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So What's Everyone doing for Christmas?

post #1 of 11
12/18/09 at 1:05pm
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Just felt like touching base to see how you will be celebrating Christmas - that's of course if you celebrate it. ???

This has been a year for me (and we will leave it at that) and I, family and friends are flying to New York to exhale and to get a change of scenery. I find walking around New York, looking at the decorated windows, watching the skating at Rockerfeller Center, eating at some nice restaurants and just being there for this season very cathartic. Yeah I know it's New York - the city that never sleeps but this works for us.

I want to take this time to wish my Basenotes Family a very Merry Christmas and a very Prosperous New Year. I hope you experience great times with your family, gut-wrenching laughter, food that would make Tom Colicchio's mouth water and some cool gifts and nice 'juices'. Please be safe.

Talk to you in 2010 you 'smelly' bunch.

Otto
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post #2 of 11
12/18/09 at 1:36pm
For Christmas I'm having a mental breakdown...
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post #3 of 11
12/18/09 at 1:37pm
Watch the snow fall down from the sky through my bedroom window.
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post #4 of 11
12/18/09 at 7:13pm
Yes, Christmas can certainly give me a mental breakdown too esp. being away from home. But this year as I am away and my family are coming to me, we are having a wonderful retro style Christmas lunch at The E & O Hotel @ the 1885 Grill in Penang Malaysia.
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post #5 of 11
12/18/09 at 7:48pm
Christmas Eve service, then on Christmas day, just the three of us and the cat...a quiet day enjoying each other's company.

For years we entertained my in-laws on Christmas, but they passed away, and now we have the sort of peaceful day I prefer.
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post #6 of 11
12/18/09 at 8:04pm
I will be sitting at home with my two fragrance dogs, Sebastian and Charles. For two years now Christmas time has been a little tough since my mothers passing. If it weren't for my furry companions I would be in a world of hurt. I want to extend my best regards and hopes that all of you in my Base Notes family will find love, health, happiness and continue your search for the illusive holy grail fragrance; that which draws us all together in the quest, the adventure continues.
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post #7 of 11
12/18/09 at 8:41pm
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Going for Christmas Service, then maybe out with Family for simple meal!
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post #8 of 11
12/19/09 at 12:28am
I'm probably going to hang out with some friends and exchange Christmas presents with them.

And I'm ceasing this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful Christmas, dear Basenoters!
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post #9 of 11
12/19/09 at 7:29am
I'm getting a new right hip on the 22nd. I expect I'll be home and in less pain on Christmas day than I am now. But I may be taking too many pills to cook reliably, so we're getting a traditional ham dinner from a local store.

Merry Christmas & may your new year be filled friends and fragrances both old and new.
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post #10 of 11
12/19/09 at 8:52am
Best wishes for a super-recuper-ation, Ed.

I will now look at the calendar to learn which day is Dec. 25 Oh, so it's this coming Friday. Seriously, I had no idea.

We don't do holidays. Working from home, being cheap, practical, and a little bit lazy, we sort of live according to our inner rhythms. It's very nice, especially sleep-wise. Now that we can watch TV shows when we like (Hulu, et al.), time is even more fluid for us.

What I like best about national holidays is that the world gets quieterthe traffic is reduced, I don't have to anticipate client phone calls. Heavenly peace indeed.

I wish each of you whatever brings you peace.
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post #11 of 11
12/19/09 at 9:41am
We have DH's mum and my mum over on Christmas Eve, when we prepare a big dinner for the 6 of us, sitting next to our tree. We all dress up and the girls set the table, as glittery and festive as can be. The rest of our family live far away- my dad in Mexico, brothers/sisters in France, Vancouver and Nepal....so we gather our little family, say grace, break open our Christmas crackers and wear our paper crowns while we eat a delicious meal together

Everyone sleeps over (including older daughter who just moved out this past summer) and we will enjoy a yummy bread pudding breakfast, listen to choral holiday music, sip big strong cafe au laits while opening prezzies.

I agree with Quarry- I love the quiet phone, the quiet roads, the slow pace. Perfect after the insanity leading up to the day- I too feel the breakdown coming on, until now, when the calm sets in. I do find comfort when I think about the peace and love that this holiday is supposed to be about- a calming spiritual comfort.
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