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@Scott Snakeman - oh man... who was more frightened, I wonder? Happy holidays to your whole crazy family. :)

@SexyBexy - what a wonderful perspective!! Life really is amazing when you can re-frame things in such positive ways. I LOVE YOU, TOO!!

My brother, Terry, was 12. I was 11. The doorbell rang. We both jumped up and ran to beat the other to the door. He won, opening the door to the booming sound of random neighbors singing Jingle Bells or something like that, while I stopped in my tracks just out of the carolers' sight, laughing and pointing at my hapless bro. Terry was in his boxers. The carolers didn't stop with the first song. They sang two more while Terry stood there by himself with the most pained, awkward smile. My cheeks hurt from laughing.

I am in Seattle and have been snowed in for days. People are good! Today my neighbors helped dig my car out of the snow. I was on my way to an aerobics class to help shake the gloom. My car got stuck! My neighbors helped dig me out and what do ya know? I got my exercise,lol, plus some love from people who don't really know me.
My fear is the snow will never go away, my regret is that I have been so reclusive to my neighbors, my desire is for my boyfriend to put the snow chains on get his butt over here and melt my snow!
I am regretfully selfish at times and fear my desires will rule me forever!

I love and miss you Halcyon!

@The Alice-
That is hilarious!! You sound like the "bad cop" in an interrogation scene. "Okay, Okay! I'll tell you where the gifts are!!! Just keep Alice away from me!!"

@Liquid - It's funny how some people love surprises and others go crazy. :) BTW, the hat was a gift last year from my Girlfriend. I love it!

@Erika - That is awesome!!! BELIEVE!

@ Bartek - 2 minutes after this video, the entire apartment burnt to the ground. ;)

I... don't do the Christmas thing often, but last year, my fiance went shopping for me in early December, walked into the house and said, "I know you're gonna search through the house until you find 'em, so you are opening them now."

Strangely enough, my adoptive mother did that to me on a Christmas about 5 years ago too....

...But I've never searched for presents or peeked before.

Maybe my bad-girl inquisitive image has gone so far that people think I'll find presents at any cost... when in fact, I'd never dream of it?

Ha Ha John, I was a pro at sneaking into gifts and then rewrapping them so no one knew! Even right now, there is a certain gift under my tree that is driving my curiosity mad, but I am gonna hold off and be suprized. But I do confess of sneaking many a present early and not only on Christmas, but even birthday gifts drive me nuts. I can't stand to see a gift and now know!!!! So it's best to not even show it to me until right before I am allowed to tear off the paper. Merry Christmas to you and your family John. I love the pink Christmas hat you got. It's super HOT!

haahahaha! So my confession is why I now till this day say "I BELIEVE"! When I was about 10 or 12 years old I found the BIG LOOT! Where Santa had stashed all the goodies for the big night! I ran into the house and screamed it out that I had just found out there was no Santa! My parents dragged me out of the house and told me since I'd found the loot, I would be Santa from then on...every year from then on, I got to put out the loot...yet no Santa for me that I didn't know about! So I say...I BELIEVE...so I get at least one gift from Santa each year! I'm 46 now and hell yeah!! I STILL BELIEVE!! Merry Christmas Everyone!

@sleepydev
This season is kinda like New Years Eve or Prom night. It has SO MUCH potential to be wonderful. Of course, that makes the challenges that much more difficult. Plus we have to compete with the idealized "Rockwell" memories that we never really had. I think you are right on the money to find the details that bring you joy. Merry Xmas to you!

I do have a little regret when it comes to Christmas. I love Christmas... but in recent years... so much "crap" (for lack of a more suited word) has surrounded Christmas. Last year was alright, but my oldest brother did not make it to our family Christmas (again), so we split up his gifts and kept them. Agh! I know… we’re horrible….but, if you knew my brother…*ahem*… yeah it still probably wasn’t right. Anyhow, he did not talk to us for several months. Some other things that previous Christmases have included: divorce, separations, alcohol intoxication, leading to alcohol detoxification (facility included), family meltdowns, sickness, moving, job loss… you get my jest. And this year… with family members losing jobs and homes…it sucks!

I sort of want to be seven years old again and wake up at 4 am to see that Santa brought me a new bike.

But, through all the rough “adult” Christmas times… I still manage to take delight in the small things… warmth of a home-cooked Christmas dinner, opening up little treasures, the delight in giving and in receiving, watching the excited eyes of all the new youngsters, touring Christmas lights, the smell of pumpkin pie baking, Charlie Brown Christmas music… ahhh… I DO still love Christmas!

Have a Merry Christmas anyway! (Even when life, at times, sucks…)

Maaan, all the time during the movie I feared that your hat will catch fire. Don't do this anymore ;) Yet it was so true and funny what you were saying ;) Hehe, "the power of incessant whining" :)

It is tough when so much of the holidays is about gifts. It makes times like now (when budgets are tight) so much harder to enjoy the season. :(
This year my gift attitude was family-only. And "less money, more thought." Lots of hand made stuff this year. Yay for macaroni necklaces! ;)

"Whee, I'll never get wet feet with this!" Awesome. :)

My biggest regret right now is that I'm just not feeling the holidays. I don't really want to get anyone anything, because I'm bad at figuring out who should get something and who shouldn't, and I also have a very stretched budget at the moment. So I kind of want Christmas to just magically disappear somehow this year...