hare (yay Leviathan) but I still miss Garfield. :(

And there’s snow for the first time in several years.

Merry Christmas, and Happy Yule to the normal, non-Amalthean neo-pagans.

Chestnuts roasted by hobbitsubculture @ 12/24/2007 7:09 PM

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!!! Great job Matt. I actually liked today’s entry better than yesterdays. So now that you’re all burnt out from so much advent goodness I’m going to be the first dick to say: when do we get a new article? Lol. Whenever you’re ready my friend, we will be here.

Chestnuts roasted by Kris @ 12/24/2007 7:14 PM

I have the whole week off for vacation! WOO HOO! Merry Christmas everybody!

Chestnuts roasted by Timbo @ 12/24/2007 7:14 PM

Like I said in the last thread, I am going to give my best friend his presents and I’m going to put on a nice sweater he got me for Valentine’s Day that I haven’t worn ever since trying it on in the store (it still has it’s tags on it actually, it’s not that I hate it, when we go out to an appropriate place to wear it, I forget to put it on) And then we are going out to eat hopefully we can go someplace we want to go and not a last choice. I am wanting something like steak, fries and a salad but we’ll see.

Oh yeah and Brian I bookmarked that site thanks, and I try to have joox.net be a contribution to this site all the time. I have found some great movies on there, worthy of downloading and burning to dvds.

See you guys later.

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 12/24/2007 7:23 PM

James Lipton saves the day! A remarkaboulous ending!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Chestnuts roasted by Arkenor @ 12/24/2007 7:26 PM

It’s 11.30pm now, NORAD is reporting Santa in Mali so I know time is short. The Fat Man and I haven’t really seen eye-to-eye on my presents in the last few years, and this year I’ve been careful to counter-balance my naughty with nice to create a +1 credit. I will get my giant war peace-keeping robot mecha this year.

I have to wait for my brother to start snoring in the next room, so I know that I can creep out and fill the ‘blinking lights’ stockings with the stuffers and named bears I bought for everyone visiting.

Tomorrow morning, Yogi’s First Christmas and animated Grinch, and the annual wrapping paper snowball fight.

So, to Matt and all of you (with a huge nod and wink to the excellent Advent-urers), Merry Christmas to you, your families and friends and may you all have a very wonderful time.

Chestnuts roasted by Guise @ 12/24/2007 7:38 PM

Merry Christmas to all. And Matt, thank you for another wonderful holiday season on X-E, I believe I speak for everyone when I say that we appreciate all your hard work. This site has become a staple of my holiday season. Thanks again!

Chestnuts roasted by Cap'n Ducky @ 12/24/2007 7:52 PM

I don’t think it would take very long, Matt.

Here is a the ongoing saga, as I sit here on the net, until dawn, doing nothing but complaining about it:

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=49030

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 12/24/2007 7:54 PM

My mom just handed me a check for $100… which is a great gift but it always makes me nervous when she gives me money on Christmas Eve, since it often means she got too lazy to finish shopping and there won’t be much to open tomorrow :/

Oh well. If that is the case, at least I can buy things I really want instead of cat figurines from the dollar store or something. And with my current uncertainty about work, money is always nice.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 12/24/2007 7:56 PM

Aw, good for Knacks! Little dude deserved a happy ending. :)

Chestnuts roasted by BlakeMP @ 12/24/2007 7:59 PM

Merry christmas to all. seriously, james lipton = awesome. i love that he is still making bear references and that he pointed out his own bear reference.

Chestnuts roasted by Leigha @ 12/24/2007 8:24 PM

Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!
Me, I had to work today. Roads were dangerous. Whenever I tried to go over 15 mph my traction control would kick on. Someone brought in a bottle of baileys and some of us went out for a nice, long wine/beer-tastic lunch so didn’t have to work much longer before we were allowed to leave at 3pm. Tonight I’m sitting by the fire watching TCM – 1938 Christmas Carol followed by the Bishop’s Wife. Does anyone else like the Bishop’s Wife movie? It reminds me of It’s a Wonderful Life but less sad and more comedy. After we put the kids to bed we’re going to make some Glog. We have some Glog mix we picked up at Ikea last year and some dark rum. I’m guessing it’ll taste like Rum punch or perhaps a more spicy version of the Grog I had a long time ago in Prague.
No big plans for tomorrow. Have a few little gifts & new pajamas for the kiddies to open and if the weather holds might try to take them to a sledding hill a few blocks away. Followed by Hot Cocoa of course!

Chestnuts roasted by Paula @ 12/24/2007 8:25 PM

Not doing anything interesting for Christmas, just eating food and hanging out with the family, which is just fine with me! So I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to Matt and all the other commenters! Feliz Navidad, Joyeax Noel or however you spell that, Mele Kalikimaka!

Chestnuts roasted by Bluejay @ 12/24/2007 8:28 PM

Oh and Matt – love the James Lipton + Bear combination. It’s so perfect that I’m almost convinced that the real James Lipton really does practice Bear roars when he’s alone! I was watching his interview with John Cusack the other day and I kept waiting for Lipton to ask John if he wanted to see his Bear impression. Also makes me think of Stephen Colbert’s dislike of Bears. If you should ever do a video of Lipton + Bear Roar combination, you should send it to the Colbert Report!

Chestnuts roasted by Paula @ 12/24/2007 8:35 PM

Nice denouement, Matt! And here’s an early Christmas present for the blog, courtesy of scans_daily:

Superman and Santa Claus team up to save Christmas!

Chestnuts roasted by TB Tabby @ 12/24/2007 8:40 PM

Cusack….wait a minute….I STILL NEED TO SEE 1408 BEFORE I WRITE MY 2007 BEST OF!!

ZOMG (That’s 4 Mystie ;) )

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 12/24/2007 8:42 PM

Woah, Prince is a giant fluffy rabbit?

Weird.

Chestnuts roasted by FangsFirst @ 12/24/2007 8:58 PM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Chestnuts roasted by Spiffy @ 12/24/2007 9:21 PM

I love that doctor survived. He’s the Wedge Antilles of the Advent Calender.

“I am Doctor. I survived the Battle of Clair Winningham. I survived the Battle of Evil Santa. Hell… Just a couple of weeks ago I watched a giant rabbit god abduct one of my roommates evil twins. The reason I’m still breathing when a lot of other good Lego Guys aren’t? Maybe it’s because I’m better. Or maybe I’m just lucky.”

Chestnuts roasted by Keyguard Active @ 12/24/2007 9:32 PM

Much love for the ZOMG, Kneggy.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 12/24/2007 9:36 PM

I do so love a happy ending. Amazing job, Matt :D Good luck with the hosting duties tomorrow!
Happy everything, everybody! People have been so eloquent already about what X-E means this time of year (and I don’t just mean the Advent but all the awesome posters) that I can’t really add anything else. Love you guys!
I got a lol out of that, Kneg. Maybe because I just had a similar moment, but with Sweeney Todd…drop a link when you’re done, yeah?

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 12/24/2007 9:38 PM

If we’re lucky, Santa will be bringing me a Photog!

That guy is/would of been completely awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by CrayfishV2 @ 12/24/2007 9:51 PM

Merry Xmas to you!!

Current peruvian time: 9:00 pm, still waiting :D

Chestnuts roasted by yelinna @ 12/24/2007 9:53 PM

Hssxxlllo stays! Woohoo! Another awesome Advent Calendar. But now I have to wait another year to see what they’ll do without a Santa Claus.

Also, question: How are we supposed to pronounce Hssxxlllo? I’ve been saying “Hiss-ix-loh” but that’s probably wrong.

Chestnuts roasted by Cass @ 12/24/2007 9:55 PM

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