it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas
- Thread starter Chris1972
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shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
I finished last Friday. My only long holiday of the year & 1st time in 13 years I've had a day off at this time of year & not been in work or on call on Christmas day.
Really enjoying the freedom to potter and Christmasify things at my leisure.
Really enjoying the freedom to potter and Christmasify things at my leisure.
BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
- Location
- Iskele TRNC & Mordor UK
Being alone mostly I have a lot of empathy for it being like another day, but not so much with the bah humbug bit anymore. I miss christmas, I have avoided it like the plague for five years, totally shutting it out from my life because there were just to many painfull memories. This year I have made a real effort to change how I allow myself to feel at this time of year. On Tuesday I was at a christmas pub quiz, prior to that a xmas dinner dance, a xmas party, a carol concert (I even got roped into joining the choir!) and tomorrow I am singing carols in a windmill. I went out and bought xmas sweets and gave then to strangers I met at these groups. I figure that even alone I am still allowed toi have a bit of fun at xmas, and make it a little different.
I will never have grandchildren, so I can choose enjoy xmas in my own way or dwell on what I used to have. I'm done dwelling, what I had was wonderful but it is gone. I choose to create a new wonderful somehow....and today that means chocolate xmas balls, and sitting here trying to figure out how best I can cook a full Christmas lunch for my dear old Dad.
I even put up a string of fairy lights and opened the cards people have sent me, which in the last five years I just couldnt bring myself to do.
Besides, I know my beautiful departed Mum would want me to do it like this.
I will never have grandchildren, so I can choose enjoy xmas in my own way or dwell on what I used to have. I'm done dwelling, what I had was wonderful but it is gone. I choose to create a new wonderful somehow....and today that means chocolate xmas balls, and sitting here trying to figure out how best I can cook a full Christmas lunch for my dear old Dad.
I even put up a string of fairy lights and opened the cards people have sent me, which in the last five years I just couldnt bring myself to do.
Besides, I know my beautiful departed Mum would want me to do it like this.
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
all the way up to about 3pm on xmas eve for me 
Lullabelle
Banana
- Location
- Midlands UK
Tomorrow 1pm finish, go back 2nd Jan.
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
I break up on Monday lunchtime and go back to work at lunchtime on the 2nd Jan.
We'll be short of money but I am looking forward to the down time.
We'll be short of money but I am looking forward to the down time.
London Female
Über Member
I have one more shift tomorrow then off until Boxing day.
Maverick Goose
A jumped up pantry boy, who never knew his place
- Location
- A champagne supernova in the sky
Off Christmas day then back to the fray 
dodging knives, 
abuse, pots of boiling water etc
[and a waitress called Calypso
]
