Non-Football Post- What's Your Favorite Christmas/ Holiday ?
by bammer on Dec 21, 2009 1:08 PM CST
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PrintI’m sure most, if not all of you have going into near full out depression mode by now... (Damn you 30+ day layoff!) Sure there are a few pointless bowl games out there, but these games mean nothing to us. In fact, I doubt I’ll watch many bowl games this year. I guess Bama being in the only game that really matters, means the luster of the bowl season is lost on me..
That said, the great thing about RBR is that we are not only a sports community, we are also like a family. So I figured this would be a great opportunity get to know each other a little more. The idea is to tell your fondest Christmas or Holiday memory. It can be about a sporting event or just a family memory...doesn't really matter...
Here is mine....
The Christmas season has always been the holiday I enjoy the most. Not sure if it’s the cold weather, the food or just being around family but I really love Christmas. I think my (some what) obsession was driven into me by my mother. This woman freakin loves Christmas...I mean as soon as Thanksgiving dinner is over, the Christmas decorations come out.
This is where my fondest memory comes from. When I was 10, my parents had the grand idea of buying a 130+ year old house in down town Mobile right off Azalea St. . You know, one of those houses with the plaque on the front signifying it's old as shit..My mom (being a HUGE "Gone with the Wind" fan) always wanted to live in one of these homes...Anyways, I loved this house. It was 3 stories, with 2 hidden stair cases. (not really but they were to a 10 yr old). And for the 1st time in my life I had my own room..and why not...there were 8 of them...
We never had a lot of money growing up, so Christmas was never about the gifts. One of our family traditions was to go cut a fresh Christmas tree from one of the local tree farms. Since the ceilings at our house were nearly 20 ft, my mom decided that this year, she wanted to get the tallest, largest tree they had...We had to go to 3 different tree farms to find one big enough but we finally found one that measured in just shy 14 ft.
Getting it home was an event in itself but trying to get the stupid thing in the front door, then attaching a tree stand to the rather large stump and getting it to stand straight took about 4 hours. (What took the longest was finding a stand to support the weight of the tree.) We had to use a ladder to decorate it and the poor tiny angel that sat on top looked quite ridiculous..We only had enough lights/ ornaments from Christmas's past to fill about half of it. So, the amount of lights we had to go buy to fully light it was just silly....
Compared to most Christmas's, I probably got about half the gifts I normally would have gotten...And honestly, I can't remember a single gift I got that year. But I will never forget seeing my mom's face as she looked at that gigantic tree in that amazing, beautiful house...
Merry Christmas to everyone at RBR!
Bammer
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Wow...
Azalea St, right behind Alabama School of Math and Science? Bet y’all heard gunshots every night.
"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success" - Coach Bryant
i just got off the phone with my mom
and she said it was Dauphin street…not sure where i got Azlea St from….guess that happens when you haven’t live in a city for over 15 years…
"The goal is to be a champion," Saban said. "I didn’t say to win a championship. I just said be a champion. That’s our goal here. That’s what we want to do."- Nick Saban
This might make me shallow...
…but my fondest Christmas memory was getting the G.I. Joe Hovercraft “from Santa” one year:
I woke up and wandered into the living room and saw that baby sitting out in front of the Christmas tree and everything else in the room quickly faded away. I vaguely recall getting a bunch of other G.I. Joe stuff that year from “Santa” and from family (I was 5 or 6 at the time?), but that Hovercraft…best damn gift I ever got. Loved that thing….
Roll Bama Roll - The Champagne of Bama Blogs.
that thing is awesome...
when i was 8 i got this!
"The goal is to be a champion," Saban said. "I didn’t say to win a championship. I just said be a champion. That’s our goal here. That’s what we want to do."- Nick Saban
I do remember the gift
Chrono Trigger for SNES, which is still my favorite console game ever (yes, I’m a total nerd).
But the biggest thing was that my mom and dad had just gotten divorced. I really wasn’t old enough to know what she was going through, having to deal with that while taking care of us and trying to plan Christmas for us. Well, we went back to Nashville (where I was born and most of my family lives) to celebrate along with my godmother. My mom realized she had forgotten the present and drove all the way back to Birmingham during the night to get it and bring it back. I mean, I would have ended up getting the present anyway, but she just wanted us to have a great Christmas, and I’ll always appreciate that.
I missed your era of video games
I was partying from 1988 to 1992. I was married from 1992-2002. I was beset just wanting to watch BAMA games, I didn’t want to fight over video games. After I got divorced in ’02, I found myself with a bunch of free time. I picked up a PS1 and the first game I played, hooked me like I was a kid again. It was FFVII but my next game was the re-release of Chrono Trigger for the PS1. It was a pretty damn good game.
Now for my favorite Christmas, every one I got to spend with my Mom. I say this as a person who was bit Ebenezer Scrooge. I wasn’t stingy but I did not really love Christmas, that was until I had one without my Mom. She loved Christmas and she actually got me to smile at Christmas every year. I now cherish every Christmas in her honor. It is my duty now to push cheer into my Dad and the whole rest of the fam damily. Ho, Ho, Ho.
Auburn and Tennessee fans are a lot like Slinkys...neither are worth much but you do get a sense of satisfaction from pushing them down a flight of stairs
Chrono Trigger
for SNES was a great one. Final Fantasy II for SNES was probably, for me, a little bit above it though. Great story and music for its time.
"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -H. L. Mencken
by Bens4vcobra on Dec 22, 2009 10:07 AM CST up reply actions
I love that one too
Disappointed that meteo was pretty much useless by the time you got it though.
by billycthulhu on Dec 22, 2009 3:09 PM CST up reply actions
lol
i didn’t know Billy Mays was a GI Joe?
"The goal is to be a champion," Saban said. "I didn’t say to win a championship. I just said be a champion. That’s our goal here. That’s what we want to do."- Nick Saban
This...
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Dec 21, 2009 10:02 PM CST reply actions
This...
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Dec 21, 2009 10:06 PM CST reply actions
This is easy for me.
The best gift I ever got was the 80’s old school original Laser Tag.
Parents pulled the old “you probably won’t get it because its too expensive” trick leading up to Christmas morning. I woke up to find no Laser Tag left by Santa. After opening all my presents my mom asked if I got everything I wanted. Not one to break mom’s heart I said yes. She then pointed to one more package under the tree that had no name on it. I opened it and there it was…
"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -H. L. Mencken
man i always wanted one of them...
Too bad my parents were cheap…
"The goal is to be a champion," Saban said. "I didn’t say to win a championship. I just said be a champion. That’s our goal here. That’s what we want to do."- Nick Saban
Sounds like...
…they blew it all on that big ole house you were talking about….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Dec 22, 2009 12:28 PM CST up reply actions
yeah..
it was the definition of a money pit..
"The goal is to be a champion," Saban said. "I didn’t say to win a championship. I just said be a champion. That’s our goal here. That’s what we want to do."- Nick Saban
ok...pic fail..
"The goal is to be a champion," Saban said. "I didn’t say to win a championship. I just said be a champion. That’s our goal here. That’s what we want to do."- Nick Saban
This was my all-time favorite-
I can hear still the sound of that launcher screamin while I was cranking the crap out of it!
This was by far the worst:
my parents got me this one year...
it really weirded me out..
"The goal is to be a champion," Saban said. "I didn’t say to win a championship. I just said be a champion. That’s our goal here. That’s what we want to do."- Nick Saban
You win.
"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -H. L. Mencken
this is one of my favorite Christmas presents from Santa...a baby tender love!!
If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, tide, roll!"
Bear Bryant
Based on the pics here...
…most of you are close to my age or slightly younger.
Auburn and Tennessee fans are a lot like Slinkys...neither are worth much but you do get a sense of satisfaction from pushing them down a flight of stairs
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