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Is Anyone Else Spending Christmas Eve Alone?
Skooz’s place | December 24, 2023 | Skooz

Posted on 12/24/2023 3:10:51 PM PST by Skooz

Well, another year, another Christmas Eve. I’ll be home alone with my faithful greyhound, sipping vino and watching George Bailey learn how wonderful life is, which has been my tradition for about 15 years now. Anyone else going it solo tonight?


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To: Skooz

Merry Christmas to all in FReeper Land!


81 posted on 12/24/2023 4:11:27 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Skooz

Maybe you are lucky.


82 posted on 12/24/2023 4:12:58 PM PST by Hattie
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To: TChad

I’ve been at several holiday themed gatherings this past week. I had to bite my tongue and keep my mouth shut so many times, my eyeballs were bleeding.


83 posted on 12/24/2023 4:13:30 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: Skooz

You’re not alone. God is always with you and that is a great joy.


84 posted on 12/24/2023 4:13:52 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Sir_Ed
Bah humbug!!

It's interesting but what that word means is a pretty good description:

Humbug - Something intended to deceive; a hoax or fraud.

Christmas is a hoax and a fraud. It's a warmed over pagan celebration dressed up as a Christian holiday. It's a hoax on Christianity. God intended his people to observe the holy days of the bible.

Another definition:

"A person who claims to be other than what he or she is; an impostor."

Santa Claus is worldy, bastardized representation of God. Be good get worldly gifts. Do bad suffer economic distress. What a blasphemy.

85 posted on 12/24/2023 4:15:51 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Skooz
🤚I'm working, till 11pm.

Double pay today and tommorow, but it's voluntary.

Nobody likes me, anyway.😉😆

86 posted on 12/24/2023 4:17:35 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Skooz

Merry Christmas to all
Healthy new year to all


87 posted on 12/24/2023 4:19:28 PM PST by forYourChildrenVote4Bush
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Awhile back I was reading the biography of Tom Lester. He played farmhand Eb on the great TV comedy “Green Acres”. After the show ended, Lester became a Christian speaker. He married for the first and only time when he was 68.

Compared to Eb, you’re still a youngster.

Merry Christmas!
LR


88 posted on 12/24/2023 4:22:06 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Skooz
Personally, I'm sick of all Holidays, except for MEMORIAL DAY AND VETERANS' DAY.

The rest have turned into stupid all you can eat, drink, buy, party and act like a fool. Hell, even Independence Day has become BBQ day. No one of substance still recognizes the original meaning of Holidays.

I don't even recognize nor celebrate Christmas anymore. The worse is New Years Eve craziness. Why is that even a Holiday? Just to get drunk and act like an ass? It's another friggin day. What is there to celebrate? NO ONE knows how the coming year will turn out. It could mean fortune for some and homeless for others. Just don't forget to wear your stupid paper hat.

And most of all, get rid of my yearly frigging Birthday. What the hell did I have to do with that?

89 posted on 12/24/2023 4:24:11 PM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: ComputerGuy

I’ll lend you my brat of a cat. She chooses not to go out when it’s cold, just sits on my desk and complains about the rotten waitress in this establishment. dinner is never soon enough for my fat kitty girl.

My daughter is going to Australia for Christmas , flying out the 26th, jumping on a cruise ship with a friend. Really good for her, since her beloved husband died two months ago, and she cries all the time. Friend’s suggestion of the cruise is a lifesaver for her. Anyway, I’ve invited a good friend over for Christmas dinner and we’ll have a lovely dinner and share a terrific bottle of wine.

Merry Christmas to you and your cat brat.


90 posted on 12/24/2023 4:25:27 PM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: DouglasKC

A merchants payday!
It’s all about the Benjamins .. lots of them!😁


91 posted on 12/24/2023 4:25:33 PM PST by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: Skooz

Just me and my two kitties tonight. I spent the day, however, cooking things to bring to a family gathering tomorrow and wrapping a few gifts for the kiddos so I’m pretty tired.

Merry Christmas!


92 posted on 12/24/2023 4:25:51 PM PST by boatbums (When you dwell in the shelter of the Most High, you will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. )
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To: Skooz

Go to Midnight Mass and you’ll not be alone. :)


93 posted on 12/24/2023 4:26:18 PM PST by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: Skooz

After 37 Christmases with the hubs, whose approach to holidays in general was to hunker down and be as inconspicuous as possible, he’s off celebrating with Jesus this year, while I’m here with a large white mutt and dainty gray tabby. I bought myself a lovely prime ribeye steak for dinner and shared a bit with the dog. Kitty didn’t make a showing until after I had put the leftovers away, so she’ll be having her usual pate. Sitting here now with a cup of hot coffee and a square of dark chocolate to finish things off. I had planned to go to church this evening but decided I prefer the solitude right now. Harder to be alone in a crowd than at home, IMO. All is surprisingly ok, and in a few days there will be family around and post-Christmas visiting to do.


94 posted on 12/24/2023 4:26:38 PM PST by freesia2
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To: Skooz

Yes I am spending my 2nd XMAS alone after my partner died last year. Without her around it is kind of lonely but I don’t mind too much, I have my memories and they sustain me just fine. I much prefer to try and do for others and that is my fun.

I may watch a XMAS film tonight. My usual favorite XMS movie is the 1934 movie, The Thin Man, with William Powell and Myrna Loy, kind of Xmas murder mystery. Never tire of watching that one.

Anyway A Very Merry Christmas to one and all, and stay safe.


95 posted on 12/24/2023 4:30:44 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Dacula

I had my annual viewing two weeks ago. That always kicks off the Christmas season for me.


96 posted on 12/24/2023 4:32:00 PM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: DouglasKC

+1
If you were here, we could sit in front of the fire, sip some vino and sharpen our swords.


97 posted on 12/24/2023 4:32:05 PM PST by samiam5
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To: DouglasKC

That I can understand, the total over commercialization has really ruined the meaning totally.


98 posted on 12/24/2023 4:32:20 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Skooz

This is for all the lonely people,,, a song that popped into my head from the time of my alone. now long past.... Stay happy my friend and Merry Christmas


99 posted on 12/24/2023 4:33:36 PM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: Skooz

Yes, my third Christmas alone. I went to my niece’s Friday, and had an early celebration. Now back home with my dog and cat, my companions.


100 posted on 12/24/2023 4:34:35 PM PST by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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