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renrenren3) wrote2010-12-25 01:05 pm
renrenren3) wrote2010-12-25 01:05 pm
In hindsight, Merry Christmas would have been easier
I feel like I'm duty-bound to extend some form of seasonal greetings to my flist. I don't want to go with Merry Christmas though, because 1) it's too Christian-centric, despite the rampant secularization of this holiday, and 2) Merry Christmas is what I tell my mum to avoid getting into the whole atheist discussion.
So, I wish you all a happy end-of-December/early-January, including but not limited to Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Saturnalia, Yule, Winter-een-mas, Winter Solstice, and all other winter festivals listed here. If your holiday of choice is not listed here, I apologize and I will make an effort to include it next time.
This greeting extends to your family, friends, significant others, pets and everyone else important in your life.
You're not required to accept or return this greeting if you don't celebrate any winter festivities or if I've pissed you off recently, but I sincerely hope I didn't piss you off and we can continue to be friends in the upcoming year too (or for the rest of the year if you don't follow the commonly used but sadly Christian-centric Gregorian calendar).
My own December 25th is going pretty well. This year's haul included:
♣ a dry-erase whiteboard from my parents (I'd totally forgot about asking for one months ago and freaked out when I saw the huge-ass package);
♣ the cutest panda plushie ever from my sister (immediately named Eric, it's an inside joke);
♣ some kind of wooden puzzles from my dad (the kind where you have to assemble/disassemble them to form some kind of decorative geometric shape... THIS REMINDS ME OF A PUZZLE!);
♣ matching turtlenecks for me and my sister from my mum (more like identical... though mine is wool and hers is cotton for some reason;
♣ no books at all (I know I didn't ask for books since I have too many I still need to read, but I think it's the first year in my life I don't get books and it's kind of sad).
Also my dad got back yesterday afternoon from Cairo and he bought a bunch of papyruses. Papyri. Uhm, paper-y, painted things. The one with the flying ducks is cute, but I don't think my mum will want the one of the Egyptian constellations or Anubis weighting the dead man's heart on a scale hanging in the living room.
And the gigantic present from my grandma was a set of Christmassy plates, which means we'll be using them today and then they go back in the box and get cursed at when we'll have to move in a few months or so.
Yeah, did I say that there have been controls and everything, there's no outstanding debts on the house and so my parents are ready to buy as soon as the current owners move out? They already agreed on a price and signed some kind of agreement.
I've also started getting fics from the exchanges I'm in, and I'm all excited about that. I'll do a proper rec post later, it's time for the traditionally over-the-top Christmas lunch.
So, I wish you all a happy end-of-December/early-January, including but not limited to Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Saturnalia, Yule, Winter-een-mas, Winter Solstice, and all other winter festivals listed here. If your holiday of choice is not listed here, I apologize and I will make an effort to include it next time.
This greeting extends to your family, friends, significant others, pets and everyone else important in your life.
You're not required to accept or return this greeting if you don't celebrate any winter festivities or if I've pissed you off recently, but I sincerely hope I didn't piss you off and we can continue to be friends in the upcoming year too (or for the rest of the year if you don't follow the commonly used but sadly Christian-centric Gregorian calendar).
My own December 25th is going pretty well. This year's haul included:
♣ a dry-erase whiteboard from my parents (I'd totally forgot about asking for one months ago and freaked out when I saw the huge-ass package);
♣ the cutest panda plushie ever from my sister (immediately named Eric, it's an inside joke);
♣ some kind of wooden puzzles from my dad (the kind where you have to assemble/disassemble them to form some kind of decorative geometric shape... THIS REMINDS ME OF A PUZZLE!);
♣ matching turtlenecks for me and my sister from my mum (more like identical... though mine is wool and hers is cotton for some reason;
♣ no books at all (I know I didn't ask for books since I have too many I still need to read, but I think it's the first year in my life I don't get books and it's kind of sad).
Also my dad got back yesterday afternoon from Cairo and he bought a bunch of papyruses. Papyri. Uhm, paper-y, painted things. The one with the flying ducks is cute, but I don't think my mum will want the one of the Egyptian constellations or Anubis weighting the dead man's heart on a scale hanging in the living room.
And the gigantic present from my grandma was a set of Christmassy plates, which means we'll be using them today and then they go back in the box and get cursed at when we'll have to move in a few months or so.
Yeah, did I say that there have been controls and everything, there's no outstanding debts on the house and so my parents are ready to buy as soon as the current owners move out? They already agreed on a price and signed some kind of agreement.
I've also started getting fics from the exchanges I'm in, and I'm all excited about that. I'll do a proper rec post later, it's time for the traditionally over-the-top Christmas lunch.