badams Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 The most depressing time of the year ... well for me at least. I hope the rest of you enjoy yourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im going home Donny Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 its allmost spring and x-mas is allmost over....you'll make it lol...i will reccomend NOT renting prozac nation on xeve...worst timing for a movie pic i've ever pulled off....gees margy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 (edited) Cheer up Brad, there's always Boxing Day... you know what I'm saying I'm working night shifts all weekend including tonight. No Christmas for me this year. I'm furious that the CBC has chosen to air the colourized version of Scrooge with Alastair Sim too. It's on at 10pm. Ted Turner should have been shot when he came up with the idea to colourize films. Edited December 25, 2005 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 Wouldn't say I hate it, but I'm not the biggest fan either. Hope things pick up for ya Brad. Keep smilin''Blazin Saddles' just started on Showcase. Now thats quality christmas TV. :thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeker Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 Watching it right now with the folks. Good call.I'd like to wish everyone a merry Christmas especially to those in this thread having a rough night. Hopefully something unexpectently great happens for you all tonight.I've had the flu ever since I got here, have had 4 cavities filled and almost ripped one of my fingers off cleaning out the basement. But my fever broke last night and so did my hate for Christmas, so I know its possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 The most depressing time of the year ...well for me at least. If it's any consolation, this is statistically speaking the most depressing time of year for people across the board (if not this board particularly), when more people hit the wall and awful things happen. I know I approach it, and experience it, with dread myself every year because of the disheartening family dynamics I have to deal with, not to speak of the horrible, gratuitous consumerism and kitsch and everything that goes along with that. I'm just glad there's NYE to look forward to. Plus, I can at least enjoy it vicariously through my daughters, and know that they can be made happy through it all. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with it being the time of year when there's all this hype about how you're supposed to be happy. Meh. Jesus himself ended up getting a pretty bum deal out of his own birth further on down the road. I find a little cynicism goes a long way this time of year; hopefully you can find less miserable sources of comfort than mine, though . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSloth Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 I'm working night shifts all weekend including tonight.Same here Dave, I'm on my second of 4 consecutive 12.5 hours night shifts but what the hell someone's got to do it and the overtime will be nice. Baby Jesus day ain't so bad, I like getting together with family and having a few laughs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 I'm only getting overtime on Christmas since I'm off on Boxing Day. Overtime certainly cusions the blow of working over Christmas. At least no one is around to bother you. The company is picking up our dinner tonight. I'm getting a healthy selection of Chinese food from my favourite restaraunt in Chinatown: Swatow. Nothing says Christmas like feasting on Singapore style vermicelli noodles, shrimp wanton soup, lemon chicken, and beef with black bean sause with rice noodles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 Watching it right now with the folks. Good call.We watched Blazin' Saddles last night too! Came on right after the TPB Christmas special afterall.Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you all find the silver lining that makes today a little more special. All the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 if you find your a path to Ottawa (I'm going to email you every single govy job posting I find) I'll make sure that you enjoy next xmas more than any xmas anyone's ever enjoyed and that ever existed (in hull of course). Well, that'll just come naturally here on the quebec side. What they do here is get loaded and open all of the gifts on xmas eve so your photos of opening gifts aren't filled with people in jammies and bed-heads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badams Posted December 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 This is the fourth year I have spent Christmas alone. It's my own fault I guess but I find family and friends make me more depressed. I wish it were different for me but it's not. Just have to burry my head and wait it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 Waiting for the grandparents to show up so the shit can really hit the fan. Hope there's blood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 This is the fourth year I have spent Christmas alone. It's my own fault I guess but I find family and friends make me more depressed. I wish it were different for me but it's not. Just have to burry my head and wait it out.Have you considered volunteering somewhere?Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richbass Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 I dunno 'bout the rest of you but it's a sign that CHANNUKAH IS HERE!!! So everyone get out their dredels and spin, spin, spin!!! Happy Holidays all and a BNB NYE!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im going home Donny Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 This is the fourth year I have spent Christmas alone. It's my own fault I guess but I find family and friends make me more depressed. I wish it were different for me but it's not. Just have to burry my head and wait it out. Have you considered volunteering somewhere? as in volunteering yourself to take up space on a beach in Cuba sipping girly drinks and soaking up all that vitimin sunshine or enjoying the powdery beaches of costa rica? hmmm...i think i'll consider my own advice for next seasons run. Aloha' date=' Brad[/quote'] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 Christmas is usually the most complicated time of the year for me because that means it's time to negotiate with the parents as to who I spend my Christmas Eve with (they are divorced you see).It's really a massively complicated and stressful decision to choose one parent over the other.Ideally we can all spend xmas together as one big happy family, laughing, and singing Christmas carols while opening presents. But then I remember that even when my folks were together, we never did any of that anyways.So to all out there who are happy, sad, indifferent, and enraptured, have a Merry Christmas, a Happy Chanukkah, a Festive Kwanza, and a Great Festivus!It could be worse... you can be working at MuchMusic, watching cheezy campy 80's Christmas videos all day on high rotation. Hey Jaimoe, can I request "Oi to the World!" by No Doubt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 I'd rather have to choose between two, than only have one left. Merry Christmas, (my personal) Santa. Aloha, Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewRider Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 I hate Xmas too! Spent Christmas Eve eating Kraft Dinner alone watching families in neighbouring appartments. Pretty sad. Oh well, at least New Years Eve is next weekend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted December 26, 2005 Report Share Posted December 26, 2005 It could be worse... you can be working at MuchMusic, watching cheezy campy 80's Christmas videos all day on high rotation. Hey Jaimoe, can I request "Oi to the World!" by No Doubt?Sure, request away. I'd rather hear that tune than the latest Franz Ferdinand single.And by the way, Much doesn't air too many cheesy 80's Christmas videos - they would only get in the way of airing great videos by Nickelback, Gwen Stefani and Ashley Simpson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaggyBalls Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 "This is the fourth year I have spent Christmas alone. It's my own fault I guess but I find family and friends make me more depressed. I wish it were different for me but it's not. Just have to burry my head and wait it out."Similar situation here but this is my first one away. Hope you figure yourself out dude. It'll do you a world of good if you can set yourself straight for a new year. Christmas should be good times. I've been chillin' and not putting too much stress on the holidays. I went to a christmas eve dinner that my Landlady Extraordinaire threw for all of her tennants here in the west end. Too much food and loads of wine.It was touching.for me these days are starkly neutral and if it weren't for the few key experiences that bring me together with people I'd still be pissy. A week and a half ago or so I got out of an incredibly angry phase. I was hoping to get hit by a car so I could justify beating the fuck out of someone. I got over myself finally but still, it's an intense season and I think that some people are sensitive to an overall societal vibe filled with debt, anxiety, frustration, familial hassles, and a new year coming around, us getting into a new year. My mom's birthday is the busiest shopping day of the year and NYE was always a big deal in our house.that being said, I think my birthday is my key depressing time of year. If I didn't have Come Together a few years in a row I'd be wallowing in a confused state of mind around the long weekend in may. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YearsAlongTheSea Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 I give christmas a C- this year.With the bell curve, it's doing alright, but I've seen better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorgnor Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 X-mas flunked this year for me. It can be a little depressing with the whole seasonal affective thing, and a loss in the fam on x-mas day a few years back plus all the usual money, work, dividing time shite. But this year I had a new one... involved in a family fight. Seriously makes you question the whole thing.We travelled, rushed and hurried our way through christmas only to be chastised and derided for our efforts.And it brings me to a question... can you ever make everybody happy? And is there anything worse than a disappointed loved one?I hope you and yours had a better one than us and ours. And I hope there's better ones ahead for us all.Thank you to the creators for the vent space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 And it brings me to a question... can you ever make everybody happy?I think it's possible to make someone happier, but only if the person is first of all capable of being made happier.But you asked about making "everybody" happy, which is a whole other matter. I don't have access to "everybody", only to a small (relative to the Earth's population) group of people. I hope that I've made some of those people happier; even if I haven't, I haven't seen any evidence that I've made them less happy, which is good enough ("First, do no harm", as the doctor's oath goes); my efforts have also made me happier, and (I believe) without hurting others. (There are no "conservation" laws when it comes to happiness: shared pain is lessened, shared joy increased.)Thorgnor, I'm saddened by what you said went on for you this year (and in previous years), and I wish there was something I could do to help. (If there is, let me know. At the very least, this space is available for vent.)Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.O.B.E Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share Posted December 27, 2005 I too am not the biggest christmas fan, although I do celebrate solstice. So about 5 years my best friend and I started a new christmas eve tradition of dosing at midnight. Sure "brightens" christmas up for me. Everyone in my family is drunk by 8 am christmas morning so nobody even notices. This year I couldnt partake because I had to work christmas day and I must say that a psychedelic christmas is much more fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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