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Is everyone having a good Christmas time?

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19:19 / 22.12.02

This thread is here for a number of reasons:

Firstly because I'm at home with my family and so I'm not checking in as much as I normally do. If there have been any problems, let me know...

Secondly, because I want to check that everyone's having a good time.

Thirdly, because if you're NOT having a good time, we're all here to chat to and help you through it. There's no reason to be alone and miserable this Christmas. Barbelith will keep you warm...

19:51 / 22.12.02

I can't decide.

Due to a colossal bureaucratic fuckup, and my ex-girlfriend being weirdly inactive in resolving her end of it, my drivers license has been revoked and I can't leave the country. Therefore, my plans to visit my mother and sister fell through and my father is off to visit his mother, as planned.

So I get a week of seclusion in which to finish my incompletes from last semester, work on my novel, maybe read Dostoevsky, and think about growing a beard.

I'm strongly ambivalent about the situation - it seems, at the same time, really good, and lame as all fuck.

Matthew Fluxington

20:57 / 22.12.02

Well, thus far I am not having a good Christmas time. My family is making me miserable, I don't have much to look forward to, and I will not be seeing any of my friends or my girlfriend around Christmas or New Year's, which depresses me. I'm mostly just sitting around waiting for it all to be over with, and for regular life to resume sometime in early January.

21:07 / 22.12.02

Except for Husb harassing me to get off the computer... bah, in the new year I am getting my own computer... but seriously, we are having a lovely time. We celebrated our first night of Winterval™ on the solstice, with candlelight and maybe the last fried food I'll eat for many months.... Today I got to buy art supplies for the sculpey Invisibles badges that I seem to be making and also another book on web design. I was very upset last year when my sister unilaterally cancelled presents for the family except her kids (whom I love), but this year I'm realizing how brilliant it's going to be --just one phone call to Back to Basics Toys for an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly and a walkie-talkie base station & that's done with shopping!

Uh-oh, I just got busted for grousing online about you-know-who...

(Very Geldofian, this topic abstract. In a good way.)

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:15 / 22.12.02

My Christmas is pretty dire. Well, it's OK, I guess - but I am at work, and only have two days off, so that's not very festive. I spose it means I can have time when I don't have to deal with prerecorded yuletide shite in every store you go into, but... y'know? I'm at home again for the first time in years, and feel like there's nothing to look forward to in that respect. The people I care about are overseas, and I'll be hearing present opening by proxy, through the phonelines. Which sucks arse in an incomparable way. And then there's all the other drama that's making me drink and worry more, in a very self-indulgent way. Which ain't good.

So yes, Christmas is a bit shit this year. I've had better, much better.

I do think Barb is winding down a bit, understandably, over the break, though. It's weird; walking in here has been a bit like walking into shops today (it's the 23rd now, where I am) - most people are off and on holiday or something, so it's strangely spacious.

21:29 / 22.12.02

Yeah maybe it is winding down, but I'll definitely be about to say happy - barb - christmas. I have decided that there is a father christmas... (or maybe instead a Barbelith servitor)

One of my friends has just rung up to ask if he can stay from tomorrow until 27th... hurrah! He needs to escape from his family, and I will feel less like I am bouncing of the walls here. phew phew phew and...

hurrah! Plus I get to bake chocolate cake as it is his birthday on 24th. It will be chocolate cake with cocoa butter icing and then "20" in white chocolate buttons. yum

Goodness Gracious Meme

21:42 / 22.12.02

Just read the abstract for this.

Bless.

Just want to ask:

How?

************

Am okay, going home tomorrow, and have had a lovely (if exhausting) week of Christmas drinks. oh and Solstice do's (by running across the London/Brighton dateline managed to cram in *two*)....

And, am approaching the point of exhaustion whereby going to a really boring town and eating/watching telly for days/not being at home
(& stressing about work, bills, grown-up stuff) is *oh* so appealing.

So okaaaay.

And one of my bestest friends is ack in the country after a year waway on boxing day.

YAY

23:13 / 22.12.02

Merry Christmas!

I'm having a wonderful one this year - tomorrow off, only working half a day on Christmas Eve, with Christmas Day and Boxing Day off. I plan to chill, finish watching Neon Genesis Evangelion, possibly watch Wild Palms, and maybe even make some music (if I can be bothered to fetch my other mini-disc recorder, I might start on my long-awaited Van Halen collaboration. Tremble).

All this plus a mini-Barbemeet at my parent's on the day itself. Yes, clustered into one room will be expressionless, Jack the Bodiless, Miss Spooky, Snapping Turtle, ephemerat and Dawntreader, as well as The Aged Ones who gave life to three of us.

Deck the halls!

Tryphena Absent

23:30 / 22.12.02

Well, my best friend who stopped talking to me when he got a girlfriend has invited me round for Boxing Day, huzzah! Christmas Eve I'm going to my old workplace with another close friend and her older brother who she hates but I get on with really well and on Christmas Day I will probably spend a fair amount of time here so that I can escape my mum's obsessive behaviour and erm... cool down. Tomorrow's going to be my favourite day though because I'm taking my godmother's daughter shopping (she's 14) and buying her presents and it's going to be soooo much fun!

23:57 / 22.12.02

Tom! You're so lovely! Even if I keep thinking you hate me! Because you do! You're still lovely!

My holidays have been stresseful, becuase work have given me so many shifts and I really have work to do. And my preperations for the Me And The Girl Christmas Eve Present Giving have been left too late... But it is good right now! I am happy! I have an excusse for why I'm not doing anything on New Years! No more pretending like I ave friends who were busy!

I wish it was colder, so I could wear big jumpers and mooch about more. It's really very toasty in this house. I even (check it, Crunchy) have midrif on show.

Plus, if you squint, half the stuff I've made looks like it's meant to. Which rocks.

Brigade du jour

00:24 / 23.12.02

Big merry Christmas and festive cuddles to eveyrone Barbelith, but a mince pies and a sherry for the people who've proved they're not humbugs by replying to this thread!

I'm going to see folks later today, we'll eat and drink too much telly and watch loads of food. It'll be grand, duck.

Peace be on all you guys

00:51 / 23.12.02

Unlike everyone else, and unlike the past few years, I have had a quiet week before facing to a busy holiday, but typically I left everything to the last minute anyway. Though I did manage to make a coupla cushions for crimbo presents, at least. But it's 2:45am, I have a flight in FIVE hours and I still haven't started packing! Aaaaaaaagggghhhhhh!

THis is my own fault. Damn Aim conversations.

I hope you're asleep now Tom you old insomniac. (Not stalking you. You're on my AIM buddies list for some reason and I saw you were awake a little while ago)

btw, Ms Bengali, please send my regards to the Travelin' Tree.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:10 / 23.12.02

So far it's too early to tell, but it's not looking too bad. Festive huggles to anyone whose Christmas is diaplaying signs of suckage, have a good flight kooky, and expressionless- I thought I was the only person in the world who still liked (or even remembered) Wild Palms! Hurrah, my long isolation is ended!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:10 / 23.12.02

And especially Christmas greetings to Tom, of course.

Constitution Hill

01:42 / 23.12.02

'There's no reason to be alone and miserable this Christmas'

How about not alone & miserable? I'm at home, surrounded by my family, who all seem remarkably chipper considering their various ailments [the onset of deafness at 35, cracked ribs, shingles] but i feel a squelching sack of lacklustre potato salad.

I've been feeling like this most of a week now, and nothing seems to snap me out of it. Last night, after the insomnia kicked in, i ended up watching Toy Story 2 at 6.30am and giggling my socks off, before falling asleep and waking up in the same turgid state i had been before Mr Potato Head & his angry eyes.

I think it's mostly to do with only seeing my girlfriend for 4 days this month, and that with our relationship rapidly disappearing down the swanny we need more time than that to sort ourselves out.

I've done all my shopping, and got better presents for my family than i ever have before, and i know i'll be getting a bundle of pretty shiny things for xmas. But even so this soporific torpor seems to be growing ever-more-unmanageable by the hour.

06:08 / 23.12.02

Pretty cool, thanks for asking, but cool in a non-dramatic kind of way rather than cool in any particularly Barbelithian sense of the word cool.

Still at work, right up to and including Christmas Eve, unfortunately. And back on Friday. So two days off, which will be spent in the bosom of mine and Mrs Sax's families respectively. For as short a time as humanly possible, I'm afraid. Although since "growing up" I've got on a lot better with my family, I'd still rather either be down the pub with mates or curled up in the house with the kitties than with them for too long. But it's not unbearable.

And I intend for Barbelith to keep me warm all over Christmas. Like a big snuggly rainbow-coloured scarf from Gap. The assembled charactes of Barbelith shall pop up from behind the sofa in all their multicultural glory and sing an acapella ""Love Train" every time I'm feeling low, I'm convinced.

Peace on Earth, brothers and sisters.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

06:36 / 23.12.02

Big Christmas Huggles to everyone.

autopilot disengaged

08:54 / 23.12.02

yeah, merry x.

08:58 / 23.12.02

Yeah its not long now is it, the office is suprisingly full today, I thought I would get another easy day but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.

I think this Christmas is actually going to be allot better than I thought.

So yeah things are going great, haven't sent my gifts back home yet so they're going to be late but apart from that

09:04 / 23.12.02

Due to huge amounts of wine, and then some heavy prescription painkillers overnight (not a deliberate mixture), my body's in a state of complete rebellion - I'm either going to be very sick very shortly, or faint.

But that means I'll probably be alright to go to Cape Cornwall on Christmas Day - clifftops! Extreme weather! Cornish pasties!

I'll check in here on Christmas Day and do my best to cheer up anyone who's feeling crap. Flux, Rothkoid - hugs to you.

10:20 / 23.12.02

I've not seen it yet, Stoatie. Hypocritamus lent it to me, he recommends it (which is always a good sign). We'll have to start a thread when I'm done.

Ding Dong Merrily!

12:32 / 23.12.02

I am stuck at home feeling completely alone. Bored as fuck. I have tons of revision to do for my exams which are straight after Christmas but I can't seem to summon any mental energy right now to deal with them. I spend most of my time sleeping.

I am just waiting for Christmas to be over so I can go back to London. I never realised how much I can't stand being at home; my parents still haven't figured out that I am an adult and are continually irritating me (probably not on purpose) just by their very presence. Vampires...

But at least I can walk again, which I couldn't do last month, and i have stopped seeing things- which I am quite disappointed with actually...

12:55 / 23.12.02

Christmas is going to be ok, I guess. Well, compared to last year's, this one will be THE AWESOMESTEST CHRISTMAS EVER. Apart from the fact that it's the 7th year I'm away from my family, its gonna be nice. I'll give them a call and we'll get sentimental and stuff. Also will have the chance to wish all the best to my niece, who is getting married (last time I saw her she was only a kid).

Small dinner with girlfriend, perhaps watch a video (she wants to make me go through all Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy of colors). Too bad we're both virtually penniless until january 5th, or we could throw a nice party.

Merry Christmas, Barbeboys and girls.

12:58 / 23.12.02

!!FCUK!! its christmas??? Since When??? Y Oh Y didnt sum1 tell me??? *cries* im all alone!!!

15:36 / 23.12.02

another xmas on the old rock'n'roll. No money for presents for anyone, not even the folks. And waves of guilt awaiting when unwrapping any presents brought me.
one pre-xmas booze up cancelled (and me with my drinking head on too) and others in a state of flux (okay with my friends that's normal, not just a symptom of this time of year).
stuck in the midlands when I want to be in the capital with the woman I love. Not hearing from said woman, not even a card (but maybe tomorrow) and knowing if I call I'll fuck up by waking her or distrubing her in some other manner.
and the xmas lights have stopped working and I think there might be a mouse in the tree.

but on the plus side a chance to get the job I want (as long as I get those four tasks done by the start of next month and this bastard machine better not muck me about) and some decent old-style TV shows on which I can lose myself in.

So on balance, same old, same old...

16:51 / 23.12.02

blarrrgh. just ate the office christmas gift from a client.

blarrrgghh. Ill never eat again.

17:08 / 23.12.02

awww... Thanks Tom, You too.

My Yule is going pretty well. Family and friends in the RDA, intoxicants at more than. Yep. I think it'll be okay.

... and as for Barbelith keeping you warm, I channelled this message from it Just moments ago...

"Midland 'Lithers... mixmage will buy you a drink. There's no reason to be alone and miserable. 'cuz misery loves company!"

I'm serious, PM or MSN if you find yourself with nothing better to do.

18:00 / 23.12.02

Hmmm......so far I would have to say absolutely fucking miserable.

I've fallen back into my old steady routine of laying awake all night wishing I could sleep, and then spending all day too racked with anger and unhappiness to actually do anything. Lack of money has caused me to involuntarally quit smoking and drinking (I'd kill for some booze and cigarettes). Sorry, but you asked.....welcome to my world.

19:10 / 23.12.02

Oh dear, lots of unhappy people. I hope you all have a good time in the end. I'm having a fine time so far - all my presents are wrapped, and all of them are good things I'm happy to be giving. Tomorrow I head down to Cornwall and I'll come back the day after Boxing Day. Luckily, I've set up the PC at my parents' house so I can check up on you all.

20:57 / 23.12.02

God bless us, every one...

21:13 / 23.12.02

Merry (insert your reason to fete here) to you all.
I'll be heading up to my grandparents where the family (about 30 to 40 aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins grandkids and great-grandkids) will be there stuffed into the living room, crowded around the tree, to exchange gifts and gorge themselves on too much turkey and baked items. Pies, cookies, tarts, cakes...(must pause now to wipe drool off keyboard). So if most of the family can hide their hatred of each other for one day it should be great. Otherwise im just going to drink my weight in holiday wine/beer/rhum/ect...

23:00 / 23.12.02

Who gets to have Christmas in TWO different countries??? I DO!! I'm so excited! Flying back home on Christmas Day. I suspect getting to the airport in London and getting from the airport in Chicago will be a bit of a pain in the ass, but how cool is extending Christmas into 2 countries? So I'm very merry becaus3e I"ve never been out of the US for Christmas and basically the second I miss my famil I'll be on my way back there. And MERRY CHRISTMAS BARBELITHANS!!!!!!

XOXOXOXOXO,

Ms. Cherry

00:57 / 24.12.02

Have a good flight Ms LaBombe. Don't do what I did and leave without your housekeys! :]

01:45 / 24.12.02

Just want to ask:

How?

Here's a demented game: "Do They Know It's Christmas," sung by polyphonous Barbelith! It's very easy, all you have to do is add the next line or two... and when we're finished, it will be all different voices of Barbelith singing the song just like Band-Aid! Extra points for rendering the lyrics the way they were originally sung. (Hint: it's very easy to cheat and Google for the words.)

Okay? I'll start:

*churchbells 3x*

It's Christmastime, there's no need to be afraid...

02:08 / 24.12.02

At Christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade

I'm not really enjoying X quite yet. I have a grand total of 41 hours off for christmas this year (Awww, let's all feel sorry for Zoom). I keep forgetting that it's even the festive time of year. Though the bloody great tree in my living room is a dead giveaway every morning. I imagine I'll get into it tomorrow night when we have christmas with Reason's family.

Oh look! I just found a little but of dope in my keyboard. That's nice.

Zoom.

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