Posted on 12/24/2024 2:44:59 PM PST by Skooz
Just wondering if any of my fellow FR friends are, like me, enjoying a solo Christmas Eve. I have all the presents wrapped, Christmas music in the background and will spend the evening with my faithful greyhound, Ralphie Parker and then George Bailey -- the same routine every year.
Any of you folks solo this evening?
I am looking forward to hitting the Chinese buffet tomorrow. With friends, foes and family. I will be eating lots of crab there that is steamed simply. That does not come in the usual goopy greasy sauce you usually get at Chinese restaurants. Yuk!
Lots of other good stuff on this Chinese Christmas day buffet.
Someone here said it well, we are never alone. Just me and hubby as usual. I remember your threads in the past on this night. Thanks for starting one. Blessings to you this Christmas and all who cared enough to write you. See you are not alone. ✨🧡
Thank you FRiend, that was wonderful to read.
God Bless you all tonight!
None of us are truly alone when we are alone together. :)
I've been in this area for a few years and still haven't found a good church. Several months ago I was interested in helping start up a chapter of Trail Life. But of all the adults that were involved I would have been the only divorced man (and also without children). Didn't feel like I would be the kind of role model the boys needed.
Merry Christmas!
Alone tonight. Gone upstairs to watch some television. Have 3 Christmas films for tomorrow and the cd cassettes loaded with Christmas songs that I have been listening to all month.
Tomorrow we begin with the Messiah
Yep!
Its not the first time.
‘Merry Christmas, Darling’ never fails to tear me up! A good, long cry on Christmas should be a requirement; prepares/cleanses one for the year ahead! ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR1ujXx2p-I
My condolences.
Yes, another year passes and once again I find myself alone on Christmas Eve. This is not the way I expected things to turn out at this at my age and stage of my life.
Yet here I am, family is thousands of miles away. Friends invited me to come by but I don’t want to impose again this year.
I’m not complaining, as self-imposed exile goes I have built a very comfortable gilded cage, yet I would be lying if I said I would not like to have a special someone to share it with me.
Anyway that’s in Gods’ hands and I have little say in it. I just walk the path he set for me and always hope for the future.
God Bless and Merry Christmas.
May you feel God’s love wrap around you, covering you in the peace that comes from Above.
May you find strength, comfort and the gentle and quiet joy to be loved by our Creator.
Please receive God’s love and hold it close to your heart.
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How to create youtube ads that convert profitably.
God bless you!
I lost my wife two years ago after 50-plus years. She was my rock. Quite an empty life with her not here.
Christmas with her was an over-the-top family production. I miss it with great sadness -- but I am so deeply thankful for all the Christmases we had. Sadly, memories are all that's left now.
She's with God now and probably decorating the tree for Him :-). They are both with me in spirit all the time, and I look forward to the day I can join her again in eternity. Till then, I'll muddle through.
Merry Chrismas.
Amen
He is everything and all we need
You have no idea what you might mean to another person, until you decide to engage.
How do you know you’d be ‘imposing’?
People don’t generally extend invitations to others that they don’t really want to come.
i am alone. I am in the field.
I made a number of mistakes in my life and I have lovely friends and a perpetually pissed off son.
Alone is better.
I’m spending it alone, but I have big plans after Christmas. Some unknown kids vandalized my house yesterday evening. They egged the house and smashed the front storm door. I filed a report with the sheriff, but it drove home a truth that I’ve read on FR, but it didn’t impact me like it does now: if you can’t protect your property, you don’t own it. I want to get back to where I’m owning my property once again.
So, I’m going to look at security cameras, along with buying a new storm door and curtains for the windows that don’t have them yet. I will also be taking a handgun safety course to get an idea of which handgun works best for me. Believe me, I know that I can’t just pick up a handgun and become like Paul Kersey in “Death Wish”, but I do know the four safety rules, and I will diligently apply myself, at the expense of other after-work activities if necessary.
This state of being vulnerable and helpless ends NOW!!! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas.
Today and this evening, my bride of over 60 years, and I are quietly celebrating and thanking the lord for our family and good friends from Africa; New Hampshire, to Floriduh to the midwest and the Southwest to California will low key it tonight and enjoy family dinners tomorrow.
My wife is still and slowly recovering from a hip replacement 3 years ago. So, she gets to sit back and enjoys everyone else working. We will be enjoying a great dinner and lots of talking. Our adult children, and their spouses are excellent cooks.
We’re here with you - many alone, too. Just think of us as being in the next room! Oh, and remember... the depression side of the plolar is just a nasty illusion!!
Tell me something... When you were a kid, how old were you when you found out the truth about Santa and flying Reindeer? (I am always curious about that...)
I remember how down I was the past four years with the theft of the 2020 election (I worked it as a lawyer and saw it first hand) and the incessant tearing down of this country and its traditions, benefitting every crook who wanted to come here and be flown around the US on our taxpayer dollars; the constant lies, abetted by so-called Reps like Liz Cheney and Kinzinger; the seeming descent into Bolshevism and the corruption of the Bidens. See what happened when November 2024 struck - the sun came out again; if you don’t wait around you can’t see the sunrise. We are all your friends, even though you never met us in person.
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