Re: Round Table Negativity Thread

[PapiChuloLeon]

Where I'm from we don't celebrate holidays. The closest things are when our favorite prizefighters on HBO PPV Boxing, usually once or twice a year.

I don't mind other people's birthdays, but I always find a reason to be MIA on my own birthday. There's just something about that kind of attention that I don't like.

[Guest]

I'm with Guest on this one, I adore Christmas. I even adore the "commercialization" of it -- I take a lot of joy in going out and buying gifts for people. I love the decorations and and the atmosphere during Christmas time. You can really feel it in the air. The occasional stressed/frenzied person doesn't ruin it, most people are getting ready to have a good time and bring in the new year. People feel like things are coming to a close and soon there will be a new year, with a clean slate and new experiences on the horizon.

I love having Christmas parties, they're usually the highlight of my year. Same goes for putting up the decorations, especially the tree. I put up a really nice tree this year.

And finally... Christmas here = summer.

We put up a real tree every year, not some plastic thing. We make a night of it, going to get and then decorating the tree. We have a really nice set of lights we bought in 1994. They were expensive then and have multiple settings, etc. Nothing fancy by today's standards but they were the bomb in 1994...lol. Anyway, the tree makes the whole house smell so good. This year's tree isn't as nice as usual but it's still nice.

Christmas in summer...nice. We are having an exceptionally cold winter so far. We have hit 19° already. We usually bottom out in the mid-20s in January. It last a couple of days then it's gone. Not so this year....brrr.

[lilith]

Sounds like we all have something in common. Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy and celebration, but I never been a big fan of it. I guess things are different when you're not a family person.

I always be moody as hell when the Moon is transiting my natal 12th house. Moon in Cancer is always the low point of the month for me. This year that Moon is happening right before Christmas.

I don't know... you'd feel that way if you expect it to, that's for sure.

I don't keep track of the Moon's movements. All the times I've been too introspective, the transiting Moon happened to be in my 12th whenever I checked an AZZtro site.

Are you talking about the placebo effect?

Yeah. I mean, if it's happened two or three times (I don't know how many), there's no way of saying that it happens simultaneously with your introspective moods. Have you ever had a mood that wasn't like that and your moon was in 12th?

My shittiest times of the month are when the moon is in the 12th. It's happened multiple times before. Has it ever happened to you?

I go through many moods in one hour, are you kidding me??

[PapiChuloLeon]

Sounds like we all have something in common. Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy and celebration, but I never been a big fan of it. I guess things are different when you're not a family person.

I always be moody as hell when the Moon is transiting my natal 12th house. Moon in Cancer is always the low point of the month for me. This year that Moon is happening right before Christmas.

I don't know... you'd feel that way if you expect it to, that's for sure.

I don't keep track of the Moon's movements. All the times I've been too introspective, the transiting Moon happened to be in my 12th whenever I checked an AZZtro site.

Are you talking about the placebo effect?

Yeah. I mean, if it's happened two or three times (I don't know how many), there's no way of saying that it happens simultaneously with your introspective moods. Have you ever had a mood that wasn't like that and your moon was in 12th?

My shittiest times of the month are when the moon is in the 12th. It's happened multiple times before. Has it ever happened to you?

I go through many moods in one hour, are you kidding me??

You're a female, you can't help it.

[PapiChuloLeon]

I hate it when people are at my damn house.

[PapiChuloLeon]

Why dogs always have to be barking at people?

[Dinny]

Why dogs always have to be barking at people?

Because most breeds of dog were selectively bred for it, because farmers and land owners wanted an animal that could alarm them about intruders/animals. Wolves and other wild dogs seldom bark, and when they do, its usually because they learned to do so from domestic dogs.

Same with cats. In the wild, adult cats don't meow (same with totally feral cats). Meowing starts in kittenhood as a way of getting the mother cat's attention but they grow out of it after that. Around humans, a kitten usually retains it into adulthood after realizing that meowing at humans gets them stuff/attention. Basically, the cat's owners are like it's eternal parents.

[PapiChuloLeon]

Why dogs always have to be barking at people?

Because most breeds of dog were selectively bred for it, because farmers and land owners wanted an animal that could alarm them about intruders/animals. Wolves and other wild dogs seldom bark, and when they do, its usually because they learned to do so from domestic dogs.

Same with cats. In the wild, adult cats don't meow (same with totally feral cats). Meowing starts in kittenhood as a way of getting the mother cat's attention but they grow out of it after that. Around humans, a kitten usually retains it into adulthood after realizing that meowing at humans gets them stuff/attention. Basically, the cat's owners are like it's eternal parents.

I like cats better than dogs!

[Monty]

Turns all worked out for the best, I'm picking myself back up on my feet. There sure may be a sweet after taste of misery but it was just getting pathetic being depressed day in and day out, a good friend of mine from my old course (an amazing Aries pianist) had a chat with me about making it all, I'm not going to rely on family for 10 years let alone my lifetime. A violent nudge to be a fuck load more independant, thankfully, Libra brother is cool. He's safe <3

[lilith]

There you go, Josh

[PapiChuloLeon]

Ah, I hate the holiday season. EVERYTHING IS SO DAMN CROWDED!