Re: Nerd Boy, episode 321

>> We opened our presents yesterday on the 24th around 8 o'clock in the
>> evening.
>> It's the way it's done here in Denmark.
>
> Kids here would love that. They usually get really impatient.

Some families have a tradition that they give little gifts all day to the
youngest, with a few hours in between.
This way when they start nagging too much you stick a gift in their face and
the nagging goes away for a few hours.
Then the real gift comes with all the other gifts.

Some also do calendergifts where the child each day (morning) gets to open a
present.
Me and my brother both had (and still have though it's not in use anymore) a
blanket or sock if you will ( i can take a picture for you .. mine is very
cute and christmasy .. and still used for decoration) with little rings on.
From each ring hangs a small present.
24 gifts in all .. one each day of december up until the 24th.
Some do a version where they give 4 gifts .. one for each sunday leading up
to chrismas eve.
It's called "adventsgaver"  - "Gaver" means presents , "advent" is the time
leading up to chrismas.

> I have a
> theory that I could go to Norway/Sweden/Denmark/etc for the 24th then
> here for the 25th and thus get twice as many presents. Do you think
> it would work ? :)

Yes I do think it would work.
BUT you would also have to give twice as many presents :)
But you could get to celebrate christmas twice if you could do with little
sleep.

>> You spend the day with your family and go to church during the day
>> .. when the evening comes you gather and eat christmas dinner ,
>> cookies , chocolate , marcipan .. etc.
>
> Ah, I forgot about the church bit. Some people here go to church at
> midnight on the 24th.

People can go to church most of the days near and around christmas.

>> Then you join hands and dance/walk around the christmas tree singing.
>
> I dont fancy dancing around a christmas tree singing. Considering the
> positioning of trees in homes here, it would be downright dangerous.
> (It's usually against a wall near the TV).

Move either the tree or the TV - And unplug the TV.
Many people I know with little room keep the tree against a wall .. and move
it when they are done eating .. and move the table they were eating by up
against the wall instead so there is room.

>> Then you a place to sit down while some of the more impatient
>> (usually the younger) looks at each present and reads it's to/from
>> label and brings the presents to the people they are for.
>> When all presents are delivered they also sit down themselves to
>> open all the presents they recieved.
>
> That part is pretty much the same here.
>
>> Around midnight people go home or go into town to continue
>> celebrating depending on preference.
>
> Aha! So with you, you have hangovers on christmas day rather then the
> day after ;-)

With me specificly .. no - never.
I have never gotten a hangover in my life. And I do drink .. I can just
control my drinking and keep it too a level where I do not feel ill from it
.. but still feel the other effects as I have an extremly low treshhold for
alcohol.
1 beer makes me cheerful , 2 makes me very happy and I have lost a lot of
inhibitions.
3 makes me loose nearly all my inhibitions (but not all my sanity) 4 affects
my judgement and my balance and all my inhibitions have gone at this point.
I very rarely drink more.

But with others .. definatly yes.
Then again .. if someone is inclined to get drunk on christmas .. what to
stop them from repeating the "succes" the next day .. and the day after ..
and the next day ?

Christmas have plenty of excuses to party.
Today f.x. we have american friends visiting for an after-chrismas party.
We had a similar one yesterday.

Plenty of parties and gettogether's.:)

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