whew

[tshell]

i want the record to show that arcata1  threatened to crack my skull.
he's a thug!! a thug i tell you!!!
so take note guys and if i end up dead in a dark alley with my skull cracked i want you to go all vigilante on his ass.
:)

THANK HOLY WHITE BEARDED GOD THE HOLIDAYS ARE OVER!!!! what a nightmare christmas is .. sheez!! i think people who don't have

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[arcata1]

It worked didn't it! You came back didn't you? You can't argue with results.

And how can you not like christmas?? OK maybe your mom might say some silly things and all but it is still purty cool. Did you see my pics from Arizona? It was a super christmas!

So tell us about this mystery present.

[tshell]

you and your thuggishness... you can't go around bullying people into posting stuff dave!! you just can't!! :D

i like the idea of christmas but the actual thing sucks. if you had my mom for a mom you'd know what i meant.

the mystery present... i'll write about it soon. when i've calmed down enough.. you don't want me having a heart attack do you dave? you've already threatened my skull now you want me to have a coronary as well?? :)

[arcata1]

It is your own fault for having the best journal ever Debbie.

An English girl said my grandmother looks like the queen! How cool is that!

[tshell]

does your mom wear a crown? a tiara? :D

[my_name_is_jenn]

This year was actually fine, but last year my father got me a gift that pissed me off. All I asked him for was either Amazon gift cards or something I could use - basically, no useless crap that I don't need. What'd he get me? A book titled something like, Circus Freakshows or something. I've never been interested in the circus or "freaky people." But he got me the book. I opened it, looked at it, and gave him a very confused glance.

He said, "Well, I was pissed that you didn't want a bunch of stuff under the tree. So I got you something I knew you didn't want just to piss you off."

That man be crazy.

[tshell]

wow a present meant to deliberately piss someone off, that's the christmas spirit - that sucks. :(

i'm glad this year was better for ya...

as for circus freakshows... my batty old aunt would be in hog heaven with that present. really. she loves circus freaks and serial killers. i don't call her batty for nothin'.

[an0penletterto]

Can't wait for the screed on the anti-present. Meanwhile, do what my sister and I do - excuse yourself from all the festivities. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we hole up with plenty of food and booze and movies and music and computer games and cookies. Ditto for New Year's Eve and Thanksgiving.

We see our crazy family when we want to. We used to be the good doo-bees and we dutifully trudged ourselves out on every ding-dang holiday and for what? Nothing. Now we say, see ya when we see ya, and not a single drop of blood has been shed. Everybody remains happy and healthy, and that's how we like it. We just had to steel ourselves for the aw c'mons and once they stopped we knew we had it good.

[tshell]

that sounds WONDERFUL if only it were that easy... see i have two brothers: one has become a born again christian, which, well... you know and the other is as social as my mother is, pass up a get-together? are you insane?!?! ... and also: i'm mexican. which means if you don't go to great uncle jose's birthday party you are basically the devil and you will be treated as such. plus i have a very old grandma who is a saint and if you don't go to events she's attending you are given the old "this might be her last b-day/xmas/easter and how would you feel if you missed it?" guilt trip. --this guilt trip has been going on for about 10 or 15 years now... she's 99 years old and so each year the threat gets more and more ominous but i don't see her dying any time soon.. (not that i want her to, i'd be devastated because unlike my mother, she's a saint) ...

you've got it good my dear friend, you've got it good.

[an0penletterto]

Mmmmyep. Our Mexican friends were very sad we didn't come over for Christmas Eve this year, but they gave us an out because there was no Nino Dios. He's sad because his mom is old and he hasn't visited her for a couple years but you know what? He's the youngest of 14 so she's in good hands at one of his siblings' houses.

And I'm the youngest of 6, so everybody is dead anyway. There's no one to go see except my brother's family, and they've done their own thing for the last thirty years, so I don't feel bad doing my own thing.

The first couple of years we tried to talk our way out of the holidays were not easy, no they were not. It takes a few times before they stop showing up at your house with car keys, ready to go on the guilt trip.

Ya just gotta be strong, I tells ya! Either that or stick it out until your grandma leaves us... and then lay down the law.

[xvfui]

Not so much a bad present, but for years I'd ask for books and music and my parents refused, saying that they wanted to give me gifts which reflected how they saw me, not what I was interested in.

[tshell]

that sucks... i don't care what would make you happy, i want to get you what I think would make you happy...
people. whatayagonnado?

[sara_ramirez_1]

toliet plunger shovel and ellpitical the ellpictical was the worst being that it was 300 pounds that was dropped of at my house on x mas eve i had to haul it up 2 flights of stairs and then put the damned ting together and now i gues si have ot start using it!! the gift that keeps on giivng i guess they say

[tshell]

you got a toilet plunger for xmas? :) i don't think i've EVER gotten anything to clean toilets for christmas.. at least there's that. :)

[sara_ramirez_1]

oh and wait i also got for my bday and pumas stone that was NOT for cleaning feet but scrubbing the ring that forms in the toliet.. so 2 toliet devices..

my mom should know i NEVER let my toliet get dirty enough to need that pumas stone thingy LOL