Christmas Lights

[LoudMusic]

It's January 15th ... everyone in my neighborhood has had their lights down for over a week ... (: Or are you just waiting until you post the new "look & feel"?

~LoudMusic

 

[MazKid]

yea, I agree. I'm Jewish, so I didn't care if they're up there, but it's getting old.

 

[Jordan]

I didn't bother taking them down since they're just about to disappear with the new look anyway.

 

[TAFJonathan]

Originally posted by Jordan
I didn't bother taking them down since they're just about to disappear with the new look anyway.

How soon, J? I need to know when I should come on.

 

[Schumy]

Originally posted by LoudMusic
It's January 15th ... everyone in my neighborhood has had their lights down for over a week ... (: Or are you just waiting until you post the new "look & feel"?

~LoudMusic

we still have our lights on .....miniature white lights on the shrubs and landscaping looks pretty elegant with the white snow ......in our neighbourhood people don't use coloured lights (cheap looking) and most tend to decorate their landscaping instead of the house

 

[Schumy]

Originally posted by MazKid
yea, I agree. I'm Jewish, so I didn't care if they're up there, but it's getting old.

funny you should mention that Maz .....there are alot of wealthy Jews in my neighbourhood and they don't put up any lights

 

[Concept]

I made sure to make it to GTP today so I might see the new look. Ok there is no look today but it is ok.


I actually like the christmas lights up. They are all flashing and stuff...

 

[MazKid]

Well, first, we're not welthy(we do have 6 cars though, but that's not related to this thread ), and second, we don't put lights up, or go to services outside of Yom Kipur and Rosh Hashana, mianly because we don't like our congregations way of sending lots of "Please donate to the congragation" mail.

I was just saying that I don't mind because it doesn't mean anything to me.

In my area, there are some rich jews driving Mercedes and BMWs, not to mention the head guy at our temple drives a top of the line Jag, and they somehow still need our money. I don't really have any friends there, the only reason we belong there is my grandparents would be quite upset if we decided to switch.

 

[vat_man]

I really don't 'get' the whole big Christmas display thing.

We put up some of the shiny foil streamer bushy things (a little help with the name would be good) and we put a little red hat on one of the cats (which lasted about ten seconds) but that was pretty much it.

 

[Jordan]

How soon, J? I need to know when I should come on.

I really don't want to give any time or date, because I'm not 100% sure.

Originally posted by vat_man
I really don't 'get' the whole big Christmas display thing.

We put up some of the shiny foil streamer bushy things (a little help with the name would be good) and we put a little red hat on one of the cats (which lasted about ten seconds) but that was pretty much it.

I'd say it's really hard to get in the Christmas spirit in the middle of summer. (Oh, by the way, are you talking about garland?)

 

[vat_man]

Originally posted by Jordan
I'd say it's really hard to get in the Christmas spirit in the middle of summer. (Oh, by the way, are you talking about garland?)

Fair comment - anyone who's been so full of food they'd genuinely wished for their own death on a 40 degree (c) day (over 100f) knows Christmas in summer does have its down side.

On the plus side, the beaches and golf courses tend to be pretty quiet.

 

[LoudMusic]

Originally posted by Jordan
I really don't want to give any time or date, because I'm not 100% sure.

I'd say it's really hard to get in the Christmas spirit in the middle of summer. (Oh, by the way, are you talking about garland?)

I think he's talking about tensil (sp?).

It generally helps if you are religious in some form or another. No wait ... Christmas has been so comerciallized that I don't even celebrate it anymore ...

~LoudMusic

 

[vat_man]

Originally posted by LoudMusic


I think he's talking about tensil (sp?).

It generally helps if you are religious in some form or another. No wait ... Christmas has been so comerciallized that I don't even celebrate it anymore ...

~LoudMusic

Well, I took the festival and modified it for my own purposes - I look at it as a time to be with family and friends, and reflect on the year past and the year coming.

That, and the goat sacrifice....:fdevil:

 

[LoudMusic]

Originally posted by vat_man


Well, I took the festival and modified it for my own purposes - I look at it as a time to be with family and friends, and reflect on the year past and the year coming.

That, and the goat sacrifice....:fdevil:

Yeah ... (: I don't really see a need for a designated date set aside for being forced into visiting family. If you REALLY want to see them, you'll call them up and invite yourself to their house. My family was halfway decent about having get togethers when we all lived in Texas. Now that we've spread out over the nation(s) ... we rarely see eachother anymore.

*shrug*

Off for more Halo at Legendary levels!! (:

~LoudMusic

 

[vat_man]

Well, it's a bit difficult when you live 900km from your nearest blood relatives...

I do visit them during the year, but it's good to have a couple of days holiday in a row to chuck stuff in the car and drive down to Melbourne.

Since we don't have kids my partner and I try not to have holidays at the same time as school holidays (nothing worse than being on wave on the day and having to throw it away because little Timmy's got loose on the old lilo - not to mention shopping centres...).

 

[LoudMusic]

Originally posted by vat_man
Well, it's a bit difficult when you live 900km from your nearest blood relatives...

I do visit them during the year, but it's good to have a couple of days holiday in a row to chuck stuff in the car and drive down to Melbourne.

Since we don't have kids my partner and I try not to have holidays at the same time as school holidays (nothing worse than being on wave on the day and having to throw it away because little Timmy's got loose on the old lilo - not to mention shopping centres...).

Aye cramba! I know what you're talking about. Even as a kid I'd always want to go somewhere that no one else would be just so I didn't have watch all the little bratty kids ruin my good time. Unfortunately, that meant Civil War battlefields ... They're wonderful parents ... really they are. It had just been sooo long since they had been TWELVE! Apparently wide open fields with a parking lot and a ticket booth seemed appealing at the time.

~LoudMusic

 

[Schumy]

Originally posted by LoudMusic


I think he's talking about tensil (sp?).

It generally helps if you are religious in some form or another. No wait ... Christmas has been so comerciallized that I don't even celebrate it anymore ...

~LoudMusic

yeah, that's it tinsil .... a garland is typically made of evergreen (coniferous) trees and can usually be found hanging over the mantle of a fireplace

 

[Schumy]

Originally posted by vat_man

That, and the goat sacrifice....:fdevil: [/B]