Is this where I confess that we only have a tree because of the sprog? Is this where I confess that we’re not Christians, so why would we celebrate 12 days of somebody else’s religion?
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Is this where I confess that I feel like a non-combatant in the war on Christmas? One of our neighbours hung a Christmas tree in effigy at the end of the street, but I don’t think I’ve done anything to attack the spirit of Christmas.
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Is this where I confess that I’ve never played beer pong?
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I went to college, had drunky roommates, and even rushed a fraternity – and never once was beer pong played. Still haven’t. I think if I tried now at age 42 I would regret it.
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Is this where I confess ‘suck it up buttercup’ has long been a phrase of comradie in use with my close friends, and to me is an acknowledgment of our profound frailty and in spite of it our astounding capacity for resilience?
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Is this where I confess that I dislike New Years Eve?
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When my friends decided that this year we’re all going to a local favorite restaurant for their New Years Eve party, it should say something that my first thought was “Oh cripes, here comes the night where I’m forced to stay up until 1am.”
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Is this where I confess I’ve never gone to an actual New Year’s Eve party?
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You haven’t missed much.
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The ones I’ve been to consist of:
- inevitably being the first ones there
- wasting time with board games or something until midnight
- at least one person ending up drunk on the floor
- AULD LANG SYNE! YAYY!
- trying to leave without being too obvious or rude about it
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My husband just finished the new Final Fantasy game last night, so I’m here to confess that I loathe all of those games. Somehow they’re considered “games that women like” so people assume I’ve played them. I got so annoyed at the ending I yelled out “Final ANGSTasy!”
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while I like that style of game I tried one of that series on the DS and was meh about it. i imagine the pc or console has better graphics though.
It’s not even the graphics. I hate the whole style of them. There’s so many melodramatic conversations and cutscenes that go on WAY too long. The women are always gasping in surprise at everything. Everyone’s super emo. The random encounters get old really fast (although to be fair that seems like a lot less of a problem in the latest one, from what I could see).
Mr. Bells is currently replaying it from the beginning and I have decided to be elsewhere today.
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Oh yeah I think I can side with you on that one. It wasn’t a lot of that on the DS though the random encounters and slogging to level up gets frustrating. I couldn’t finish Pokemon Emerald cause there got to be too much grind to get where you can beat the end stage.
Is this where I confess that nobody seems to care about rules anymore, so we might as well do away with the whole BoingBoing BBS Thread Ethics Office?
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Is this where I confess that I thought the BoingBoing BBS Thread Office was actually in Thuthics?
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Is this where I confess that I thought the ethics briefing was on Friday?
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For me he’s one of those musicians who’s a better songwriter than he is a singer (not great, but better).
This is where I confess that I pushed my wife’s Solstice present to her birthday because it wasn’t finished, and covered my tardiness with a case of her favorite wine and some good Christmas eats.
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Is this where I confess that I would personally find that more than an acceptable substitute for a late gift… Is her B-day soon, too?
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Early March, literally 3 days before mine. And of course it’s only a few weeks after V-day, but I tend to do something small for that and it’s already ready anyway.
Neither of us is very Christmas-y. Her dad’s family is Catholic, but she’s even more anti-Christmas than I am. Even so, I like giving gifts so I usually make it a Solstice or Saturnalia thing 
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