Got Jul is also one used ... it's more Pagan indeed, it's actually from American peeps I heard about it ( as the Pagan movement over there is gaining quite some strength, the main world organisations are based in the US - also some quite dangerous sects, must be an American thing ;) j/k )
I think Yuletide greetings used to be more common here early in the 20th century. At least my father's family always had plenty of references to "Merry Christmas and a Cool Yule!"
I clicked "Perhaps Midnight Mass and something else" because you didn't have an option for "The 9:00 candlelight service at the Methodist church." Going to the 11:00 Spanish-language service is also a possibility, though I don't remember enough Spanish to follow along that well. As a person who moves very slowly in the mornings, I'm not so likely to go to church on Sunday morning.
On gift giving, I picked "Buy a gift" largely because I wish I had the money to do so this year.
And not all of them should. But it seems to me that most Protestants do the Christmas Eve service thing, which may be well before midnight and doesn't qualify as a mass.
One of the best Christmas presents I ever received was shortly after I moved into my own apartment, and I asked for a mop and a bucket. Not only did my mother get me the mop and the bucket, she also got me a duster with a bird's head on it, and wrapped the entire thing up to look like an enormous ostrich.
Not only was it a gift I desperately needed, but it satisfied the "I want the biggest present under the tree" urge, and also looked wildly cool.
They covered half the plane ticket. Ok, so it's not the best gift ever. Hrm...
I got nothing. I mean, when I got the stuff, it was nice. Looking back, though, from my not-so-materialistic-anymore viewpoint, it was just stuff. The trampoline was great, especially because I was only nine or ten. But everything else just loses its appeal after a while.
I'd like to note that while I checked 'Buy a gift' in the last question, I would have preferred an option for 'make a gift'. I made all my christmas presents this year (worked on them all year long), and I have NEVER looked forward to christmas quite so much as this year, not since I was a child, even with the moving, and not getting to do any decorating at all, and Sam not getting done with school 'till the 16th. When I wrapped up my father's present, I kept giggling in anticipation of what he was going to do and say when he saw it.
I'm definately going to be making the 'make everyone's presents' thing a tradition. Even if I can't get EVERYONE, next year or in the years following, I'm going to make most of the presents I give out.
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Date: 2005-12-23 01:25 pm (UTC)Best presents : I don't exactly remember, I'm always having a hard time remembering what I got for where and when ;)
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Date: 2005-12-23 01:41 pm (UTC)On gift giving, I picked "Buy a gift" largely because I wish I had the money to do so this year.
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Date: 2005-12-23 07:13 pm (UTC)Midnight mass, midnight service...it's just different similarities.
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Date: 2005-12-23 03:28 pm (UTC)Not only was it a gift I desperately needed, but it satisfied the "I want the biggest present under the tree" urge, and also looked wildly cool.
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Date: 2005-12-23 05:26 pm (UTC)Best gift I've received? Well, I'd say buying myself a trip to Great Britain might work...
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Date: 2005-12-23 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-23 05:55 pm (UTC)I got nothing. I mean, when I got the stuff, it was nice. Looking back, though, from my not-so-materialistic-anymore viewpoint, it was just stuff. The trampoline was great, especially because I was only nine or ten. But everything else just loses its appeal after a while.
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Date: 2005-12-23 11:20 pm (UTC)I'm definately going to be making the 'make everyone's presents' thing a tradition. Even if I can't get EVERYONE, next year or in the years following, I'm going to make most of the presents I give out.
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Date: 2005-12-24 12:22 am (UTC)