Posts Tagged ‘xmas’

It kinda goes like that:

lisa: Who wants to give me a Christmas Present???
Me: @lisaseat me but you gotta give me one too!!
Lisa: @urbanvox deal!
Me: @lisaseat cool… what am I getting then????

Me: @lisaseat what’s the idea then we switching signed photos or some’t like that???

Me: @lisaseat lol… sure thing. u cans end yours to yuri@urbanvox.net … THAT should be fun!

ME: @lisaseat lol… sounds like a plan… ideas ideas…

ME: @lisaseat LOL!!! I’m trying to find my thinking cap…

So… now I have GOT to get my thinking cap on and come up with a great idea to rise up to the challenge of creating a Xmas Masterpiece to send to Lisa by Christmas Eve.

Ideas are more than welcome!!!

zya!

If you’ve been following glowstars.net and urbanvox.net for the past few days you will know that we are in full Christmas swing here at UrbanVox HQ. And this year I am taking a swing at the Christmas decorations.

See if you can see my logic, I will be as direct and straight forward as possible:

We will not spend Christmas  at home. Therefore it makes no sense having the house all decorated for Christmas.

Doesn’t that make sense???

Well… it doesn’t make any sense to Vic… She wants trees, tinsels and the whole shebang.

As you can se here, here, and here and well other places I can’t remember right now, we are having our customary xmas battle over decorations etc, mainly because I know I AM the one that will have to clear it up later.

Last round it looked like I was losing the war and Vic was gloating over it: she had tricked me into a compromise and as so manage to build a monument to her victory in our fireplace… but I am a genius!!! hehehe

Under my command today at 17:30pm a group of elite troopers took control of the enemy’s latest victory: The Christmas Tree!!!

As they say… if you can’t win… have a Lego Star Wars tree instead…

December is here and with it the dreaded Christmas Season… Yes I said dreaded… And if you know me you will also know I am not really a very Christmassy sort of person. Don’t take me wrong, I like the whole getting family and friends together thing and like anyone I like giving and receiving presents… but there is something about the whole season that just puts me off… Actually there are quite a few things that put me off… but that’s not what this post is all about!

Believe it or not, I am talking FUN today!!

We’ve been planing today for about a week (and by we, I really mean Vic) and we woke up with the prospect of going ice skating at Hide Park’s Winter Wonderland. And I was looking forward to teach TB to fall on his ass slide graciously over the ice… just when we got there it was sold out… that and the circus thing…

Not to worry… there was still plenty to do… and wit that we’ve spent a whole afternoon of indulging ourselves.

At some point of the afternoon was called a grumpy old man for complaining of queues, pain in my knee, expending too much money (You gotta agree that £16 in pick and mix is A HELL OF A LOT)…

My response to that? It is all part of the Pires Xmas Tradition!

zya!

I am still struggling to understand what’s the big deal about Christmas time and I have decided to outline some of the reasons why I don’t see thee whole shebang about the famed season.

Oh come on… humor me… Read the whole thing, If you don’t agree, leave me a comment telling me why!

1 – “Christmas is season to be jolly… tra la la la la la la la la” Then why is it that December, and in specific Christmas time has the highest index of depression in the year? I know the great majority of the population is very Jolly throughout December because of the holidays (and the holidays parties where everyone seems to overindulge a bit too much and don’t deny it one way or another you know you do it!) … but helloooo… what about the other 11 months of they year… can’t they be jolly too???

2 – Shopping sprees, debt, stress, consumerism, “I want this and that and that other thing” from you kid in a daily basis, advertisement going into overdrive building up since well… October(ish), etc etc etc… got the drill??

3 – Jesus was not born in December (ouch… did you know that? if you didn’t there are studies about it all over the internet… google it… the consent is something between August and September, if you did know that… wth…) … how come we commemorate his birthday in December??? Is “the most important day in the Christian Calendar” commemorated in the wrong day? Again… ouch…

4 -Even if JC were born in December, for the first 300 (ish) years of Christian tradition his birth day was never celebrated (it is true… check the bible)… It was customary at the time to celebrate the death and not the birth of an important person. That is apart from  some “pagan” cultures that actually used co commemorate the “birth” of their deities.

It was only in 435ac that the Christ Mass” was first instituted by pope Sixtus III in a celebration to coincide with the  birth of the  Romans primary god (the Sun) and Mithras a popular Persian sun god supposed to be born at the same day. The idea was to associate the one to the other to “facilitate” the assimilation and consolidation of the pagan masses to the  Empire assuring their loyalty (smart guy… Religion=Power)

5 – None of the ornaments used in the whole Christmas Shebang has a Christian origin in it’s symbolism most of them being inherited by the Germanic Barbarians… Sure… all of them have Christian symbolic meaning now… just not on their origins…

So much for the “Main Christian Celebration” of the year uh…

I could say more… but I am kinda late… and nope… I am not against getting the whole family together and giving presents to each other, eat good food etc… The thing that bothers me is the reasons we do it… after all that can be done any day of the year can’t it?

Wouldn’t it be GREAT if we were jolly… and together more often?? Do we really NEED the excuse???

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”… (From Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet)

Do I make any sense to you?? Do you and your family celebrate Christmas?? What does it mean to you?? What DO you celebrate at Christmas??

Zya!