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Friday 191 The Christmas Thread

I'm still at work, but who's gonna eat too much in the coming days?

My big family Christmas is like 50 people, so this year we're ordering Chinese. We'll have turkey and all the trimmings on Christmas day.

I get to watch movers haul all my stuff to the new house tomorrow! So that means I am boxing everything today. No fun this weekend.

but monday/tues will mean lots of food for us and in-laws. Mutha freakin prime rib.

Just finished work for the year, not back until January now. Going for a nice meal with friends on Sunday and then visiting family over Christmas. More than anything else I'm looking forward to spending plenty of time in bed doing zero point fuck all.

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Originally posted by Boomer187 prime rib.

For Crimbo? That's a first.

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Originally posted by System J Just finished work for the year, not back until January now

Fucking commies.

And I bet not until like the 4th.

Last work day is tomorrow then 4 days off, just a quiet christmas as I'm fucking exhausted as the year draws to a close. Been getting 4 hours of heavily interrupted sleep due to a post surgery, sick kitty, and I'm having to force myself to feel Xmas-ey which so far isn't really happening.

Bone

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Fucking commies. And I bet not until like the 4th.

Just the 2nd (the 4th's a Friday), although at least it's only a three day week. Nothing worse than coming back from a long break to a full working week, especially in January when things are slow.

Also, I've just discovered something slightly freaky. Every Christmas we do a raffle at work, where all the gifts given by suppliers and clients and so on are divided up and raffled off to the staff. Everything is laid out in the staff canteen and you just pull a number out of a hat and then wander around the room until you find your prize. I pulled a random number out of the hat and found I'd won a bottle of Prosecco, which was in one of those generic Christmas gift bags. I stuffed it in my bag and went home without anyone else touching it. Since then it's been sat on my kitchen counter all afternoon, with nobody else in the flat.

Anyway, I've just been having a look at the bag, as I figure I can re-use it for my Dad's Christmas gift, and I've spotted a tag on the side that says "Merry Christmas Jack." Why the fuck would it have my name on it when I pulled a random number out of a hat? Even if someone overheard what number I'd pulled, why would they rush over to my prize and scribble my name on it, then vanish without saying anything? I can only presume it's some strange coincidence, but it's certainly left me scratching my head.

Also, before anyone asks the obvious - no, it's definitely not been mixed up with another gift bag. As far as I know, we don't have any others in the flat, having used them all up last year.

MIL and 6yo adopted BIL came by this week to visit for xmas. Even though we are visiting again in a week, I guess she wanted to travel up here? Little bastard had a cough, now I have a cough. I hope the baby doesn't get one, but he probably will. Gee, thanks kid.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Just the 2nd (the 4th's a Friday), although at least it's only a three day week. Nothing worse than coming back from a long break to a full working week, especially in January when things are slow. Also, I've just discovered something slightly freaky. Every Christmas we do a raffle at work, where all the gifts given by suppliers and clients and so on are divided up and raffled off to the staff. Everything is laid out in the staff canteen and you just pull a number out of a hat and then wander around the room until you find your prize. I pulled a random number out of the hat and found I'd won a bottle of Prosecco, which was in one of those generic Christmas gift bags. I stuffed it in my bag and went home without anyone else touching it. Since then it's been sat on my kitchen counter all afternoon, with nobody else in the flat. Anyway, I've just been having a look at the bag, as I figure I can re-use it for my Dad's Christmas gift, and I've spotted a tag on the side that says "Merry Christmas Jack." Why the fuck would it have my name on it when I pulled a random number out of a hat? Even if someone overheard what number I'd pulled, why would they rush over to my prize and scribble my name on it, then vanish without saying anything? I can only presume it's some strange coincidence, but it's certainly left me scratching my head. Also, before anyone asks the obvious - no, it's definitely not been mixed up with another gift bag. As far as I know, we don't have any others in the flat, having used them all up last year.

I'm sorry, why aren't you drinking the prosecco?

That'll probably get polished off on New Year's Eve.

Psh.

I have a par stock set on a few bottles of wine at my place where if one gets opened i buy a new one to make sure I have two full on hand. They�ve moved into vintages so they don�t be around forever

Finished my last day of work until January 2nd. Gotta love vacation days.

Gonna do some housecleaning today and tomorrow, then start relaxing for the weekend. Prolly do some snowshoeing, maybe some downhill skiing too, we'll see. We're staying in town this year instead of going to Toronto (my partner and I), so the food is going to be off the charts at my family home where the festivities are. My dad always brings the big guns for the holidays.

We'll be in Toronto for New Years though... that will be fun

I'm off the 24-29. The first time I've had Christmas instead of New Year's off in 7 years. Quite looking forward to enjoying the actual holiday with the fam!

23 years. For 23 years I had been searching for a loop that I had stuck in my head, but couldn't find because... really, how can you expect to look up "drum loop that goes woo-yeah" and find something?

Today I found out it's from Lyn Collin's "Think (About It)" and, much to my surprise, I would have found it if I searched for "Woo! Yeah"

Thursday I celebrated my 15^th anniversary with my wife, and that was the highlight of the week, but my Friday was all about this damn drum loop

Congrats Lira, on both accounts!


I got to leave early from work today, so now I get to enjoy the full day of celebrations with my fam! Yay!

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Originally posted by Lira 23 years. For 23 years I had been searching for a loop that I had stuck in my head, but couldn't find because... really, how can you expect to look up "drum loop that goes woo-yeah" and find something? Today I found out it's from Lyn Collin's "Think (About It)" and, much to my surprise, I would have found it if I searched for "Woo! Yeah"

Oh man. If you'd typed "classic breaks" into Youtube you could probably have found it in about three minutes. The funny thing about the Think break is how the little vocal snatch makes it sound totally different when pitched up to drum 'n bass speed. It's effectively two iconic drum loops in one.

pretty stoked for bone today... one of the last people on my list to see

Thanks, Jenny!

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Oh man. If you'd typed "classic breaks" into Youtube you could probably have found it in about three minutes. The funny thing about the Think break is how the little vocal snatch makes it sound totally different when pitched up to drum 'n bass speed. It's effectively two iconic drum loops in one.

Haha, I know, right!? In hindsight, the solution was so obvious, and it was all over tracks I know

Yet, because I first heard the "woo-yeah" on top of a 4/4 beat as a 12 year old, I never registered it as a drum loop - for whatever reason, I assumed it was just two vocal samples always used in tandem.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Been getting 4 hours of heavily interrupted sleep due to a post surgery, sick kitty, and I'm having to force myself to feel Xmas-ey which so far isn't really happening.

I hope the surgery and the kitten's disease are unrelated, and I wish you both a speedy recovery

Oh, and by the way, I bought myself an audio monitor for Christmas. Edifier audio monitors are omnipresent here in Brasilia for whatever reason, and the reviews looked a bit good, so I got myself one. Let's now hope my neighbours like drum'n'bass and big beat!

Cooking Prime Rib Roast for the first time. Got the roast today and found a good recipe. I still need the ramekins for the beef awe jew

Congrats Marcus!

Today my grandchild got baptized, so now I'm officially her godfather! She did very well, cried, threw up over my cousin and burped in the church
It's nice that she got baptized in the same little church were I got baptized, received the First Holy Communion and got married. Downside is that I'll probably be there again tomorrow evening...for much longer...

Tomorrow evening as usual dinner at my parents with my sister and friend. Joining my dad to church while my mom will be singing in the choir and the others will be waiting and try to stay awake.
Sunday we'll visit my mother in law and by then I'll be wondering if I did succeed in my intention not to eat too much.

Thanks, and congrats to you too!

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Originally posted by Trance-M Today my grandchild got baptized, so now I'm officially her godfather! She did very well, cried, threw up over my cousin and burped in the church

It must be nice to have close ties with a church. I don't know where I was baptised, I received my First Holy Communion in (a military) middle school, and I got married in an Italian restaurant

It's not quite 8am on Christmas Eve here, and I've just finished up the big grocery shop for tomorrow. Glad I went early, because at 7am it still took me nearly 10 minutes to find a parking spot I guess everyone else had the same idea. All that's left to get is booze, but they don't open for another hour.

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Originally posted by Lira I got married in an Italian restaurant

Olive Garden?

If we got Nou banned finally I wonder if we can get rid of IGK.

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