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Ebeneezer Dooj at your service!
Sorry… I just can’t deal. I know most people love 'em… its just too much of a clusterfuck for me.
I’m a quiet night at home with the wife kinda guy.
Maybe it’s just me then. But personally “holidays” aren’t about the past or traditions. They are about today, being in today and getting an opportunity to spend time with some people (be they family or not) on a day off. I really don’t care who stole who’s land after the turkey dinner…that wasn’t my fault. I really don’t care who was born on December 25, lots of people have been born on that day (funnily enough, the person most notorious for that birthday wasn’t even born on that day). I just like holidays because my wife and I have some time off and can relax with each other and eat lots of food. That’s really all I care about. I also get to see some people in my family that are really kick-ass people that I only get to see this time of year. My holiday traditions are simply that I eat a lot of food and do whatever the fuck else I want. I don’t really get to do that any other time of year, there always seems to be some bullshit to take care of.
^ Yeah… if they were a time for me to relax or see people I like, I’m sure I’d feel differently. Unfortunately, they tend to bring far more stress than joy into my life. Part of it is just that I run a company that does business outside of the US, so work doesn’t really stop, it just gets pushed around and piles up. The other part is just all of the expectations and obligations. I’m not good with that stuff.
The exception would be New Year’s Eve. That’s the one holiday that seems to be free from all the absurdity and really just comes down to having fun however you want.
But I’m sure its different for everyone.
Being born on December 24th, as a kid, I always felt that this Jesus guy is kind of stealing my thunder. I’ve gotten over that now that I’m older and less inclined to celebrate my descent into senility and obesity. I’m trying to be more positive about the holiday season or at least a bit less cynical these days, but it sure is hard on my wallet no matter how I try to spin it.
this is the first year i’m gonna miss thanksgiving with the family. i gotta work tomorrow.
and i don’t think i’m gonna buy stuff for christmas this year either. way too expensive. i have to work tomorrow but i’m off christmas eve and christmas. i guess i’ll just go without presents and eat all their food.
really though, i’m planning on doing something inexpensive. maybe write everyone a nice letter telling them how awesome they are, and maybe i’ll burn them a CD and go all out on a cover with handmade artwork.
i can hear it now though.
“you didn’t have money for presents but you have money to fly to new york to see the phish?”
haha look what came up in the browser history of my family’s computer nyfirearms.com/forums/firear … ction.html LOL! my brother must have been looking at this stuff. but i jsut thought the title was funny!
We usually cook food and bring it to people. It’s cheaper and it can be personal if I cook what they like. I cook a lot of chili so those family and friends that like chili he a special batch for christmas…I try new recipes every christmas so those that have been getting them for a few years look forward to tasting them. If not they get some sort of pie or my wife’s awesome lasagna.
I’m making fresh cranberry sauce this year. I’ve had it with that canned shit. 
Where can I watch the snl episode with Phish? 
The Food Network favors jazz as background music. 
Turkey… 
I met a cool girl in class who is into Phish. 
Push on till Dec 13, then winter break! 
so i was out on a little late night walk a few minutes ago and watched a butterfly die of natural causes.
weird.
When w were in high school my friend Josh and I invented a religion called Rhubarbianism. The 3 days after Thanksgiving were the High Holy Days. We called it Happy Harmonica!! circa 1991.
Experienced an overwhelming feeling of love and contentment yesterday on the way to pick up a butternut squash at the store. Didn’t know why I should be so lucky. Struggled to make sure I remembered it for when times aren’t so great.
The OKP came to mind during that moment along with all of the blessings in my life.
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Experienced an overwhelming feeling of love and contentment yesterday on the way to pick up a butternut squash at the store.
Hippy Thanksgiving!
^^That is lovely. Glad I could contribute, even if in a minimal, secondary way.
^ Pshhhh…I’m pretty sure he was talking about me. 
I believe Canadians still only count as 2/3 of a person when it comes to thinking good thoughts about them. Unless something was repealed that I didn’t know about.
OK, so I’ve met more people on the OKP that dislike holidays than anywhere else? What is it about Phish people that makes so many of them hate holidays? I mean, what the fuck is there to hate about Thanksgiving? Best food you will eat all year, free booze, see people you don’t normally see. I mean, I’m a stay at home and have a quiet evening guy myself, but I still love me some holidays every once in a while.
A .357 is actually what I’ve been leaning towards. And I did say, just for the record, that I know better than to use a pistol for home defense. Those rounds will go through walls and potentially kill innocent people. A shotgun is my home defense weapon; Benelli Nova 12 gauge! You show me a criminal that wouldn’t shit their pants if they heard me chamber a round on that thing. I don’t think there is such a person.
As far as people disapproving of guns, I understand that. In fact, I am rather disturbed by the mentality that some people have of collecting shitloads of assault rifles and ridiculous shit like that. What the hell is point of that? I mean sure, it would be fun for target shooting, but your good ole .270 will do that just as well. It just kinda bothers me how some folks will go to gun shows and take advantage of the loopholes that allow people who shouldn’t be buying guns to buy guns. To me, that is just not cool. Get your guns legally, and be a responsible gun owner by keeping them locked up where people can’t get to them. I will say though, it bothers me equally, if not more, when people who are against guns get up on their soapbox and preach to gun owners about how they shouldn’t have guns. I just say, “Shut up hippy.” 
I don’t think it really has much to do with Phish, other than the fact that maybe the jamband crowd is a bit less mainstream and traditional and holidays are about as mainstream and traditional as anything gets.
But, for me, it’s not the stupidity of the fact that humans need a national holiday to tell them to relax and be appreciative for a few hours. It’s not the absurdity of the fact that we all sit down and eat the same frickin’ meal just because some storybook says the pilgrims did it. Shit, it’s not even the embarrassment of fact that we’re celebrating the massacre and takeover of the people that were here before us (or whatever ridiculous and fictional event we happen to be celebrating). For me, it just comes down to the fact that I don’t like big group functions and family style dinners. Nothing more, nothing less. I can only keep up a conversation for so long, I can only eat so much food and I don’t like to share.
Plus, I’m not a booze guy I’m a ganja guy. So, thank god for hash chocolate! I don’t know how I’d handle the holidays without it! 
You should go to family dinner and hand out hash chocolates say “oh i made these chocolates at home for desert.”. Maybe that would make the gatherings a lil more interesting 
^ Hey I didn’t know you guys got much snow there. Don’t you live in southern England? For some reason I always thought you did. And for some reason, I always thought southern England didn’t get much snow.