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Anyone else spending Christmas Eve alone?
The bizarro world of brother skooz | 12/24/2014 | Skooz

Posted on 12/24/2014 5:33:35 PM PST by Skooz

Hello all. Sitting here at home and wondering if anyone else out there is spending this evening alone.

On this night of all nights when families gather and friends share gifts and time, some of us are, for various reasons, spending Christmas Eve solo.

Not necessarily a bad thing - alone doesn't always mean lonely. But, it does mean alone.

Check in if that includes any of you, my fellow Freepers.


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KEYWORDS: christmasalone; christmaseve; merrychristmas; vanity
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To: sushiman

I spent two Christmas’s in Sasebo accompanied by my wife even though I was a lowly PC3.

This was 69-71. So, hey, Merry Christmas to you and yours!


161 posted on 12/24/2014 6:37:32 PM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: CrazyIvan

I am so sorry for the loss of your son. I lost a nephew in 2013 (he was 25) and a niece in September this year (she was 30). It is hard all of the time, but the holidays are the worst.


162 posted on 12/24/2014 6:37:53 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

I know exactly what you mean. Why did families have to move all over the place? Drat it! Loneliness stinks.

I wish you a good Christmas anyway. I’ll be thinking of you tomorrow.


163 posted on 12/24/2014 6:37:53 PM PST by kitkat (STORM HEAVEN WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
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To: Vendome

Just hub and I...and 2 kitty’s and doggie...I have allowed my son (now 44) to have a real family Christmas for 30+ years)... vowed to never make him experience what I did as child of divorced parents and separated from grandparents by idiot mother...this year I may tell him the story.


164 posted on 12/24/2014 6:38:59 PM PST by goodnesswins (2015)
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To: machogirl

Merry Christmas to you!


165 posted on 12/24/2014 6:40:09 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Skooz
Alone, but only until the wife gets home from work at 11:00pm.

Merry Christmas!

166 posted on 12/24/2014 6:40:46 PM PST by Gargantua ("...Fee tine a mady..." ;^)
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To: CrazyIvan

Give your wife a hug from the FReepers who have also lost loved ones. This is my 3rd Christmas since my husband died. I will be spending this weekend at yet another funeral. My cousin’s son was murdered on Monday.


167 posted on 12/24/2014 6:41:06 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: samadams2000

thank you!


168 posted on 12/24/2014 6:41:10 PM PST by machogirl
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To: Skooz

Yes! That would be me! Listening to the song dedicated to Mr. Gringh...appropriate?!


169 posted on 12/24/2014 6:41:19 PM PST by krunkygirl (force multiplier in effect...)
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To: al baby

thank you al baby!


170 posted on 12/24/2014 6:41:38 PM PST by machogirl
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To: semaj

thank you and Merry Christmas!


171 posted on 12/24/2014 6:42:20 PM PST by machogirl
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To: Skooz
I'm thankful not to be alone. I'm very blessed. I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Here is a picture of my kids.

172 posted on 12/24/2014 6:42:30 PM PST by Maelstorm (Behold,a virgin shall be with child,& shall bring forth a son,& they shall call his name Emmanuel)
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To: Skooz

Alone watching last week’s episodes of General Hospital and Young and The Restless. Pups are sleeping, cats are on the bed, coffee brewing. Life is good.


173 posted on 12/24/2014 6:44:19 PM PST by peggybac (My boss I respect, my father I revered. Chris Rock, Mr. Obama is NOT my boss or my father.)
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To: Skooz

I’m alone tonight. Getting over pnumonia and a collapsed lung, so I’m on an oxygenator. Can’t go out, which really makes me feel lonely. Normally I don’t feel lonely, but tonight the feeling is pretty acute.

I normally don’t mind being alone, but for the last two months I’ve been totally housebound, and my FRiends here helped keep me sane.

I lost my cat this year, to kitty cancer, but I’m hoping next year when I’m healthy I will be able to adopt a new one. At least that is what I asked Santa for.


174 posted on 12/24/2014 6:45:09 PM PST by Gefn (Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.)
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To: steve86

Steve, what makes you so tough to.be around?!


175 posted on 12/24/2014 6:45:45 PM PST by krunkygirl (force multiplier in effect...)
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To: Skooz

Wish I could send you some of my company, then you’d appreciate being alone.

I have been alone on Christmas and Christmas eve before though. Being alone and having 30 people in your house is quite a contrast. I’m big on family, 4 adult kids, 2 minor ones, 14 g/kids, 4 g/g kids and all their spouses is a bit much all at the same time.


176 posted on 12/24/2014 6:46:04 PM PST by Graybeard58 (1Timothy, 5: For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus)
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To: Skooz

I am by myself with the exception of my German shepherds.

Not by choice, I am under the weather and decided not to go to my cousin’s house.


177 posted on 12/24/2014 6:47:08 PM PST by chrisinoc
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To: Skooz

Solo tonight, but not lonely. Learned many years ago that there are worse things than being alone on Christmas. Merry Ghristmas to all!!


178 posted on 12/24/2014 6:47:29 PM PST by Sammie42 ( Today is the tomorrow that we worried about yesterday)
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To: Skooz

Go to church, you won’t be alone.


179 posted on 12/24/2014 6:48:36 PM PST by Eva
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To: saminfl

God bless.


180 posted on 12/24/2014 6:48:38 PM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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