17 more days and it’s over, but who’s counting?

do you really get annoyed when people wish you a merry xmas? that does sound a bit scroogey, hil, they are just trying to be nice! i’m jewish, and still kind of like the christmas season, but definitly don’t celebrate it!

Ohmigod…I can’t stand when folks insist, “It’s not a religious” holiday!” Yeah, that whole “Jesus’s Birthday” thing is completely pagan.

do you consider songs like “jingle bells” to be christmas music?

When wished a merry xmas I just smile and say thank you, “Happy Kwanzaa to you and yours as well”. Honestly though, I love the season, the lights and the (for the most part) the enhanced mood everyone is in.

Merry Kwanzukkahmas Hilary my dear

I’m with ari. I love this time of year - I feel like we get to enjoy the lights, the eggnog, the mulled wine, etc without the a) pressure to consume (not the wine, of course, that’s our duty to consume) and b) the pressure to feel holiday cheer. all the upside, none of the downside. ok downside: traffic and the music. my waxer is buddhist and even she gets irritated witn the non-stop xmas music at the salon.

can’t wait for my family’s xmas tradition also: movies and chinese food. the only problem this year is choosing the movie. I’ll have seen everything I want to see by then.

p.s. brokeback mountain is amazing. really beautiful love story.

Marissa — it’s not just your family’s tradition, it’s a well-known Jewish tradition that’s been passed down from generation to generation. I’ll be doing the movies-and-Chinese-food thing as well, and so will my friends and all of our families (though for many of us, not with our families).

I love Christmas lights, I love eggnog. I actually miss the Christmas season. Every year, my family used to go into New York to see the giant tree in Rockefeller Center, the storybook windows at Saks and FAO Schwarz, and I loved it. New York at Christmastime is a wonderful thing, but I haven’t been in 4 years and I miss it a lot.

What I hate is the incessant Christmas music, the fact that the Christmas season starts at Labor Day, and — like First Date Chick — how everyone insists that it’s not a religious holiday. Hello, why are people now complaining that they’re taking the “Christ” out of “Christmas”?

Do you leave cookies out for Santa?

If you don’t, I’ll eat them.

I don’t know if eggnog is a specifically

I don’t know if eggnog is a specifically Christian drink, but it is delicious and I look forward to making it every year. Here’s the recipe.
Yum!

keith - where i grew up movies and chinese was not just my family’s tradition, nor just a jewish one. the theater near my parents is also packed with muslim, hindu, and buddhist. same for the restaurants. sort of a smattering of “other.”

Over the years, people always seem to get upset when I tell them I’m not spending Christmas with my family. “You can’t be alone at Christmas!” [Actually put that in my novel.]

Christmas Eve for me is usually watching “Die Hard.” Best. Christmas. Movie. Ever. And the Chinese.

I can’t wait until Hannukah. For Hannukah I would like to have a nice man. Well, I’m on jdate, ever since the end of October, and I’ve been blogging my experiences. I had a wonderful date last Friday. He took me salsa dancing. He hasn’t called me back yet but he told me that he is busy with marking exams. I caught him online. So I’m waiting for a Hanukkah miracle!

I like your Q&A concept of getting a point across.

Everyone should just say Happy Holidays and leave it at that..V