My wife’s mother passed away the day after Thanksgiving. She is away until February taking care of her affairs. I’ve been by myself since the Monday before Thanksgiving. Lots of bowl games to keep me occupied.
This is the first time in forty years there is a full moon tonight on Christmas Eve. Its beautiful.
May you all find the peace that passes all understanding.
Yup.
Sicker’na dog.
Jello cup and Ensure on the menu today and tomorrow.
I was traveling from Tampa to Traverse City Mich, Christmas eve, to be with my new girlfriend. A gal I met a few months earlier at a 40th HS reunion.
I was in the Detroit airport, waiting my Traverse City connection. Christmas music playing, I was home sick and missing my X.
I boarded the plane for TC, they pulled the gang plank and revved the engine. I couldn't take it. I unbuckled my seat belt got up from my seat, and asked to get off the plane. They put up the gang plank, I exited the plane and watched it leave for TC.
I was stuck in Detroit. Now I had to call the girlfriend in TC, and tell her I wasn't coming. I had to call the X, who was also struggling with our first Christmas apart, and tell her I was coming back to Tampa.
Confusion and anxiety compounded. Eventually I resolved to go on to TC the next day. The X said she would be ok.
I spent Christmas Eve night under a row of seats trying to find some sleep that never came.
Long story short, after 2 years of courting the TC lady, my wife and I got back together. In 2011 we we remarried. A few more years of struggle and we finally made it work.
Today both of us can say, we are the happiest we have ever been.
That Christmas Eve night, lying sleepless beneath a row of seats, in the Detroit airport, listening to Christmas music, was the beginning of Gods work on my spirit.
Sometimes God makes us go places we don't like, to bring us to places we need to be.
Solo this Christmas Eve. Long time friends stopping by tomorrow morning, then church for Christmas worship. Will be spending the rest of Christmas Day with my Brother and Sister-in-law, including a big dinner at their house. Not feeling bad, but it just doesn’t feel like Christmas this year.
Merry Christmas to all my friends in FReeperville. I may not be here as much as some but I do enjoy FR and all the people here who still have their heads on straight despite all the craziness in the world. For anyone alone tonight, remember, you are treasured by folks here. Here, your opinion matters. I do believe we make a difference, look a this Presidential campaign compared to the prior one.
I have been alone, not this Christmas but in times past. The one thing we can count on in life is you never know what the future brings.
God Bless you all.
May God bless you and yours this CHRISTmas time. Mrs. Zeugma left us this september to live with her Lord and Savior, sothis is a hard year for me. Enjoy every moment you can have with your daughter. Each and every one is precious beyond compare.
Merry Christmas Skooz and everyone else on this thread from somewhat warmish Toronto this year.
This thread is a reminder of the community FR truly is. I hope Christmas is a time of refreshment and renewal for all FReepers, no matter with whom, or whether, they celebrate the holiday.
I’m at work until 0700 tomorrow morning, but I have an assistant until 2330. When I get home there are 2 dogs and a cat, all of whom can be quite vocal about my absence < BG >, which I find very cheering.
Lucky me, I get to work the next 4 nights, then I get to work the first three nights of the New Year.
It’s a great time to catch up on movies/TV you’ve been wanting to see. I highly recommend “Man in The High Castle” on Amazon Prime. It’s an amazing series and will keep you going all the way through X-Mas
http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-In-High-Castle/dp/B00RSGIVVO
Check out the live feed of Mass from the Basilica in DC. Callista Gingrich, wife of Newt Gingrich, is singing in the choir.
http://www.ewtn.com/multimedia/live_player.asp?sat=dome
Me and my hounds. Alone tonight and tomorrow.
Merry Christmas!
Yup. But I’m usually alone. Trying watercolor painting for the first time in a bunch of decades. It’s fast.
All I can say is that you are a blessing to your daughter to allow her to spend holiday time consistently at a certain place and at certain schedule each year.
It’s indicative of your love for your child that you would put her experiences first above your own needs or wants.
Merry Christmas.
This is highly likely to be our last Christmas gathering as a family. As much as I'm trying to make the best of it, knowing what's coming after the first of the year isn't helping.
I'm on a 30 day heart monitor. It filled up once already today and I had to drive 60 miles to get to a place where it could get a cellphone signal to send the data that accumulated, then drive 60 miles back. Didn't want to tell family what was going on, my hand was forced today and now everyone's upset at me. Wife wanted to come up to the middle of no-freaking-where with nothing around for 60+ miles to see her perfectly healthy parents, knowing I'm on a heart monitor and need to be monitored 24x7. Sure enough, closest cellphone signal for the heart monitor is 60 miles straight south.
Why I came, simply to please her I don't know. This bullshit is over after the first of the year. It's all going to be a matter of who races to divorce court first.
If I could curl up in a corner and just die right now, I would because I've just had enough this year. Well, at least not until I've changed the revokable living trust and gave everything to the kids and leave the wife without a pot to piss in anyway.
Yeah, Merry Christmas indeed.
Flying solo, spent the day binge-watching all 4 Jason Bourne movies and drinking beer! Finished about 2300 and came over to see what folks here are doing. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! [Berp!]
Alone here this early Christmas morning. Been separated from my wife for the last 6 months. We went to Christmas Eve service together but alone with my thoughts now.
I’m all alone here, too in SC :( family & friends are in NY. Even the wife went home overseas to her family till after new year’s (father is ill) Really sucks, but I guess I’ll survive. Christmas ain’t what it used to be, anyway. After Mom died in 2013, it’s pretty much over. :(