seasonal afflictions

i love the winter but i hate being ronery in the winter

i voted seasonal alcoholism
i'm starting a week early lol

this question probably does not apply to the west coasters. though they'd all just answer "extreme sports" i assume

I am v v sick

no, it applies. 1, 2, and 3 (weed). also SLEEP ALOT

i had a three day weekend and slept about 15 hours a day the whole time, cos i had a cold. it was glorious. but now i have to drive all over the northeast seeing various family members in uncomfortable situations pretty much every weekend for the next two months! my boozey friend will help me through!

are your referring to anthropomorphic whiskey, Ian or something else?

this is like a bad web comic in the making, dear

I have a sore throat, should I smoke pot?

ANTHROPOMORPHIC WHISKEY
ian has his own family to deal with

dont smoke pot if your throat hurts, trust me.
take theraflu.

probably not :x xxpost

i gotta go to sleep.

big vic are you ok?

lol bad webcomic

such is life

lol this thread

im ok jon!

lol @ bell labs redactions!!!!

i think i have some sort of year round alcoholism. i think i've had at least one drink a night for the past few weeks.

at least

drinking way too much, usually at home. it's never too much to give me a hangover the next day, but i'm thinking it was probably healthier back when i was younger getting bombed 2 nights of the week and off for 5. a six pack a night for past 2-3 months gets expensive. the worst part is nights i'm not drinking i have a beer or two to get to sleep. :(

also, seasonal malaise. i've been working on that by crossing the street to stand in a shaft of sunlight during morning and pre lunch cigarette.

BLEH

lol @ jaxon thinking one drink+ per evening is alcoholism

isn't that "european"?

I would agree with sanskirt re the expense of daily 1/2 doz but unless you really time it right and hit the correct bar specials which are usually on school nights anyway you (or at least me) are going to wind up spending just as much getting smashed 2 out of 7

as for me I've never been able to not binge and I'm beginning to think I should just start trying to avoid bars altogether and only partake in the hol at home or at nice restaurants where I can maintain some awarene$$$$

there is no "seasonal diurnal cycle all gone to shit" but that is probably 1/2 the daytime becoming short as balls and 1/2 4x10 working hours in windowless bunker

i usually get all wintry gloomyface disordered, but have been trying to offset general lack of sunlight with earlier rising and regular exercise, which seems to help. once i can get through that, though, i will be happily rewarded with springtime horndoggy disorder.

i get no excersize in the winter, and i used to get tons because of skiing. now i just can't afford to do any fun winter sports, which just makes me want to curl up in fetal position around a bottle of whiskey for the next couple months.

4x10 working hours in windowless bunker

-- El Tomboto

my last office was like this, that suuuucks

does it count as seasonal alcoholism if it's the same level of drinking as the rest of the year, just with less other people around?

mn winter is sort of like 30 days of night except i'm the vampire and booze is the townspeople.

mixing metaphors dude

that wasn't a metaphor, that was a simile
TRY SOME LIBERAL ARTS ONCE IN A WHILE

No one ever talks about "mixing similes", mister.

simile is a subset of metaphor, yo

wtf I am some old man complaining at kids from my porch? "mister?" "yo?"

http://www.space-dogs.com/images/bortnaut.jpg

sorry to create such turmoil, does it make things easier if i just say "in the winter i spend a lot of time in the dark drinking alone"?

somehow it sounds better the other way.

it did, I don't know why jon had an issue with that, I thought it was a pretty excellent post myself

simile is a subset of metaphor, yo

really?

I think that may be wrong but you could refer to many similar constructs as "metaphorical"?

where's I HATE SHOPPINK

hahahahaha
me too morbius me too
(I needed to buy some more warm weather trousers that aren't jeans the other day and just wound up going to the Levi's store online and buying... jeans)

lol I said trousers

winter is when i stop taking showers because i can't force myself out of bed early enough.

that isn't going to help dispel the old man on porch image much xpost

"If New York is a martini, then alcohol is the olive"

http://www.jar2.com/4/Dsktp/Patterns/Forest.bmp

i've discovered old pogue bourbon, and my quiet nights at home have become blurry.

ian in winter:

http://harlancountypotluck.com/sitebuilder/images/Cletus-79x238.jpg

i shower more in the winter, cos the shower is warm and womb-like

30 minute showers are the only thing that can warm me up in my freezing-ass house

my house is cold in the morning because i have to leave the windows open to keep the heat from being over 80

^^^ welcome to new york

It was like this in college too

BEST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE.

I actually love the holidays! Maybe mid-Bklynites will get lucky and I makes apple pie from scratches. Also I'm going to bike for as long as I can stand it or the roads ice over, that should help keep the blues away. But also I have decided to take booze to my bosom. I'm not at all a binger, actually, "a little bit a lot of the time" is way more my style.

Laurel, you were OTM on the thanksgiving thread about walks

I am so OTM! How did that happen?! Yes, we walk the dog in the woods, or we drive to the lake & walk on frozen dunes.

my mom and sister are coming to NY for christmas. nightmare! oh and then, on christmas day, a trip to lewisburg PA to spend two hours sitting in a room that looks like the dmv and smells like microwave popcorn.

i like the room to be cold when i sleep, and warm when i get up.

unfortch, this is pretty unlikely cuz of being in LA

why don't americans wise up and start making heated floors a standard mod con like in Korea

It's a holdover from the days when my mom's younger siblings were poor and non-housekeeping and never cooked or had anyone take care of them, and they would streeetch out the holiday dinners to the point of ridiculousness in order to appreciate them even more. Like bread & water fasts the day before, and then lots of coffee and long cold walks to work up appetite............ and then three heaping dinner plates of food. They are also all built like Ian.

Pale?

But with an eye for the green?

Yes we are either thready sassenach ghosts or on my dad's side we are the sturdiest of Picts. One guess which side I fell on.

laurel, stop being so damn cheerful. this thread is for bitterness and self-pity.

you using the term sassenach makes me feel better about "trousers"

the fuck is sassenach? some kind of german bread?

also i don't get this way until the end of the season, which when i lived in the midwest was like the end of may.

If you think I'm cheerful about not getting to be 5'7" and leggy and congenitally coltishly slender, think again young miss.

I thought the trousers thing was a reference to either the Rutles or the Rolling Stones.

i voted for the drinking

ha my mom & dad's families are exactly the same, tho the divide is english/german. i used to be 100% mom's-side but have started to split the difference; whether thankfully or sadly im not yet sure.

i feel like such a fag for actually enjoying christmas & family get-togethers but i really do

actually, liking xmas is pretty hetero. it's halloween appreciation what makes you gay.

thanksgiving is the new halloween

Surrender Squanto.

also, this will be my first winter in a relationship so i get all the toasty snuggles i can stand and then some

BLAM BLAM

If you think I'm cheerful about not getting to be 5'7" and leggy and congenitally coltishly slender, think again young miss.

haaaaa, laurel. my mom is like 5'9" and only broke 120lbs when she was pregnant. what happened??

fuck you andrew

toasty snuggles vs cuddlestein mountain!

hey, go can fuck YOURself jon if you think I don't deserve it

braggin 2007

elmo, John Waters loves Christmas. and hates fistfucking.

noted.

well, my bf intends to give up showering apparently so i'm not sure if "toasty snuggles" will be all that tempting.

haha

pretty sure (girl) is gonna be out of town for like a month u_u

i love john waters, check out this commercial for his comp:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vbSRQUuLE2c

apparently i'm gay

it's kind of funny how this thread went from emo depressive to snuggle happy

Of course you deserve it, xposts!

This is my first Christmas single since 04 (I think I got booty then tho)?

it's not the being single on christmas that sucks so much as the grueling new year's to valentine's stretch

midnight kisses :3

elmo snuggle v emo depressives

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

drinking way too much, usually at home. it's never too much to give me a hangover the next day, but i'm thinking it was probably healthier back when i was younger getting bombed 2 nights of the week and off for 5. a six pack a night for past 2-3 months gets expensive. the worst part is nights i'm not drinking i have a beer or two to get to sleep. :(
occupational hazard of fatherhood

i kissed a wiener dog at midnight last new years. i wasn't even his first kiss, that low-slung slut.

Maybe it's going to be one of those balmy winters where the temperature stays in the 40-50 range? Maybe?

Let's hope so, since my apartment will basically be unheated!

seasonal afflecktions
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◉ seasonal compulsive disco record buying

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

would like to officially call out the two 'I LUV HOLIDFAYS' people do i even know anyone like you?

i think i voted "i love the holidays" because honestly fuck u whiners, who hates good food and getting presents also loving the holidays not mutually exclusive with being drunk all the time in fact often the two go hand in hand

I might have been the other, I can't remember. But it's perfectly compatible with the drinking hobby I'm cultivating.

◉ fucking cat suddenly decides the damn apartment is too cold and that i'm her personal heating pad. get off my hands, i'm trying to type. get off my lap, i'm trying to eat dinner. get off my chest, i'm trying to sleep. what am i, an egg that's about to hatch? get off, you fat lard, you weigh 20 lbs!!

ha otm!

now she's sitting on my external HD because it's warm and it purrs WHIRRRRRRRS like a little kitty

i think i voted "i love the holidays" because honestly fuck u whiners, who hates good food and getting presents also loving the holidays not mutually exclusive with being drunk all the time in fact often the two go hand in hand

-- max, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 01:19 (2 hours ago) Link

hey fuck you dude, i would be doing ok if like you i lived in a land of perpetual sunshine.

broseph i go home to NJ for most of december and all of january!!! this is all about PMA!!!! and plenty of vodka!

also LONG JOHNS and TWO PAIRS OF SOCKS

no max is totally right, i was drunk for the entire holiday season last year & it was the best christmas ever

xp

honestly fuck u whiners, who hates good food and getting presents

honestly fuck you, if you've got neither then the holidays are just a day when the el and buses run even slower than normal.

max you are my seasonally affected bro then.

whoa xpost

uhh that got eaten. again:

max and laurel, two of my favorite ilxors, love the holidays. huh.

i actually totally love winter i just just wish that it lasted for only the month before and month after christmas, i.e. the day after thanksgiving-jan. 25th4

i think i need to invite myself over to your houses because god it's gotta be better than mine

to be fair i dont like LOOOVEEE the holidays i just like my dad's cooking and getting time off from work/school

also i should point out that my relatives are annoying and crazy but in a way that is vaguely endearing and plus i was never directly emotionally abused by any of them so it doesnt make me want to die

plus being depressed and feeling sorry for yourself around the holidays is like the most BORING and OBVIOUS time to do so!!!

all christmas carols can eat shit. except for "last christmas" by wham!

god i love that song.

happy xmas (war is over)
christmas wrapping
christmas in hollis
2000 miles
fairytale of new york

My family are awesome, you should all come visit for Christmas. Everyone is so glad to be together that we are hilarious and warm and we eat food and give each other big things and little things and throw the wrapping in the fireplace and make gravy and don't watch any TV. Sometimes someone plays piano and we sing archaic English carols like "The Holly and the Ivy" in 3-part harmonies. Seriously, there's probably not even any alcohol involved and it's disgustingly wonderful.

The outside is cold and maybe we go skiing but the house is warm and bright and decorated and everyone gathers in the public rooms with cups of coffee b/c it's chilly upstairs, and my parents say something about how deeply content they are to have their children together and we all get choked up. I'm not kidding, it's like the Christmas idyll.

Pro: actually since I was last home my parents got a hot tub, so now there is scurrying outside into the hot water in the cold air.

Con: I thought I'd be taking someone home this year but it seems not to be, so that is my one sadness.

my dad actually said not to visit on christmas day - too crowded, and we only get 2 hours, so we'll go the weekend before, which is one weekend in december we can visit more than 2 hours at a time. it seems reasonable i guess. he's a reasonable guy and not overly sentimental. i'm really the same - not sentimentally attached to the idea of the holidays - might as well fuck it all. but not my mom. so i have to be wherever they want me, whenever they decide, because their lives are much shittier than mine right now and i need to be there. i love my family too but it's not the best of situations and no amoumt of valium pinched from my mom will help make this any less fucked.

im really sorry linz--i hope im not making anyone who is having a genuinely shitty holiday feel bad w/ my semi-ironic enthusiasm

Mine isn't ironic enough, should not be allowed on this thread. But anyone who wants to fly to Michigan can come home w/ me.

o RLY

Let me rephrase: people I like.

mine is SEMI-ironic which is my way of indicating that i can no longer tell the difference between irony and authenticity w/r/t to my own emotions anymroe

i seem to remember the nb secret drinkers thread last year holidays was particularly pathetic.