I'm off for Christmas, What's your plans?

3 Dec 2012

I'm off from the 21st until the 2nd Jan - a huge break.
Who's travelling where, will we see a demise in Forum posts?
I always login to the chat on Christmas Day to say hello to friends but also to say hello to people that are alone.
I even say hello to the trolls lol

My mother taught me a very good lesson when I was a silly Paddy, " Christmas is for giving and not about recieving ( that sounds bad - I'm posting here)
To that end, the month of December, there's a group us in work sing for charity/pack bags/recyle and place a Tree in the office where we ask fellow employees wrap some toy up for the local Womens and Mens Refuge.
Remember, we're members of a Swinging Site and everyone is equal and some on here would like a " Whisper, Hello in the chatroom on Christmas Day - that to some would be a present in itself.
Paddy

4 Dec 2012

we was all off to thailand but at 3 times the cost for any other two weeks of the year we decided to wait till jan rolleyes

4 Dec 2012

Due to work commitments earlier in the year it appears I have holidays to spare so I finish on the 14th and go back on the 2nd.
my list
3 weeks of fine sex, fine wines, fine cigars and fine company....
Kittys list
new fridge, new three piece, paint hall, paint offices, tidy garage, tidy loft....
i know which one will take precedence...

4 Dec 2012

I'm on holiday from 19th Dec - 7 Jan smile

Looking forward to it.... well apart from the three days We are at Mrs T's parents :sad:

4 Dec 2012

I finish work on the 21st December and go back on the 2nd of January, as far as i know most of the others living in this house are off work for a similar time. We havn't made any plans as such for Christmas day or indeed any other day yet apart from going to as many football matches as possible over the holiday smile

. I guess we will have the turkey dinner on Christmas day and have a lovely family time playing games and watching Dr Who on TV :). This year will be diferent for us but we will hopefully get thru it some how.

4 Dec 2012

i finish work on friday as have some holidays saved up ,have a list of jobs to do about the house . a trip to university with one of our kids for an should have some time to meet a nice couple i have been chating to.

4 Dec 2012

I'm always surrounded by my kids, but I'll take some time out for sex, and a bit more for lovemaking, and a smidging of socializing in between. I'm likely to have more free time this year as mrs skinny lives in Brighton now, so no travelling required, and no need to make special arrangements for childminding.
I'm always quite relaxed about the social celebrations, when you live in Brighton there's an opportunity to party pretty much any time... not that I do mind you.

4 Dec 2012

My Children, My man, Santa having visited, Warm House, Christmas Moozic and the home happy, nothing else required.
We'll also this year as most other years be doing something for those less able to help themselves
Crisis at christmas -
There go any of us .......

7 Dec 2012

I'm off sick so shall be home for Christmas and away the new year (hopefully)...

10 Dec 2012

Work! :bounce:

10 Dec 2012

We will be having a SWINGING Christmas and even bigger SWINGING New Years Eve
Available for meets 365 days a year with no kids and work means errrr well taking care of swingers, none of it may involve sex but we love sociallising with swingers as well as playing with them occasionally, such a nice bunch of people.
New Years Eve will be atlantisEVOLUTION for us if of course the world does not end before then as scheduled.

11 Dec 2012

think i will go off somewhere and stay in a hotel for christmas day.

12 Dec 2012

Did something similar one year when I was single, went to the gym on Christmas Day, it being a hotel gym it was open because there were guests staying (Village Hotel) I was surprised how many people were there, surprised more by the two women in the sauna who spoke to each other of "well you have to have a break from the kids on Christmas Day don't you", now for me Christmas is all about the kids ........ each to thier own I guess.
The hotel staff were great and I know from experience that Christmas Day can be the lonliest day of the year for singles.
Back in my army days, married couples living in army quarters always used to invite a single soldier (male or female) home for Christmas Dinner, I must admit I would like to carry on that tradition but we only know swingers and worry that if we did that they would see it as an invite to something more than Christmas Dinner sad

12 Dec 2012

Quote by Ste-n-Kez
I start s new job tomorrow....

Best of luck with it Ste, and congrats. smile

Yep, we shut down on the 21st, reopen the 2nd. The boss used to insist we open up in between, terrified he might miss a sale till he realised he was paying staff to come in and toss it off on the internet all day cos the phones never rung. Then he decided we'd shut down but we had to use our own holiday entitlement for it. This year it doesn't come out of the holidays but we get no bonus, so all swings and roundabouts really.
No plans apart from going over to mam's Xmas eve so I'm there in the morning to help with the dinner before the hordes descend. Fifteen of us this year to feed plus two newborns and I'm doing it sober. That's gonna be a novel experience watching everyone else get ratted while I'm on the alcohol frees. Guess I'll be the voice of reason then when everyone starts falling out later in the day, as per bloody usual. rolleyes

Can you tell I don't really do Xmas. Bah humbug, roll on New Year.

12 Dec 2012

Quote by Ste-n-Kez
I start s new job tomorrow....

Somehow missed that, so I suppose it's too late to wish you well, but hopefully it's all good?

Quote by neilinleeds
Yep, we shut down on the 21st, reopen the 2nd. The boss used to insist we open up in between, terrified he might miss a sale till he realised he was paying staff to come in and toss it off on the internet all day cos the phones never rung. Then he decided we'd shut down but we had to use our own holiday entitlement for it. This year it doesn't come out of the holidays but we get no bonus, so all swings and roundabouts really.

Many years ago between college and a decent job I worked in retail for Fosters menswear. In all of February 1992 our shops takings were less than £1000 but they still insisted that we open up with a full complement of staff, needless to say that we spent most of the day amusing ourselves, one of the most popular activities was looking for another job!
The weather was bitterly cold for around three of the four weeks and at one point we had a sign on the door saying to knock if you wanted to come in! One day the regional manager turned up unannounced and wasn't too pleased to see that the front doors were shut. Little did he know that the only reason they weren't locked is because someone had gone out to buy some doughnuts.

Quote by neilinleeds
Can you tell I don't really do Xmas. Bah humbug, roll on New Year.

I'm not a Christmas person either, I think that expectations of having 'the best christmas ever' are always over inflated. But I do enjoy a good roast and a few drinks with all the family.

12 Dec 2012

Quote by Trevaunance
I start s new job tomorrow....

Somehow missed that, so I suppose it's too late to wish you well, but hopefully it's all good?
Oh yeah, I never checked the date of the post. :doh: OK, hope you had a good first week then Ste? lol

Quote by Trevaunance
Can you tell I don't really do Xmas. Bah humbug, roll on New Year.

I'm not a Christmas person either, I think that expectations of having 'the best christmas ever' are always over inflated. But I do enjoy a good roast and a few drinks with all the family.
Yeah, lots of pressure holiday season with this expectation of something like a Hallmark card no matter what's going on. Just isn't like that for lots of people. Often brings out the worst in human nature as much as it brings out the best. Too many dark emotions linked with Xmas for me, people who should be there but are with us no longer, stuff like that. Never really gets any easier, even decades on. sad

Anyways, that's enough bringing the thread down. Sounding like Scrooge here! :lol:

13 Dec 2012

Quote by Lizaleanrob
we was all off to thailand but at 3 times the cost for any other two weeks of the year we decided to wait till jan

We're currently in Thailand, but I fly back on the 23rd and first day back at work is Christmas day! :sad: Then working the next 10 days including the New Year period!
Ah well, back to sunbathing :cool:!
Mal
:cool:

15 Dec 2012

The whole gang, four generations, bliss.

15 Dec 2012

Quote by Mal
we was all off to thailand but at 3 times the cost for any other two weeks of the year we decided to wait till jan

We're currently in Thailand, but I fly back on the 23rd and first day back at work is Christmas day! :sad: Then working the next 10 days including the New Year period!
Ah well, back to sunbathing :cool:!
Mal
:cool:
where in thailand are you mal? we was in koh lak in november last year and are thinking of phi phi this year

17 Dec 2012

For the first time ever, I'm working for some of the Christmas period. I finish on 21st and go back on the 27th. I am off again on New Year's Day and then it's back to normality on 2nd.
Since I was promoted, I seem to spend half my life driving, so I have told my manager that he needs to think of something that I can do from home cos I ain't going anywhere! lol

We are having 2 Christmas's this year. Our son has Autism and is in boarding school. He comes home every other weekend and we alternate Christmas. I know that that sounds shit but the other 2 kids deserve a normal Christmas too (without being battered and bruised by the end of it) and we will do the whole Christmas thing, just on a different day. One year my mum bought him a fish tank with goldfish. On Boxing Day, everyone's presents were in the fish tank! He's coming home on 21st, his Christmas will be 22nd and he goes back on 23rd. Just enough time to put the house back together in time for Christmas number 2!

17 Dec 2012

I'm already off work and dont go back till the 7th January. Having a real quiet one this year, going to the beach on Xmas morning for the annual xmas day swim in the sea, i'll be wearing my wetsuit this year though lol

Then dinner with friends, nice to have a day off cooking dinner for the first time in 32 years (been cooking it since the age of 10), then back home to open prezzies, play scalextric with my boy, and watch lots of telly. Im not a big fan of xmas but I always make sure my kids have fun, like many people (Im sure) I will be happy when all the festivities are over, lots of long walks on the beach and hopefully a bit of snow would be good for me.

17 Dec 2012

Quote by Fun
For the first time ever, I'm working for some of the Christmas period. I finish on 21st and go back on the 27th. I am off again on New Year's Day and then it's back to normality on 2nd.

:shock:
Despite being a Predominantly Catholic country, the 'Christmas period' here in France will extend from after lunch on Christmas Eve when families traditionally get together to share the joy with simple exchanges of gifts and attend Mass through to Christmas Day itself returning to work on the 26th (there is no Boxing Day celebration here).
It's an absolute joy! No need to get 20 shopping trollies of food in weeks before with the inevitable squabbles in the checkout queues. Last year on Christmas Eve, we spent half an hour talking to another couple right in the centre of one of the isles with the small number of people we inconvenienced apologising to us for interrupting our conversation!

17 Dec 2012

How soon you forget just how pleasant people can be when you return to the land of insults where being horrible to each is de rigour :lol2:

18 Dec 2012

im going up to great ormond street hospital on thursday to drop off some presents as some scum of a person stole the ones the trust had bought for the sick children.
even at this time of year the worst in society raises its ugly head.

18 Dec 2012

Quote by tyracer
im going up to great ormond street hospital on thursday to drop off some presents as some scum of a person stole the ones the trust had bought for the sick children.
even at this time of year the worst in society raises its ugly head.

I hope they find the scum bags and feed them in bits to the lions.
Bastards.

18 Dec 2012

Quote by tyracer
im going up to great ormond street hospital on thursday to drop off some presents as some scum of a person stole the ones the trust had bought for the sick children.
even at this time of year the worst in society raises its ugly head.

Good for you tyracer :thumbup:

18 Dec 2012

Quote by tyracer
im going up to great ormond street hospital on thursday to drop off some presents as some scum of a person stole the ones the trust had bought for the sick children.
even at this time of year the worst in society raises its ugly head.

Gawd theres some shyte people about banghead

well done tyracer kiss