xmad day init

[Juno]

Going to a family friend's house! They make the best Christmas dinners. Also my cousin from Seattle texted yesterday to ask if he and his fiancée can come spend Christmas with us, which I'm really excited about since I haven't seen them in ages (Seattle is like 2 hours away but they spent a lot of time in Singapore recently and just returned home, got a new place, etc).

 

[Nero]

I'll wish I had done something interesting for Christmas this year other than sit at home all day.
Wait another year for my second chance.
Repeat.

 

[gimmepie]

- let my dog open his gifts first so he isn't distracted with the wrapping paper

Can I just say it really pleases me my family aren't the only weird lot who buy presents for their pets.

 

[Mr Cat Dog]

btw

i meant to make the title 'xmas day init' but 'xmad' seems more appropriate anyway

And here's me thinking you were being witty.

- Wake up way too early (like 9am)
- Open presents
- Sweet FA (TM gimmepie)
- Collect grandparents
- Eat lunch
- Bit more family time
- Sweet FA.

(For those concerned about the grandparents, someone else takes them back.)

 

[Her]

buildup to christmas

• clean the house to the point of it being inhospitable to life
• get the usual 'just because they're pricks it doesn't mean they're not family' speech
• pick up relatives two days before christmas - they always fly here, they'd neeever fly us out to france instead.
• begin day one of many days of copious wine inhalation

christmas day

• wake at 6am bc i have three siblings younger than me who want to open their presents immediately
• go back to sleep for three or so hours
• start preparing food for whenever the family want to eat, some years i may even experience the christmas miracle of getting help
• eat for like an hour
• laze around for another two or so hours
• The Big Gifts where all the extended family swap presents and whatever and we all see who got mashed potatoes or other shit gifts as well as the good ones
• laze around again and drink considerable amounts of wine
• obligatory madeline mccann discussion
• shittalking our fake aunt who none of us ever warmed to
• option a) fall asleep where we're sitting b) watch a movie and laugh until we pass out

boxing day to new years

• rinse, lather, repeat
• more discussions about famous murders
• probably at least one political argument
• wine
• talk to my aunt about how much i love her and miss having her around the place
• eat even more

jan 2nd

• send matriarch pierre and everyone else on their merry fucking way