Do I HAVE to?

[planet planet]

I did it. I managed to skip Thanksgiving and I now have an out for Xmas. I don't want to do this every year, but man, I need a break this year.

I do love my family. But it has been and will be - awesome to just get crap done instead of being stressed out.

Wow, how is it even possible to skip both holidays and you're in the same town as your family? Major stones, doc. I started getting sick yesterday (just a cold), but that makes me even grumpier towards wrapping presents, hosting Mr. Planet's family, etc.

[Molly]

I did it. I managed to skip Thanksgiving and I now have an out for Xmas. I don't want to do this every year, but man, I need a break this year.

I do love my family. But it has been and will be - awesome to just get crap done instead of being stressed out.

Wow, how is it even possible to skip both holidays and you're in the same town as your family? Major stones, doc. I started getting sick yesterday (just a cold), but that makes me even grumpier towards wrapping presents, hosting Mr. Planet's family, etc.

Happy hour tonight???

[go birds]

it is simply amazing how apathetic i am about the holidays

like...i havent done any shopping yet, but i usually dont until the last minute anyway, but this year i am putting zero effort and getting everyone gift cards. I'm just over it

[Secret Weapon]

What a bunch of grinches

[go birds]

literally the only one in the office today because im the only one who didn't use vacation time to go home. i wanted to roll over my leftover vacation time to next year.

(like a boss)

[Diddy]

This whole gift giving and shopping thing is driving me crazy. And of course there's also standing in line for a eternity to get the kids pics with Santa. I, for the most part, enjoy the family time and haven't had conflicts between choosing where to go. All the crap that goes with it is a pain in the butt though.

[jim]

I don't do gifts. My wife picked up some things for the "kids", but the youngest is 20 so there is no standing in line with Santa etc... I did pick up a bottle of wine tonight that my wife likes and I will put that in her stocking with a box of chocolates and two bottles of sparkling water, and that's it. I literally did all of my xmas shopping on the home way from work tonight at the Jewel grocery store. Add to it that we bought a fake tree last year that is pre-lit and we left the ornaments on and stashed it away in the garage, I basically did nothing. My grand contribution was to take the garbage bag off of the little 5 ft fake tree and pick the broken ornaments off the tree that my wife broke sometime last summer when she pulled the car too far in the garage and hit the tree.

I also was supposed to organize something at work since i'm the group lead, I dropped the ball. Actually I intentionally did nothing, and two people called me out on it. I just said no, not doing anything this year. I told one if she wanted a lunch to organize it herself, and she didn't. So I guess she didn't want to go that bad after all.

[sighyoung]

[pioneer98]

Christmas lost some of its luster for me this year. We still did a good enough job that our 9 year old's mind was blown on Christmas morning. The babies are still too young to know the difference.

But the real problem came in when I had Christmas with my brothers and sisters at my parents house. I've kind of grown apart from them. They live elsewhere and all of us have kids now. Plus, I've finally gotten to know some of their wives enough to know that they don't really like me. So it was only 1 notch below going to my inlaws for Christmas. Which is pretty sad.