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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

I was tempted to go get some discounted Christmas snacks, but seeing as I already have enough candy and soda to give an elephant diabetes, I decided against it.

My decorations are still up, and I’m still listening to Christmas music. My gifts included two Christmas CDs, so I have a good excuse not to let it go yet :D

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 12/26/2007 6:19 PM

I briefly felt like taking my tree down today, but decided to leave it alone ’til the 1st. I want so badly to go blow some cash on really cheap Christmas stuff, but it would be highly unwise, since I only have 50 bucks and I really want some new shoes.

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 12/26/2007 6:30 PM

Guise: Hey, that’s the second-best part of Christmas! The after-Christmas sales are almost as good as the after-Halloween sales! :D This year we’ll be getting a tree topper, various lights and ornaments and probably some ribbons and whatnot to decorate the rest of the house that way I won’t have to worry about going out to get those things next year. Of course, we’re talking about buying a house between now and then so it’s possible those ornaments won’t make it though the move… at least they were on sale!!

I’ve discovered the third-best thing about post-Christmas is the lack of guilt over buying yourself things again. haha I want new clothes, dammit! But I have one more Christmas party to go to this weekend with the future-in-laws in Missouri, so I guess I’ll hold off on everything except the Christmas decorations. Boo.

Chestnuts roasted by Special K @ 12/26/2007 6:49 PM

Well don’t forget there are still 12 more days of Christmas! Why feel post-holiday blues! :) My decorations and tree stay up until Jan 6th.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 12/26/2007 7:55 PM

Christmas was alright, got to see the family and got some useful stuff. Im glad to be back to my apt and sleeping in my bed tonight!! not looking forward to work tomorrow but what can ya do. Ohh and come on Matt i need the 25th up to complete my Christmas!!

Chestnuts roasted by Methoes @ 12/26/2007 8:38 PM

Oh man, keeping the tree up til the 6th. That drives me INSANE.

Not just this year, I mean EVERY YEAR.

Take down the tree, we are not Natalie Portman in Garden State. IT IS NOT CUTE AND ENDEARING :evil:

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative knows why it is done dont lecture him @ 12/26/2007 8:41 PM

The wife won’t let me take down the decorations yet, but I would if I could. I am as sappy and sentimental as they come during the weeks leading up to Christmas, but I go crazy when I hear Christmas music after the day is done. I can barely stand it the day OF. But fine. I’ll just hide in the other room playing video games while she continues to soak in a little extra holiday cheer.

Chestnuts roasted by Shelby @ 12/26/2007 9:17 PM

Mentioning Natalie Portman in Garden State, does anybody else think she did a better job of covering up her accent than Minnie Driver did in Good Will Hunting?

Chestnuts roasted by Old Jim @ 12/26/2007 9:24 PM

I don’t see how what I do with my own tree in my own house is anyone’s business. I’ll leave it up as long as I damn well please.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 12/26/2007 9:27 PM

At my last apartment building, there was one family who would take their tree down on Christmas Day. Seeing the tree out by the garbage before noon on the 25th…now THAT was a sad sight!

Chestnuts roasted by Moony @ 12/26/2007 9:35 PM

I usually leave mine up until after the 1st of the year. Tradition and all that.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan H @ 12/26/2007 9:38 PM

My mom seems to think that she has come to a compromise with me. She says she’ll take it down New Year’s Day, this year.

Not good enough. I like the way this person Moony is describing thinks :P

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 12/26/2007 9:43 PM

So, just out of curiosity, does anyone on X-E either celebrate, or personally know anyone who celebrates, Kwanzaa? I know there is something with green and red candles, and it lasts eight days, but beyond that I know very little and am willing to receive knowledge from the initiated.

Chestnuts roasted by Old Jim @ 12/26/2007 9:50 PM

Sorry I didn’t check in any earlier… been lazy about it, I guess.
I’m very glad that pretty much everybody had a great Christmas! Mine was pretty darn awesome, too, but I’ll save it for the fallout thread. :) I must say that Christmas at Grandma’s was great- nobody fought or anything. It was a good year.

Also, I’m so happy that you’ve decided to fight the good fight, Good Guy. I hope you can keep on going for years and years!

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 12/26/2007 9:57 PM

Poor Kneg! You must need a HUUUUG! :D

Chestnuts roasted by Moony @ 12/26/2007 9:59 PM

Old Jim: I don’t personally know anyone who celebrates Kwanzaa, but I do know a bit about it. First, it’s a celebration of African heritage, and it lasts seven days, not eight, from the day after Christmas until New Year’s Eve. Each day has a theme, such as unity or faith, and families gather and do activities based on that day’s theme. It’s really neat. On one of the nights (I believe the 6th?) there is a huge feast where the family comes together to discuss what they are thankful for and what they hope to accomplish in the coming year.All in all, it sounds like a very nice holiday.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 12/26/2007 10:00 PM

I didn’t have a large surplus of gifts to either gloat over, or to return this Boxing Day, so I spent today downloading old episodes of “The Man Show” off the Internet, if you can believe it… :-)

Side note: Am I correct in thinking that the etymology of the term “Boxing Day” means “putting gifts back in their boxes and exchanging them at the store”, or does it have something to do with pugilism?

Chestnuts roasted by Old Jim @ 12/26/2007 10:09 PM

I took down a couple of decorations today and packed away the Christmas movies and CDs but I can’t and could never take them down the 25th or 26th.
That being said, I couldn’t do it into the 1st or 6th either.
Too each their own.
I have never known anyone that celebrated Kwanzaa. Interestingly, it is most of my African-American students who make fun of it (for lack of a better term), etc.
I got some of the STAR WARS decorations on clearance at TARGET today. I still think I overpaid but I can honestly say they were going fast.
Jazzy, I will be at my old stomping grounds over the next couple of days so if you see a guy in a James K. Polk shirt, that’s me. :)

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 12/26/2007 10:37 PM

We’re definitely leaving out stuff up until the 1st. Family that we haven’t seen yet will be shuffling in and out of town all week, so there are a few mini-parties still to come.

Manimal: The tricky thing with the post-Christmas sales is timing, because they will keep slashing the prices every two days or so. (For Halloween, Target got to the point where they had stuff marked down to 90% off…insane.) But, of course, by then, there won’t be much decent stuff left.

We’ve been total slugs here today…just exhausted from the past few days. I’m working on the Fallout thread now, though.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 12/26/2007 10:41 PM

Manimal: Awesome. I swear one day we need to arrange a meetup between you, me, and Andy (who lives in Brunswick).

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 12/26/2007 10:46 PM

Clock test

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 12/26/2007 11:38 PM

The Manimal I knew a guy in high school that celebrated Kwanzaa, I overheard him talk about it once. Someone asked him what do you do for Christmas? And he said we don’t celebrate that, my mom has us celebrate Kwanzaa. And the other guy said oh really? I have never met someone that celebrates that! What do you do? And he said sit around, eat, talk, give each other presents, you know exactly like Christmas! lol!

Even though on a couple of kid’s shows I have seen them showing what people do on Kwanzaa and they all wore cliche African clothing, and they were sitting around a table dishing out biscuits, fried chicken, mac and cheese, you know southern soul food.

And about the clearance thing, there have been these expensive (for what they are) writing pens that are simpsons themed that when you click down the pen it talks. It’s a bart one w/ bart sayings and a homer one with homer sayings. 5 dollars a piece, and I am keeping them in the package! lol! I honestly didn’t need them but I told myself in the store, when I am going to get another chance to buy these cheaper then the usual price again?

I also got for a little under 3 dollars an LED usb powered clear plastic color changing christmas tree with a little star on top. It is neat, it’s plugged in right now. I can see Kuse having one at his work! Even though this one is small to scale with me, with him it would be about the same size as a Christmas tree. It’s about 4 inches tall I think (I am not good at estimating measurements)

Today I saw these they are called Margarita totes, they have the rimming salt and it’s like a Margarita kit, they are usually 20 bucks (according to the price tag) but now they are 5 dollars I might go back and get two, they would be good for next year (I don’t think that stuff gets stale, it’s all in bottles and stuff) for my two Aunts. Or just for me heh. I don’t drink much rarely at all but I like Margaritas (even though they are a girly drink imo, I am a girl sure but I am not girly by any means, all my clothes are men’s clothes and my hair is really short)

Anyway, here I go to push post just to see Matt post the Fallout thread lol! Even though I love adoring his presents every year!

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 12/27/2007 12:04 AM

I think i have everyone beat last year for leaving stuff up..tree did not come down till…are you ready?? May. That’s right what was going to be come a St. Pattys day event turned into may.

Chestnuts roasted by Thejyav @ 12/27/2007 12:05 AM

Still a few hours away, so everyone get their lists ready. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 12/27/2007 12:05 AM

Yeah, I cheated and started my post for the fallout thread in Wordpad. But I probably wont be able to stay up late enough to post it tonight. At least I’ll have a head-start for tomorrow. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Big McLargehuge @ 12/27/2007 12:37 AM

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