This Is The Thread Where We Get Drunk to Deal with Feelings of Frustration, Loneliness, Boredom, Anxiety or Sheer Dread Associated with Christmas and/or New Year's and then Laugh it all Off with a He

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Ha!

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Thursday, 23 December 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i dread new years. at least i do this year. its the first time that every one of my friends is coupled, making me the lone single person. i dont mind being single [been this way for 5 years] but there's something about new years that makes me feel really, really pathetic.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 23 December 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, i missed the boozy laugh and chuckle part.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 23 December 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

no worries! I can't make it back home because of work, and my best friends have all exited town, so Christmas Day will be spent with one of my crazy friends and his GF, and maybe with this guy I know who smokes a lot of weed.

HAW

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 23 December 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

the first year i will be alone for xmas, w. no money either

― anthony, Thursday, 23 December 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Gear, you crazy man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 December 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

All my Christmas frustration/anger was expended by dinner with my religious extended family. They have no manners, no respect for other people and certainly no respect for the waitress. It was like eating out with people raised in a zoo, which just served to remind me that my family are the black sheep since we don't get married at 19 and start pumping out Jesus babies.
One of the little chucklehead cousins didn't even speak to my grandmother, I guess because she decided not to give out presents this year (once you crest 10 grandkids + 5 great-grandkids, time to forget it).

God gave me an early Christmas present - I found out my 18-year old cousin has gone to work cocktailing in a dive I used to frequent. I give her six months before she picks up a speed habit (like all the other employees) or gets knocked up.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 23 December 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

that's the spirit!

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Thursday, 23 December 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

THE YEAR CHRISTMAS ALMOST WASN'T

― Steely Zan (AaronHz), Thursday, 23 December 2004 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

hey anthony, do you mean ALONE alone or just w/o the travelling family sideshow?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 December 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I've given up holidays. I just wish my family would get it. They worry and make me feel bad b/c I'll be "alone" on xmas. It's just another day unless you make it into something. leave me alone.

It snowed here but I've got to try and get out tomorrow before everything closes to get foodstuffs for myself. My local bar will still be open and my new boy is coming up on Saturday to go see a show. xmas,pbbt.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 23 December 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll have plenty of those feelings this Xmas, but booze is no solution for me, I'm afraid. I'll be logging onto ILX as I would any other Saturday, and feeling a bit pathetic for sitting there wishing there were someone else around...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 23 December 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I REALLY want to be alone this xmas - I like alone, alone is good. I get to quality alone time. I however have to spend XMas day with mum and Stepdad, and then a couple of days afterwards with dad and stepmum. I just want to be left alone with my DVD player and a big bag of d1ug5 and I'd be happy.

Bah humbug.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 23 December 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

There's bound to be other ilxors around on saturday Martin - you won't be alone.

― Rumpster Pumpster, Thursday, 23 December 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

My prediction for how my Christmas will turn out - I will end up extremely drunk, obsessively checking the weather conditions for Midland, TX, where my son and his mom are moving to on Monday, and hopefully I can eat enough turkey and starchy foods smothered in gravy and find enough boring television that I will end up sleeping through all of it, and thereby not break down in sad sad emotion tears.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 December 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

What do you do if someone in your immediate family (i.e. living in your house) is totally, totally miserable about Christmas?

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

where my son and his mom are moving to on Monday

Aw man, Nick! When do you get to see him??

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm working.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Masterminds" marathon on Court TV on Christmas night!

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

anybody who wants to chat can totally hit me up on xmas eve/day (or any other time of course but you know what I mean). I think I have to do xmas morning with mr teeny's mom though, wish me luck!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Christmas. Either I go spend an appalling day with extended step-family hyper bratlets, or I don't, and have vast amounts of guilt induced by my perfect sister who trots of faithfully every year.

This time there will be TV, me and the Pride & Prejudice boxset and it will be a happy little time.

― Abby (abby mcdonald), Thursday, 23 December 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I have family to see, but it is, in some ways, an obligation. Except...how can my wonderful niece and nephew ever be obligatory? Christmas is for them, and I will see them tomorrow. I am "the book auntie" - I always find great books for them, and they crawl onto my lap and let me read with them. It is the best feeling in the world.
I expect i will be here tomorrow and Sat. as well. HERE. Just because...this is a community that, at times, has felt as real as my established communities, and its nice to talk to friends over the holidays...and remain confident you are not interrupting a nice dinner.
I'm feeding a friends cats while she is away, and will have the Christmas morning experience of caring for two whiny siamese love sluts. (Cats! Do not xpost!)
I will walk to her apartment, and walk through the town, and love the silence of Christmas.
Maybe I will sing. It's so nice to be able to walk because nobody is driving, because the cars are all where they are supposed to be, and the frenzy is over.
Peace.
The antithesis of the lead -up to the Holidays.
I will have peace.
And, y'know, I will sing.
xxoo to everyone - Alison

― aimurchie, Friday, 24 December 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

christmas just makes me really nervous and stressed out and so does new year.

its my birthday today also, and the busy holiday time means i wont get to spend any crucial alone time with this girl im trying to get with.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Friday, 24 December 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy Birthday!

― aimurchie, Friday, 24 December 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I fucking hate holidays. And I'm already dreading it. Everything will shut down and I'll be mopey and miserable and can't even get blasted out of my head because I don't want to do that alone but probably will anyway and then feel even worse.

― mouse (mouse), Friday, 24 December 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Own. it. It belongs to you. You get to be you. ONLY YOU.i==i WILL SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE.

― aimurtchie, Friday, 24 December 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm feeling all weird because I worked up until today and I haven't really had time to see people, wish happy holidays, etc. I feel disconnected, at loose ends, and all round lonely. Why is this? Is it just because I couldn't say "merry christmas" to people?

― cybele (cybele), Friday, 24 December 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Christmas has a set of rules. It is, of course, about being with and wishing others good tidings, but I've found no two Chrismasses alike. Some have been earth-shatteringly beautiful and others kinda quiet and perhaps a bit dull. The best ones are where you just feel at ease with yerself. What do I know...

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 24 December 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah. I think I'm similar to Alison here. Family makes holiday celebrations and observances obligatory, except, yeah, there are those few relatives we will have who will make the obligation not quite so "compulsory". I have a few relatives whom I'm sure will make the season bright for me just by virtue of being in their presence, which is always nice.

I have a half ton of holiday obligations. I'm still a practicing member of my faith community, so I will be doing the Christmas Mass thing. On top of that, I will be going to various relatives' houses on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, so yeah, I should be filled up with Christmas by season's end. And then there's still the NYE festivities! Though I can remember years when all the holiday celebrating I did was done at home, with just my parents and me, so I'm not at all unfamiliar with low-key fests.

I don't think there's really any "right" way of celebrating the holidays, though. Whatever way works best for you is what should be considered "right" and "proper", and this may change from year to year. I also think jim is most probably 100% OTM.

(I end ramblefest now.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 24 December 2004 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

OH! I nearly forgot! Happy birthday, Hari! I hope your family's not the kind to double-gift, i.e. "This is for your birthday AND Christmas." But if they are, I hope the gifts they give you are super-duper awesome.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 24 December 2004 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

not the first christmas / new years eve i've been officially single. but the first that i havent had the illusion perpetuated by myself and an equally foolish ex that we would perhaps get back together "at semester's end". aaaaaaargh. -10 defense roll gainst gullibility. let's drink up, fellow christmas angsty bastards.

― js, Friday, 24 December 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

aahh thank god for peace and quiet and my own apartment and decent beer.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 26 December 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't get drunk,
had to drive all through the snow
to see my brother;

then when I returned,
all the decent wine was gone.
Grr frustrated argh.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 26 December 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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