Christmas-time is here.

[Asmodean]

You know what annoys me..? All the lights. I mean, I don't NEED some asshole's giant tree with a million Watt star on top right at the level of my bedroom window, delivering a gazillion lx of light in as I try to sleep. Lived for four years with that. Fortunately, no more.

[Fi]

You know what annoys me..? All the lights. I mean, I don't NEED some asshole's giant tree with a million Watt star on top right at the level of my bedroom window, delivering a gazillion lx of light in as I try to sleep. Lived for four years with that. Fortunately, no more.

I love lights, but I don't see the point in keeping them on all night... not only is it obnoxious, it's a waste of electricity.

The best light display I ever saw, though, didn't involve any lights on the outside of the house. It was just the leg lamp from A Christmas Story in the window. I wanted to knock on the door just to high-five those people.

I do like "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" when done in a traditional way (as opposed to a modern pop rendition), I find the melody to be haunting in a pleasingly melancholy way.

That is a nice one, though lyric-wise I prefer the HP Lovecraft Society's version. XD

Awake ye scary Great Old Ones, let everything dismay
Remember great Cthulhu will rise up from R'lyeh
To kill us all with tentacles if we should go his way
O tidings of madness and woe...

And of course It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Fishmen.

[Sandra Craft]

You know what annoys me..? All the lights. I mean, I don't NEED some asshole's giant tree with a million Watt star on top right at the level of my bedroom window, delivering a gazillion lx of light in as I try to sleep. Lived for four years with that. Fortunately, no more.

I love lights, but I don't see the point in keeping them on all night... not only is it obnoxious, it's a waste of electricity.

I love the lights too -- one of my favorite things to do in Dec is drive up and down the streets after dark looking at the lit up houses and trees.  One guy has two enormous palm trees in his front yard and he puts red lights on the trunks and green lights on the fronds every year -- maybe it's just me, but I find it breathtaking.  I just wish I could take a decent picture of it.  Of course, I've never had those lights blinking in my bedroom window which I know would change my perspective on how pretty they are.

[Sweetdeath]

I also dislike xmas lights and xmas displays in general. They can be tastefully done, but usually aren't. Once again, i'd rather worship someone cool like Odin. XP
Odin > Santa claus.

[Tom62]

I also dislike xmas lights and xmas displays in general. They can be tastefully done, but usually aren't. Once again, i'd rather worship someone cool like Odin. XP
Odin > Santa claus.

I agree with you. Santa is nothing more than a cheap, Coca Cola commercialized rip-off of Sinterklaas.

[Siz]

You know what annoys me..? All the lights. I mean, I don't NEED some asshole's giant tree with a million Watt star on top right at the level of my bedroom window, delivering a gazillion lx of light in as I try to sleep. Lived for four years with that. Fortunately, no more.

[Asmodean]

You know what annoys me..? All the lights. I mean, I don't NEED some asshole's giant tree with a million Watt star on top right at the level of my bedroom window, delivering a gazillion lx of light in as I try to sleep. Lived for four years with that. Fortunately, no more.

I'd much rather sleep in the house on the right, in a bedroom with windows facing away from house on the left.

[DeterminedJuliet]

Well, you know, that reminds me of these ol' famous lights



I like.

P.S. I love me some Christmas time. Egg nog, apple cider, trees, lights, stories, crappy music, all of that. The only thing I don't like is all of the presents. In this day in age do we really need to keep giving each other a ton of shit EVERY year? How much storage space do we all have? Are we all aspiring to TLC's Hoarders?

So I always ask for Christmas items that can be "used up" - wine, chocolate, candles, girly soapy stuff, clothes (which are easily donated after use). I'd much rather that than getting a million knic knacs and devices that I'm supposed to keep piling up in my home for all of eternity. 

[Sandra Craft]

Well, you know, that reminds me of these ol' famous lights



I like.

Funny!  Where was this?

[DeterminedJuliet]

Well, you know, that reminds me of these ol' famous lights



I like.

Funny!  Where was this?

I don't know, I remember seeing it floating around the internet ages ago. I thought most people had seen it before? Maybe not, though? Still, it always makes me smile

[Sweetdeath]

Well, you know, that reminds me of these ol' famous lights



I like.

P.S. I love me some Christmas time. Egg nog, apple cider, trees, lights, stories, crappy music, all of that. The only thing I don't like is all of the presents. In this day in age do we really need to keep giving each other a ton of shit EVERY year? How much storage space do we all have? Are we all aspiring to TLC's Hoarders?

So I always ask for Christmas items that can be "used up" - wine, chocolate, candles, girly soapy stuff, clothes (which are easily donated after use). I'd much rather that than getting a million knic knacs and devices that I'm supposed to keep piling up in my home for all of eternity. 

I love that!!
And I agree whole-heartedly about the xmas  gifts. I usually ask for gift cards for that reason. I buy clothes, hair dye and food. XD

[not your typical...]

I voted yay, although I truly don't understand why I love the holidays so much. It's my worst time of year. The holidays are always ruined by some unwanted guest, my doctor puts me back on my meds, and I get to spend no time with the people I actually do love and cherish, my friends. Maybe it's all the booze left unattended.

[Asmodean]

Yeah well... The holidays have not started yet, and I already don't know what to do with myself. My "Meh" is rapidly progressing to "Let there be January".

[not your typical...]

Yeah well... The holidays have not started yet, and I already don't know what to do with myself. My "Meh" is rapidly progressing to "Let there be January".

Holidays start here at Labor day so it's kinda a 6-7 month thing. Labor day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Valentines Day, and if the market is lucky Easter falls in March, so it's no avoiding it for me. I guess it's not so much enjoyment as the fact that I can at least screw on a smile throughout the bs.

[OldGit]

I take it everyone knows this gem by Tom Lehrer?