How was your Christmas?

[mvd]

Mine wasn’t so great. Not enough money to buy much in gifts, and my mom and I were alone. I suppose it could have been even worse, so should count any blessings. If you don’t celebrate, you can still describe how the day went.

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[Iggo]

1. Good. Household only, just like last year.

Not the best, but nowhere near bad.

No surprises. No pressure. No stress.

Which is good.

[mvd]

2. No stress is always good!

Glad to hear!

My Chistmases used to be that way, but things have changed.

[bottomofthehill]

6. Same here.

Miss being with family in New England. Christmas, until last year was a three state bump visiting family. The past two years we have stopped that tradition. It is difficult as we usually only see family twice a year, but it is for the safety of all.

[Deuxcents]

3. I got to my sisters

In almost 2 years.. Covid n my bil had quadrupled by pass heart surgery..he’s great n all good. I’m not religious but I gave thanks to my Creator b/c I love them so much. Ty. Merry Christmas 🎄

[mvd]

4. Glad to hear he's doing well

Merry Christmas to you, too.

[Deuxcents]

11. 🙏

[onecaliberal]

5. Just our bubble. Great food watched a movie and

Put together a 500 piece puzzle. It was good.

[Skittles]

7. same as any other day

[UTUSN]

27. Am I your clone?!

[Skittles]

28. it absolutely is no different!

I work all the way through the holidays (from home), don't see anyone.

[UTUSN]

29. Leave "work" out & me-again. Well, I *did* mow grass. Oh, that was the day after.

I remember one of my Teaching Assistants who told us that outside of his classes schedule he would Write on weekends and holidays, that days off are opportunities for other things. But we know that. Or endless YouTubes (Romans! Egypt! Greeks!).

[2naSalit]

8. Home alone...

Just like any other day, plenty to eat and things to do. Okay, just like every other Christmas, listening to music and stories, lots of phone calls and munchies.

I never have expectations beyond staying home so I am doing just fine.

[mvd]

9. Had a good dinner and lots of sports on

But no phone calls even for me. I have a friend but she doesn’t call much unless she’s coming over.

[2naSalit]

10. I have...

A couple sisters left, they called, and a few friends who live in other states or at least a few hours' drive away, they call too.

[chillfactor]

14. same here....

senior citizen here disabled and alone but did manage to fix myself a good dinner and my little puppy enjoyed a roast chicken drumstick! Watched Christmas movies on Hallmark,read mysteries on my Kindle Unlimited, and texted with son and friends. My son video called me and I watched my 4 year old grandson open Christmas gifts. Topping the day off with Bloody Mary's.

[lastlib]

12. Home with mom, (age 93, blind, deaf, arthritic and nearly helpless)

no gifts, food was borderline. Did get to watch the Webb telescope launch, day went to hell from there. I'm bored out of my gourd.

[sakabatou]

13. Uneventful

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. Good, very good.

This morning a friend emailed me to see if I wanted to do lunch with her. Excellent idea. The only open restaurant in all of Santa Fe was the IHop, so we went there. They were doing a brisk business, and we tipped out waiter with extra generosity. Then we went to her house and played some card games.

The best part of the day was when I went on FB and saw a message from someone I'd messaged a year ago. She was someone I wanted to get in touch with for very personal reasons, but she rarely looks at her messages. But she did today, got back to me, and it was wonderful.

[electric_blue68]

16. Sort of Good, under the circumstances...

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I was able to skip an errand so I didn't have to go out.

Saw the sun for a bit when they said it'd be grey all day.

Spent time on fb sending and receiving Merry Christmas wishes. That was sweet.

Caught later the launch etc of the JW telescope!
Watched much of Scrooge/Christmas Carol w Alister Sim.
My favorite version.

No fancy dinner (tomorrow for that) but fancy Christmas dessert - Hagen Daz Spirits: vanilla ice cream w chocolate truffles, and Bourbon + broken pieces of Pepperidge Farms Chocolate Fudge Pirouette sticks..

Considering all the craziness I'd say sort of good.
(Knew weren't going to any extended family get together which ended up falling apart anyway; my disappointment was inly putting up one decoration, not finding my mult changing colored LEDS string of lights. I'll just keep decorating. I decorate barely to in time on 24th, 25ft but I keep them up till late Feb or so.

[PJMcK]

17. Pretty good but mixed

Our visit with my wife’s family was lovely and we enjoyed some delicious meals.

We were set to visit with my brother but he got very belligerent about our request that he take an at-home Covid test. His responses to me were cavalier and insulting so that visit ain’t happening. I’m saddened because I love my brother.

We’re going to spend the week and New Years on the Outer Banks. That’ll be wonderful!

[bif]

18. The weirdest and worst Xmas ever

My daughter came into town on Tuesday and had a sore throat. She tested positive for Covid and has been quarantined with her fiancé in our library all week. And as a result, we couldn't have Christmas Eve with our other daughter who has a newborn. And we missed Christmas day with my wife's family. Have yourself a shitty little Christmas!

[smirkymonkey]

22. Sorry to hear that, bif.

Wishing you, your family, and everyone, a much happier 2022!

[XanaDUer2]

19. SO got us Britbox

Small dinner. Hung around

[smirkymonkey]

20. It was ok. I was kind of dreading it.

It was the first time I had seen my parents since my mother had been diagnosed w/ Stage 3 Dbl. Hit Lymphoma back in August and my dad had just had back surgery a week ago (they are 78 and 82 respectively). We met at my sister's house in Kennebunk, ME (They are from upstate NY and I live in Boston). We have 2 other brothers who didn't join us and spent the holiday w/ their own families - one in VT and one in MD.

Everyone got along fine, except for a few Trumpy incidents which I chose to ignore for the sake of peace and harmony (My BIL and to a lesser extent, my sister - and their indoctrinated children (although I don't think that's holding now that the oldest is at the very liberal UVM) , such as drinking out of "Trump 2024" coffee mugs when they already have a full set of normal coffee mugs (I am sure that touch was reserved just for me) and a number of other stupid, petty incidents like that.

The thing that upsets me the most is the feeling that I can never do anything right around them. I think they just cannot stand who I am - we are very different people and something about me triggers them. I can't help but feel it every time I am around them.

And in turn, I hate who I am when I am around them. I always leave with a major emotional hangover. Today, it actually felt physical, despite not having a drop of alcohol the entire time I was there. I literally felt sick from the moment I woke up until I
had been settled in back here in Boston for at least 2 hours. I have had to lie down w/ heating pads, ibuprofen, BenGay, herbal tea (for stomach), etc. I am starting to finally feel better. I really wish it wasn't this way, and I have tried so hard to work on it, but they will never look inward or try to understand any viewpoint but their own.

Sorry, didnt mean to go on for that long.

[hunter]

21. It's not done yet.

This is rivaling some Christmases I experienced in my youth.

Thankfully it's all ordinary chaos, religious warfare just a minor chord.

When I was a kid all the adults went gasoline huffing insane at Christmas time. None of them agreed when, how, or if Christmas should be celebrated and they were willing to battle over it. The only thing they had in common was that they were not Mormon.

Nevertheless they returned every year to do battle. They liked fighting.

I had only one grandmother who believed in and practiced the traditional U.S.A. Christmas. She was a force of nature as well so me and my siblings are at least familiar with these Christmas traditions. In spite of the PTSD.

My parents are not Christmas people.

My wife's family is thoroughly Mexican and Irish Catholic.

This Christmas I cooked a big chunk of beef for the carnivores. It's been the first time I've cooked a Christmas meal like that in many years, and the beef turned out well, my mother-in-law's recipe. Biggest most expensive chunk of beef I've ever bought and cooked in my kitchen.

The carnivores ate it up. The vegetarians and vegans were tolerant. I'm mostly vegetarian, but this was exceptionally tasty.

[CTyankee]

23. I got a 500 paged book on Victorian Art from hubby.

Since art history is my bag. It's extremely heavy but so full of the gorgeous art of the Pre-Raphaelite period in Britain that I will savor every page.

[Generic Brad]

24. Boring as hell

No gifts. No visitors. No invitations. Too windy to go outside and walk. I'm so glad it's over.

New Year's will be no different.

[mopinko]

25. i paid the whole thing pretty much zero attention.

it was a relief.

[Kali]

26. it was Ok after a long period of meh combined with stress

see - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181600077

weather finally made up its fucking mind so it was not rainy Saturday and we commenced with the cookout. I didn't get enough to drink alcohol-wise, but the coffee drinkers were stuck with some truly awful cowboy coffee so I will call it even.