How do you celebrate Christmas?

[LittleWench1629]

How do you celebrate Christmas?

I?ve never been much of a Christmas person. And don?t get me wrong, I think the idea of it is lovely. But for me, I?ve always thought, I?m not a Christian and I think that it?s a bit disrespectful pretending to celebrate a holiday that I don?t believe in.
I do no however, that it isn?t just about Christianity anymore but a time for families to get together. This concept doesn?t work for me either as my family doesn?t get on at all and I had had enough of pretending to like everyone for the sake of day.

It?s not like I?m Scrooge or anything and I most certainly have no problem with people celebrating it.

So my question to all you escapists is how do you celebrate Christmas?
And if you aren?t celebrating Christmas, what are you doing instead?

 

[Choppaduel]

celebrate the end of days shortening and the begining of days lengthening.

also virgin sacrifices

seriously though, I go a little crazy around this time of year, need more sun light.

 

[ramboondiea]

i celebrate it by getting up slightly earlier then normal, drinking hot chocolate, i then bake a cake (this year im making a white chocolate cheesecake) to take to Christmas dinner where everyone eats and drinks to much, then go home sleep the prepare for the boxing day buffet where we get family and friends round to watch crappy film and eat and drink too much.

 

[blackflare]

drink away my own misery...



seriously i usualy spend time with my family and relax

 

[AnAngryMoose]

Get up, have breakfast and open pictures with the family. Pictures are taken, dinner is had and then we watch The Mummy.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

i celebrate it by getting up slightly earlier then normal, drinking hot chocolate, i then bake a cake (this year im making a white chocolate cheesecake) to take to Christmas dinner where everyone eats and drinks to much, then go home sleep the prepare for the boxing day buffet where we get family and friends round to watch crappy film and eat and drink too much.

Damn, that cheesecake sounds good!

 

[joshuaayt]

I celebrate International Capitalism Day the same way I have since before memory serves- The three of us (My mother, sister and I) put up the tacky tree we've had for years untold, put equally tacky lights on it and listen to the Christmas song collection we've never updated. And I wouldn't change a thing about it.

 

[Vivace-Vivian]

I go to the functions my family wants me to. I respect their beleifs, though I will be celebrating something else this year as usual.

Yule, or the Winter Solstice if you preffer is on the 21st. To be simple I'll be pulling an all nighter to help the Earth give birth to the sun... yeah...

 

[ramboondiea]

i celebrate it by getting up slightly earlier then normal, drinking hot chocolate, i then bake a cake (this year im making a white chocolate cheesecake) to take to Christmas dinner where everyone eats and drinks to much, then go home sleep the prepare for the boxing day buffet where we get family and friends round to watch crappy film and eat and drink too much.

Damn, that cheesecake sounds good!

it is! its a bloody pain to make tho haha

 

[Tartarga]

I stay up all night waiting for the rest of my family to wake up so we can open presents. After I mess around with my presents for an hour or two I start to feel the fatigue setting in so I go to sleep. Woo, my life is exciting.

 

[Clunks]

Reluctantly. My friends and family all bully me into christmas dinners and shitty songs and "the christmas spirit", so I go along with it to some extent. I buy presents, but I don't wrap 'em and I don't give them to them on the day. I go to a dinner on christmas day with my family, but I eat actual food and not all that christmassy shit like Turkey and sprouts and whatnot. I fucking hate it, really, but it's not like I'm given much choice.

 

[MajorKris]

On the night of Christmas Eve, my family and I attend our church around midnight or so for a lovely sermon. We usually sing Christmas songs and light candles while us and the members just enjoying each-other's company. I am an atheist, but my family is religious. It does not bother me going, I was raised with it, and quite frankly, I enjoy the event and find it peaceful.

On Christmas day I help my mother make a light breakfast for the family. Usually consisting of French toast, eggs and bacon. Then we settle in and start opening presents. We then usually just relax and settle around the house drinking, eating, watching movies, and enjoying our gifts. Around Seven we have a nice spiral ham meal.

I'm looking forward to Christmas this year, it will be the first for my girlfriend and I.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

i celebrate it by getting up slightly earlier then normal, drinking hot chocolate, i then bake a cake (this year im making a white chocolate cheesecake) to take to Christmas dinner where everyone eats and drinks to much, then go home sleep the prepare for the boxing day buffet where we get family and friends round to watch crappy film and eat and drink too much.

Damn, that cheesecake sounds good!

it is! its a bloody pain to make tho haha

By the sounds of it I'm guessing you use gelatine for the 'cheese' bit?

 

[ramboondiea]

i celebrate it by getting up slightly earlier then normal, drinking hot chocolate, i then bake a cake (this year im making a white chocolate cheesecake) to take to Christmas dinner where everyone eats and drinks to much, then go home sleep the prepare for the boxing day buffet where we get family and friends round to watch crappy film and eat and drink too much.

Damn, that cheesecake sounds good!

it is! its a bloody pain to make tho haha

By the sounds of it I'm guessing you use gelatine for the 'cheese' bit?

no i hate cooking with gelatine, i think iy makes things taste funny, im just using a soft cheese with a double crème and sugar mix to thicken it up, problem is the white chocolate is quite heavy so its causing certain structural issues haha so i may have to make it more like a tart haha

 

[AnAngryMoose]

i celebrate it by getting up slightly earlier then normal, drinking hot chocolate, i then bake a cake (this year im making a white chocolate cheesecake) to take to Christmas dinner where everyone eats and drinks to much, then go home sleep the prepare for the boxing day buffet where we get family and friends round to watch crappy film and eat and drink too much.

Damn, that cheesecake sounds good!

it is! its a bloody pain to make tho haha

By the sounds of it I'm guessing you use gelatine for the 'cheese' bit?

no i hate cooking with gelatine, i think iy makes things taste funny, im just using a soft cheese with a double crème and sugar mix to thicken it up, problem is the white chocolate is quite heavy so its causing certain structural issues haha so i may have to make it more like a tart haha

Well, good luck with it regardless! White chocolate and cheesecake are two of my favourite foods

 

[Dana22]

Traditional dinner with grandparents.

 

[Thundero13]

I get up, open presents, have fun with them for about half an hour, then the rest of the day is spent by everyone cooking and cleaning and shouting at eachother while i'm trying to avoid everyone then we eat the worst possible dinner and then I try to leave as early as possible and avoid everyone again.
This year however my parents have found out that everyone besides them hates christmas dinner, so we're having curry & rice instead, not that great a dinner but it doesn't take all day to cook and it's still infinitely better then christmas dinner.

 

[steeple]

go to school... such is the drudgery of being jewish...
hey, at least I had hannukah, right?