Posted on 12/24/2015 4:07:50 PM PST by Skooz
For those who want to watch a good movie.
Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American soldiers and then three German soldiers, she successfully convinces the soldiers to put aside their differences for one evening and share a Christmas dinner.
Silent Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1sFcMf4CIQ
Merry Christmas to you sir!! I always enjoy a cigar and a bourbon when I’m alone. Try it.
Everybody is sick. Everyone agreed that it would be best to stay at home.
We had Christmas at my grandmother’s house last weekend. She’s 97 and has terminal cancer and her time is growing very short. I may get out there for a little while tomorrow if she feels up to it.
She’s ready and will probably go in her sleep at home where she belongs. Weeks if not days.
(Preferably with a fine glass of booze to cap a fine life.)
I am spending the evening alone...and so grateful, have been so busy with work, the house is a disaster (clothes, papers, gifts to be wrapped,etc.) and I don’t have to do anything about it right now and no one is here to complain..ha.
I got off work at noon and began my Christmas shopping early at 2 in the afternoon..it was crowded, next year I may have to do it earlier (maybe noon on Christmas eve).ha.
Doggie and I had choice cheeseburger ( great ground beef on grilled bagel). Tommorrow my doggie was invited to Christmas Breakfast at her furry friends, Beau and Lucy. I’m going along. Friends we know, totally laid back..no pretense,no “forced gaity”..just the three of us and the three doggies.
The day after Christmas I will do my annual Christmas ritual, buying two new cashmere sweaters on sale...I have already done reconnaissance last week at the stores.
I am very grateful tonight for having a nice little house with a fenced yard in the greatest country in the world, a wonderful cannine companion, good food and a couple new books to read...and health is good.
Merry Christmas!
Riley!
I would bet a lot of money that your “seriously challenging circumstances” are not the very top of the pile on “ worst all time circumstances”.
It’s all about “perspective”. One of our “wounded warriors” with no legs and no arms and no family comes to mind.
I’m alone and love it! Wouldn’t have it any other way! Hang in there and I would be glad to exchange a private post or few with you! JUST LET ME KNOW!
Sort of.
Sister #2 and I went to a candlelight service earlier this evening. I drove because she doesn’t see well enough to drive when it gets dark.
Tomorrow, we’ll meet up at a local restaurant for lunch and gift exchange. We’ll use their WiFi to Skype with sister #1 in Missouri, and hopefully with my nephew, his wife and their one year old boy in Brussels.
Tonight? I got you guys.
So enjoying this thread. Merry Christmas to kindred spirits!
Yes! Pasta! The perfect way to spend Christmas.
Retired cop. Every christmas, civil war broke out over who has the kids & didn’t bring ‘em back on time. Parents at their absolute worse. Kids miserable. You are not alone. Went through this myself. Things will get better.
Not my thing but she loved the whole caroling thing so we did that for her.
I don’t know if you can see the video or not.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/112298915455865/permalink/1070134653005615/
Glad to hear it. With a wife, mother-in-law, step-son , daughter-in-law, two grandsons, six other siblings, nieces, nephews , friends, etc. I’’m NEVER alone. Merry Christmas.
the perfect way to spend any holiday! :)
Yup. Me. Alone. Toby left me first of Nov. Josy Mid Jan. (My pup fur kids) No more comments Hugs to fellow loners
Awesome movie. Thanks.
Right around this time in 1966 I had mess duty at USMC Camp Pendleton, but had a day or two off for the holiday, so I took the Greyhound up to L.A. -- where I promptly broke out in welts and a fever, so I bussed it back to CamPen on Christmas Eve and stopped at the base hospital.
I was quickly diagnosed with Rubella (German Measles) and put into an isolation ward....woke up Christmas morning with instructions from the Squid nurses who ran the place to get up and change the sheets on my hospital 'rack', and then crawl back into bed.....
Fortunately, I was outta there and re-infecting Camp Pendleton within a few days.....(I'd been in direct contact with salad fixings right before the breakout, and went right back to the same billet).
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