Does anyone besides me hate the holidays?

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  • konakat
    konakat Member Posts: 6,085
    edited December 2009

    I haven't had a pedicure for ages -- I think I will right before Xmas and get them painted candy apple red!

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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited December 2009

    Go for it!

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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited December 2009
    Missing Elf
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  • konakat
    konakat Member Posts: 6,085
    edited December 2009

    LOL!!!!!!

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited December 2009

    OMG, I used to work with someone that big!!! Honest! He was easily 500+ pounds....

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited December 2009

    ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Laughing

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  • lillian194020
    lillian194020 Member Posts: 105
    edited December 2009

    I couldn't agree more.  It's been a very tough year and if I could, I'd skip the holidays altogether.  Just wanted you to know that I completely understand your feelings and empathize!

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  • desdemona222b
    desdemona222b Member Posts: 776
    edited December 2009
    I went to church this morning and felt a little better about the holidays...I'm actually a little bit in the mood to decorate, and that's huge.  Smile
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  • Yazmin
    Yazmin Member Posts: 840
    edited December 2009

    Desdemona: MILLIONS of people hate the holidays to death.

    Timtam said it all: "Holidays are only good when you have someone to celebrate them with. For someone like me who is single, have no kids nor close family/relatives, it's just depressing"

    All that fake joy everywhere, all that hypocrisy (little mocking voice): "...the happiest time of the year.....a time for family and friends....home for the holidays......" DIDAH, DIDAH, DIDAH. Most people are not with family and friends at all. Still more ARE with family and absolutely miserable. The most perfect illustration of the hypocritical society we live in, I think.

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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited December 2009
    Happy Everything
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  • txstardust
    txstardust Member Posts: 599
    edited December 2009

    The period from Thanksgiving through Xmas has always been tough for me.  Add to that this new dx and being right in the middle of chemo, with me ending up in the hospital twice out of the 3 treatments, just adds to my own special "holiday spirit".  The thing that is saving me this year is my upcoming wedding.  I love having lots of built-in excuses for not doing the traditional holiday stuff.  Sorry, I can't go to that party, I just had chemo and I can't be around crowds of people.  Sorry, I'd love to buy you a present, but I'm broke from the wedding.  Sorry, I can't cook that huge dinner, the smells from cooking make me nauseous.  

    I think part of the problem is the huge expectations for a wonderul family holiday, all those commercials you see on TV, like that Folger's commercial where the adult kid surprises his family by coming home for Christmas.  I'd just be pissed that he showed up without calling, and now I have even more to cook for dinner!  Ungrateful bastard!  (Can you tell I hate this stuff!)

    Merilee, I LOVE your pictures!   

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited December 2009

    Merilee--the picture is GREAT!!!!! I'm still laughing!

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  • Analemma
    Analemma Member Posts: 1,622
    edited December 2009

    My son has a black t-shirt that says  "F--K CHRISTMAS"  all written out, though.  He wears it at least once to a family event, but now that the grandkids are getting older, he'll have to put it away.

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  • konakat
    konakat Member Posts: 6,085
    edited December 2009

    Loved your post txstardust!  Gee, enough on your plate -- holidays, chemo and planning a wedding.  And congratulations!!  What a wonderful thing to look forward to, to help get you through your chemo days.

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited December 2009

    Merilee you crack me up.Bye the way ladies besides all this xmas crap we now have this cold white #### on the ground to deal with.Baaah Humbug.

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  • nowords
    nowords Member Posts: 423
    edited December 2009

    I usually gear up for the Holidays in the fall....Decorate every room, front yard, backyard. Porch. Lights everywhere. My family has given me a moving van worth of decorations over the last 25 years. I bake for two weeks, make candy and the boxes it goes in!... plan a party for 50 people and do all the cooking and send every family home with several dozen cookies and a box of candy and an ornament.

    I was diagnosed stage 3 with positive nodes in April.This year I just wanted to get on a plane and go somewhere warm and come back when it was over. My family loves the way I fuss over the holidays. They would have understood if I did not do much...but I think they needed it. I am halfway through the decorating and will bake next week. No huge party but maybe a small one. I think it is about making memories, not greed. Rather than think it is hypocritical I think that if just for a short time, people are more generous and kind...well----great! Bitterness is caustic. Have some cocoa with a shot of Bailey's and a cookie and enjoy it...make some memories for yourself or those you care about.

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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited December 2009
    Therapy
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  • desdemona222b
    desdemona222b Member Posts: 776
    edited December 2009

    Well, I had DS drag the fake tree in the house and was actually kinda in the mood  to decorate.   It was not very delightful to discover the lights are all broken on the thing.  Sorta took the wind out of my sails.  As of right now we have an undecorated tree in the living room. 

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited December 2009

    My fake tree has lights on (they're built in) but I started to put decorations on it, but only put about 10 and then stopped. Oh well...

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  • somanywomen
    somanywomen Member Posts: 872
    edited December 2009

    I hate the "make your list"  so I can get you this and you get me that!!...If I told them what I really wanted (co-pays) it might sound too self-centered, but that is what I really want!!!...So instead I ask for gas cards so I can use gas money for co-pays......

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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited December 2009
    LOL Cash is goodMoney mouth
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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited December 2009
    Ho Ho Ho
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  • konakat
    konakat Member Posts: 6,085
    edited December 2009

    Merilee -- I love the cartoons -- keep them coming!  I've been sending them to friends.  Loved the reindeer bum and santa in therapy!

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited December 2009

    I can't copy them..I don't know why?

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  • desdemona222b
    desdemona222b Member Posts: 776
    edited December 2009

    My pc died yesterday.  Two weeks before Christmas.  Yell

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited December 2009

    Yikes! Physician heal thyself! Didn't he read that in school?

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  • Marple
    Marple Member Posts: 19,143
    edited December 2009

    Yikes desdemona, I'm really sorry.  Will you be able to get another without much difficulty? 

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited December 2009

    Sharon we both said Yikes when we posted at the same time! Too funny.....

    You make it sound like she is picking out a new suit. Kiss

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  • desdemona222b
    desdemona222b Member Posts: 776
    edited December 2009
    I financed a new one yesterday, but phooey - I don't need anymore debt right now.  Also discovered last night that the product key for my Microsoft Office mysteriously vanished out of the case.  Boy - I am really glad yesterday is over.  Frown
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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited December 2009

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHA

    I thought you said PCP!!!!

    hehehhehehehehehehhehehehehehee

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