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.
I know this sounds base, and deflating, but line up lawyers NOW.
You won’t have the presence of mind when something happens to do it then, trust me. And the strange thing is, the buzzards all act like it’s perfectly normal, and band together, like swarmers at a garage sale.
People show their true colors when there’s $$$ to be scavenged.
Jus me and mah 2 kittehs.
I was raised by Wolves,
alone would have been preferred.
Merry Christmas!
“Alone, homeless but not unemployed, parked somewhere on I-70 in Utah babysitting a semi-trailer full of bananas, wondering what the hell I graduated college for.”
Bummer.
Are you a victim of the Obama ‘recovery’?
I hope it will turn around, for all of us. May the next Congress not be a bunch of wusses!
What was your major?
It’s absolutely my last.
I don’t care for the constant drudgery, work, the unholy connectedness with those who have passed, the overwhelming sorrow, creative and fanciful stories and an alcoholic who just can’t live in the harsh reality the rest of do.
44 years old and never been forced to grow up and face his shortcomings, his over whelming self centeredness, His sickening displays toward his mother and telling the world how everything works despite 25 years of Karmic bitch slapping.
Never does anything wrong or rather doesn’t cop to anything other than “How could they make such a fool out of me?”
My response “Gee, I dunno. Might be that outrageous and violent attitude you demonstrate when you get a few drinks in you and then your unwilliness to objectively take responsibility for being an ass”.
“I should be able to socialize with my friends and drink” says the adolescent.
“Why sure, you should. Cept for this one glaring fact: You have zero friends. None, Nada, Zip. No one wants to speak with you are hang out with you anymore and most have said never again.
So, is drinking such a good idea” I respond.
“I just spoke with the only two cousins I talk to anymore on Facebook” another childish response given.
“Really? You are seriously delusional. You meant to say they are the only two left that will have fleeting and non organic communications with you.
Of the nearly 80 cousins you have, many of whom were extremely close to you growing up, THEY NO LONGER have any desire to speak with you.
That’s what you meant, right?” I responded.
Crickets, crickets, crickets....
“I don’t talk to my aunts and uncles anymore. They never did what I wanted and that’s just not love” more adolescent delsusions
“So, because they won’t support your lifestyle, listen to your drunken name calling and yelling or complete lack of respect they are the ones in the wrong? I see”. I observe.
And it goes on and on and on.
2nd Christmas that he’s spending at home in 25 years.
To be fair, he was incarcerated for 1/2 that time or more and on Parole the rest.
Has several “Defrauding an Inn Keeper” cases stacked up and waiting disposition.
Another, also waiting disposition, for “Failure to Appear”
Aaaaaand, none of these will be resolved until his felonious burglary and theft are resolved.
He is so stupid, he apologized to the person for doing it “IN a FREAKING TEXT!!!!”
Fooking stoopit or what?
So, he’s been back since Saturday, sleeps in all day, doesn’t do any house work or go to AA(Well, I think he might have gone to day and done something his mom told him do)
Told me point blank how things are and that he was going to ease himself into it and “I dunno, maybe look for a job. I don’t think I can do anything really...”
So, after I told him how it was and that it is absolutely not necessary I say another word to get him going in the right direction because Karma and her step sister, Bitch, are on the hunt.
We are now 5 days with him avoiding being in the same room with me and absolutely refusing to speak with me.
His Mom got angry with me and wanted to know if I said Hello to him.
Told her, “No. He staked out his position. Your silence while he was doing so gave him all the imprimatur he needed and he is getting the Bobby Brady treatment.”
Live by your rules. Natural law still has consequences and I don’t need to say or do a thing.
Besides, I am not the aggressor nor the cause nor the one insulting everyone under the sun.
I got nothing to say.
I feel sorry for a man that at 44 can’t and has never been an adult and maybe isn’t even sentient but, I did this with my Mom’s now dead husband.
I was 15 when I broke my Mom’s alcoholic husbands nose and this kinda feel like the same era but, a new day or Ground Hog Day.
The real tragedy, is because of his felony and admitting it in a text, as I understand it he is going to jail on January 23rd.
So, after spending the last 4 months drunk off his butt, burning every opportunity he was given again and driving off investors, as well as simple acquaintences, I think he feels hopeless.
I can’t help him but, I will not be objectified and galled into helping anyone who is going to cross my boundaries time and again and then finally reaching my threshold by threatening violence against me, now 6 times in the last 4 months.
No way it ends well for him and I’m waiting for him to feel froggy and jump.
Merry Friggin Christamas.
Oh, I still have my Mom, my Dad, brothers and sisters and a bunch of friends.
I won’t be here tomorrow so they can have family time and I can as well.
Might even walk back in tomorrow night to grab some clothes and move out.
I am not down with this.
With the Department of Homeland Security, you’re never completely alone.
Seriously funny!!!
On TV just now they had huge mugs of Roger Ebert, different close ups, and then the voiceover: “Roger Ebert. The only thing he loved more than movies was...”
My interjection: “Food.”
Commercial, continuing: “... Life itself.” A special on the great man. I like my answer better. Also, 2020 hindsight: “The Popcorn.”
Let’s vow to be good Christians live well and love life.
Start excluding people who are in the way.
No one ever redeems themselves.
I’m so sorry, CrazyIvan. May God comfort you and your wife.
Oh, deepest condolences on your tragic loss, TGFP.
Thank you. My husband should not have done this to me.
Don’t lawyers take 30%?
I am told by every friend to get an attorney, but it would just kill my mom. She can’t remember anything for 5 minutes, but she is still aware in the present time, and she would probably be dragged into anything if something were done now. She tells me what her actual wishes were, and what it seems like is that she may have been bamboozeled (when no one knew she was coming down with dementia) into doing otherwise. She doesn’t realize it didn’t happen that way and when I tell her, she gets very sad and upset. There is nothing she can do any more. They got her signature.
I will just have to pray that they will be fair.
Delightful picture, Maelstorm!
Try "Latitude Longitude Converter" to
gather Lat./Long. coordinates used, also free.
Both are great apps..they used obliviously for
field astronomy..as Mobile Planetarium.
Thanks! Merry Christmas!
Sorry for your troubles, Gefn. Be well!
They only make you stronger, you take care of yourself, my FRiend
I am . . . I was a musician.
"If you could wish on a star, what would your wish be?"
*Wishes hard* - I wish to be musical.
*Looks at the night sky* - There are no stars over Utah tonight. I hope I can beat the snow over the mountains tomorrow.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.