It’s practically 80⁰F/26⁰C where I’m at, and I’m sleep deprived :^L
Snowed like crazy and it was cold as hell but I slayed at the party games. My niece and nephew loved their gifts but they did get into a few toddler fist fights which I had to break up. The food was also fantastic and I brought home a large casserole dish full of leftovers.
Some of my family were annoying but that’s normal coming from those specific individuals, I just had to do my best to ignore them. It wasn’t even political, just them arguing and also poking fun at me because it’s easy.
I’m enjoying myself. My families doing a tree and presents this year, we usually do one real Christmas and one “Everyone hangs out for the day”.
It was lovely. I am still recovering from all the food I had.
The kids loved their presents, the dinner I had cooked was just as I wanted it to be. I spent most of the evening assembling a toy construction crane for our youngest kid. My mother-in-law was less toxic than usual and her attempts at outshining my dinner failed.
Not bad, will have a white christmas with snow in forecast (altho its been warm here too and it may just rain insread)
I took a pet sitting gig, mostly alone in the woods at an anarchist-esque community space with a dog and cat in a cabin without electricity or water for 9 days.
I kind of prefer this, my mental health is way better than it usually is this time of year. I dont do christmas well.
I’m tired of leftists taking Ls and I wished it got significantly worse for right wingers and I’m starting to hate reddit and removed for rule 3 violation because moderators would rather prefer that the problem didn’t exist than do anything to meaningful address it so not good
First year of uni abroad, lonely and tired
Least Christmasy Christmas ever lol
Tho the years prior that used to bother me, now i stopped caring and its just a regular day for me
It’s warm. Even tropical countries, especially near the Equator, have slightly cooler temperatures. There is 13th month pay in the Philippines and Indonesia.
Good, I finally got to sleep after 2 weeks of retail hell chain clopening and having a generally messed up schedule. I slept 18hrs today, if that doesn’t say good enough on its own idk what does, dream quality and content was just the chef’s kiss on top. This is also the first Xmas eve they’ve let me had off in years. Best Xmas eve I’ve had in decades, 10/10.
For not so good because my schedule was so tight this year everyone is getting their presents in bags this year and no fancy desserts, I’m simply too exhausted to bother with baking or candy making.
It was good! Kids got a lot of great stuff from my parents and siblings. Chatted with a relative I haven’t had a long conversation with in over a year. Wish we had more time to chat. He’s a progressive liberal so our politics chats are always fun. Its never abrasive. All in good fun. I had to laugh though. I told him about the instance I operate (were also both tech nerds) and my goals with it. He asked me at some point “Don’t you want to read news that challenges your world view?” And this is something you hear online from liberals but the first anyone has said it to me in person. I simply told him “Funny you say that because I had the same world view for most of my life, and over the last decade I have been reading stuff that challenged my world view enough that I changed it.” We were then roped into a board game so the conversation ended. Then we had to leave since it was getting to late for the kids.
I have to try and make time to see him more this year.
He asked me at some point “Don’t you want to read news that challenges your world view?”
The funny thing is, we actually post more articles from mainstream media sources here, both liberal and conservative, than we do communist ones.
We have a clear ideological orientation, but the news sources we draw from are incredibly varied. You see articles from American mainstream media, British, German, French MSM, Russian media, Chinese media, and that’s on top of whatever “alternative” media we also look at.
I don’t think we reject any source as long as there is something of value to be gained from reading it, even if it’s just to see how our ideological enemies think.
Right that’s very true! The Economist, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, all mixed in amongst the other sources. Even still, many of the ‘alternative’ sources are synthesizing those sources to paint a broader picture not being discussed by the individual publications. Geopolitical Economic Report is a prime example here. You almost have to in order to see the parts being left out.
I had tamales with my dad and grandma.
It’s cold as balls here so I’d gladly send you the cold and snow if anyone wants their Christmas to be white. Negative 18 out now, probably be around negative ten for most of the week.
First time with my partner for Christmas so it’s different and I don’t really want to spend time with family, but tragically I have to. I’m burned out from retail work and just want the holidays over so I can have normal routine return.
Just got to my parents’ house as they were leaving for church. They already gave me the best Christmas present, which was covering my gifts to the kids and in-laws because I’m broke as helllll.
I fuckin nailed Christmas dinner, under less than ideal circumstances
Was sick this week, but helped prepare food [Tamales] for Christmas dinner tomorrow. Also watched Home Alone finally. It was good. In total I’m preparing to try to be productive again after tomorrow, working on that trial report, organizing notes and files and such, and reading more.
