• RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 hour ago

    I will cook some Cornish game hens, asparagus with garlic, mashed potatoes with garlic, maybe bread rolls. Dessert will be eggnog and chocolate peppermint cookies.

  • dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Spending this year more or less alone. Parents live far away and unfortunately I don’t have anyone to watch my kitty (plus I’ve traveled a bunch recently). It’s been a very hard year for them and a tough fall for me, so it’s difficult not being there to share time together. At the same time, I’m trying not to become enveloped in sorrow and guilt and will be making lamb stew, Icelandic cookies and having some delicious spiced mead. Hope you all have a pleasant holiday o<|:)

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        51 minutes ago

        My partner and I were laid off December 2019. In February 2020 my government started giving us both a lot of money every month. We were not working from 2020 until 2022, and made money anyway. We spent all of our time together, at home, going out as little as possible, doing everything we loved (we have all of the same hobbies and are homebodies).

        Best years of our lives.

      • Sam_Bass
        2·
        56 minutes ago

        Well we got to see the nations lowest forms of life throw a largely ineffective temper tantrum. What’s not to enjoy?

  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    8 hours ago

    It’s my first ever Christmas alone. Still making an 8 lb ham and a nice spread of food for dinner. Will be making sandwiches and bean soup with the leftover ham. Otherwise just wallowing in self pity and doom swiping on dating sites in hopes that I won’t be alone next year.

  • Johannes Jacobs@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl
    10·
    11 hours ago

    I’ll be alone. I lost my mother in August, so i’m an orphan now (my dad died 5 years ago)

    I’m not sad or in need of pitty though. I just need my alone time to think things over. Christmas is as good a time as any :)

  • Dravin@lemmy.world
    6·
    10 hours ago

    My wife and I pick a country each year and plan our Christmas Eve dinner to make of food from that country. This year we picked The Gambia so it is going to be domoda (peanut stew) and thiakry (millet couscous pudding).

  • Red_October@lemmy.world
    321·
    16 hours ago

    I plan to go to work like it’s any other day, including not getting any holiday pay. I will try not to roll my eyes as customers tell me it sucks I have to work, even while they themselves are the reason I have to work.

    • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
      8·
      12 hours ago

      Was in retail for 24 years. Holidays aren’t nearly as fun for those keeping things going.

      However, I did learn a lesson about gas stations (at least the brand I was going to) where I had forgotten to get gas prior to Christmas and had to travel to see family that day. I stopped at the gas station, the pumps weren’t accepting cards and I had to go in. I apologized to the attendant and she said, “don’t apologize. I’m getting triple time and this one day will pay for all of Christmas for my kids.” She was happy as hell to be getting paid what she felt she was worth and it was a quiet day for her.

      Not worth it for me personally, and a lot of us I’m sure, but not everyone hates it.

      • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        11 hours ago

        Yeah and don’t forget that some people (although not necessarily a ton in the western world) don’t celebrate Christmas either. It was interesting to me because I met a young person the other day born in the US but to immigrant parents. Despite being born and raised in the US, he (and his family) don’t celebrate Christmas or anything.

        In line with yours, I remember always being happy to work certain holidays like new years or memorial day or whatever because they aren’t holidays to me and I would get extra pay for being there.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
      2·
      10 hours ago

      I mean, I guess it is indirectly the customers fault but the store hotel owner is the one that’s making the explicit decision. Don’t hate the player, hate the game, etc.

      Edit: that does really suck though

    • ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      32·
      11 hours ago

      Bro capitalism isn’t gonna end because of Christmas Eve. You have to work because that’s the job you currently have.

    • GulbuddinHekmatyar
      7·
      12 hours ago

      12+ hour shifts

      Wow, you must be making a lot of surplus value money for yourself, your Ted Lasso fascist PMC Neoliberal masters bosses, and finance capital the shareholders

  • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
    1·
    8 hours ago

    Going to see the parents for Christmas dinner and Wallace and gromit, followed by going home, smoking a fat joint, and watching the greatest chris- uh, Life Day movie of all time, the Star Wars Holiday Special.

  • The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    12 hours ago

    Today we’re not doing anything, and it will be glorious. Tomorrow we’re exchanging gifts (my wife, the dog*, and I) cooking up a ham with beans and asparagus, and watching Christmas movies.

    *she didn’t get us anything, but we still love her

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
    13·
    15 hours ago

    I’ve taken my partner and kids interstate to see family we haven’t seen in 2 1/2 years, whilst bushfires are burning not far from our home.

    We’re due to fly back on Boxing Day, and not sure what we’re going back to yet.

    I’m putting on a brave face for our kiddos, especially our 4 year old who is really into Christmas this year, but we’re terrified what things look like in a couple days.