Holidays!

[Lauren]

Of course, Christmas is my all time favorite holiday. I love watching all the Christmas specials, watching movies, family, friends, presents, decorations, winter season, one week break from school, holiday songs, the delicious foods, and my love for any holiday is the strongest here. <3

[Arani]

[quote="Azdgari"][quote="Arani"]When I was young my and my bro would also watch "santa" on the world radar map the army or whoever does it would put it, and it would show where Santa was in the would at the time. Then me and my bro would be all like, "He's in NYC!" and "He's in Nevada, we need to get to bed now!" And we'd race to bed, get up 10 minutes later, see where he was again, race back to bed. We'd do that for hours until we were to tired to move. xD <3[/quote]
AAAAH! You mean the NORAD santa tracker? My family did that too! That bad boy had me convinced Santa was real for quite a while. Love it. [/quote]

Yes, that! =D Loved that thing! Made me think he was real for the longest time too. x)

[Regulus]

Don't get me wrong, I like Christmas. But I've noticed that it puts a lot of stress on a lot of people, and someone ends up crying as a result every year.

For me though, I don't really even care all that much. I mean, last year, I didn't even know when Christmas was. I spent that whole week doing nothing but playing Gran Turismo all night long with my cousins (dear God, was that fun). My favorite parts about Christmas are having trees indoors with lights on them, and hot chocolate. But, of course, both typically last all season.

[Lauren]

I'm revealing my confession: As a little kid, I was one of those who believed in Santa. I remember when I was about 10, I was planning on taking my video camera and hiding somewhere in my living room to capture footage of Santa during the night but my mom told me no. I was bummed. xD

[Azdgari]

Haha, I believed in Santa too. You're in good company!

@Reggie: I'm sorry to hear that! My family's pretty good about not getting to stressed out. I mean, Christmas shopping can get hectic, and It's easy to get caught up in the materialism, but I believe it's more about being together and joyful than anything else. And if playing Gran Turismo with your cousins is joyful, then I think you're doing it right!

[Regulus]

I never knew what to think of Santa. That was before the era of using Google for everything, so I could only guess on the amount of homes Santa would have to travel to in about 12 hours. That would also include guesstimates on the amount of horsepower each reindeer would need to lift the guesstimated weight of toys for the guesstimated amount of kids who have been good in the world.

Also, my sense of scale was way off. A speed of 1,038 mph is required to fly around the equator in 24 hours; I had no idea the world was that big back then. Though I never would have thought Santa's sled could exceed mach 1.

I guess you could say I was agnostic as a kid. I knew it didn't seem possible, but I couldn't prove it wasn't possible without Google.

[Arani]

LOL I believed in Santa too. You guys ain't alone.

And the only thing my family will get stressed out about is Christmas dinner, but other than that's we're pretty good about not getting stressed out. x)

[DGFone]

Due to an advertising failure back in the 50s, NORAD now tracks Santa during his midnight run through the entire world. They use the world-covering radar networks that back in the Cold War would look out for Soviet nukes. Now it tracks Santa every Christmas ever since '55. His sled must be powered by Unobtanium, because it is fast!

So yes, Santa is very real. He's been spotted by radar, and uses it to convince those naughty children with an Internet connection, that yes, he is very real, and will skip by them unless they get on the 'good' list.

[Regulus]

Why the heck aren't we using reindeer to send satellites into orbit?

[Arani]

^ That's a good question. O_O Guess Santa doesn't allow joint custody.