Global Holidays and Celebrations

[Piney]

It's weird how Christmas is so hyped up and then the whole family just sits around half-asleep in the lounge all day X'D in fact, we spent more time daytime-sleeping then we did eating lunch, or even having conversation! It was so silent this year o___o
Does the Eich clan do Christmas lunch or Christmas dinner as the main meal? We do lunch, and then can't be bothered with dinner. :/ We used to have a big dinner at the grandparents house but ever since that year when we all fell asleep and missed it (we all had colds) we just don't do dinners anymore hehehe
I made so much sushi for lunch this year! XP the grandparents just cut it up with their cutlery...it was so cute/disturbing uAu

I realized today that Christmas Eve and just the overall hype for Christmas is more exciting than actual Christmas. Actual Christmas doesn't last long enough. And I didn't even have the hype this year so it kinda... sucked.
In my family, "Christmas dinner" means "Christmas lunch". And afterwards, we weren't so much lethargic as just bored and tired. Same deal with Thanksgiving dinner. I don't know if I've ever had actual dinner on Thanksgiving, because no one is hungry until the next day. Today, though, I did have a small actual dinner, but for my irrational fear of undereating and not for hunger of any kind 

[Eich]

It's weird how Christmas is so hyped up and then the whole family just sits around half-asleep in the lounge all day X'D in fact, we spent more time daytime-sleeping then we did eating lunch, or even having conversation! It was so silent this year o___o
Does the Eich clan do Christmas lunch or Christmas dinner as the main meal? We do lunch, and then can't be bothered with dinner. :/ We used to have a big dinner at the grandparents house but ever since that year when we all fell asleep and missed it (we all had colds) we just don't do dinners anymore hehehe
I made so much sushi for lunch this year! XP the grandparents just cut it up with their cutlery...it was so cute/disturbing uAu

Lounging around all day is what we usually try to do.  Normally, we'd have watched movies and shows all day, after a 9:00 a.m. presents opening, begin watching stuff, eat a lightning fast lunch, loung around watching more stuff, forget dinner, go straight to desert, finish our tv marathon, and call it a day.  We always do big lunches in food holidays, though.  Dinners leave to little time to be lethargic and sleepy.

Yoy know how to make sushi??  That seems like a pretty awesome skill!
Oh, gosh and I sympathize about Christmas colds.  Our family has a pretty tough immune system, but one year...  My brother came back from school with something, and laid down on the couch and said, "I'm dying.". He's a bit of a joker and a drama king, so we thought he was kidding around, but we all got it, one at a time, and it. Was. Hellish.  I actually passed out when I had it and hit my head pretty hard. O__O

@Piney, I could do with your eating habits.  I often simply forget to eat, or don't want to take the time to.

[OrigamiOwl]

Lounging around all day is what we usually try to do.  Normally, we'd have watched movies and shows all day, after a 9:00 a.m. presents opening, begin watching stuff, eat a lightning fast lunch, loung around watching more stuff, forget dinner, go straight to desert, finish our tv marathon, and call it a day.  We always do big lunches in food holidays, though.  Dinners leave to little time to be lethargic and sleepy.

Yoy know how to make sushi??  That seems like a pretty awesome skill!
Oh, gosh and I sympathize about Christmas colds.  Our family has a pretty tough immune system, but one year...  My brother came back from school with something, and laid down on the couch and said, "I'm dying.". He's a bit of a joker and a drama king, so we thought he was kidding around, but we all got it, one at a time, and it. Was. Hellish.  I actually passed out when I had it and hit my head pretty hard. O__O

@Piney, I could do with your eating habits.  I often simply forget to eat, or don't want to take the time to.

Hehe skipping to dessert sounds like the best X'D
Yeah, sushi is pretty easy to do but I'm not a master yet. I think my major downfall is that I'm not the one who gets to cut it up: my sister does, and she cuts it too thin and it falls apart which is sad ;__; (heh, if there's ever a minion-meet, I'll buy sushi stuff and make some hahaha) in fact, she keeps trying to take over and puts heaps of vinegar stuff and sugar in the rice?? Sadly she's more qualified than me (she's a trainee chef, with lots of fancy events on her resume. She recently turned down a job at one of the fanciest restaurants in town because she didn't like the hours O__O) but I think I'm more qualified for sushi because it's like my staple food at Uni XD

That cold sounds horrible!!! A nightmare!! 8O the worst ones do tend to come from school don't they? Your poor brother, one of times the dramatics were necessary, and no one believes him oh dear uAu Being as tall as you are, (even young-Eich was probably tall right?) falling that far would be not good. O__O
Ours were summer colds, why are summer colds even a thing?

[Fenris]

I am just now starting to get hungry again after christmas dinner (although, I also had a fairly sizeable portion of leftovers at christmas day). Four or five full servings of potatoes, roedeer meatcakes and enough gravy to drown a middle-sized village. As my family says, if it doesn't hurt after christmas dinner, you've done it wrong. As for presents, I mostly got some cash and some clothes, as well as a travel-book for St. Petersburg, a film and some deodorant and soap (I may be getting a hint there?).

[StellersJayC]

I am just now starting to get hungry again after christmas dinner (although, I also had a fairly sizeable portion of leftovers at christmas day). Four or five full servings of potatoes, roedeer meatcakes and enough gravy to drown a middle-sized village. As my family says, if it doesn't hurt after christmas dinner, you've done it wrong. As for presents, I mostly got some cash and some clothes, as well as a travel-book for St. Petersburg, a film and some deodorant and soap (I may be getting a hint there?).

Maybe. Everyone in my family gets deodorant every year no matter what.

[ThisCat]

Maybe. Everyone in my family gets deodorant every year no matter what.

My mom always gets the same bottle of hand-cream from my grandmother. She uses several years on one, so she tends to give them away again.

[kjeks]

So far it is a leather wristband and what else is still to be reveiled. We wait till our parents come home from Turkey. But well, I don't think that gifts are really fitting at the moment, so I might skip the receiving some weeks further.

[Lenny]

True to Christmas in Tasmania, the weather was atrocious. We even had several electrical blackouts (both on the day and several days before) due to the weather. But, unlike previous Christmases, it cleared up by mid-afternoon, and it was possible to have a really enjoyable barbecue dinner. We'd gone to midnight mass at an Anglican church the night before (candle-lit service, with each person who enters the church being given a candle - really nice atmosphere, as the church itself is in a Gothic style), so no church on the day itself. Actually, Christmas Eve was the first one where we'd spent the evening with friends! Rather fun, and so much gorging on desserts and turkey and lamb and other delicious foods.

Gifts were very few. As I think I said earlier, we give our gifts on Sinterklaas, the 5th of December. So for Christmas it's usually a gift of chocolate, and that's what I received - some really quite delicious Kinder chocolate (a joke between me and the family that gave it) and a huge Toblerone... As for what I received for Sinterklaas - an historical documentary, two types of tea (delicious, a berry type and a spicy type), and a sketchbook.

[OrigamiOwl]

True to Christmas in Tasmania, the weather was atrocious. We even had several electrical blackouts (both on the day and several days before) due to the weather. But, unlike previous Christmases, it cleared up by mid-afternoon, and it was possible to have a really enjoyable barbecue dinner. We'd gone to midnight mass at an Anglican church the night before (candle-lit service, with each person who enters the church being given a candle - really nice atmosphere, as the church itself is in a Gothic style), so no church on the day itself. Actually, Christmas Eve was the first one where we'd spent the evening with friends! Rather fun, and so much gorging on desserts and turkey and lamb and other delicious foods.

Gifts were very few. As I think I said earlier, we give our gifts on Sinterklaas, the 5th of December. So for Christmas it's usually a gift of chocolate, and that's what I received - some really quite delicious Kinder chocolate (a joke between me and the family that gave it) and a huge Toblerone... As for what I received for Sinterklaas - an historical documentary, two types of tea (delicious, a berry type and a spicy type), and a sketchbook.

Aw, sorry to hear your weather was poop! ours was oddly quite good, there was rain in the afternoon, but we were all asleep.
The mass and kinder chocolate sounds lovely! So do the teas!! My sister bought a tea blend, but she knows nothing about tea and it tastes soooooo bad X'D

[Lenny]

Aw, sorry to hear your weather was poop! ours was oddly quite good, there was rain in the afternoon, but we were all asleep.
The mass and kinder chocolate sounds lovely! So do the teas!! My sister bought a tea blend, but she knows nothing about tea and it tastes soooooo bad X'D

We had some really heavy winds in the afternoon, maybe they blew our rainy/stormy weather your way XD We were all asleep in the morning! Due to going to bed at 2:30 that morning Up late again Christmas Day playing card games... I'll need a recovery period after this!

Eeeeei that is sad indeed. There are so many good teas in the world, it may be a talent to be able to pick such a bad one...

Actually, the weather wasn't the horrible thing about Christmas this year. Upon returning from mass, there was an accident across the road from our house. All over by the time we got there, but not long over at all - the ambulance drove past us, and the firemen and policemen were all still investigating. Apparently a 19 year old girl somehow drove into the ditch next to the road, smack into the bridge-thing of a driveway going over the ditch, flipped her car, and died. There were pieces of debris all over the place. It's also a complete mystery as to how it happened, because the road is good, everything was dry and good weather conditions (for a change), and there was no one else there. *sigh* The only good thing that could possibly come from this is that it may drive the government to finally fill in those ditches and put in a proper drain.

Meh. My 250th post has to be such a gloomy one. Ah well. At least my title will now match my avatar!~

[OrigamiOwl]

We had some really heavy winds in the afternoon, maybe they blew our rainy/stormy weather your way XD We were all asleep in the morning! Due to going to bed at 2:30 that morning Up late again Christmas Day playing card games... I'll need a recovery period after this!

Eeeeei that is sad indeed. There are so many good teas in the world, it may be a talent to be able to pick such a bad one...

Actually, the weather wasn't the horrible thing about Christmas this year. Upon returning from mass, there was an accident across the road from our house. All over by the time we got there, but not long over at all - the ambulance drove past us, and the firemen and policemen were all still investigating. Apparently a 19 year old girl somehow drove into the ditch next to the road, smack into the bridge-thing of a driveway going over the ditch, flipped her car, and died. There were pieces of debris all over the place. It's also a complete mystery as to how it happened, because the road is good, everything was dry and good weather conditions (for a change), and there was no one else there. *sigh* The only good thing that could possibly come from this is that it may drive the government to finally fill in those ditches and put in a proper drain.

Meh. My 250th post has to be such a gloomy one. Ah well. At least my title will now match my avatar!~

yeah i heard about that accident its so sad. I wonder if she had fallen asleep or was texting or drunk or what, but its terrible. That poor family.

On a happier subject, Iv'e gotta go get ready for ANOTHER christmas luck at my grandma's. She's a bit miffed that us "children" were in charge of Christmas food the past 2 years and so has made her very own (gosh knows when, she's known to badly freeze food for months ;____;) so she can do it her way. she didn't like the sushi we made (we did it on purpose!! >) and she never likes our trifle because "its not traditional"?! It's a family tradition for my mum's family! So i think its a bit rude how she keeps trying to replace our meals with her own weird old ones. Last night, for my sister's birthday dinner, she brought these weird-as stuffing balls. they were dry as dust, with horrible-tasting apricot and charcoal all through them. i was silently signalling over the table to my sisters and their friends not to eat them, and hid mine under some lettuce...... ugh...
Hopefully ill survive today's lunch... or maybe mutate into a troll oh gods help me

[Lenny]

yeah i heard about that accident its so sad. I wonder if she had fallen asleep or was texting or drunk or what, but its terrible. That poor family.

On a happier subject, Iv'e gotta go get ready for ANOTHER christmas luck at my grandma's. She's a bit miffed that us "children" were in charge of Christmas food the past 2 years and so has made her very own (gosh knows when, she's known to badly freeze food for months ;____;) so she can do it her way. she didn't like the sushi we made (we did it on purpose!! >) and she never likes our trifle because "its not traditional"?! It's a family tradition for my mum's family! So i think its a bit rude how she keeps trying to replace our meals with her own weird old ones. Last night, for my sister's birthday dinner, she brought these weird-as stuffing balls. they were dry as dust, with horrible-tasting apricot and charcoal all through them. i was silently signalling over the table to my sisters and their friends not to eat them, and hid mine under some lettuce...... ugh...
Hopefully ill survive today's lunch... or maybe mutate into a troll oh gods help me

She may also have been swerving to avoid an animal - we get lots of pademelons, wallabies, and random echidnas and things around here. As well as house cats. Still... aargh. Sad thing to happen on Christmas. I doubt it will ever be the same for that family.

Oooooh dear oh dear I wish you much strength and stoutness of heart and stomach to get through that ordeal XD

[OrigamiOwl]

She may also have been swerving to avoid an animal - we get lots of pademelons, wallabies, and random echidnas and things around here. As well as house cats. Still... aargh. Sad thing to happen on Christmas. I doubt it will ever be the same for that family.

Oooooh dear oh dear I wish you much strength and stoutness of heart and stomach to get through that ordeal XD

Oh yeah, that would make more sense. I thought it might've happened during the day time but I wouldn't know :/

Goodness gracious me, I'm currently at Grandmas house and I think I might have to sit at the kiddie table. I hope I get to sit there because I don't know any of the adult relatives here o____o they've all travelled down from Bernie. And they kinda scare me. (They keep bagging out private education and uni for some reason?? And they don't really like us sisters because they think we're rich brats. Which is rather Rude. And hilariously false.)
But, this confirms my suspicions: it IS a replacement Christmas!!! >:0
And the microwave is getting a workout. Goodbye world.... ;____;

[Lenny]

Oh yeah, that would make more sense. I thought it might've happened during the day time but I wouldn't know :/

Goodness gracious me, I'm currently at Grandmas house and I think I might have to sit at the kiddie table. I hope I get to sit there because I don't know any of the adult relatives here o____o they've all travelled down from Bernie. And they kinda scare me. (They keep bagging out private education and uni for some reason?? And they don't really like us sisters because they think we're rich brats. Which is rather Rude.)
But, this confirms my suspicions: it IS a replacement Christmas!!! >:0
And the microwave is getting a workout. Goodbye world.... ;____;

No, it happened not long before we got there at like, 1:00am-ish.

... They do sound very scary. If it were me, I'd be scared of sitting with them because my really horrible sarcastic side would come out...

I really hope none of you get food poisoning ;;_;; That sound like the really scary thing here.

[OrigamiOwl]

... They do sound very scary. If it were me, I'd be scared of sitting with them because my really horrible sarcastic side would come out...

I really hope none of you get food poisoning ;;_;; That sound like the really scary thing here.

It's happened before ;__;
We survived the first course! There was a hair in my stuffing 8__8 but us at the kiddie table are WARRIORS! We will SURVIVE the oncoming PUDDING! I hope......

If I'm getting spammy with this lunch thing just say :T