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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2008
     
    A merry christmas to you all!

    So - what's your plans for this year then? I will be doing the usual visiting family on Christmas day, my brother will be popping over to visit and i will be stuffing my face with plenty of turkey and chocolates all the way through to the new year. Mmmm...turkey sandwiches....lovely!
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2008
     
    We'll be having Thanksgiving dinner in a week or so, since we like our own better than the family potluck.

    We'll have turkey again on Christmas Day. On Christmas Eve, we'll visit family, then go to church for the 10pm service, because Mr. Thing and I sing in the choir. We're having a caroling party at our house on the 20th. We have our musical friends over (the ones who can read music) and sing Christmas hymns and maybe attempt one of the easier choruses from Messiah.

    The town tree lighting festivities are this Friday. They put lights on one of the big evergreens on the town green; various music groups from the schools perform, there's an attempt to sing some Christmas songs, but the crowd is so big the people at the back are usually a line behind by the end. Then Santa will come and make a good show of saying Ho Ho Ho and asking if we've all been good (I always shout out, "NOOOOOO!") and saying something about how the reindeer are all excited about pulling the sleigh. (Some year, I want Santa to say, "And remember, boys and girls, if you go outside late and see my reindeer in the sky, don't stand underneath as they fly by!") Anyway, all the stores on the green have big sales and usually some poor schmuck standing on the sidewalk selling stuff or handing out free cocoa or mulled cider. It's really quite fun.

    So anyway, we've got quite a lot to do, and still have to buy our tree and decorate the house. I don't do a lot, but I like some lights on the bushes outside, a wreath by the door, and a creche on the coffee table (no mantle over the fireplace).
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2008
     
    Decorating the house on Monday - it's a rule to put the tree up on the 1st December in this house.

    America does look very seasonal at Christmas time i must say.

    Us English can be so boring...maybe i'm just not looking in the right places.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2008 edited
     
    My mother had a rule that we couldn't have any Xmas decorations up until 1 December, and no tree until the 20th at the earliest. It came down on New Year's Day, which I always found horribly depressing. There was one family on our street who cleaned up the dishes from Thanksgiving Dinner and then put up the Christmas tree. They took it down on Valentine's day--it was usually nothing but a skeleton by then. We compromise at my house. We put up the tree during the first week of December, and take it down when we feel like it in January, but not until after Epiphany. Or sometimes February. I think we left it up until 22nd February once--I was sick and horribly depressed, and the thought of putting away all the ornaments was overwhelming. Then again, there was one year I was deathly ill at Xmas, and went out with Mr. Thing at 8pm on 23rd December and said, "We take home the first tree we see." He's one of those who wants to go to half a dozen different places, trying to get a perfect tree at the lowest possible price. But I had a 102 degree fever and a sinus infection, and was in no mood to indulge him. Well, we took home the second tree we saw, because the first one was a Charlie Brown tree, and even sick as I was, I didn't want a tree that was four feet tall and had three branches, one of which was longer than the tree was tall. The tree we got was no prize, but I've found that once the ornaments and lights are on it, most trees look beautiful. I don't remember anything else about Christmas that year.

    Then my daughter had a knack for getting sick on every major holiday for the first three years of her life, so I never got to celebrate anything much. God, I'm SO glad that's over!
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2008
     
    A Charlie Brown tree?? Haha! What the Hell???
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2008
     
    Have you ever seen "A Charlie Brown Christmas"? Maybe it never made it to England. Anyway, it's an animated, hour-long cartoon based on the Peanuts comic strip. Charlie Brown is looking for a Christmas tree to use in his school Christmas show, and he buys this spindly little pine tree because he feels sorry for it. Everyone laughs at him, and he goes home feeling terrible. They come over to his house and decorate the tree, and it looks beautiful. Then they start singing a carol, and the viewers feel all warm and fuzzy.

    The sort of thing John Cleese would say he hated, but secretly would think was very sweet and touching. :wink:
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2008 edited
     
    Oh yeah!!! I actually have it on DVD somewhere!:shamed:

    And i also have 'Charlie Brown:Get me a dog for Christmas'...or something like that...

    I had them brought me by a very good friend because i love Snoopy!!!
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2008
     
    I like Charlie Brown, it's very cute, although I watched it ages ago!!!
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2008
     
    ....yeah....well...:shamed:
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2008
     
    As far as I remember it was a series, not just one film...
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2008
     
    i know that.

    I used to have Race For Your Life Charlie Brown on video when i was younger. It used to make me cry, because Woodstock (the little yellow bird) went missing and Snoopy was crying and it was just heartbreaking! I still have that video - my Grandad brought it me so i treasure it...i love my Grumps!

    I've seen quite a few of the series over the years and when i was really young i had the books too!
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2008
     
    In the US, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is as much a tradition as putting up the Christmas tree. That, and the old stop-action "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" with Burl Ives as Sam the Snowman. They even play "Holly Jolly Christmas" in the stores. I got drunk with a friend and watched Rudolph once. We cried when Clarisse sang, "There's Always Tomorrow" and when all the toys sang "Island of Misfit Toys". Not pretty.

    I have a whole collection of Christmas movies. I'd better start watching them--I have less than 4 weeks! I've got "Scrooge" with Alistair Sim (the best version!), the two I mentioned above, Polar Express, Holiday Inn, Little Drummer Boy, White Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street (the old version), It's a Wonderful Life, and A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott as Scrooge. I don't really like the latter one that much--Alistair Sim really owns that role, though the other guy...what's his name? Oh--Reginald Owen. He did a good job. I didn't really like Barrymore's version--hard to do Scrooge convincingly from a wheelchair. Anyway, if nothing else works, "Little Drummer Boy" puts me in the Christmas spirit, despite being a bit of a bummer at the beginning. I mean, what were they thinking, showing the murder of his parents? They don't show that part nowadays. It's too long for commercial television, anyway, so they fill in with commercials. But I love the ending--just love it.

    I had a book called...by Tomie dePaola..oh yes! "The Clown of God". It's about an old man who'd been a juggler all his life. He'd fallen on hard times and sought shelter in a monastery on Christmas eve. In gratitude, he decides to juggle for the statue of the frowning Virgin and her solemn little baby. He wants to make the baby happy for Christmas Eve. He juggles better than he has been able to in years, and dies just as he performs his most difficult trick. A monk runs to him and sees it's too late to save him, then looks at the statue--the baby is holding the juggler's golden ball, and smiling.

    I just love stuff like that! :bigsmile:
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2008
     
    Every year my mum puts Scrooge on...and i love the Muppet's Christmas Carol.

    I'm pretty sure the Christmas CD will be on Monday when the tree goes up.

    I love Christmas. It gets me all emotional. Don't know why.
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2008
     
    Yeah, Lozzy, me too...
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008 edited
     
    So, i wonder when the festive stuff the old man promised us on his blog is coming out...shouldn't be long now?
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
     
    You feel emotional because Christmas is when you're SUPPOSED to feel joy and love and generosity and kindness and unity with all mankind and faith and hope. And because you maybe don't feel that way, and it's hard to be reminded. Or because you understand how fragile it all is. Or because you do feel that way, and you have tears of gratitude. Or it's the jarring dissonance between what's *supposed* to be and what really is. Or something.
    • CommentAuthorzelda
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
     
    :bigsmile:AW, we liked the juggler story. Was it only in book form? I am getting a little tarnished but play and reed just for foote and myself.I hope to be in Fl by Wed. Hooray! Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. :cry::wink:
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
     
    I guess i feel emotional because christmas is the best time of year - it's where families come together and spend that one special day with one another.

    I always think about my dad at christmas time. I always wonder if he thinks of me. And this will be the first Christmas in 3 years where i have no boyfriend to visit. Anyway, i won't turn this thread into a depressant!

    Let's just all be thankful for what we've got - Christmas makes me feel happy to be alive:bigsmile:
    • CommentAuthorzelda
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
     
    He thinks ofd you..very much! You may meet your next boyfriend this holiday. Hooray, just look around!
    Auntie Z
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
     
    I'm not particuarly looking for a boyfriend. I'm just saying - i was with him for 3 wonderful years and now we're not together anymore, so it's going to feel slightly emotional...

    As for my dad - hmmm. I don't think he does. He has a new family now, he hasn't seen me in about 6 years.
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
     
    I love Xmas!!!
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008 edited
     
    Time for a picture!

    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
     
    AWWWWWWW, a cute widdew kitty! Wanna hug 'im and kiss 'im! :rainbow:
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
     
    Awwwww!!!!!!!!
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
     
    The title of this thread inspired me:

    Chris-mass... :bigsmile:

    Well, I know, it's not very funny, I was just inspired... :bigsmile:
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008 edited
     
    Lame.

    :wink:
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
     


    Who wants a kiss under the 'toe?
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
     
    I don't kiss girls. Where's John?

    I'll take Eric if John's not available. :wink:
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008 edited
     
    I wasn't wanting one off you mrsthing, eugh!:cool:
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
     
    I got hit on by three lesbians (three separate occasions) while I was in college. When I gently told one I wasn't gay, she got all offended and said, "Then why do you act like a dyke?!" I said that I wasn't aware that I did, and she said, "But you always wear pants, never wear makeup or jewelry, and, well, you just have that hard-ass attitude." I would have thought my drooling over various hot guys would have tipped them off, but it didn't. Maybe they thought I was closeted. Oh, well. Word got around campus that I wasn't gay, and then neither men NOR women hit on me.

    I didn't learn much, either.

    College really sucked.
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008 edited
     
    This is a print i designed last christmas with some help from a dear friend of mine for some long sleeved t-shirts - i sold quite a few. Just ignore the labels below it.

    Ba Humbug!

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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
     
    But...i'm not gay!
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    Neither am I! I was just telling about how other people thought I was.

    I thought your print was soft ice cream with a sparkly miniature magic wand in it until I saw the flies.
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    I'm also tomboyish, and although, most people think I am gay, I'm not!!!

    :bigsmile::bigsmile::bigsmile:
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    Well - nobody thinks i'm gay.

    Because i'm not gay.

    Now - can we move away from all of this gayness please, it's getting rather gay now
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    Feel free to eat the dogshit if you like, mrsthing.:thumbup:
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008 edited
     
    There have been times in my life when I was hungry enough to consider it! But I was never hungry enough to actually do it.

    Nobody ever thinks the girls with big tits are gay. There's this weird, totally stupid idea that the bigger your tits are, the hornier you are--for men, of course, because they're the ones who have that stupid idea.


    MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    All Cleeseboard discussions eventually degenerate to either sex, vomiting, or excrement. Or they die with a whimper, not a bang.


    :crazy: Did someone say "bang"?! :crazy:
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008 edited
     
    Yes...i DO have big tits...and they're very sexy too.

    Nothing wrong with a bit of Christmas sex.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    Well, I have small tits, but they've kept Mr. Thing happy for 21 years, and they fed my baby for 4 months, and she got fat and happy and had beautiful skin and shiny hair. Small, but powerful! I AM WOMAN, HEAR ME ROAR!!!


    I am Mrs. Thing, watch me go crazy!:crazy:
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    Maybe your baby sucked all of the tissue out of them.
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    And...just to relate the sex to this thread...

    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    Now Mrs. Thing, hand me the sherry bottle and no one will get hurt. That's a good girl. You go have a little lie down for a while, and you'll feel better. Yes you will. NO, you may NOT have any more sherry!

    Sheesh! It's not even 8am, and Mrs. Thing's been hitting the cooking sherry! Sorry about her behavior, everyone. It's the holidays, and she's always harder to control when there are lots of shiny, sparkly things around. I guess she gets dazzled or something and goes nuts.
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    Mrsthing, there are such things as alcoholic clinics you could visit you know...

    'i am mrsthing, and i am an alcoholic'
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    No, my baby didn't suck the tissue out of them. They're still the same size they always were. They didn't even get bigger when I got pregnant. Oh well.
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    My name is Lozzykinz.

    I have big tits.

    And i am very horny.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    Since Mrs. Thing is largely a figment of my own imagination, I think I'll leave her the way she is. She has way more fun than I do!
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    • CommentAuthorzelda
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    Sisthing is not an alcoholic, just wish she would use regular sherry instead of something with 50% salt. I would offer you my absinthe, but it really takes a STtroooooooog stomoch,yaaach.
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2008
     
    The postcards are incredibly funny!!!!!!!!!!!!