It's the Weird X-mas Soph Level Psych Friday, MKF 12/20/02

[AutumnT]

So, tomorrow I'm off on my Christmas trip to Las Vegas, because nothing says the little baby Jesus like a slot machine, right? Where is the weirdest place you've ever spent a holiday season?

[WebWarlock]

Hmm....

I was fishing in Canada on July 4th and I keep wondering why nothing seemed to be going on. Then I remembered, "oh, not my country."

We we will be hitting the in-laws this christmas. Since we allways seem to be on the road we celebrate christmas on the Solistice anyway. Seems to suit my celtic-pagen blood a bit better anyway.

This chirstmas my in-laws are having a chili cook off. And knowing them each one will have about 50,000 different kinds of hot peppers. I am going to enter my white chili and get my ass kicked. I make it with chicken, white northern beans and a crap load of cumin. Or when my friends asked how do I make it white I said "bleach".

If I have any internal organs left after this I will tell you all how it went.

I am meeting up with my sister-in-law and she is bringing a whole case of Molson XXX from the great white north!
I'll have one in chat eh Brian!

Warlock

[WiccansIllusion]

Try spending in in Florida, Key Largo to be exact with all the old farts. Not that it's only old farts, but still. And going to a bar when your 12 with your grandfather to watch some fat lady sing xmas carols. That was my most memorable xmas.

[Dumbsaint]

Well, I sure wish the fat lady would sing in there here parts, because I'm starting to get to the point of Christmas music overload here at the office to such a profound degree that I'm going slightly aggro. Just make it be over. In the words of frightened children everywhere, "Mommy, make the bad man stop."

Although the abundance of sugary treats around the office this week almost makes up for the constant soundtrack of Glee Club reject crap. Heh. Potential vendors keep sending us chocolate covered everything and Krispy Creme donuts. Yummm.

Up until this year, I have spent every Christmas morning at my parents' house with them, my grandparents, my sister, and since he joined the ranks of our functionally dysfunctional little band fourteen years ago, my little brother. This year, though, I'm gonna assert my grownup-ness and spend Christmas morning with my honey at our place. It'll be our first Christmas together.

And ya know, there's something to be said for the dawning of new traditions.

[WiccansIllusion]

Julia, good luck with the honey..if you ever make it out of bed

try working at Nordstrom durring the holiday. We have the classic xmas cd, the jazz version and then the piano guy. The same music, three cd's in rotation. An 8 hr shift has me listening to the same song over and over cause I keep not drowning them out at the same time.

[La]

My weirdest Christmas was probably last year's in Korea. Being used to the big American overblown holiday season, it was extremely different to have a christmas without a tree or a big exchange of presents ritual. On Christmas day, it was just like any other day. No big Christmas dinner either. And I know a lot of people do not celebrate Christmas, but it was strange for someone who's used to it!!

I'm going to visit my goddaughter this weekend and then I'm going to my parents' house for a week! YAY!

[darkmagicwillow]

I spent Christmas 2000 in a computer room because the ... customers wouldn't let us reboot any servers for y2k upgrades til then. New year's went much the same way...

[mollyig]

Christmas Day two years ago I was awoken at 7 a.m. by my sister who had gone into labour. Four hours later my nephew Thomas was born. That was a somewhat weird (but wonderful) Christmas! [img:8d598851fd]http://homepage.eircom.net/~mollyig/revolve.gif[/img:8d598851fd]

[FlereImsaho]

Y2K, New Year's Eve, babysitting a bunch of database servers - listening to fireworks going off while I sat in a boring office thinking about all my friends having fun! And not one server crashed or needing anything from me. Yuck.

The Y2K threat was such a farce. I know one guy who sold his home and moved his family to the most isolated part of the state to play survivalist. They are probably still eating freeze dried food.

[AmberEyedDragon]

I didn't exactly have a very weird christmas one year, so much as a really sad one. I had to live with forster parents for a while and the first year I moved there, it was only about two months before christmas....I missed my mother and father, my brother...and all I got was a pair of slippers and a nightgown, because the people didnt know what to get me.

It was ok though, it was sweet in a way, and I had a bunch of memories to live on. I'm back with my mother now, not that thats exactly a happy thing, but I have my sweet girlfriend and tons of friends and some family. and all my kitties! so this year will rock

~Sara

[Shinnen]

Weird Christmas???

My Christmas of year 2001 was the weirdest. I was in Melbourne then, bad choice of time to visit Melbourne City, but then, I was attending my graduation without anyone there to be proud of me. Anyway, Christmas Day in Melbourne was empty. Empty in the sense that the whole CBD was like a ghost town. Trams were still running, but far and few in between. There weren't any people around. I walked around the city looking into closed shops and heck... even McDonalds weren't open. I had to go to Chinatown to eat or i was gonna starve.

That was the weirdest Christmas i had. Christmas in Ghost Town Melbourne.

[maudmac]

All my Christmases have been boring, except for one. Some friends and I spent a Christmas several years ago in a cabin out in the woods. I guess we thought that would be fun. And it was, up 'til the day we left.

This cabin had a loft and that's where I was sleeping. I woke up one morning and I just stayed there for a while, listening to folks talking downstairs. The stairs ran right beside my bed and there was only a railing between the stairs and my bed.

As I lay there, there was a lull in the conversation downstairs. Soon after, I felt someone poking me on the back. I played possum, certain that someone had crept silently most of the way up the stairs to bother me. I thought, "Ah...two can play this game."

This went on for maybe ten seconds. The poking continued as the conversation downstairs started up again. I listened. (Cue ominous music.) I could hear every single person in that cabin...way over there.

There was no one on those stairs.

You've never seen a bunch of people move so fast in your life. We got the hell out of that cabin. And I went back to really boring Christmases.

[bowieinberlin]

Why does that remind me of The Evil Dead, Holley? Maybe that's the 4th installment Sam Raimi should have made. "Evil Dead Christmas."

[FlereImsaho]

OMG maudmac! That is definitely at the top of the weirdness scale. New mantra: Boring is OK!