Is Peace on Earth Possible During the Holiday Season?

[wolram]

To me xmas is just crazy, spending money is good for the stores, i have read that some stores make most of there yearly profit in the xmas weeks.

As for peace on Earth, well one CAN wish for it, but i can not see it happening any time soon.

I guess the best thing i can wish for is you all to have good health and happiness, but even that would have to be one powerful wish to void Evo of harm.

 

[neu]

World Peace. That or an Xbox 360

 

[Andre]

What do you want for xmass?

Guests, for dinner. Everybody is invited.

and no X-mas shifts this year for me, X fingers

 

[turbo]

My wife and I invite my father for dinner, and we don't exchange gifts - just some snacks and a meal followed by card games, etc.

And it won't actually be in Christmas day this year. My wife has to take care of her mother on that day.

 

[noumed]

A mechanical pencil with colored leads. Sick and tired of sharpening all the damn colored pencils in my office.

 

[offtheleft]

xbox 360 elite
gears of war 2
virtual drumline 2.5
2003 gti 20th ae edition; jazz blue
money for books
a couch or futon
more clothes

lol

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Earplugs.

 

[cristo]

What do you want for xmas?

The pound to get stronger against the dollar again!

 

[Kurdt]

xboxes are banned for christmas because they're cheap and awful.

 

[offtheleft]

xboxes are banned for christmas because they're cheap and awful.

360 > ps3

sorry, that's what jesus told me.

 

[JasonRox]

xbox 360 elite
gears of war 2
virtual drumline 2.5
2003 gti 20th ae edition; jazz blue
money for books
a couch or futon
more clothes

lol

That's a lot of junk.

I ask for nothing. I don't like gifts personally. It just adds to a pile of junk.

 

[Cyrus]

That's a lot of junk.

I ask for nothing. I don't like gifts personally. It just adds to a pile of junk.

I agree. Anything I have that I feel like I don't need or is never going to be used goes straight to the trash can.

 

[offtheleft]

xbox 360 elite
gears of war 2
virtual drumline 2.5
2003 gti 20th ae edition; jazz blue
money for books
a couch or futon
more clothes

lol

well i sold my older xbox for a plane ticket to miami, along with all my games etc.

virtualdrumline 2.5, is a set of sounds used to write music. i have the older version, and by writing and selling some music i was able to buy books this past fall. on older computer crashed, along with all the programs i used so i have to get them again, for mac this time.

i need a new car, that happens to be my car of choice, I am buying that my self. anyone want to buy a 2005 cobalt ss s/c with 2.5'' pullies, aig cai, toyo tires and magnaflow exhaust? or a 2006 kawasaki zx636 lol, leo vince evo exhaust, and a few other goodies.

couch or futon for my room. i have a gigantic tv but nothing to sit on to watch it.

and more clothes. due to the pure fact that i don't have many things to wear.

That's a lot of junk.

I ask for nothing. I don't like gifts personally. It just adds to a pile of junk.

the clothes can go in my multiple closes/dressers. the xbox would go on one of my desks. the couch/futon would be right in front of my tv. the vdl2.5 would go into my computer than id put the cd on my book shelf. and the car would go in my garage. not much of a pile anywhere considering my room is quite large and i try hard to keep it clean.

I agree.

to each their own.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Love.

 

[wolram]

I agree. Anything I have that I feel like I don't need or is never going to be used goes straight to the trash can.

First dibs on the Cyrus trash can contents.

 

[Moonbear]

A week with my boyfriend! I can't wait.

 

[wolram]

A week with my boyfriend! I can't wait.

Hold on MoonB, steady, steady.

 

[Ian_Brooks]

job stability when I graduate. :p

 

[wolram]

job stability when I graduate. :p

That is some thing well worth wishing for, i surely hope you get it.

 

[DaveC426913]

To me xmas is just crazy, spending money is good for the stores, i have read that some stores make most of there yearly profit in the xmas weeks.

Make of Christmas what you want it to be.

Cookies, nog, A Christmas Story, family, music.

 

[wolram]

My daughter and husband, (not bf any more), are cooking dinner at my parents house, i sure love them to bits, but they like soggy turkey

 

[lisab]

Such a long list...

I want my friend Tom to have a good turn of luck for a change (bad divorce)
I want my friend Sue to find a job she can love
I want my friend Tyrone to work through problems with his gf
I want my brother to stop with the meth already!
I want my dear friend John to get through these next few months (just got a lung cancer diagnosis - the biopsy caused a collapsed lung)

And if I could have one thing, I want to keep my job.

Things have been unusually sucky for me and people dear to me these last few weeks.

 

[wolram]

Such a long list...

I want my friend Tom to have a good turn of luck for a change (bad divorce)
I want my friend Sue to find a job she can love
I want my friend Tyrone to work through problems with his gf
I want my brother to stop with the meth already!
I want my dear friend John to get through these next few months (just got a lung cancer diagnosis - the biopsy caused a collapsed lung)

And if I could have one thing, I want to keep my job.

Things have been unusually sucky for me and people dear to me these last few weeks.

Hells bells, 4 and 5, need some good luck and best wishes, 1,2 and 3 can go fish.

 

[Evo]

Love.

Everyone loves you MIH. :!)

How about those Christmas videos I owe you?

 

[Evo]

I want meat for me and the Fruit Bat

Nice clumping cat litter for Dr Foofer,

Sunflower seeds for my squirrels.

Oh, and I need a warm scarf/muffler for my neck, socks, and a large bulky sweater.

And a bottle of Harvey's Bristol Cream Sherry (or Dry Sack), a good unblended scotch, and Baileys.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Everyone loves you MIH. :!)

How about those Christmas videos I owe you?

Thank you, Evo! There are Christmas videos?

I am going to send you my latest invention for Christmas - a Teflon cat box. (and don't even think about it, Kurdt. I already have the patent!)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Love.

In that case we'll have to get you a slide rule.

 

[~christina~]

Good grades

 

[Math Is Hard]

In that case we'll have to get you a slide rule.

Maybe Santa will put one in my stocking if I am good.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Good grades

You know you'll get those. How about some frivolous wishes?

 

[joeyar]

New Zealand beating Australia in the cricket.

 

[redargon]

I'd love to have the feeling I used to get on the 24th of December (I couldn't wait for the 25th and tried to go to sleep early so Christmas would come quicker) when I was around 6 years old. Christmas was the BEST! even better than a birthday. It was a feeling like, if Santa is real and Christmas is real, then nothing in the world can be bad...But, then you get older, Santa is a fake, half the world doesn't believe in Christmas, the other quarter call it xmas and it just becomes a fight through the shops at the last minute to buy a bunch of crap that people don't need.

I'm going to visit some new family eat myself into a half coma and lie on the couch and watch the Grinch.

 

[BobG]

Love.

In that case we'll have to get you a slide rule.

Slide rules are easy. Love?

That's going to take more than one box.

 

[physics girl phd]

I'll confess to wanting a pocket-size digital balance. It'd be perfect for outreach I do for HS physics/chemistry teachers... and our lab director keeps every single working balance in the department under PERSONAL lock and key. AUGH!

They are down to about $60. I'm thinking of splurging for my sanity and dignity. I hate groveling.

Plus... they look cute and and shiny!

 

[physics girl phd]

Oh, and I need a warm scarf/muffler for my neck, socks, and a large bulky sweater.

And a bottle of Harvey's Bristol Cream Sherry (or Dry Sack), a good unblended scotch, and Baileys.

If the second list arrives, you shouldn't need any items from the first!

 

[Abdul20202]

Guests, for dinner. Everybody is invited.

and no X-mas shifts this year for me, X fingers

well what i want will take the whole computer system to overload.

 

[Evo]

Can I have love too? I want this guy.

 

[Andre]

Love.

In that case we'll have to get you a slide rule.

Slide rules are easy. Love?

That's going to take more than one box.

somebody may have missed a pickup line:

OK, here's my new trick. I bump into an engineer at a bar and say. "oopsie!" and let a slide rule fall out of my purse. I think it has potential.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Can I have love too? I want this guy. [PLAIN]http://www.myemoticons.com/emoticons/images/msn/moods/dork.gif[/QUOTE][/URL]

I may have found him for you. Sending you a PM now...

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

All I want is travel money!

 

[sesinka]

New friends. Understanding.
Scholarship...

 

[BobG]

Love.

In that case we'll have to get you a slide rule.

Slide rules are easy. Love?

That's going to take more than one box.

somebody may have missed a pickup line:

OK, here's my new trick. I bump into an engineer at a bar and say. "oopsie!" and let a slide rule fall out of my purse. I think it has potential.

Doh! For some reason, my first thought was the Wizard of Oz (a diploma for the tinman, a robe for the lion, etc). Now it makes a lot more sense.

I just want a post with quotes nested to at least 7 levels.

 

[Evo]

I may have found him for you. Sending you a PM now...

WOOT! Can you send him? :!)

 

[Kurdt]

All the PF sisters are loved already.

 

[Evo]

All the PF sisters are loved already.

I :!) you kurdt.

 

[Andre]

Are you sending Kurdt, MIH?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Anyone else find reciprocal gift giving sort of ridiculous as you get older. I think when I have kids it will be different. But my family is older now and it seems silly them giving me a list of what they want. All this stuff they can get on a Saturday afternoon. Then I have to give them a few things I kinda want. I can buy anything I want off amazon in 3 seconds. So what is the point? I suppose if you find something they really want by yourself without a list is fun, but that get harder the less you see them.

 

[Kurdt]

Yes, Christmas is really for the kids. I think this thread shows how peoples priorities change over the years.

 

[turbo]

Anyone else find reciprocal gift giving sort of ridiculous as you get older. I think when I have kids it will be different. But my family is older now and it seems silly them giving me a list of what they want. All this stuff they can get on a Saturday afternoon. Then I have to give them a few things I kinda want. I can buy anything I want off amazon in 3 seconds. So what is the point? Anyone?

My father likes handing out cards and checks well before Christmas, and I can't dissuade him, so my wife and I make sure that he gets stuff that he really needs. It's not store-bought presents, usually, but stuff that an 83 year-old widower can use. My wife is taking care of her mother for the next 20+ hours (home-bound with dementia) and when she gets relieved tomorrow she's going to take my father a nice big pork loin end roast and gravy. That will keep him in meals and sandwiches for a while. He stopped in yesterday, and I gave him a couple of quarts of home-made chicken soup. I made brine today, and she's going to soak two of the roasts in it tonight - one for her mother and one for my father - and roast them tomorrow.

When you're an old fellow whose cooking sucks (to be polite) getting decent meals is a good thing.

 

[Danger]

A week with my boyfriend! I can't wait.

If you're willing to share, you can take care of MIH's request at the same time.
(Not mention giving bf a present that he'll never forget.)