I’ll skip the well-meaning attempt at personal engagement (too old and cranky for that) and just wish everyone Merry Christmas (or whatever religious/winter solstice variants span your spiritual function space at this time of year) and the happiest of New Years.
Merry Christmas Everyone
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#32I'm Jewish, so all my Christmas's growing up were kinda the same. Sleep in, have brunch, wander over to my neighbor's house around noon to see what kind of loot they got and help them play with their new toys. Sometimes we'd go out for Chinese food and a movie. But my favorite was Christmas 1999. My girlfriend was out of town with her family and there was no reason to go home to mine, so I was alone (my roommates wer…
Wow what a great set of movies too
1999 is considered by many enthusiasts as a peak movie year. It was a great cap to a great year.
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&releas...
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#33Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates it, if you're playing Santa for little ones I hope it was a success ;)
To everyone else, I hope you have a nice festive break!
One of my fondest Christmas memories was when my brother and I got a PlayStation 1 for Christmas, the excitement and entertainment was amazing, we had graduated from Gameboys to 3D graphics. My brother is very competitive so it was the best to win against him in the car racing game (Tommi Mäkinen Rally). I can't remember what other game we got but I do remember he and I playing Command on Conquer years later and that background music is burned into my mind :D
Years later with my own kid I have a greater appreciation for the expense and planning our parents went through to find one for us.
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#34Some of my favorite memories are the times I got video game systems. Most notibly the Sega Genesis and z scale trains I got in '94/'95/'96 (not sure the exact year, I was very young) and GameBoy Color in '99. I got a Xbox in '01, Xbox 360 in '05; but they didn't quite have the same "magic" that they had when I was young. Also as a young kid, watching the Rankin Bass stop motion movies on the days leading up to Christ…
My grandmother broke the Christmas gift rules with my parents and got my brother and I a NES, Tetris, duck hunt with the gun, and I believe the Olympics with the power mat. Christmas windfall I’ll never forget, seeing my parents faces drop as we opened all those games and just ignored every other present. Grandma had a nack for tweaking my mom any way she could, one of the meanest people I’ve ever met in my life but this year our interests aligned.
My mom was enthralled by Tetris, better at the game than anyone in the house by a good 10 levels, and basically impossible to depose from the controller. I think it softened the blow with Grandma.
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Wow what a great set of movies too
1999 is considered by many enthusiasts as a peak movie year. It was a great cap to a great year. https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&releas...
I guess I never really thought about it, but yea a lot of bangers on that list
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#36We get together as a family and make a lasagna. And before you ask, we're not Italian. It's just a fun tradition, and leads to some amazing memories.
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#37Feeding an unsuspecting and perhaps inebriated auntie dog biscuits that to be fair, looked like regular chocolate buttons.
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#38I always enjoyed the family get togethers over at my Father in law's house. There was always a festive spirit and plenty of really tasty food.
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#39I was a missionary in Montevideo Uruguay never having been away from home for Christmas. There were fireworks all night long and we were just outside with all the kids going to different peoples houses and just having a blast. Was one night I felt like everyone was nice to us and just accepted us.
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I don't know if there's a way to ask with sensitivity, but I'm very interested to know why you stayed with her for 18 months after she threatened to kill you? Sorry about the job, happens to the best of us. I think when it's the dream job you're that much more likely to bomb. I quit my dream job because it couldn't pay the bills and joined a place I thought I wouldn't last at, now in year 8 it turns out it was the dr…
no worries, been asking myself that question too. my best guess is that i had disassociated because i couldnt bear the cognitive dissonance from accepting the fact that i was in an abusive relationship. before that incident, everything in that relationship had been going well - but looking back i see that i was slowly becoming more and more reliant on her for her network of friends and her family, which made breaking…
Godspeed, stranger. Sometimes just taking the first steps can be the hardest part of taking care of yourself. Keep it up, and best of luck during the new year.