I'll be alone. I lost my mother in August, so i'm an orphan now (my dad died 5 years ago)
I'm not sad or in need of pitty though. I just need my alone time to think things over. Christmas is as good a time as any :)
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Xanax and wish it was 2020 again
You enjoyed 2020?
My partner and I were laid off December 2019. In February 2020 my government started giving us both a lot of money every month. We were not working from 2020 until 2022, and made money anyway. We spent all of our time together, at home, going out as little as possible, doing everything we loved (we have all of the same hobbies and are homebodies).
Best years of our lives.
Yeah borrowing from the future is fun. Until the future arrives. :/
Whatcha mean!
It’s like living off credit cards. It’s fun until the limit runs out and now you have to pay it all back.
I don’t quite understand. I didn’t have to pay anything back, we just saved a ton of money and bought a bunch of index funds hahaha.
We all paid and are paying it back via inflation.
(At least that’s how it is in my country)
Ahhhhhh alright you’re not wrong at all hahaha. Selfishly, it was the best time for us.
That time was best for me too. I was forced to adapt to working from home, and I haven’t been back to an office since. I got a job in my dream industry as well, took a risk, and all is amazing now.
Hell yeah dude, I love to hear it. It sucks that there were destructive economy things… but if you and I were just some peeps before who were crushed by the boots of “you must come to office” capitalism and now have more comfy lives… at least something positive came out of it. I still have to go into an office half the time, but at least now half my time is chillin in bed doing nothing (and still performing better then anyone else on my team) and half the time I have to car to a place and it kinda sucks.
You deserve the awesome job you have, and everyone should be able to enjoy life like we do.
Well we got to see the nations lowest forms of life throw a largely ineffective temper tantrum. What's not to enjoy?
I’ve taken my partner and kids interstate to see family we haven’t seen in 2 1/2 years, whilst bushfires are burning not far from our home.
We’re due to fly back on Boxing Day, and not sure what we’re going back to yet.
I’m putting on a brave face for our kiddos, especially our 4 year old who is really into Christmas this year, but we’re terrified what things look like in a couple days.
I'm sorry to hear this. Hope you come home to an unblemished home!
Psychedelic mushrooms. They're legal here (Oakland, CA).
Go to work, then panick that all the shops are closed and all I brought to eat is dry crackers...
Cik pogodi sta imam za veceru
budjav lebac, budjav lebac
njam njam njam njam
Already did the family thing on Sunday and survived.
My partner and I will be celebrating with friends, they are also not Christmas and especially family Christmas fans. We are just going playing jack box, baldur's gate and probably some board games. So I'm a bit excited for first Christmas day, but we will not do anything traditional Christmasy.
It's for me one of the most stressful time's of the year.
just try to help my family. give them love and joy.
Rest, relax, family and beer 🍻 🍻
Here in Germany, we celebrate mostly on Christmas Eve. I have a couple of hours left to get ready before my stepdad picks me up. We'll visit my grandma who sadly has to spend the holidays in hospital because she fell and hurt her knee. After that, Christmas dinner at my mom's and stepdad's house with most of the family, gifts and a relaxed evening. I'll stay over night, have breakfast and then go home to finish packing everything I need for my winter vacation which starts on the 26th.
It's been an exhausting year and I can really use the downtime.
Nothing more than survive.
Yeah, me too as well
It's my first ever Christmas alone. Still making an 8 lb ham and a nice spread of food for dinner. Will be making sandwiches and bean soup with the leftover ham. Otherwise just wallowing in self pity and doom swiping on dating sites in hopes that I won't be alone next year.
I just did a little work, my wife is setting the table for dinner and then we will drink and watch movies together.
I’ve been looking forward to it all week.
For me personally, I'm gonna stay up for Christmas Eve and watch NORAD Tracks Santa.
Always is a great pass time to watch Santa's journey across the world, and is also a great tool to know his location and to know when he will arrive in your location/area. It's one of the best things of the Christmas season for sure!
Christmas eve: lift weights then go to my crappy retail job
Christmas: visit my family and try not to cry
Currently we are decorating the tree then when everyone is here we will eat Hochzeitssuppe and Zungenragout (literal translation would be wedding soup and tongue ragout) which are traditional christmas dishes in our family. Then we open the presents (in Germany you open them usually on Christmas Eve). Tomorrow we will eat roast goose with braised red cabbage and potato dumplings.
So overall just hanging out with family and eating.
Working
Play XIV Online and Geat Circle with the wife.
Game pass promo expires in 3 months
We're gonna be eating lots and lots of delicious food!
The usual, really. Get a nice buzz going on coke and rum, draw, build whatever's behind door 24 in the Bluebrixx Star Trek advent calendar, make the husband watch Richard II and Hamlet (maybe even Much Ado About Nothing) with me, rewatch Severance season 1, watch a bunch of bad movies. Mostly watch stuff, basically.
I'm going to spend Christmas Eve (the day that we celebrate Christmas in Sweden) with my family and cousins. I'd guess that'll be fine, however I don't know everyone that well so I'm not too excited for it