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We've had three different work meals out with different groups and then the Foxes supporters club do tomorrow. My girlfriend has had her work party, two zumba parties, history group party and about three girls' nights. Tonight she is going to Hakamou for a Hawaiian Christmas party. It's bloody insane.
Then had to attend Husband's Company Dinner So many in just the space of a couple of weeks |
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What makes me a "Scrooge" ?
People using the term "Bah Humbug" if you dare express anything other than blind, uncontrollable glee at this time of year. Many people can dislike this time of year for many reasons - it doesn't automatically make them "Scrooge". On Christmas Eve I've been invited to join one of my housemates in the pub, but I'll get there an hour after her and home hours before her too. I'll be out of the pub by 7pm as it annoys me to much with the drunken once a year crowd, she likes that atmosphere. Neither of us mind the other doing our own thing we all enjoy it our own way. As a bonus I'll no doubt be posting a picture of her passed out in a Santa hat, still in coat with a pizza box on her lap Christmas day morning
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All this build up and what do people do on the day...eat dinner and watch telly, just like most other Sundays.😏
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Women generally have a far happier disposition than men! Experience and threads such as this tell me so.
It's mainly men who are the miserable sods.. I admit i'm in that club on occasions ![]()
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Women generally have a far happier disposition than men! Experience and threads such as this tell me so.
It's mainly men who are the miserable sods.. I admit i'm in that club on occasions ![]() Despite my best endeavours, I have so far endured a dire carvery lunch with colleagues (they're great people and I enjoy their company, but I'd rather we'd all just popped across the road to the pub for a pint, frankly), lunch at Mr Lakie's mum's with all his siblings, their partners and kids, dinner out with a group of his old schoolfriends (overpriced Italian meal in a very cramped restaurant) and we still have Boxing Day to spend at his sister's. We don't do a tree, cards or decorations but we do go to town on our own Christmas meal. Three courses plus cheese, everything home-made (well, not the cheese!), and a lovely selection of wine (Sancerre, Crozes Hermitage and a Barsac) and other grog to go with it. I shall be starting with a Tanqueray's No 10 and a splash of tonic at midday, and fully expect to be snoring with a not-quite finished glass of 20-year old tawny beside me by 7pm. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Especially for the grumps ![]() ![]()
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Apparently not being a brainwashed zombie expected to spend spend spend makes you a Scrooge.
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I must be the exception then. Not looking forward to Christmas
![]() Forget about all the over the top hype and do your own thing.
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Must cost her a fortune.
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everyone saying "have a nice christmas", they only speak to strangers once a year, how about showing some concern in January ?
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![]() Happy Christmas |
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And to you!!! and look in the manger a baby
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Christmas is over rated imo
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Ooooooh when do we get the 'throw up' emoji?
![]() "outlook not so good"
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I just asked they said:
"outlook not so good" ![]() I love it!
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Are you the one who refused to take part in the bauble making day? It might have right cheered you up.
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Are you the one who refused to take part in the bauble making day? It might have right cheered you up.
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They looked a right cobblers on the work Christmas tree which has a red and gold theme. Didn't match at all. They looked stupid.
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The mince pies in work were slightly crumbly.
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I'm particularly broke at the moment and the tills at the village Co-op (an expensive enough shop as it is) are constantly besieged by kiddies offering to pack or just standing there hopefully with collection tins. I gave one day as it was an overseas cause I'm familiar with and the kid displayed not the slightest knowledge or interest - despite the involvement of her school. I'm there most days and each day there is a different mob. Today it was the Scouts...
I have mastered the art of gazing blankly into the distance while affecting not to see the beseeching child inches from my nose. Just call me the Christmas Grinch ![]() If they have a someone at the door i will give some change, but I do not like this bag packing thing, it makes you feel like you should give even if you do not agree with where the money is going. I have not seen much of it this year. |
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let`s just say food is probably the only thing between me and a murder charge at this time of year.
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It starts too early, that is the main problem, too commercialised, have been for years, but seems to get more so each year, we will be starting it in July the way things are going.
By the time it comes people are fed up of hearing about it and that is why people gets so grumpy this time of year. I work in retail and while these days I am not on the shop floor that often as I work in the warehouse, when I am on the shop floor or even doing my own shopping I see people just have no patience and push and shove. Is this what Christmas have become? People do not seem to have time and yet shops are open longer they can order online, I wonder what they would have been like when I was a child and shops opened 9-5 and that was it? For me it is now all over, I am not working today as it is my normal day off, which is nice, my first christmas eve off since i have been there apart from when I was off ill. Just a shame I have to spend it stuck in a CT scanner this afternoon, but oh well that is life. |
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If I receive a present with really nice Christmas paper on, I will remove it as carefully as possible, smooth it out and use it again
![]() I also cut the covers of Christmas cards up to use as gift tags the following year
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I have mastered the art of gazing blankly into the distance while affecting not to see the beseeching child inches from my nose.