Official Christmas Eve/Day rant thread

[GatewaySnayke]

I'm ahead of schedule. gifts for 9 people are wrapped and sitting in front of my fireplace (for tomorrow). I don't have to be anywhere until 6 tonight and they all know I'm not brining a dish (they've stopped asking me to) .

Who has a fireplace anymore?

[docellis]

I'm ahead of schedule. gifts for 9 people are wrapped and sitting in front of my fireplace (for tomorrow). I don't have to be anywhere until 6 tonight and they all know I'm not brining a dish (they've stopped asking me to) .

Who has a fireplace anymore?

Me. Why, did people stop making fireplaces?

[cardinalkarp]

I'm ahead of schedule. gifts for 9 people are wrapped and sitting in front of my fireplace (for tomorrow). I don't have to be anywhere until 6 tonight and they all know I'm not brining a dish (they've stopped asking me to) .

Who has a fireplace anymore?

Me. Why, did people stop making fireplaces?

I took that as odd myself. I don't have one in my place (only because it cost about 5k extra and would've severly limited what we could do w/ the room) but I would say 75% of newer homes have a fireplace in them.

[JCShutout]

I can't rant much, but I was oddly stupid. For the first time in awhile I had 90% of my gift shopping done by pearl harbor Day, with only stuff like organic, fair trade coffee/chocolate etc to buy and make gift baskets out of. Had the rest putchased by the 18th...

Didn't wrap anything, and was signing cards 5 minutes before I left for each venue. WTF is wrong with me?

I don't re-gift, I re-use gift bags!

[jim]

Buttholes at church wanted to sit and chat and wish me Merry Christmas and stuff after service and I just wanted to get the hell out of there and get out of those clothes.

Darn those chatty church-goers and their wanting to be polite and crap!

I'm Presbyterian now but was raised Catholic. Get in, get out. Hit the parking lot and cut the dude off to get the inside track to the exit. Leave after communion, call it a complete mass based on a technicality and pity all the fools staying for the announcements and the wrath of angry Catholic drivers they will encounter in five minutes all trying to leave at the same exact moment.

The one good thing about my church is when I don't get roped into a conversation the traffic isn't bad, because 3/4 of the people are still screwing around inside while I'm burnin' rubber getting out of there.

[Radbird]

Buttholes at church wanted to sit and chat and wish me Merry Christmas and stuff after service and I just wanted to get the hell out of there and get out of those clothes.

Darn those chatty church-goers and their wanting to be polite and crap!

I'm Presbyterian now but was raised Catholic. Get in, get out. Hit the parking lot and cut the dude off to get the inside track to the exit. Leave after communion, call it a complete mass based on a technicality and pity all the fools staying for the announcements and the wrath of angry Catholic drivers they will encounter in five minutes all trying to leave at the same exact moment.

The one good thing about my church is when I don't get roped into a conversation the traffic isn't bad, because 3/4 of the people are still screwing around inside while I'm burnin' rubber getting out of there.

I expect a long line of people wanting to convert to Catholicism once this post goes viral.

[GatewaySnayke]

I'm ahead of schedule. gifts for 9 people are wrapped and sitting in front of my fireplace (for tomorrow). I don't have to be anywhere until 6 tonight and they all know I'm not brining a dish (they've stopped asking me to) .

Who has a fireplace anymore?

Me. Why, did people stop making fireplaces?

I took that as odd myself. I don't have one in my place (only because it cost about 5k extra and would've severly limited what we could do w/ the room) but I would say 75% of newer homes have a fireplace in them.

I just thought they were outdated. I haven't seen a house with a fireplace in a long, long time.

[busched]

Fireplaces are still popular, but most people put in gas logs. Its good for resale and a lot of buyers insist on them when purchasing anything above a starter home.

[jim]

I'm ahead of schedule. gifts for 9 people are wrapped and sitting in front of my fireplace (for tomorrow). I don't have to be anywhere until 6 tonight and they all know I'm not brining a dish (they've stopped asking me to) .

Who has a fireplace anymore?

Me. Why, did people stop making fireplaces?

I took that as odd myself. I don't have one in my place (only because it cost about 5k extra and would've severly limited what we could do w/ the room) but I would say 75% of newer homes have a fireplace in them.

I just thought they were outdated. I haven't seen a house with a fireplace in a long, long time.

Small sample sizes snayke. Among neighbors that I know well enough to go to their house I can't think of one that does NOT have a fireplace. We actually use ours quite a bit. And as far as the gas logs, of those that I know that have a fireplace nobody uses gas logs. We have a gas starter, you turn it on and light it to give a flame to start the wood. But once the wood is started burning you turn it off.

[thrill]

Fire places are where it's at.