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| Jem_hadar |
I have so many wonderful, just wonderful christmas memories.
Jem.
i dont wanna get all nostaglic though right now... it'll be too hard.
ill try to share later.
Merry Christmas guys!! ALl the best to you and your familes.
Jamie. |
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| zoogla |
My favorite Christmas memory will always be asking Jenny to marry me at Pearson airport on Dec. 25, 2004!!!!!!!!
w0000000000000t!!!!
P.S. We're getting married in the smallest, tiniest ceremony in the history of Pakistani tradition in front of an imam and 4 witnesses on Jan. 7, 2006 ;)
hehhee just confirmed it yesterday...oops sorry to hijack the thread! :p |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by fayraree
My favorite Christmas memory will always be asking Jenny to marry me at Pearson airport on Dec. 25, 2004!!!!!!!!
w0000000000000t!!!!
P.S. We're getting married in the smallest, tiniest ceremony in the history of Pakistani tradition in front of an imam and 4 witnesses on Jan. 7, 2006 ;)
hehhee just confirmed it yesterday...oops sorry to hijack the thread! :p |
Holy Fahad, that's in only 2 weeks!
Also Bobby I have no idea how many first cousins I have, I'd say probably around 40 as well. |
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| *~LiSa-LoO~* |
| quote: | Originally posted by fayraree
My favorite Christmas memory will always be asking Jenny to marry me at Pearson airport on Dec. 25, 2004!!!!!!!!
w0000000000000t!!!!
P.S. We're getting married in the smallest, tiniest ceremony in the history of Pakistani tradition in front of an imam and 4 witnesses on Jan. 7, 2006 ;)
hehhee just confirmed it yesterday...oops sorry to hijack the thread! :p |
OH MY FRICKIN GOD FAHAD! I didn't know it was the soon. First of all...that's the cutest thing ever!! Tell us how you proposed!! PLEASE *sits cross legged on the floor with her head in her hands looking up at Fahad in a rocking chair*
Congrats bud!! Are you excited?! |
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| zoogla |
| quote: | Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~*
OH MY FRICKIN GOD FAHAD! I didn't know it was the soon. First of all...that's the cutest thing ever!! Tell us how you proposed!! PLEASE *sits cross legged on the floor with her head in her hands looking up at Fahad in a rocking chair*
Congrats bud!! Are you excited?! |
:( I posted that with great hesitation because I always thought we'd end up together someday, cutie-pie!!!! :p
You're too cute I hate it :whip:
Okay I think I posted my whole engagement story in full detail somewhere here...I think it was in RJ's thread when he announced his engagement...lemme see... |
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| El Kay Dee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
and my sis. Thats it. |
she hot?? |
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| zoogla |
| quote: | Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~*
Tell us how you proposed!! |
Tried to link you to another forum I belong to that had pictures of us at our engagement party but I couldn't :(...here's the story:
| quote: | I wanted to surprise Jenny when she landed at the airport in Toronto.
For weeks, I had been trying to research different ways to have an exclusive occasion right at the airport...different ideas:
1. Surprise her by entering the plane. This option would probably make people think I'm strapped with a bomb and going to blow up the plane, so I kept it to myself.
2. Get permission from airport security to be at the entrance to the building, right where passengers get off the plane (in that accordion-like path). Again, the security never replied which I took as a FACK OFF!
3. Get permission from British Airways to have Jenny escorted to the First Class lounge where I could be waiting for her and propose right there. Again, I ain't no VIP so cust. service basically told me to wait outside like the rest of the peasants (although they did wish me luck though!)
4. So I came back to my "average" plan which was to be waiting at the arrival's gate, and when she arrived, get on my knee in front of all the waiting people and propose!!!! So that was the plan...
So Jenny's flight arrived on Dec. 25 (no one flies that day so it's cheaper!)...
About 2 weeks in advance I arranged for the airport customer service to have a greeter waiting for her inside, after customs, and a baggage porter to carry her luggage.
When I arrived at the airport, I met up with the porter service manager who had a walkie talkie and would update me on the status of Jenny's arrival inside.
The way the arrival's lounge is set up is that there are long rails along the path from people exiting the baggage claim to where people are waiting (behind the railing).
My goal was to infiltrate the railing barrier, intercept Jenny as she was walking through the sliding doors, and catch her totally off guard for maximum embarassing exposure! Again, friends from work said I might get arrested so I asked the manager I was with for help and she was actually able to set this up with the security on duty!!!!
Well, I waited and waited and walked through how it was going to happen in my mind hundreds of times...minutes seemed like hours, and finally I saw my Jenny!!!!!
I could see her expression; she KNEW something was going on, with the special treatment she received inside and when she saw the manager pointing to a spot for me to stand, that was it!!!!
When I got on me knee, Jenny started to repeat, "NO NO NO NO!!!!" (which I assumed was for her to say, NO NOT HERE, NOT NOW!!! Luckily, I was right!) and as I said "Jenny," when I began to pop the cheezy question, before I even started, "wil--" she's saying "YES YES YES YES!!!!!" Poor sweetie just wanted it to end, but I loved every second of it!!!!!
And as I slipped the ring on her finger, the whole audience of people waiting behind me in the arrivals lounge clapped and cheered, and one of the most precious memories of my life were etched in my head!!!! |
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| Playa24_7 |
^^ that almost made me get teary eyed man haha!
thats so fackin awesome! |
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| Playa24_7 |
| I miss giving my dog wrapped presents that we got for him haha, and him opening them. He would hold it down with his paw, rip the wrapping off with his teeth, not eating it or anything, until he got his present out. Usually a bone or something. |
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| DarkAngel |
| i"m makin Some memorieea s now cuz i am ed jup., |
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| naesean3 |
FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS MEMORIES.....hmmmmm let me think
EVERY SINGLE YEAR THAT WE HAVE CHRISTMAS IS MY FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS MEMORY!!
ya sure some years teh presents are better than others (or the one I got may have kinda sucked at first - then 2 years down the road I needed it and was that much more grateful for it then of course).
But the reason why I say everysingle year - is because CHRISTMAS NEVER REALLY CHANGES FROM YEAR TO YEAR in my family.
When I was a child - we always went to my grandmothers for Christmas we never lived more than 20 minutes from her so it was never an inconvenience to do it there - better for my mom actually because she could focus more on her little ones and try to keep an eye on us 3 and still help Grandma do the prepartions that needed to be done (IT IS A WEEK LONG PREPARATION TO RECIEVE THE GUESTS FOR CHRISTMAS!!)
First of all my Grandmother and now Mother every year do a lot of baking for Christmas 6-8 dozen of each: Jan Hagels (sp?) thin shortbread almond diamond shaped cookies sprinkled with sugar (Dutch cookie I think - CALE/SPITTY??? - anyways they are GOOD (never really see them anywhere so they must be GOOD ! my mom has a knack for knowing/forseeing trends before the happen smart lady huh -kinda like her son Sean Cassidy with his techno!!:)) also hermits, mexican wedding cookies, outmeal raison (MY FAVOURITE COOKIE - and the are not hard as crap either - I hate that in a oatmeal cookie - blegh!) ummmm.....also Rocky Road Marshmallow Fudge (butterskotch chips and regular chocolate chips) Chow Mein cookies, Macaroons (but the dropped ones on wax paper (rolled oats/cocoa and shredded coconut - YUM YUM!) and of course shortbreads.
Also one of the best perfect pastry recipes which you will find in the Better Homes and Gardens Family CookBook (it's a red-checkered (like a picnic cloth) cook-book - pretty univeral and standard - classic - look at your mothers cookbooks she probably has it - 8 out of 10 mothers/grandmothers will have this all-encompassing cookbook - unless your mom don't cook - which I always believed if your mom couldn't cook it would SUCK TO BE YOU!! Your missing out - MOM's cooking is the bestest and even if it isn't it is almost like religion - YOU JUST BELIEVE IT IS!!) but ya - she makes peanut brittle (sooo good - BUTTER MAKES IT BETTER!) and almond white bark/candy-cane bark.
Doesn't sound like that much baking but it is - quite time consuming waiting, cooling, transferring - believe me after 20 years it ain't getting any quicker - it has been tried!
Then of course there is PIES oh forgot about that.....
Mincemeat Pie/Blueberry/Apple and Cherry Cheesecake (no-bake kind - WAY BETTER THAN BAKED - not quite as rich as most cheesecakes so you can eat a WHOLE LOT MORE OF IT!! WOOT!)
I guess next would be we have ham (pinappple rings/cloves decorated) turkey (bacon strips on top) stuffing (my dad's mother's recipe for stuffing - EXCELLENT! lots of onions!). Mashed potatoes with butter a little mild and parsley, mashed turnip with brown sugar and a huge oven baked vegetable dish (which contains green beans, baby carrots, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and broccoli - you make a basic white sauce or thickening base (milk flour or cornstarch pepper salt) and then add old and sharp chedder cheeses to white sauce now you have a nice cheese sauce cover vegetables with it and bak with breadcrunbs mixed with melted butter sprinkled on top for a light crusting and this something that I make it for people it is the part that will always never have of - and eating your vegetables for people is sometimes a bitch - but this sure fire way that you will ask for second on your vegetables!!!! LOL!
as a side note my brother in his younger years went through a VERY VERY PICKY eating stage. For most of the year the little guy would eat WIENERS AND BEANS that's it - one day he just refused to eat anything else it seemed (so it was frustrating for us and of course him - because he would be made to sit at the table until it was finished sometimes a good hour and a half after we were done and outside playing but he would sit there and not eat - so my would let he get up and told grab the plastic rap and put it in the fridge and he will just it for breakfast instead of his BELOVED SHREDDIES! so eventually my mom wore him down (or he got over his neurotic controlling behaviour and now he eats ANYTHING! But for 2 years at Christmas dinner all he would eat was the stuffing and peas WTF!!! (not normal) no turkey, ham, I think we tried roast beef (nope) hated all vegetables potatoes, corn accept for CANNED PEAS (which IMO are GROSS and MUSHY and way to salty - so we always had to eat BUSTED canned peas because of him and we never BEAT him hard enough to stop with his drama eating habits LOL.... J/K..... .(maybe!)
So not only that but when my Grandmother got remarried my Mother took over/bought my Grandmothers home (she moved into a duplex in Trenton again not far away 20 minutes max) so basically for 33 years I have been in the same house for Christmas (but back then when I was young furnishings were in HIDEOUS GREENS and MUTED BROWNS (-colour basically) - walls covered in wood panelling crap (it was STYLISH back then back (for only about 3.2 years) then everyone got rid of it while the "bric-a-brac" obsessive types (you know junk people - nothing in their house really matches/mishmash of crap basically) these people revelled in its TIMELESS BEAUTY. LOL!!!
The house looks nothing like it did back then pre-87(every room has been redone). My grandma used to come over and she was like "Nancy why are changing this now?? It was fine - what a waste of money that you don't have!!" (Well my Grandma (ARIES) was a loans officer for the Royal Bank in Trenton for 30 years and is pretty damn good with money - SHE IS THE ONLY PERSON I KNOW THAT HAS CREDIT CARDS BUT NEVER RUNS BALANCES ON THEM EVER!! (we are talking 40 years people not just a year or 2)- she always said why would I want to give the bank my money it is already bad enough that the give me no incentive to save?? (ty savings accounts compound interest) but they are more than willing to gouge to spend more??? 30 days is good terms she felt (2 paychecks pay it back - no interest - and if you couldn't do it well then you just saved until you could buy it outright) - INTEREST PAYMENTS TO HER ARE BAD TO INCUR and she is right we are way more impulsive and do not save properly as comsumers because of this magical plastic card we have to use when you have no money - and of course she would know this it was her job to know this - she only ever had 2 mortages go bad on her in her 30 year career - an OUTSTANDING record I think by todays standards but it meant she turned down a fair number of people obviously as a potential highrisk loan and refused to secure it - but tis the discretion of the loans officer right - GO to Bank of Montreal they would do it - Royal Bank bank then was more prestigeous and a business bank so that made sense so that personal loans/mortgages that weren't properly backed with enough collateral they had percentages for you to meet before you would ever qualify)...... so ya "blah blah blah waste of money why you changing up my house basically Nancy" was what she meant as well....and my mom was like "MOM it looks bad! and has looked bad for years! Sorry - this is my house now and I do not WANT nor HAVE to live with it like this anymore because I can make it look better and it WILL look better and bring us into at least the year 1987.....hahaha!!!
Jokes - we all get along quite well each other - there is none of this footing/pandering/be careful what say/ to older generations/old fashioned pushing of ideals on the children, restrained communication (you know how some of us talk to our parents like they are our grandparents/great grandparents and never really have deep conversations because god forbid you told them they might be wrong and that of course is DISRESPECT....well that is true - but my Grandmother was a working lady - prideful and intelligent - a high-level ranking bank associate comparatively back then - mostly males at that time were in banking/females could only ever be tellers). I am so glad my family is not like that where we are nervous around each other and can't relate (we are already disfunctional in some ways fro sure as most families are - I can just imagine how worse it would have been with such conrete differnces in social mingling of the generations that it is always uncomfortable to go home (like you can't wait to get out of there/hate the holidays because of UNCLE BOB is gonna pull a stunt again this year - well that would have happened because if it did - well we wouldn't have to worry about it next year because Bob would be here to even try to pull that crap (but like so many other of my friends growing up around my age (28-36) whose parents are now in their late 50's/early 60's.....that is what is like alot of times and THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! for liberalisms in three generations that have brought us closer and respect differences and one rigth to work together for compromise!
The house back then me grandma always did a wonderful job decorating for the holidays for she often enterained the ladies from the bank during this time of year.
My Grandmother - you can eat of her floors - MESS DRIVES HER NUTS....and of course that reflects to my mother as incorporating it as not THAT important to be able to eat of your floors and to NEVER be consumed by the WAR ON MESS as my grandmother could delcare at any stage and at any time (becuase they is always something if you look for it - ya so she pulled the stove out over other day cleaned under - when was the last time YOU PULLED OUT YOUR STOVE AND CLEANED UNDER IT?? DUN.. DUN.. DUN!...!....LOL!...she would notice also in your house while visiting you and of course back then you didn't say stuff about it (that was rude) but it did make for interesting conversation for her for an hour or two as how she can handle a partime/fulltime job, raise 2 children who did not run wild and rule her and an incredibly impeccably clean house!
THE STATE YOUR HOUSE WAS IN WAS A DIRECT REFLECTION OF YOUR CHARACTER AS A PERSON (bratty kids not as bad as a messy house!)
Back then late 60's through to the late 70's - the state of your house, its appearance inside and outside was more important almost than how your kids acted which I find strange. I always felt bad kids meant bad parenting (90% of the time - but now all kids are ADD right??? Things have changed - societal
roles have reversed - parenting roles have reversed - the home has become less this social visiting/always be prepared for a visitor type dwelling that constitues your moral character - the mentality for homes now are more geared towards children if they are living in them. Playrooms/rec rooms/nurseries etc...
But ya the house foundation is the same - but it looks way better inside and out! And eventually my grandma finally agreed after 10 years that my mom did a good job with everything one day she just said it! And of course my mom laughed eyes wide iopen with disbelief "well you know that I did it for me only and it was never for you to approve or disapprove nor did matter." My Grandma laughed (probably thinking in her head - I remember when I had you under my thumb Nancy I am your mother.....) but of course she laughed back and says "well it took me a while to admit it Nancy aren't you worried that I am going senile then - this is not me - I would not say this in my normal minsdset??? I am getting old you know".........and I am sure you can tell where those conversations go (my grandma acts like a dying Jewish woman sometimes in that kind of comical...."OH VEH - the end is near - I may not be here tomorrow - you horrible child if I die in the next 10 minutes without knowing you'll be married - THE GUILT THE GUILT!!! LOL) well maybe not that bad but it reminds me of it so we just gotta make sure we dont let her run with it because then there is no going back! She has tried it but I can see why.....LOL!
But I am leaving TORONTO in about an hour or so and I know when we pull into the driveway - getting out of the car looking at the 3 bedroom 3 story farm house on a 3 acre landscaped lot in Trenton my mother will have a bow wrapped around in a spiral around each of the 8 pillars on the stone Veranda - their will also be 2 wooden twigbranch stylized Reindeers in the Front Yard with the big Scotch Pine decorated in red and white lites. All the POPLARS that my grandfather planted with my mom that are 23 feet tall will be strung with white lighs. Along the Veranda my mother has those icicle lights (most people know what these are - you can buy them at walmart) but my mom first bought them in 1988 from some place in Vermont for a 20 foot string that cost her about $200.00!! which was a HELL of a lot of money for Christmas lights one a year! - but they were different and so nice and pretty - we had a heritage home they looked good and the fact that my mother when she came home from work and before she went to work in the morning she sprayed the icicle lights with the garden hose and eventually a casting off an actual icicle would over the light itself - and now that the icicle has formed over (as with a diamond reflecting light) now the EFFECT is much more dramatic and STUNNING - TRUST ME YOU SEE THIS YOU LOOK AT EVERYONE ELSE AND THINK CRAP! (Martha Stewart never mentionedm this product or "RECOMMENDED IT AS A GOOD THIN until the 1991 holiday season) WOOT WOOT MY MOM PWNED MARTHA STEWART for 3 years!!
and of course this is the proper way of hanging your icicle lights (spraying them to create icicles on them - why do you think they look the way they do every 5 inches there is a 4 inch strand that hangs down and in the day time/early evening it looks like like extension cords coming out of the wall in a mess......for real otherwise WHAT IS THE POINT OF GOING TO WALMART NOW AND BUYING THEM AND PUTTING THEM UP BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE IS ON YOURWHITE TRASH BLOCK AND COPYING THE WRONG WAY OF HANGING THEM - BUT WE GOTS THEM SO WE ARE KEEPING UP TO THE JONSES - WEIRD! Read a book, look at them and be creative make it special....anyways.
And that is exactly what my mother was especially able to do - MAKE EVERYTHING SPECIAL AT CHRISTMAS because my parents seperated early into their relationship 10 years married (I was 10, brother 8, sister 5). He had our last Christmas together as a FAMILY in 1982. And just after the New Year they sat us down and said "MOMMY AND DADDY CANT BE TOGETHER ANYMORE....blah blah blah....we still love you....LOVE LOVE LOVE).... (it changed all three of us in many different ways and not entirely all the same but because it did happen very close to Christmas it gave my Mom MUCH MORE of a reason to make sure that CHRISTMAS WAS TO BE HAPPY AND POSITIVE AND KEPT EVEN MORE SPECIAL every single year (smart lady eh? - divert a painful divorce anniversary memory with a strong CARRYING OVER OF JOY from Christmas one...I dont know about but you guys but it takes me a week to come off my CHRISTMAS BUZZ....also it helped us as children deal with the seperation and get over the fact that we were the only children in a Catholic school with basically divorced parents (the I would be hearing from all the others kids even teachers about us poor "CASSIDY's - DIVORCED and contagious - parents told there kids not to hang with my sister to stay away...she was 5 years old???? she had no clue what was going but now the thing that she was aware off her little best hated her now...(makes you wonder why I don't like it/can't stand it people talking behind my back and being fake about their feelings towards me and why I sometimes post like I do on these forums????? think about - you shouldn't have to....)
One thing that she made sure of (my MOM) was the fact that CHRISTMAS come HELL or HIGHWATER will be a special time and I WE LOVE HER FOR IT - now the pressures, negativity, rudeness of this city wears on you - but the minute I step into and through that front door - TORONTO IS NO LONGER RELEVANT - HOME IS NOW CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE AND CHRISTMAS IS THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY IN LIFE AND NOW THAT WE ARE THERE WHAT CAN WE NOW DO SINCE WE ARE THERE TO HELP THINGS MOVE MORE SMOOTHLY MORE PERFECTLY IF YOU WILL - SO NOW IS THE TIME FOR MY MOM TO GO AND SIT DOWN AND RELAX AS WE 3 KIDS AUTOMATICALLY STEP IN AND TAKE OVER.......I was cooking basically fully prepared meals at the age of 11/12 (we were encouraged to be in the kitchen - of course only constructively otherwise too many cooks in the KITCHEN?? Uh-uh GET OUT!! So my sister six years old sifting the flour as reciped did call for sifted flour (triple sifted so it would be lighter than air she would do it and loved it) my brother he enjoyed making the maccaroons and the no-bake cherry cheesecake and I didn't really have one thing in particular I was the oldest so I do a bit of everything but - I was glad to do it because it made me feel more mature kinda/got the praise I thrive on and actually enjoyed it...... even though it sucked that I had to come in earlier so that I could prepare supper while my brother and sister would be playing hide and seek outside but I quickly looked at from the point of view that I am doing what an adult does now I am more WIKKID WIKKID than I would have been in my normal family unit (and I am sure my EGO stems a bit from those moments and others) I did become more aware of than just childish thoughts in those years between 10-12 and began to look more outwardly from myself and older people roles towards each other and what it really meant to me with this newfound respect because of the iniation into adulthood basically.
Which I have never cooked for any of you TA's but I am pretty damn good (considering I never had real formal training - but both my mother(she took a few cooking courses at a community college/mainly self taught though) and my Dad's girlfriend who did go to George Brown for Culinary Arts and was taught by Heintz whatshisface......so yeah we had above standard culinary cooking techniques being used on a daily basis in the household almost everyday so that I am sure made a huge difference in the fact that the only person that can't cook out of my whole family is my DAD - but he can make a VERY GOOD stuffed/baked salmon with a rice-stuffing I was actually impressed - but everyone can cook one thing - and the fact that I don't like BAKED WHOLE FISH SALMON I also still looked at it like he coulnd't cook at all still - because even if he could it - I WOULDN'T be eating it!! LOL!!
So YEAH CHRISTMAS IS SPECIAL and I LOVE IT THIS WAY.......now my brother has married, my sister with twin girls so slowly there are subltle changes happening but that is more people asthecially for now - cooking for 12 instead of planning the meal for 7.....and as we always had Christmas at my grandmothers/then my mothers (even tho the same house technically different hostess) I have heard my MOM throwing pondering the fact that she may have to start coming up to Toronto and celebrating at my Sisters - she's got the kids and it not just a ten/fifteen minute drive from ones house to another it is 2 hours now.....
so part of me is going to miss it at the house I have always remembered Christmas in (my mother has also always had Christmas in the house she owns now so - it'll be hard a separtion to do - because it has been so ingrained in us to have PERFECT CHRISTMAS every year SAME LOCATION - that change of location will take some getting use to and part of it no matter what Christmas will be like int the future it will never be the same again.....
But until that happens I will walk in front door both my Mother's Pure-bred White Samoyds will be wearing red bows around their necks with bells all four cats ranging from skinny, fat, fatter and seriously overweight mistake it for an "OTTOMAN CAT" will also be wearing their christmas collars she even has bows for the birds - sounds crazy - but if you have read through this entire post hopefully you will see the effort that is put forth during the holidays with my family.
I will play piano everyone will sing (including the dogs) and it is wonderful. And despite some bad times in 2005 here in Toronto when I come back from being away it will be a New Year basically for me - a time for change/cleansing and forgiving so I can move foward.
So Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!!!
I hope you all can find the SPIRIT that is CHRISTMAS and remember to keep with you - for the day you no longer have that..... feeling......I don't know I am 33 and it's still there for me - and no one can take that from "me" accept "me" and that ain't gonna happen any time soon.
So.........
ENJOY YOUR FAMILIES THE FOOD THE MEMORIES - THESE THINGS THAT MATTER MOST AT THIS TIME OF YEAR - EVERYTHING ELSE SHOULD TAKE A BACK SEAT AND IF IT CANT - HOPEFULLY YOU WILL MAKE THE BEST OF YOUR SITUATION and if ya can't get the hell out so you can go to YAHEL TONIGHT!!!!!!!!......
JESUS' BIRTHDAY WHAT??..........
HO HO HO HO WHAT?!
WIKKID WIKKID CHRISTMAS!!
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