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Countdown to Christmas!
Posted by banksy • 9/15/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: christmas, coundown, presents, santa
It's Christmas!
Well it will be in 100 days time anyway, and to celebrate the fact, and to get the festive spirit going in the middle of September, I'd like to welcome you all to the Countdown to Christmas blog which I've started today.
Each week, I'll be inviting you to drop a present request in, which I'll forward to Santa's hotline, and you never know, you may just get it in your inbox BEFORE Christmas!
So please pop over, all welcome!
countdown-to-christmas.blogspot.com/
User Comments
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! Shouldn't Halloween come first?-
Yeah, it should but the merchandisers here push Christmas earlier and earlier. Kind of sad, but it is the way it is here.
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I remember the old days when the Christmas season didn't start until after Thanksgiving.-
In the Old Days Halloween was the New Year.
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My old days aren't quite that old
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I know. By my standards you are very young
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will there be cookies?-
No Cookie Monster got them all. Seriously now, I think this is a splendid idea of your's *just making sure I am not putting off that great spirit of your's *
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damn!
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*Directs CA to the avatar* Look! LOL
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Lots of cookies for everyone!!!
Yum Yum-
yes!!!
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Yes, Halloween could come first, and I'm sure it will, but we don't tend to have a Halloween countdown over here, so I thought I'd get the Christmas wheels in motion!!!
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From where I am (Philippines) people light up their Christmas trees around the start of October.
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Sorry Cookie Monster, I didn't know you were British when I was mentioning Thanksgiving. OK then, shouldn't Guy Fawkes Day/Bonfire Night come first?
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Well hell, i'm moving to the Philippines!!! I love christmas! Even if we didn't give/get gifts, i'd love it as much as i do now. when else can you get ten people and three animals who usually dislike each other to get along for a whole MONTH???
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NT77 I thought you're the one who's British.
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was...now lives in Texas
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No, I'm American, but I lived in England for 3 1/2 years.
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and there is your answer...
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Yeah, I lived in Britain but I'm not British; I lived in France but I'm not French; I lived in Russia but I'm not Russian; Now I live in Texas but I'm not Texan.
I don't know where the hell I belong
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what keeps you moving around so much? work?
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I know the feeling. I lived in the Philippines but I am not a Filipino.
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"what keeps you moving around so much? work?"
No, running from it
Just kidding. Restlessness I guess. My parents died in the same town where they were born. Same with my wife's parents. My wife and I are different from our parents. We can't stay settled anywhere. We get bored
Anyway, she and I have multiple citizenships, so we can live in the USA, Russia or anywhere in the European Union. We like to take advantage of it when money allows. -
that's pretty cool!
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"I lived in the Philippines but I am not a Filipino.
Where are you from? -
"that's pretty cool!
Thanks! We like it, but some people think we're retarded.
Anyway, we're starting to get old. We don't think we're done yet, but I don't know how much longer we can keep uprooting ourselves and starting over.
And I worry that we're gonna pay for this come retirement time. I feel like the grasshopper in the "Grasshopper and the Ants" story. Someday winter will come. -
quote: Where are you from?
I am from the Philippines BUT I am not a Filipino. Go figure Ahem -
Unfortunately I am not well traveled...I would like to change that.
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As a kid, come September, I always say, the Ber-ber months is here - as in September, October,...etc. I used to count-down but no longer. The days go fast already as it is.
Oh by the way, I am a Filipino and not living in Phil. Only lived there for 3 years of my life. So I say, I am citizen of the world. -
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Sunny Spain huh? You're a long way from home. You are a citizen of the world.
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Interesting!
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Blimey NT77, you must have racked up some air miles!!!
Yet another of those "hmmm, do they have that in the US?" questions I always ask myself when speaking to Americans! -
Christmas = snow ....... blech!! -
I wish! Over here Christmas = rain
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rain?? where in the hell are ya CA?
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Here we don't have snow because this is the tropics. But i always have styro snow anyway .
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Portland, Oregon
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ahh Alberta, Canuckia here. And on that note, I am off to bed, have a good one
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goodnight!
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"Unfortunately I am not well traveled...I would like to change that
You're still young. You have time to travel.
We weren't happy with just "traveling." We wanted to "experience." But it doesn't take a lot of money. Just determinitation - or insanity . . . .-
I believe that insanity can make the impossible possible. You just got to have dreams.
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I would not be where I am today without being insane!
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Well it looks like you are doing good where you are. It's paying up well.
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Portland, Oregon
Portland Oregon. I was there back in March. It looked like a nice city, and the Columbia River Gorge was beautiful.
But it was raining then too. -
it is very nice...I love it here
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It's a beautiful part of the country. I was only there for two days but I want to go back to the Pacific Northwest and show it to my family. -
I moved here ten years ago from DC and never looked back
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DC! I love the Smithonian, and I love the Tidal Basin in the spring. I grew up in Philly, so I went to DC a lot in my younger days. But there was quite a bit of crime in DC. I can understand your not looking back. . . .
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"hmmm, do they have that in the US?"
You mean Bonfire Night? No, probably the closest thing we have is Independence Day (with fireworks), but it's not the same. Really I never heard of Bonfire Night until I went to England. I arrived in late September, so I was only there a few weeks when I experienced my first one. It was a nice bonfire, complete with an effigy of Guy Fawkes and a homemade fireworks display something like a small city would put on over here. I kept waiting for the police to come. I didn't know 'til later that those things were going on all over the country.-
That is something I'd like to see for a long time. Well I can dream anyway..and yeah being insane and all LOL.
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I am from the Philippines BUT I am not a Filipino
From the Phillipines but not Filipino, and loves Celtic music?
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well I did mean Air Miles actually! =)
But Bonfire Night is always one of the good nights, I think in the US it's a big night for Halloween isn't it? Seems to be gathering popularity as the years go on over here, unfortunately, there is so much red tape that you can't do this, and you can't do that when it comes to doinhg things in the dark!
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Ok what I was trying to say is that I see myself as a citizen of the world not only confined to the culture where i was brought up, continuously learning by studying other cultures and also meeting interesting people . thats what was trying to say Sorry i rocked up your neurons on this one.
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"well I did mean Air Miles actually!"
Oh.. . . Well, I feel like an ass Yeah, we have air miles in the USA too.
Halloween is popular here, true. It has been all my life. It was safer back in the 60s when I was a kid.
I had kids come to my house in Britain too, but not near as many were out as would be over here. Our City Council gave out little posters to put in windows if we didn't want the kids coming to our doors, but I don't think there was any regulations against it. Our Council was more concerned about wheelie bins being open more than 2 inches or dogs fouling -
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That's a good way to live. Have you traveled much?
My wife and I love learning about other cultures too. I grew up in America and she grew up in the USSR. It was our interests in each other's culture that got us together.
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Thanks! Nope I only traveled around the area-neighboring islands and withing Asia. I dreamed going to Europe especially in the Irish countryside, the Scottish Highlands, Wales, Cornwall , Bretagne France , Galicia Spain, Nova Scotia Canada-in North America...all those Celtic nations-my spiritual home. I agree with you.Being from different cultures can be a complimentary thing. Makes life colorful.
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I worked in a hotel in Scotland for a while. They opened the hotel on a cold, foggy day in January, and for the opening they had a guy dressed in a kilt and playing a bagpipe. I'm sorry to say that I don't know what it was that he was playing, but it was really beautiful. He'd go off wandering around the parking lot and get lost in the fog at times, so the sounds of the pipes were just coming from within the fog. It was like something from a documentary - or a movie. You'd have probably liked it.
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Wow that's amazing! I am glad you saw it and also the positive feedback :)I have a question though. Have you acquired an accent being around different places?
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I don't know
I grew up with a Philadelphia accent, saying "crick" for creek and "wooder" for water. I dropped that, and apparently I picked up something from the UK, since people here in Texas have mentioned that I say some things like the British. But it's been unconsciously. I haven't noticed it. And my wife says most of my speech is still like the Philadelphians ("winner" for winter, etc). -
Wow I thought American accent is just divided into three:West Coast, South and East Coast. I didn't know there are distinctive differences from state to state. Interesting fact.
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Yeah, it's weird how different accents develop, and how some cover such small areas. I used to go to the beach in New Jersey when I was younger, which was only about a 2 hour drive, and people there could tell that I was from Philadelphia by the way I talked. Here in North Texas there seems to be three or four different accents that overlap.
Well, it's 4:30 am here, and I really gotta get to bed. I've enjoyed talking to you tonight! Take care! -
Anytime! Night night. Sleep well
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I hope this will help us remember all the preparation for Christmas that we want to take. On many occasion we have forgotten that chrismas is getting closer. -
Happy Halloween...
Happy Thanksgiving...
Happy Hanahkah...
Merry Christmas...
Happy Kwaanza...
Happy New Year...
...Now that I got that out the way, let the countdown begin! LOL! -
Well it's now down to 94 days!!!
Come on over to:
countdown-to-christmas.blogspot.com/
I'm doing an advent calendar type of thing very soon, where behind the door will be a randomly chosen person from anyone who follows or comments on the blog - the prize will be their own blog address advertised for the day for all to see! -
Thanksgiving is coming, too! And that's next month here in Korea. Merry X-mas in advance! hehehe... -
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what is it, 79 days now? something around there, i think. i'm so excited
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Im a Steampunk Santa Claus ! Christmas is very busy in my workshop . -
I look forward to after thanksgiving sales. I get some of my Christmas gifts early then -
64 days to go!! i'm SO excited. me and my friends are going to do a holiday movie fest the first week of december! any movie ideas?
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Yeah, check out my blog - they are all listed on there, and you can vote for your favourite! ("favorite" to you US peeps!) =)
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Nearly half way there folks!!!
countdown-to-christmas.blogspot.com/
Currently in the middle of banging out some great Christmas tunes, 50 of them in fact, in no particular order, so grab a mince pie, and a glass of mulled wine, and tune into the Countdown to Christmas blog! -
I'm making out my Christmas shopping list now. Is it too late?
Gotta start shopping this weekend. I love shopping for presents!
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The countdown continues at 44 days to Christmas today, with a brilliant tune, one of the best in my opinion!!!!
countdown-to-christmas.blogspot.com/
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