happy winter festival of your choice

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We celebrate a non-religious, minimally-commercial version of Xmas here in Wheatonland, and the 2008 installment is awesome.

Whatever you choose to celebrate this time of year, I hope it’s filled with all the stuff you like, none of the stuff you don’t like, and that you’re surrounded by people you love, because that’s how I’m doing it, and it rules.

Merry and Happy, everyone!

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  5. You know, repackaging old gifts retains its magic s long as you share the experience with people you love. That makes all the difference! Happy & Merry.

  6. Or Summer Festival of your choice. However, strangely enough, my favourite christmas songs involve snow, ice and sleigh bells. Damn Northern Hemisphere and your crazy upside down seasons.
    Best wishes from our family to yours, Wil.
    Diane
    Port Macquarie
    New South Wales
    Australia

  7. Merry Winter Festival revellers in the North wish you all the season’s best. Take comfort in this thought… the days are now pakced with more sunlight per serving!Yeah!

  8. Great photo!
    The strut broke on our car Monday, which caused us to be stranded out here in the country where we live. Money goes for that – no presents again this year! Geez.
    Thankfully, I already had the Christmas dinner fixins’ bought and a nice juicy ham is in the oven.
    Christmas alone with Don (Hubby), Dot (kittie), and Merlyn (15 yr old dog) who is nonchalantly eyeing that oven every few moments. 🙂
    It’s in the mid 50’s and sunny here in North Carolina. I haven’t had a white Christmas since I last lived in Illinois, before leaving for Arizona State U back in the early 90’s. *sighs*
    Regardless, it is a great Christmas! And I hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday!
    HUGS!

  11. Merry Merry! I see that the waves of gift wrap have washed ashore at your home too! I couldn’t have wished for a better day. Glad you are enjoying yours

  12. My family and I are freezing our butts off in Nova Scotia, enjoying our non-religious Christmas, looking over our loot, and making enchiladas…
    Can’t help but chuckle, I can hear my sister watching Stand by Me in the living room right this moment…
    Merry Christmas.

  14. Best wishes Wx2…Ive been watching U on SciFi’s ST:TNG marathon all day with my nephew…avoiding the rest of the relatives…Happy New Year too!

  16. You surprised me today, I saw you on a countdown show for the best 100 toys ever. It was great to see at least one cool and talented person amidst the lame comedians that usually offer interjections on those shows.
    You rock!
    Oh, and Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones!

  17. Happy Whatever to you too buddy. 😛
    bought the kids the guitar hero world tour for the wii.
    Everyone has been playin it today.. even my mother! O.o
    Give my love to the family.
    Neph

  18. Merry Christmas Wil! After we created our own wrapping paper carnage, I was able to catch a couple episodes of ST:TNG and it was great seeing you on there.

  19. My mantra this year: “Love and be loved. Have fun. Be safe.” Hope you have it all and then some.
    Me? I got Fallout3 from my amazing wife, so if you need me, I’ll be prowling the wastelands of DC.
    Also, just another plug for the D&D podcast. Do it again and next time, shoot video. That would be awesome. Also, awesome.

  21. Happy Holidays! I can’t believe you found time to randomly post in a thread on Fark today – today of all days 🙂
    I’m diggin’ your profile pic; comic-Wil’s beard is spot-on!
    Be well, and have a great rest of ’08!

  23. Happiest of happy happiness to you and your family Wil. I’m having a low key day myself, but my best friend just showed up with the best gift of all; a home baked strawberry rhubarb pie! Heaven!
    That and a day long Top Gear marathon and I’m set!
    All the best,
    Wick

  27. Happy Holidays to y’all (and all the other WWdN monkeys!) too! The mister and I are spending our holiday playing Final Fantasy on our respective Gameboy DS handhelds.
    May the new year bring everyone joy!
    Cheers!

  28. Happy day to you to. I got back home after being with my family for a couple days and am now snuggled in bed with my kitty at my knee. I am also having a beer…yay quiet night!

  31. That’s the same version we celebrate, the yule as a modern version of what it kinda was before it was stolen for other purposes. 🙂
    And it was awesome this year!
    Merry Xmas!

  32. last year i got hacked off with the over-commercialised-ness of the winter festive season, so invented piratemas which went down a storm with the stupid amount of people celebrating… this year is very different though. i have a tree, am on my own and ill, although my flatmate (who’s back in france til NYD) did manage to get his gift to me delivered in time… so i do have some shiny khorne demons to build when im feeling better… so im glad to see everyone is enjoying themselves this time round 🙂 i shall be curling up with my ‘wheaton300 happiest days’ and some soup today.. if that doesnt help then im doomed!

  33. Merry Christmas, Wil and Family.
    I got exactly what I wanted. A couple of days of goofing off playing on the ‘360 with the wife, watching the odd movie, and doing very little else.

  36. Merry Christmas!
    Everbody at In and Out Burger was wearing Merry Christmas buttons.
    Last year was the year that everybody tried to make a big deal out of saying that.
    This year eveybody decided there were more important thing like being employed.
    LOL

  37. Christmas in our home is mostly about the festive decorations and cheer, so basically it’s the same day here all year long. No wonder my kid is crazy. 🙂

  38. Since my favorite “holiday” song is “Fairy Tale of New York” by The Pogues, I’m not your typical holiday consumerist.
    We will get each other something small but meaningful. Mister got the new Tales of Beetle the Bard, and I got the two OOTS books.
    Happy Happy Joy Joy to everyone!
    ps–we used the same red snowman paper!

  42. Happy and Merry right back at you and your family, Wil. Thanks for a great year of blogs and your recommendation on 4E (my wife broke down and convinced Santa to leave me a set of rulebooks under the tree!)

  44. Whichever holiday you choose to celebrate, I hope it is as good as it appears in the “after” photo…
    For me, my son recently turned 2, and is just starting to get the idea of Christmas and Santa and stuff. He announced for us about a week ago that “Santa bring me a ball. A Different ball.” (cause he has like 10 already). Our holiday was made watching him plow through his loot Christmas morning (and amazingly still playing with all the stuff so far). And me playing the Ralphie’s dad prank and making sure he found his New Ball last of all….
    Not sure how old your kids were when you got to do Christmas for them the first time… but I know I speak for all the parents when I say that my son’s laughs and gasps of surprise and delight are all I needed this year.

  45. It’s great to hear your holiday was bountiful. I hope you and your family enjoy the week-end with good quality time together.
    I know the Wheatons practice the non-religious form of Christmas, but I will stick my neck out and pray for your family to have good health and prosperous times ahead. God bless you always.

  46. Hey Wil,
    I think you’ve talked about attending a private Lutheran school.
    But you’ve never connected the dots between that and a non-religious Christmas.
    Can you post about that?

  49. lololololol merry x-mas! i was just watching the TNG marathon the other day and damn boy you were skinny as hell back in the day and then they would tailor the uniform so it made you look even skinnier, wtf, that was whack.
    btw the new Star Trek movie so wonk whack and wimpy, its like fashion designer decor + teenage heart throb I heart Lindsay Lohan style. psssht, if they’re going to do this crap, they should do a fucking Wesley Crusher galactic ruler VS Janeway Federation supreme lord

  50. Happy Christmas Wil! And best wishes for 2009! One of my gifts actually was Tundercats season 1 DVD, and when I saw you were on the special features my face lit up like, well, a Christmas tree! Thanks, man!

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