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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:48 PM
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Okay, I admit it. I LOVE Christmas
I still get excited about it. And I'm a freakin' atheist, for chrissakes.

I love Christmas lights.
I love wrapping presents.
I love spending time with my family.
I love making (and eating) Christmas cookies.
I love Christmas dinner.
I love decorating the tree.
I love singing carols.
I love Christmas music in general.
I love buying presents for people and watching them open them.
I love sending and receiving Christmas cards.


So don't rain on my parade! Enough of being cynical!
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Rambis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:50 PM
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1. I do too
Edited on Mon Dec-20-04 02:50 PM by Rambis
Merry X-Mas I can't wait to see my kids (4 and 2) open their gifts from Santa:)
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KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:50 PM
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2. I'd wish you a Merry Christmas but it sounds like
you are already there.

Enjoy it.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:51 PM
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3. woot
are you on break yet?
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:52 PM
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5. since Friday!
And Alex took Friday and today off. We've had a good time just hanging out. :-) We go to his mom's on Thursday and come back home on Tuesday.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:56 PM
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7. rock on!
if i don't taLk to you before hand (i most LikeLy won't) have a wonderfuL hoLiday. i hope santa is good to you. :D
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:52 PM
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4. I love Christmas too
I love the giving and recieving, I love the good spirits, I love Christmas lights
I love going to moms and chowing down
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rene moon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:53 PM
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6. Me too!
I love Christmas. I always have. I love giving gifts, putting up lights, making cookies, etc.

This season has brought me a little comfort, knowing that the New Year looks bleak. So, let us who love Christmas, love it---for it may help some get thorough this post-election crap!
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:57 PM
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8. I love Christmas too. :-D
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:57 PM
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9. The thing I like most about Christmas is
being around my family at a stress free time not having to worry about work for a little while.

I don't decorate my own home. I live alone and have very little company. But I do enjoy looking at other people's decorations. I like to turn on the Christmas tree lights at night at my parent's house and turn off all of the other lights and just watch the tree go round and round (it's on one of those revolving pedastles).
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:58 PM
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10. I love it too!
And I like everything on your list! :thumbsup:

The only difference appears to be that I am not an atheist, but I've never let a thing like that stand in the way of friendly kinship. ;
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Rainbowreflect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:58 PM
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11. I love Christmas too.
My nephew is 2 and I get to see him for Christmas.
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:58 PM
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12. People have done so
for thousands of years, whatever they called it at the time. :D

Who doesn't like a party?

Personally, I celebrate Sir Isaac Newton's birthday.
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:59 PM
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13. I do too!
It helps (as an atheist also) that the roots of our 'modern' xmas are so steeped in Saturnalia, that I derive pleasure from the paganistic qualities.

For Saturnalia, the Romans decorated their homes with evergreens, ate and drank to excess, gave gifts to the children (dolls and the like), and opened up their temples to the poor. Sound familiar?

American xmas incorporates many Victorian qualities too.

All before the myths of Jupiter, Apollo, Venus, etc, were replaced by the myths of Jesus and Santa Claus.

So Happy Saturnalia/Christmas/Whatever! :D
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:10 PM
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14. Happy Saturnalia!
LoL- I'm gonna make xmas cards with that next year!

And a Merry ZombyChristmas too!
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