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AIBU?

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To want to spend Christmas with Take That and the folk in the M&S ad rather than my parents?

15 replies

NigellaTufnel · 05/12/2008 21:52

It's just that it looks such good fun...

We, on the other hand we will be doing a 900 mile round trip, probably in the snow, to sit in an overheated house, listening to my mum sigh about how rubbish we are.

Is is just me that is dreading Christmas? Or at least has a guilty yearning to be just with dh and ds, saying 'sod the rest of the family'?

Maybe next year we can spend it in our own home. Or maybe with Boyzone.

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roundcornvirgin · 05/12/2008 21:53

Look on the bright side. At least you're not spending christmas in the Iceland ad with KK and her prawn ring.

NigellaTufnel · 05/12/2008 21:54

Good point.

The prawn ring sounds quite alarming

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Habbibu · 05/12/2008 21:55

You'd be constantly bumping into the woman who spends her whole life just wearing underwear. I think that would be disconcerting.

DoubleBluff · 05/12/2008 21:57

haha! that M&S house is my new dream house esp if take that are included!

pointydog · 05/12/2008 21:57

lol @ op

Even I quite fancy that sort of Christmas and I don't like Tajke That and I just know Twiggy would annoy the tits off me. Never mind Lily Cole mooching around like a midwitch cuckoo.

NigellaTufnel · 05/12/2008 22:03

I always feel a bit sorry for the girl in her pants. But she would probably be more frighened of me shuffling about in my thermals.

Although if Take That were there I might splash out on a new pair of long johns.

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DoubleBluff · 05/12/2008 22:04

i think i would end up punching Erin after a few mulled wines tho

muggglewump · 05/12/2008 22:04

YANBU.
I'd invite you to my house but it will be overheated (my Christmas present to myself) and will most likely feature a Boyzone video and me saying "see, they are better than Take That, they are, they are I tell you" to a perplexed 7yr old DD who will then hide the cooking wine.

Oh it will be so much fun in the Mugggle house

pointydog · 05/12/2008 22:05

yeah, if that Erin started fannying about when playing charades with me, I'd wrestle her to the ground and tell her she's never being in my team again. I play to win, godammit

NigellaTufnel · 05/12/2008 22:06

Erin is too tall for me to punch.

I am a short person. IN long johns

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pointydog · 05/12/2008 22:08

you can do some foxy boxing with lily

DoubleBluff · 05/12/2008 22:10

Twiggy would prob get really stressed cooking the lunch

pointydog · 05/12/2008 22:14

gary barlow would stick his neb in saying 'ee by 'eck, don let the sprouts boil over ye daft lass'

NigellaTufnel · 05/12/2008 22:15

Now there's a thought!

The older I get - and the more Christmases that we spend bending over backwards for everyone else - the more I am looking forward to the day we can host celebrations ourselves.

I would even give up Take That for my own Christmas tree on Christmas morning.

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onthepier · 06/12/2008 21:44

YANBU! I always enjoy Christmas with my family, but I've had a few with my dh's family which made me think I'd rather be anywhere else!!

One that springs to mind is when they arrived on Christmas Day, barely bothering to say hello to me or my dh, went straight to the dc's + spent the next 3 days proceeding to hype our dc's up beyond belief! It happened particularly at bathtime, bedtime + mealtimes + our two get overexcited enough about Christmas as it is! I had constant comments from SIL like, "If you can't cope send them to us anytime, we'll sort them out", "You look tired, is it all too much for you?" Thought that was a bit rich considering she was hyping them up! Our ds is autistic, + he was having screaming meltdowns through sheer overstimulation, two of the three of my in-laws were constantly racing around, up + down stairs, producing yet more presents, (ie. complicated lego kits) at silly times like 8 pm when I was trying to settle the children down.

Friends of ours were supposed to be coming Boxing Day + my dh mentioned that they both had colds but would like to come + see us all for a little while. My SIL + FIL started ranting, "We don't want to catch colds, you must put them off!!" I didn't feel we could so said they could come anyway. My in-laws weren't rude exactly but didn't have that much to say to them.

The last straw came on the last morning, when my SIL was energetically bouncing our dd on her knee while drinking tea. Needless to say, tea went everywhere, (not on our dd luckily), but over two new Xmas books, some cards + magazines).

Was so relieved when they left, arghh! The following year I insisted we spend Christmas just the four of us, popped into my parents for a meal on Boxing Day. That Christmas was lovely!!

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