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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: boatbums

I’m feeling so sad for you. It is so hard.


181 posted on 12/24/2023 6:30:01 PM PST by WHATNEXT?
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Oh my...you have a story to tell...52 years and you never gave up.


182 posted on 12/24/2023 6:33:24 PM PST by WHATNEXT?
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To: Skooz

Merry Christmas to all the Freepers out there. Sometimes alone is better than not. However we are never alone with Christ, especially at Christmas.


183 posted on 12/24/2023 6:33:38 PM PST by wgmalabama (Censored. )
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To: Skooz

I’m here and extending a merry Christmas to you.


184 posted on 12/24/2023 6:34:22 PM PST by joesbucks (It's called love-bombing. Claiming he's saving the world. This is a cult. Just back away. )
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To: SaveFerris; All

Linus ... that’s sweet :-)

Last year this time, I was in the hospital with my 100 yo dad, reading him the Christmas story out of the Bible. He passed away Jan. 9.

Tonight, I went to a Christmas Eve service and cried all the way through the first hymn, thinking about last year this time with dad. Mom & I attended the service at a small country church ... they have a box of tissues in both ends of every pew ... mom was making use of one box & I was using the other. Dad was a man of strong faith and while I miss him so much, I wouldn’t wish him back in this world because he’s safe in his Shepherd’s arms, in the presence of God’s love this Christmas & forever.

A very Blessed Christmas to all ....

Jesus said “and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” [Matthew 28:20]


185 posted on 12/24/2023 6:36:48 PM PST by Qiviut (If the genaocide was unintentional, they would have pulled the poison vaccines, long ago.)
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To: joesbucks

Thanks. Merry Christmas to you.


186 posted on 12/24/2023 6:37:36 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: PrairieLady2

Thank you. Merry Christmas!


187 posted on 12/24/2023 6:38:28 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: NWFree

No wonder I’m alone, I’m in the wrong state! Who knew!


188 posted on 12/24/2023 6:38:33 PM PST by WHATNEXT?
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To: Skooz

Rosie.


189 posted on 12/24/2023 6:38:38 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: WHATNEXT?
I was married, for a few years.

My being a manic depressive made life a living hell for her.

I'll never understand why God would let me be hit with something that made our vows be broken. I loved her, with all my heart, second only to God.

She remarried, had some kids I heard. The kind of family I always wanted to have. But was denied by my own mind turned against itself.

Things have gotten better in that regard. Until the economy took a huge turn downward I was helping others with severe mental illness, so that they might have a better time dealing with their diagnoses than I did. I spent three and a half years as a mental health professional, and would still be doing that if Trump was still president.

I'm a very broken man, looking for one woman who would not only love God more than me, but could abide my quirks and weaknesses.

And that seems downright impossible to find.

190 posted on 12/24/2023 6:39:32 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (Dear Claire Wolfe: Is it still "too early"?)
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To: Eagles6

My husband and I worked a holiday weekend for the double pay and were rewarded by our taxes going up for the year. Learned the hard way about taxes but we were very young and it clued us in to the IRS and to looked into consequences for the gift horse thing.


191 posted on 12/24/2023 6:43:01 PM PST by mountainfolk (q)
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To: DouglasKC

Same here DouglasKC. I love God’s Holy Days. This year there have been many changes in our lives (my family and I) so I’m welcoming the opportunity to show my love for my family on a day they deem special. I cooked some of their favorite treats and the preparations for a nice dinner tomorrow. I made some italian sausage using beef and ground turkey for my saucè for lasagna. First time making sausage, and it came out good!!

Have a beautiful day tomorrow, and every day.


192 posted on 12/24/2023 6:43:29 PM PST by PrairieLady2 (USA: Land of the free, Because of the Brave.)
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To: stickandrudder

Let’em in at night.


193 posted on 12/24/2023 6:44:00 PM PST by WHATNEXT?
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To: Do_Tar

Good point.


194 posted on 12/24/2023 6:47:55 PM PST by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: mountainfolk
Thanks.

I'll have to do the math.

Merry Christmas!

195 posted on 12/24/2023 6:47:55 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Skooz

I am........:(


196 posted on 12/24/2023 6:51:06 PM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: Psalm 130)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Yes, you have been given a hard road. I have some understanding of your situation.

There is hope...did you see...after 52 years a mate was found. It can happen.


197 posted on 12/24/2023 6:52:39 PM PST by WHATNEXT?
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To: Qiviut

My folks are gone now

Over a decade for one and nearly two on the other

I miss them every single day of the week


198 posted on 12/24/2023 6:52:52 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Skooz

I spent over 2 hours (4:45pm - 7:10pm MT), chatting with my son tonight in person. Did not get to see my grands or D-I-L but that’s the plan tomorrow.

My mother died in 2011. Because of my status as a single person with a grown on his own child and everyone else having other family events to go to I became mom’s Christmas Eve date from about 2005 until the year she died. We would hang out at her apt watching the Christmas shows and having snacks and chatting. About 10 I would give her a kiss and hug and a “Merry Christmas mom” and head home. She was about ready for bed.

I’m not some great hero, I was just doing what a son should. A few members of the family didn’t seem to mind her being all alone on Christmas Eve. Not on my watch.


199 posted on 12/24/2023 6:59:10 PM PST by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: Skooz

Jesus here with me.


200 posted on 12/24/2023 6:59:56 PM PST by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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