Xmas - Xmas Cards n stuff.

Ooops.

Several weeks ago, it was suggested to me that I should get off my butt n see about organising an exchange of Xmas Cards - one member being asked to send one card to one other member. Or something like that, anyway.

I can't even remember how I was told it would work. Dang.

Look, if someone who reads this would like to 'refresh my memory' about how this Card Exchange thingie works before I have to admit to someone here that I completely forgot about it, that would be a big help.

And, if you would like to be part of TBBD Xmas Card Club, um? PM me at my Admin user name, I guess with your name and postal address?

'N since this has been mentioned, someone else is bound to say, 'Who's going to be alone on Xmas Day?'.

So, I'd better fess up. Me. I need it that way. Its the only way I will get thru it. Because its my girls birthday just a few days b4 XMas and I won't be seeing her on either day. So I just hunker down n survive it. Baked Beans is my traditional Xmas Dinner n I'm not complaining.

But thats that excuse gone, I've snaffled it. Which means, anyone else who will be alone on Xmas Day better have a damn good excuse to beat my one, or they will doubtless be nagged (nicely, of course) to participate in some way in the festivities of the Season.

Xmas.
Bah Humbug.

i dont give a fuck.................if I HAVE to do XMAS (and I do) then the rest of you do too! So to hell with what you NEED................Im gonna be doing what you WANT!

Yeah, alright boss.

I am a xmas grinch too but I have to do xmas this year too and I cant get out of it.

Maybe an incease of my meds might be in order or a liberal dose of bourbon to help see me through the day.

bumping for the newbies..............roll up roll up

the great big black dog 1st annual xmas card swap is about to take place.........all those interested sign in below and pass your real address on to Pat via pm!

Sorry xmas has had to be canceled.

Monsta told Santa that she had been a good girl this year and he died from laughter.

Oi You

I is a Angel

and dont you forgets it!

i'm IN. Santa loves me because i'm perfect.

A monsta with angel wings and a halo??? Now thats a first!!! LOL

Ill sign up for xmas card swap, i dont have anyone to send them too and i probably wont be getting any either! Xmas is no big deal to me, just a day i watch my favourite dvds and eat chocolate all alone with a big happy smile Now all i got to do is work out how to private message!

Wish me luck!

I'll sign in, even though I'm lucky cos I spend xmas with my family every year. This year Im cooking (in my mums fancy kitchen) xmas lunch for 12+ ppl cos mum's leg will be in plaster. Im so glad I can help, and its something I enjoy doing.

Anyways, off to pm pat

I'm with you on the Bah-humbug to Christmas this year Paddy. Will be just another day for me, filled with bad memories and sadness.
My 'excuse' for the bad attitude to Christmas? I lost my Dad on Christmas Day last year through complications due to his Cancer.

So Bah-humbug Christmas, if I didn't have two children to do it for and a baby due around then.... I'd hide away under the blankets alllll day.

I would be shocked if I didn't recieve a xmas card from at least one member here. I mean to say after a lot of duress I am even prepared to give my last name.
I look forward to sharing some thoughts with this site and will be thoroughly impressed if someone feels the ned to challenge these thoughts. hehe

Well well well, look who the cat had dragged into the Whare, eh?

Kia Ora, my friend, Kia Ora.

That didn't take long - Thanks, Teresea

dragged? pffffft!! I sent you an email.
Teresea wanted you to know that she is starting a Maori Mental Health support group early 2009 and will make strong recommendations for them to hook into this site. Good luck with this my friend

Oh and how's Alice?

Just Bumping this -

TBBD Xmas Card Swap List Closes on Monday 01 December 2008.

It will ONLY be 'reopened' for bribes consisting of packets of Pams Shortbread.

So if ya wanna Xmas Card this year from someone here n you have not already stuck ya hand up, please send a PM to Admin (Paddy2) .

To send anyone here a Personal Message, just find the Username in the MemberList at the top of the home page and click on that name. It should give the option then to send a PM. Choice, eh!

Bumping.

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Maidy,
Its great that you are happy to surround yourself with whanau again (say hi to them from me, if you remember, please) but also, please remember that not everyone here is as naturally outgoing or gregarious as say, you may be?

Some of us, me included, deliberately limit, to an absolute minimum, the direct human interaction we have with others.

Not just on one day of the year, but every day of the year. It is a survival thing, as much as anything.

I don't mean this in an unpleasant way Maidy but when you chose to say, and in capital letters that you 'GOT OVER MYSELF', I thought, hmm, oh oh, that sounds a bit preacher-like to me. And a bit sad, in terms of the messages concepts such as Like Minds n acceptance of differences in others, tries to promote. Toughen Up n socialise?. No thanks my friend, I'll pass on that mate.

I know you are trying to be positive and motivational, and thats really appreciated but for some of us here it may not be all that easy for us to get over ourselves - we're still works in progress and some of us have a lot of family related issues that will always impair the way in which we view familiy occasions. Any family occasions.

TBBD isn't about getting over ourselves, I don't think.

Its about finding ways that work for us individually, to at the worst, keep surviving and hopefully, to flourish.

What works for me (hermitville) won't work for everyone else and I shouldn't expect it to. I hope that everyone who wants and needs company on Christmas Day is fortunate enough to find it, and that you enjoy it - and for those for whom its a crap day to be endured, well, you'll doubtless have company, sigh.

Right. so who's not on the Xmas Card List yet? These's still time.

Oh, and these are my thoughts and comments, not those of TBBD Admin. He couldnt careless about Xmas - its me thats panicking.

hmmmm as I have always said..this form of medium has one real huge fault and that is that some people can and do misconstrue what individuals mean.
My statement was that 'I' got over myself. Nowhere there did i even intend preaching to others that this is the way for everyone.
My message was MEANT to be that no matter how an individual decides to spend there time, whether it be alone or with others, was to look at the positive of WHY they choose to spend it this way.
When i spoke about how i do things i actually thought i was freely expressing myself, not preaching at all. Nowhere did i say or say anything like 'toughen up and socialise'. The only challenge i did put forward was for us to talk positively about xmas and maybe this will cause a chain reaction. Kinda like the action of a smile does.

Well its a bit of a shame that you chose to delete your Posts, Maidy but this place is all about the right to express views on any subject we want to, so its your right to delete them if you want to.

I'm just sorry that you don't feel your views had a place here because I don't think that for a moment.

Ah well, we got to 1,900 Posts without any real drama happening, so thats all good I suppose. Anyway, this is supposed to be a Xmas Card List Thread, so bump, etc.

I love christmas!! -- u can count me in
we never do anything overly extravagant on xmas- eggs on toast for lunch even lol. it more about spending time with my family-its not very often that we all get together

ohh and paddy looks like i o u some Pams Shortbread 2!!

Maidy, I actually enjoyed your post and it is a shame its not there anymore! I thought it was a well written peice of writing! The way you described the sequence of events was very easy to imagine and you write in such a humourous (sp check??) way! So you definately get points for writing skills!

It was as if I was reading an entry from my childhood diary!! I grew up as one of those kids who enjoyed pigging out on lollies and chocolates on xmas morning and then not being interested in xmas ham etc but then come desert time i was there ready to eat brandy snaps and ambrosia (sp chck??) I remember well playing back yard cricket or volleball, the adults garage drinking and improtu guitar playing and wonderful karaoke singing! I even knew about the hooks ups and punch ups that my Nan didnt want us to see!

Xmas can be a good time for family and friends and im happy for those that enjoy this time of year. Now im older and without my Grandparents and my living family have all split up for personal reasons and moved to all 4 corners of the earth and my friends disappeared/vanished/ran out of my life, its not a fun time of year for me! Have spent xmas alone for the last couple of years and i now prefer it that way.

EAch to their own. As paddy said expressing your views is welcomed here and im glad i read your view before it disappeared. It reminded me of "the good old days." I hope i find them again soon but if i don't im not that worried either Ive got a new tradition, I get to enjoy my lollies and chocolates without having to share them with anyone! ha! Oh yeah and theres always New Years to get excited about! .... Huge sacrasm!