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    Grant and corrupt a wish game

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    35 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    Granted, but it appears in a puddle, not in a cup.

    I wish bathroom remodeling burned more calories.

    Granted. You decide to move the mirror but break it and smash it on the floor, breaking the tiles. You replace the tiles but in the process you install your toilet incorrectly flooding your house. (You could have hired a contracted but its all about that calorie burn). You now live in a hotel room for a week and go back and forth to get all the things you need that you keep forgetting. But on the flip side, your Fitbit has never seen such great numbers!

    I wish it was not -20C today (and not colder). Glad I threw that in, you crazy people.

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    Grant and corrupt a wish game

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    10 hours ago, Drake1 Nightfire said:

    Granted, your dog now drops them on your lap and in your face at bed time..

    I wish people would be nicer to each other..

    YUK!

    Granted. People are nicer to each other but for only one hour a day. Unfortunately, they cannot decide which hour. They started a forum thread and are arguing over the merits of this or that hour being the optimal hour to be nice to one another. I think 4am SLT is winning. :)

    I wish my cup of coffee didn't go lukewarm so fast.

     

     

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    Grant and corrupt a wish game

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    7 minutes ago, Fauve Aeon said:

    Granted but now everyone is very PC, completely inoffensive and all ‘honey-baby-darlin’. You get virtual diabetes and the forums are very dull. 
     

    I wish the middle school kids didn’t have literal screaming contests at the nearby bus stop 2x/day. Why?!?

    Granted. They don’t scream anymore. The go around the neighbourhood robbing all the cars. 

    I wish more people were kinder to one another. 

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    Grant and corrupt a wish game

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    3 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    Granted. No negative consequence, no positive consequences, no reason to get up in the morning...

    ...so you don't.

    I wish real grapes tasted like grape soda.

    Granted. Grapes taste like grape soda. Wine also tastes like grape soda. Wine drinkers everywhere hate you! But the good news is that beer sales are up!

    I wish I was more dedicated to my dreams. 

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    Holiday Traditions

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    31 minutes ago, janetosilio said:

    French-Canadian Christmas isn’t all that exotic.

    We used to go to midnight mass on Christmas Eve. Then we’d come home and have dinner, which always had two staples: turkey and a meat pie called a tourtiere. Everybody has their own way of making tourtiere in Montreal, but ours always had venison, potatoes and onions.

    This year will be my first year trying to make one on my own since my mother passed.

    New traditions: since I married a Puerto Rican, I’ve had to adopt some new ones. Everybody makes a eggnog-like drink called coquito. Everybody gets together on Christmas Eve and eats dinner. Pork shoulder called pernil gets made, I have to do the turkey, empanadas with ground beef and others have guava. It’s pretty exotic to me. There’s other things, I can’t remember or don’t know what it’s called that is pretty danged good.
     

    Then we exchange gifts at midnight. Christmas is a pretty chilled day.

    I can relate to this. I came to Canada from Poland in 1985. We celebrate Christmas Eve and opened some presents which usually was not a toy. Midnight mass was a pain for. child because it took 2-3 hours. Our parish had about twenty thousand parishioners, so at midnight all I remember is peoples feet. That is all I could see, but that probably explains why I can sit in a doctors office or wait for a bus without any stress as cool as a cucumber.

    We would opened the gifts on the 24th because nobody had anything to give to begin with and this way when we went over to our extended family there was no pressure of opening any gifts. I remember all he alcohol. People being drunk. It uses to bother me for years and years and years, but I have come to terms with it. I have learned to forgive and let go because poverty is abuse too.

    We came to Toronto with six suitcases, which now seems so long ago. The first store I ever stole from was called Honest Eds, which is ironic now that I think back.  My parents died over ten years ago but I keep their memory alive by bridging Polish and Canadian customs together. 

    One of the things I particularly love is setting an extra plate at the dinner table for a stranger. In Polish culture you are supposed to set an extra plate in case an Angel or a homeless person comes to visit you. They are not a bother, but are to be treated as an honour guest. I was also told as a child that all the animals talk on the 24th of December, just like all the animals did to entertain baby Jesus. I have no idea where that custom came from, but I continue to spread it today.

    Oh... and it was my job to sit by the window and look for the first start because that was the time to sit down and eat. Now that I am older, I suspect this was just my moms way to get me the hell out of the kitchen (laugh).

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