What are you doing on Christmas day?

by Jen1 36 Replies latest jw friends

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    They will not be getting me out in field circus on December 25 when everyone should be enjoying their family. I will not be disrupting the Christmas present opening, creating a dreary Christmas for some 6 year old who is just reaching the stack of presents under the tree just when I would have reached the door. I will not be creating a dreary Christmas for some 8 year old that is about to leave for Grandma's when I show up and waste 15 minutes or more at the door. I will not be barging in on families that are enjoying their Christmas dinner or children playing with their new dollhouse, Playstation, train track set, or sled when I would have showed up.

    Unless Brother Hounder really likes 3,000 lumens of Christmas lights, that thing hadn't better bother me either. And I will be skipping whatever future boasting sessions are ahead. Perhaps if they start treating my dedication as a legally binding contract and enforcing it, I won't have any choice but to ruin people's holidays and pull down all my Christmas decorations (and throw them away). And, since the last time I was inspired to join that cult, Saturn was in Sagittarius, I have until September 18, 2015 before it returns there for good (it does enter Sagittarius on December 23, 2014 but goes retrograde and leaves it June 15, 2015 before going direct and returning, this time for good, September 18, 2015). Until then, I don't think I will be seeing the inside of a Kingdumb Hell or doing field circus. And even then, it will not be because I believe Armageddon is near or that joke-hova is any good but because of that I technically signed a contract and now they are enforcing it.

  • CyrusThePersian
    CyrusThePersian

    Since all my friends will be spending Christmas with their families, I will be left to my own devices. I haven't really decided what I'll do. I'll probably do what I always do, smoke my bi-annual cigar, prop my feet up next to the fireplace and marathon my favorite Christmas movies.

    CyrusThePersian

  • Band on the Run
    Band on the Run

    I will be spending Christmas alone. This is a difficult Christmas for me. I moved to someplace I thought I could manage. In fact, I moved back home to a city synonymous with urban blight. It is very close to Manhattan. My apartment is nice. The urban blight gets to me, ,though, so I must move again to a city where I feel safer. My building is an oasis. I assumed there would be grocery stores, pharmacies, and dry cleaners. There are grocery stores but I refuse to eat food from such dumps. Moving itself is a stressor. It is not fun looking for apartments in the winter cold. I am compensating for my lack of investigation with the first move. Now I walk to grocery stores, pharmacies, and dry cleaners.

    I may see a film in Manhattan. The weather is forecast to be unusually warm. My normal routine would be to stock up on some Christmas food and drink. I love playing Christmas songs. Christmas Eve I want to attend Midnight Church Services in NY. I have to realize that this will not be a routine Christmas. My Christmas tree and ornaments is very special to me. I've collected or made ornaments for decades now. My space is so small I may have to sell it on eBay.

    Everything feels topsy-turvy now, especially me. I don't want to jettison something and regret it later. As I write this, I wonder whether the move was wise. Thanks to the media, I am feeling sorry for myself spending Christmas alone. Hopefully, next year will be better. Also, a priest once discussed by famly situatin with me. Spending the day in peace may be much better than spending it with family and the tension that arise with family. Many people I know are actually envious of my freedom.

  • BizzyBee
    BizzyBee

    Christmas Eve with family in Newport Beach - a lovely dinner as usual, I'm sure.

    Christmas Day - golf with hubby in Palm Springs, then on to Arizona to visit friends and - surprise!- more golf. I'm looking forward to it!

  • d
    d

    I will be spending it with the family.

  • cofty
    cofty

    Eating far too much.

    Son, daughter, daughter's boyfriend and daughter's new kitten are all home for xmas. I will be cooking turkey dinner - I enjoy cooking - then TV, drinks and banter.

    Boxing day, me and Mrs C will probably go for a nice long walk.

  • minimus
    minimus

    big dinner with gf and family.

  • coffee_black
    coffee_black

    My best friend's sister owns a tea shoppe. Every year she and her husband host the family Christmas gathering. I'm considered family My boyfriend an I go.

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  • wearewatchingyouman
    wearewatchingyouman

    Drinking moonshine, smoking Xmas trees, eating copious amounts of food and laughing at the kids opening their giant piles of presents under the two trees we have because one is not enough room for all the presents. Yep, in my house Xmas is everything the Witnesses warned you about. And that's the way I like it. Afterall, it's a "family tradition" ;)

  • Quarterback
    Quarterback

    Field Service arrangements have been cancelled for Dec 25-27 in our hall. However, you can make your separate arrangements if you are nuts. We don't discriminate against the mental illness ones. Sorry BOTR, I would invite you over for the day to spend time with my family. You live too far away.

    I will have some pancakes with blueberries, an Canadian Maple syrup. Canadian bacon.

    Lunch....sorry won't have any room.

    Dinner...turkey, and all of the trimmings.

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