Christmas Stress
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- gruntt0
i've come up with a genius gift. my wife and i are doing the rounds, visiting several branches of the family, etc. Instead of a traditional gift i'm going to have my "member" hanging out of my pants the moment we walk in the door. I'll keep it out for a few minutes until I'm sure everyone present has seen it. I will then ask for everyone's attention and in a ceremonious fashion I will announce "For you all I give you this gift" I will then put my penis back into my pants and zip the fly and declare "Merry Christmas to you all!"
- _salisae_0
ayn rand would be proud, mg
- ricstultz0
yeah, I'm over the whole gift giving thing too. i just paint people pictures.... that usually works out. People really like handmade gifts.
- gruntt0
we're actually doing the homemade thing too this year. we're giving homemade red onion marmalade and homemade spicy honey roasted peanuts. both go great with wine or beer so for the folks higher up on the gift list (parents, closest friends, etc) we're also giving a bottle of wine.
- ross0
three words top solve your problem:egg nog & rum.
or screenprint and sew pillows.
last years gifts...
- mg330
Holy Shit gruntt!!!!!!!!!
I can't stop laughing!!!!
- gruntt0
Holy Shit gruntt!!!!!!!!!
I can't stop laughing!!!!
mg33
(Dec 21 05, 06:39)was it the honey roasted peanuts? yeah, i thought that was comic gold too. =)
- Jaline0
haha @ Grant.
I bet your wife will walk around like she's got a prized possession to hand out for anyone who wants to borrow it.
- gruntt0
lol jaline.
no comment.
- _salisae_0
you hinting at an invitation, j?
- todelete__20
i hear you mg33.
i've been so stressed, and not to mention so swamped with freelance that i have yet to buy a single present. i may be that guy the day before doing all his shopping. it's fucking crazy. now, being engaged we have 2 families we have to divide our time with and it's a nightmare. everyone we know is having some sort of holiday party that they want us to come to, and, we have about 6 options for new years, none of which we're really excited about. i just want to go back to working, training, sleeping. no freelance, no shopping, no parties... it sucks.
merry christmas though!
haha.
- Mal0
- JazX0
I like it gruntt, reverse psychology. good thinkin'
- mg330
Right kona, right. Like you don't know what you're doing on New Years...
I quite like the concept of intercourse at the stroke (no pun intended) of midnight. I mean, what could be better than ending one year and starting another with sex? End on top, start on top. That's what I say.
But for you, well, I'm sure that a set of reps is just about the same. I've watched Pumping Iron.
- JazX0
I like the way you think mg33
- bulletfactory0
Except that this year what she knows I've wanted since spotting it this summer is only $3,350 out of our $150 price limit:
A black, 1977 Fender Telecaster Deluxe, left handed, beautiful, calling my name:
Like this -
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mg33
(Dec 20 05, 19:49)
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OOOHHHHH - i own a 73 tele deluxe - it always makes everyone jealous! that would def. be a noice gift!
- mg330
bullet, when I saw that black 77 my jaw was on the floor. It's the year I was born too. My girlfriend and I just stopped in this shop (Chicago Music Exchange) which is nothing but vintage guitars, electric and acoustic, old amps, etc. The guys are jerks in there, very snobby, but it's because they are located right by Wrigley Field here in Chicago, lots of non-guitar players coming in to browse, and lots of rich north-suburban men who couldn't play a G chord coming in as "collectors" and dropping tons of money on vintage guitars to hang on a wall. Sad!
But being left handed as I am, and seeing my happiness in that guitar, they were rather nice to me. No way could I have come up with $3,000 for that guitar, but talked about it all day with my girlfriend.
- -sputnik-0
i totally agree...i've bought one nice thing for everyone in my family this christmas, but i've also made cards and special packaging along with tons of home-made cookies etc. this takes time (i am working my ass of every day) and my sister called to say
"i don't know why you can't just go to my wish list and send me the crap directly to my house".
well, cause that's not christmas you thankless jerk. i wanted to do something personal since i am far away from them, and all i got was grief.
next year, slipper socks. that's all she's getting.
- todelete__20
haha mg33. our tentative new years plan involves driving down to st. louis, so if anything an early morning workout is on the block.
the next day though if we do go down i'm supposed to train 2 guys from the sox and put them on a new plan. we'll see though. if i do workout with them i'm going to make them puke blood.
- jamble0
Totally agree mg33, I feel the same. I feel less and less interested in christmas every year.
I'm lucky in that I don't really need christmas as a means of getting something I want because I have a few quid in my pocket so if I want something I don't need to wait.
It's got to the point this year where I just can't be fucked so my mum and dad have shopped for their own presents, my sister wants a voucher from Ikea and me and the missus went halves on a PS2.
I just feel like Christmas is an administrative drain where all I'm doing is shelling out money without any real meaning behind the gifts. It's especially annoying now where you know full well if you wait a couple of days (or even the 26th) everything is on sale and your money goes twice as far as it did two days earlier.
Christmas is a waste of time for grown men and women. It's for children.
Bah humbug!