Posted on December 23, 2008 by Fi
I haven’t had time to get into the Christmas spirit yet. Working at a deli, bagging kilo after kilo of king prawns surprisingly doesn’t conjure up fond memories of Christmas past.
I do have one thing I hope will not become a tradition: last Christmas Eve, I got fired. Seeing as I’m rostered on til NYE [...]
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Posted on December 22, 2008 by chatawax
Urgh, tradition. We’ve all been affected by it, embarrassed by it, had to put up with it. Whether it be incarnated into Uncle Bert’s terrible 70s dancing or a barely tolerable weekend with the in-laws, tradition rears its head like an unpleasant punch to the babymaker.
My family luckily does not have many traditions, and of [...]
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Posted on December 22, 2008 by djibarh
Now, why we didn’t just have Christmas as a weekly theme, I’ll never know.
Christmas means a lot of things to different people, and a lot of people deride it for it’s consumerist aspect, and a lot of others deride it for it’s Religious aspect. Sometimes these are the same people, too. how bitter would you [...]
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