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What is on plan for everyone's Christmas holidays?
I am at work till the bitter end on December 23. I'll probably drop by the club for a very long & wet lunch and mingle with the other single/divorced/unattached men and then collect a few last minute gifts. Still buying things late this year because I'm waiting for my credit card to roll over. Damned Paris trip and needy women.
On Christmas Eve, after a work out, I will be making the epic trek to my parents' house 40km away. No praying or church or mosque. I'll probably be wrapping.
Christmas dinner is our family tradition and my aunt renovated her house for a tidy sum to be able to seat everyone at a long table for 12 or 16 people. No more children's table or eating on the kitchen counter. I was offended my aunt and mother offered to change the time or day to accommodate my brother's new wife. I don't give a toss when they celebrate - this has been tradition for decades for me, and I don't see why I have to change for some other family. We always make a turkey and some secondary meat.
Unfortunately for my aunt, some of my cousins are taking advantage of cheap airfares and going on holidays during Christmas so the attendance of the imbibing part of my family will be lower than usual. My uncle who is turning 80 next year is also not drinking as much as he used to. I am still undecided whether to bring out the Ardbeg Perpetuum bottle my mate bought me or Lagavulin 16 I picked up at duty free. Sparkling will probably be Moet. Not sure if I'm going to go back to Chateau Pipeau for red. Since digestif after the dinner will likely only be my uncle and myself, going to skip the brandy. I think I still have some Courvoisier XO at my aunt's house. Too few people to try a holiday cocktail too. I miss the days when we used to move up after all the women go wash the dishes and have a cigar and brandy.
My father stopped the Boxing Day shopping trip we used to make at 5am the next day. He says he can buy everything online so our annual once a year trip to McDonalds at 6am on Boxing Day will not resume. I have to find time on the Eve, Boxing Day or the day after to visit my work mate and his two daughters.
And then of course watch at least one Boxing Day footy at the local pub with my mate going back to middle school. Too bad Arsenal isn't getting the 11am slot so I'll have to choose between City and Liverpool. Bangers, London Pride and baked beans.
I am at work till the bitter end on December 23. I'll probably drop by the club for a very long & wet lunch and mingle with the other single/divorced/unattached men and then collect a few last minute gifts. Still buying things late this year because I'm waiting for my credit card to roll over. Damned Paris trip and needy women.
On Christmas Eve, after a work out, I will be making the epic trek to my parents' house 40km away. No praying or church or mosque. I'll probably be wrapping.
Christmas dinner is our family tradition and my aunt renovated her house for a tidy sum to be able to seat everyone at a long table for 12 or 16 people. No more children's table or eating on the kitchen counter. I was offended my aunt and mother offered to change the time or day to accommodate my brother's new wife. I don't give a toss when they celebrate - this has been tradition for decades for me, and I don't see why I have to change for some other family. We always make a turkey and some secondary meat.
Unfortunately for my aunt, some of my cousins are taking advantage of cheap airfares and going on holidays during Christmas so the attendance of the imbibing part of my family will be lower than usual. My uncle who is turning 80 next year is also not drinking as much as he used to. I am still undecided whether to bring out the Ardbeg Perpetuum bottle my mate bought me or Lagavulin 16 I picked up at duty free. Sparkling will probably be Moet. Not sure if I'm going to go back to Chateau Pipeau for red. Since digestif after the dinner will likely only be my uncle and myself, going to skip the brandy. I think I still have some Courvoisier XO at my aunt's house. Too few people to try a holiday cocktail too. I miss the days when we used to move up after all the women go wash the dishes and have a cigar and brandy.
My father stopped the Boxing Day shopping trip we used to make at 5am the next day. He says he can buy everything online so our annual once a year trip to McDonalds at 6am on Boxing Day will not resume. I have to find time on the Eve, Boxing Day or the day after to visit my work mate and his two daughters.
And then of course watch at least one Boxing Day footy at the local pub with my mate going back to middle school. Too bad Arsenal isn't getting the 11am slot so I'll have to choose between City and Liverpool. Bangers, London Pride and baked beans.
