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| Grumpy Old Pharts Board Gerritol, Ex-Lax, Immodium, Bad Breath - all requirements for the Grumpy Board |
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12-17-2006, 10:21 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Remember???
When you were a kid? Christmas was fun right? Damn I wish I was a kid again cause I think I hate it more every year!! Its all about money, money, money!!! My biggest problem this year is my Mother!! We have always gone to her house for Christmas Day! This year I want to stay home with Fishchick and the kids and relax!!! I don't pick my kids up until Christmas morning about 10:00 am and its an hour there and an hour back so there is 2 hours in the car and I am not at my Mothers yet!!! My Mother and my Nephew smoke like chimneys and I can't take it anymore!!! We all sit around and watch each other open gifts that are just boxes with money in them??? No thought, no sentiment and no effort!!! I just want to stay home and enjoy my kids and let them open their gifts and enjoy them without rushing them here and there!!! My Mother gives me the "guilt" act!!! "This could be my last Christmas....you never know!"  "NEWSFLASH" Ma.....I could die tomorrow just as easily as you....it might be my last Christmas!!!! 
I just want the Holidays over!!!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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12-17-2006, 10:39 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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my Dad was way cool
He always drove us to places....-> other relative's homes
to celebrate until finally one year he just stopped.....
Because he had declared....
" i'm staying home from now on...."
"if they want to come celebrate Christmas ...
.................they know where i live."
(and that was that ...)
and from then on the grandparents ,Aunts and Uncles
all came to our house. My poor mother had
to cook for an Army, But Dad was quite happy!
what ever he said............. was the ...... LAW ! 
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12-17-2006, 10:42 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Whitman,Ma.
Posts: 4,263
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BigFish.(scrooge).Relax..Just put in some xmas music (James taylor) and relax...Your Mom wont be around forever and when she is gone you will miss her...You gotta do what you gotta do..Especially around the hoildays..Why not invite your Mom and nephew to your house??
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I'm going where I'm going... 
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12-17-2006, 10:42 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,203
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I agree with you 110%.....the best part of the Holidays is Christmas Morning. Sitting in front of the tree with the kids, the smell of cinnamon buns coming from the oven. I can do with out all the other family/in-law crap. It completely sucks the enjoyment out of the holiday for me.
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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12-17-2006, 10:49 PM
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Gone Dark
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Buzzards Bay
Posts: 512
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go christmas eve.Then spend the following day at home, but either way.. Go. you'll feel better after. I always beat myself up about driving everywhere then I realize its one day a year.
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12-17-2006, 11:21 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Larry, I agree it's not anywhere close to the way it was.It's tough to break the family traditions as they are so much a part of us. Looking back, sounds like your Mom gave you some great memories. Things are always changing but you have to keep the traditions alive for your own kids.
All great ideas posted here. I might add that your Mom just might like to come to your house at this time of her life. I know my wife and i, at our age, would welcome going to one of our kid's house for Christmas. 
BTW- know what ya mean about guilt trips.  Like the old Raymond show where Marie says, "someday you'll turn around and i wont be here." So Raymond makes a motion, turns himself around and says, "NOT TODAY"   |
" Choose Life "
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12-18-2006, 05:37 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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I forgot to mention we have my family and Fishchicks family and several friends over on Christmas Eve for a party! We work hard on this all week and then when its over we are beat Christmas Day! Having seen everyone Christmas Eve I don't see why my Mother needs to see me for 3 more hours Christmas Day! 70/30 I will be starting my own "tradition"!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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12-18-2006, 06:27 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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what ya'll need
is some of them....attachable reindeer antlers for your car....
makes ya drive faster on christmas day....  |
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12-18-2006, 12:49 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
We work hard on this all week and then when its over we are beat Christmas Day!
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You are at stage #3 in your life BF,
you ARE Santa Claus.  |
" Choose Life "
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12-18-2006, 11:38 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Landlocked in my own prison
Posts: 1,031
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I've got a great big Christmas hug for you Larry.... 
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Really though, you can never be quite sure how much time any of us have left. Deal with the inconviences now Larry because if something ever happened to your Mom you'd regret it for years to come.
Holidays are stressful times. That's all your feeling kid. The stress. In a few weeks it will 2007 and you will be you old grumpy self. |
"Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
Matt Groening, Life In Hell
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