The Festival of Geekery

[dark_angel1383]

Yes, I am one of those people who has never gotten the warm fuzzies at Christmas. Obviously, I enjoyed copious amounts of gifts as a kid, but as I got older the excitement wore off and was eventually beaten to death with a shovel, when my mom asked my dad for a divorce on Christmas day

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[rae_beta]

Yes to reclaiming Christmas, although I suspect that, in the long run, my version will be a bit less with the traditional. We generally alternate years staying home and going to Sarasota to pinball between three or four houses for a week; if it weren't for M's father's family, who take both Christmas and Family Obligation VERY seriously (and whom M likes and doesn't want to alienate), we'd probably stay here every year.

This is a staying-home year. I think our old housemates are going to stay in our guest room on Christmas Eve so we can do the breakfast-and-presents thing together in the morning (and probably play Arkham Horror and/or watch Hogfather). In the evening, we're gonna do a M:tG Unhinged draft with a handful of friends. And of course there is the annual viewing of the MST3K of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, usually accompanied by copious consumption of controlled substances

[dark_angel1383]

Geeky Christmas! I will definitely keep that in mind. I suffer frequently from the wanderlust. :)

I generally don't mind bouncing from place to place over the span of a week. I get stretched thin, filled with anxiety and depressed when I'm expected to play Dr. Manhatten and teleport from house to house in the course of a day. Luckily my families are more laid back about taking different days in return to quality time than they used to be. Mom and her side generally gets either the Saturday or Sunday evening before Christmas and My dad and my siblings (I have two younger siblings from my parents and an older half brother from dad's previous marriage) get Christmas Eve. As if having a mildly (who am I kidding?) dysfunctional family wasn't stressful enough, Joe's mother insists that not only do we need to come over on Christmas Day, we need to tell her what time we're coming, at least a week in advance. I'm not sure why. There isn't a formal dinner or anything. When they do have food it usually has an abundance of shrimp in it, which

[rae_beta]

I don't have photos of most of the stempunky stuff, but I can try to change that

[dark_angel1383]

Not only do the in-laws sounds similar, the way the men folk seem to handle holidays sounds similar as well. =) Joe's family not only takes Christmas seriously, they take Thanksgiving and Easter seriously too (that's a totally different rant though.) I on the other hand, do not take them super seriously and in fact want them to be fun. Obligations do not equal fun, people!

I agree with New Year's. I usually make small, secretive resolutions such as: 'Quit being emotional over ridiculous things when you know damn well it's a ridiculous thing!' and 'Draw more'. I like the idea behind it and I like the lack of obligations that come with it.

Also, futurepunkish pieces work for me. I like metal, gadgets, watch bits and wire.

[raiden]

I didn't bother with a tree since I'm not even going to be in my apartment for most of December... Boo.

I love your ornaments, though. :)

[dark_angel1383]

Thank you! :D

I'm a big fan of the Trogdor. I giggled the entire time I was making him, like some sort of geeky fangirl.

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