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Conference vaxcat::friends

Title:Welcome to Friends!
Moderator:POWDML::VENTURA
Created:Mon Mar 09 1992
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:437
Total number of notes:35174

271.0. "Christmas-Spirit****" by OFOSS1::RAGUCCI () Mon Dec 19 1994 16:31

    
    
    	What is everyone doing for Christmas this year?
    
    	How are your spirits & all the rest?
    
    
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271.1QUIET CHRISTMASKAOFS::C_PLANTIt had to be you...Mon Dec 19 1994 16:419
    
    
    	well....I'm just having a quiet Christmas with my mother this year.
    	Brothers and nieces and nephews will likely come over Christmas eve
    	and we'll do the Midnight mass thing and open a few presents
    	directly after mass. All in all a quiet one this year.
    
    	Chris
    	:)
271.2POWDML::LBARRHow long will this assignment last?Mon Dec 19 1994 16:428
    I'm not doing anything for Christmas this year.  My family does not
    celebrate Christmas.  I however, do.  I will get up Christmas morning
    with my son, watch him open his gifts and then he'll be going with his
    dad for the remainder of the day.  I'll spend the rest of the day home
    alone. :-(  I was invited to have dinner with a friend, I may do that. 
    I just don't want to reflect my depressed attitude on her family.
    
    Lori B.
271.3The Dog....!!KIRKTN::SWRIGHTUno CoCa Cola PorfavorMon Dec 19 1994 17:574
    Well Im going to eat lots of Turkey and stuff then get completely
    buckled with the help of a few cans and a bottle of Mad Dog............ 
    
    *:@)) 
271.4RANGER::REITHMon Dec 19 1994 18:015
A quiet holiday this season with the family and then back into the shop to try
to finish up this large order due 1/9/95 that has been backed up with being
sick. Thank god there's a few extra days off to help catch up.

CM
271.5SUBPAC::SADINKeep it off my wave...Mon Dec 19 1994 19:257
	My Christmas spirits are still in the bottle! :)

	Actually, just a few family get togethers. Relaxin' time....


chico
271.6CHEFS::WARRENJnew life, arrived todayMon Dec 19 1994 20:237
    re -1 and mine are mostly still in the shop! :-)
    
    Alan, Kathryn and myself Christmas Day, my folks will be coming Boxing
    Day the rest of the hols will be spent with friends and family..and
    folks are always welcome to drop by the house.
    
    Jackie
271.7rush rush rush!!AYRPLN::VENTURADeck the halls .. DON'T SAY IT!!Mon Dec 19 1994 22:1015
    Well, I'm hustling all over the place this holiday.
    
    Christmas eve day and early evening will be spent with my in-laws. 
    We'll leave there around 7:00, head home really quick, and get to my
    mother's house by 8:15 to celebrate her birthday.  We won't stay long
    .. probably only until about 9:00.
    
    Christmas morning we'll go back to my mother's house .. the rest of my
    family will be there.  We'll have a nice breakfast and open our
    christmas presents.  After that we'll go back to my place with my dad. 
    We're having a few "orphan" friends over.  Basically friends who are
    not going home for the holiday.  Bob is making christmas dinner.  Fun
    fun fun!  
    
    H
271.8Togetherness is most important!EARRTH::DREYERI'm dreaming of a green Xmas!Mon Dec 19 1994 22:2311
	 We're not celebrating Christmas this year, but the whole family will
	be together in Phoenix, Arizona.  I'm looking forward to it.

	No Christmas spirit this year, and I have a very, very sad feeling that
	last year was the last time I will celebrate Christmas with my family.
	You see, I'm the only one left that has any "Christian" in me.  My
	parents were a mixed marriage (Dad Jewish & Mom Protestant), and my
	sister converted to Judaism before she married.  It's a very wierd
	and depressing feeling.

	Lola
271.9re .8 Right!!!VNABRW::MUDRA_MTake my hand and I'll follow youTue Dec 20 1994 08:2817
    
    Well, for me as Catholic the 24th of Dec is the most important day.
    I'll spend the day with my parents decorating the tree and cooking the
    dinner. In the afternoon we'll probably go to the cimitery; and I think
    my grandmother and my grandpa will come in the evening to celebrate
    with us. Before eating the fish we will open our gifts and sing some
    X-mas carols.
    
    On the 25th we'll have a "big" lunch with turkey and dumplings (sp?)
    and vegetables and salat and a tart at the end. It's a kind of
    "family-day".
    
    Formerly the 26th was the day where we met the rest of my family (aunt,
    uncle, cousins). But now my cousins are married and having their own
    families, so this will be my relaxin' day!  :-)
    
    Tina
271.10PKHUB3::PKOPRTTue Dec 20 1994 16:2415
    
    Well, I'll have a pretty busy Christmas. Celebrating it with 5 of my
    8 stepkids, my step-grandson and all the rest of my wife's family.
    That's not counting spending all day Christmas Eve with my own 2 kids
    and my family. Thank goodness for Friday and Monday off.
    
    NS
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
271.11What a relief to hear from Serenity!EARRTH::DREYERI'm dreaming of a green Xmas!Thu Dec 22 1994 22:0111
Greetings from Serenity to all of you!


>I miss all my friends in notes, but am really not in a space to note. 
>Please, if you happen to go in there, convey my best to them all for a 
>wondrous holiday season filled with peace, love and light.

Hugs,
Lola

271.16HLFS00::CHARLESchasing running applicationsFri Dec 23 1994 09:248
    Sunday we go to a hotel with 3 other couples, have a few drinks and
    head for the dinner dance.
    By the time we're through that and a quick visit to the hotel bar, we
    will most likely only be able to stagger to our rooms. ;-)
    Monday Tjitske and I will most likely spend at home doing nothing but
    trying to relax.
    
    Charles
271.17SUBPAC::SADINKeep it off my wave...Fri Dec 23 1994 12:436
<mod hat - on>

	note .12 and all replies have been deleted. Note author has been mailed.


jim
271.18Happy-new-yearOFOSS1::RAGUCCIFri Dec 23 1994 21:048
    
    
    
    Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone.
    
    
    
    		Bob
271.19SUBPAC::SADINKeep it off my wave...Fri Dec 23 1994 21:455

	Merry Christmas Bob!

chico
271.20MASALA::RBERNARDFri Dec 23 1994 22:412
271.21MASALA::RBERNARDFri Dec 23 1994 22:461
    Everyone else have a good time at christmas.
271.22SUBPAC::SADINKeep it off my wave...Tue Jan 03 1995 12:027

	ain't he sweet?


;*)

271.23I'm keeping my fingers crossed!EARRTH::DREYERWhere&#039;s the snow??Tue Jan 03 1995 22:175
	Yeah, so sweet I think we should put him out in the rain and see if
	he'll melt!

	Lola

271.24There's one left!ANNECY::BALAS_BSomeone, somewhere, somehow, and me...Mon Jun 26 1995 11:249
	Found one Note from Mr RBernard which has not been set hidden... I think
our beautiful moderators wanted to save one Note politically correct from this
guy. But I'm still asking myself what he must have done to be treated like
that... Using *bad* words? Having *bad* thoughts?
	Everybody (I think) has been set hidden for having written bad things,
but as for him, it was visibly automatic! Is there any moderator option that I
don't know: "DEFINE SET_HIDDEN=RBERNARD/AUTOMATIC/DELAY=5 SECS"?...

				Set hidden automatically,	BenJ.	;)
271.25KAOFS::C_PLANTIt had to be you...Mon Jun 26 1995 15:1210
    
    
    
    Hi Benj
    
    I see your catching up on the Christmas greetings....
    That was a particular hostile attack against Chico. 
    
    Chris
    
271.26SUBPAC::SADINWe the people?Mon Jun 26 1995 23:0012
    
    	
    
    	Howdy Benj,
    
    	since Mr. Rbernard had made it a point to ignore digital policy and
    use vulgar language etc, I decided to delete every note he entered
    until his sorry butt was gone. Now I can let my keyboard cool
    down....:)
    
    
    chico
271.27No heart for a poor alien, sniff sniff?????LJSRV1::LAMBRECHTLife is fun, live it!Mon Jun 26 1995 23:509
    Hello Chico,
    
       have you really deleted all his notes????????
       It would have been a "learning experience" for me if you had
       forwarded his notes to me before deleting them..... or at least
       tell me the swearwords he used. ;)))))
    
    Martina-Data tries to complete her vulgar words collection
    ;)))))
271.28re -1ANNECY::BALAS_BSomeone, somewhere, somehow, and me...Tue Jun 27 1995 09:355
	Me too me too me too!

	Twix, U missed to snarf my birthdate. Me poor thing...

		Triing to enter the world of vulgarity...	BenJ.	;)
271.29And this here is for BenJLJSRV1::LAMBRECHTLife is fun, live it!Tue Jun 27 1995 14:498
    And here for poor BenJ:
    
        BenJ birthdate snarfffff plus 2 ;)))))  = 29
    
    Do you feel better now, sweetie?
    
    ;)
    Twix
271.30Hi Twix!ANNECY::BALAS_BSomeone, somewhere, somehow, and me...Tue Jun 27 1995 15:1715
	Yeah! I feel better now...

	It's been a long time we haven't been round here at the same time. U
should sometimes leave your busy work to talk with me...
	Actually, my work is very hard (it's a hard soft!) and I need to write
with ::Friends to think about something else. I'm counting my days here.
Normally, the contract ends the 10th July. Maybe I'm gonna stay there a bit more
to finish what I'm doing actually...
	U know I could say I don't care, I give up, my job here won't bring me
more for my carrier. But, my personnality push me to go on and finish even if it
takes time, even if it's hard to do... Maybe, I need to proove myself I'm able
to do something till the end.
	Have a good day my lovely twixy! Here is some warm sunbeams for U...

				Back to his driver quickly,	BenJ.	;)
271.31Bonjour BenJLJSRV1::LAMBRECHTLife is fun, live it!Tue Jun 27 1995 15:3016
    Hello my cher cheri BenJ!
    
       I'm so sorry I haven't been around here for quite a while... :(
       Normally now I spend a lot of time working together with colleagues
       in the lab. I know, there is so little time. Now I try to get in
       here at the end of my work day when people are gone. Then there is
       plenty of time. See, we run through time, run through our lives -
       until our end of time. ;)
       I'm glad you'll stay a little longer. It is fun to read your
       comments in here and I'll certainly miss you when you're gone. 
       You're like the sun rising up on a misty morning, sweeping the
       night's lazy dampness away, brightening the day.
       Stay the sunbeam that you are.
    
    ;) 
    Twix, and now off to the lab
271.32re -1ANNECY::BALAS_BSomeone, somewhere, somehow, and me...Wed Jun 28 1995 09:357
> Stay the sunbeam that you are.

	Thank U so much, Twix! I'm gonna turn red if U go on...

	Stay the star that U are, my favourite alien!

					Timide, malgr� lui,	BenJ.	;)
271.33A star I really am and will be againLJSRV1::LAMBRECHTLife is fun, live it!Wed Jun 28 1995 16:2816
    Stars, the numerous silent watchers of the night's lonely business,
    until infinity part of the black velvet ceiling, constantly glowing,
    sending their soft gentle yearning to all creatures of the night.
    When I can't find sleep in the night I walk to the window and just
    let my mind float out there, among the stars, becoming part of the
    universe's continuous expansion, growing far beyond the daily everyday's
    blues, sensing the presence of the cosmic stream, expressing its
    very essence, the timeless variation of the fibers, whose projections
    into our 3-dimensional world occur as the events we can pick up with
    our sensors.
    At the end of my guest performance here on planet Earth in a human
    body I will go back there, in my true appearance as an energy being,
    until my next "vacation", maybe on another planet, as another lifeform.
    
    ;)
    Twix
271.34Stay with us, please...ANNECY::BALAS_BSomeone, somewhere, somehow, and me...Wed Jun 28 1995 17:4415
>	    When I can't find sleep in the night I walk to the window and just
>    let my mind float out there, among the stars, becoming part of the
>    universe's continuous expansion, growing far beyond the daily everyday's
>    blues, sensing the presence of the cosmic stream, expressing its
>    very essence, the timeless variation of the fibers, whose projections
>    into our 3-dimensional world occur as the events we can pick up with
>    our sensors.

	If I knew those beautiful words, if I knew how to put them together as
well as U do, if my sensitivity could allow me to write such things, I would
probably have described my sleepless nights like U did, dear Twix...

	Stay with us in planet Earth cause we need your presence. 

				Enferm� dans sa petite vie,	BenJ.	;)
271.35Ok my sensitive poetic friend,,, you got it. ;)LJSRV1::LAMBRECHTLife is fun, live it!Wed Jun 28 1995 20:3219
    Hey BenJ, you snarfffffed my age!!!!
    
    It feels good to be needed. ;) Ok, you got it, I'll stay a little
    longer. ;) 
    I am anyways not done with this life yet. It is fun to be human.
    I like the way this human body gives me the rare opportunity to study
    the emotional impact in such scrutiny! There is still so much to learn.
    Never before have I been exposed to such a vigurous interaction
    scheme of any kind of beings. It is amazing and quite intriguing how
    the communication structure develops between humans and how it becomes
    a "taken for granted" part of their lives. Everything is based on
    different interaction schemes. "Role playing" is the trick.
    
    ... Fascinating.
    
    ;)
    Martina, studying life on planet Earth
    
    
271.36To one and allNETCAD::DREYERMore great memoriesThu Dec 21 1995 13:408
	Well, my Christmas spirit is undulating between high and low this
	year...  I do want to wish all my ::Friends the merriest of Christmas,
	Happiest of Chanukahs and a very healthy New Year!

	Hugs,
	Lola    
    

271.37KERNEL::PLANTCTo tell you the truth, Not so much!Thu Dec 21 1995 14:498
    
    
    Thanks Lola...hope yours is good too!
    
    Major Christmas Hugs to you!
    
    Chris
    :)
271.38CHEFS::WARRENJFri Dec 22 1995 08:5713
    
    Morning all.  My bid for freedom starts today. :-)
    
    Today I'm out of my usual business attire and wearing jeans (yes, I am
    wearing other things too!)....my statement that holiday begins today.
    We're just on skeleton cover today and over the Christmas
    holiday..fortunately I'm off until the New Year after today. :-)
    
    
    So, festive greetings to all and a wish for a wonderful Christmas and
    New Year.
    
    Jackie_demob_happy
271.39KERNEL::PLANTCTo tell you the truth, Not so much!Fri Dec 22 1995 09:2418
    
    
    I see ya standing under the Holly ( not you Holly! :) )
    
    
    so :
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    	M O U A H!!
    
    
    Chris
    :)
271.40CHEFS::WARRENJFri Dec 22 1995 09:374
    dontcha mean the mistletoe?
    
    
    Jackie_happy_to_receive_christmas_kisses
271.41KERNEL::PLANTCTo tell you the truth, Not so much!Fri Dec 22 1995 09:387
    
    
    
    right...oops! well any excuse for a kiss! :))
    
    Chris
    :)
271.42About time to start the day....SNOWY::ROYERI am still the same, the world changed!Fri Dec 22 1995 14:469
    Mistletoe, Mistletoe, Mistletoe... have to commit that to memory
    so I can use it next year...
    
    
    BIG KISS!   {smooch}
    
    Merry Christmas Jackie!
    
    
271.43:-)CHEFS::WARRENJFri Dec 22 1995 14:565
    *swoon*
    
    Merry christmas to you also, Dave.
    
    Jackie