Anybody spending Christmas Day on your own?

Foweva Awone

Foweva Awone wrote: »

Not on my own as such, but in hospital, and won't have any visitors. Family are too far away. It's grand. I know all the staff here and they are so so kind. And there's a few other patients on the ward here too, and the dining room is all set up for Christmas dinner with decorations and crackers and all the rest. There's certainly worse places one could be.

You will be helping make the day for the staff A very Merry Christmas!

Graces7

Went short walkies with Boycat ( who will rouse from the deepest sleep at that "w" word and who spends hours each day by the gate in hope).... before light, with a torch. To see if my Christmas lights work well... OH MY ! So bright these LED battery lights! Shining all the way across the dark island...

Just the orange harbour lights on... I dared not stay out long or go far lest the torch battery died. Been out there like that and it is like being dead. Never saw such darkness .
Total darkness, which is the ultimate solitude.

"All is well; all is well and all manner of things shall be well..."

Where I am in Dublin it’s ever so mild. The goose breast and all is cooked, all that needs doing is cooking up the gravy!

Graces7

Deleted User wrote: »

Where I am in Dublin it’s ever so mild. The goose breast and all is cooked, all that needs doing is cooking up the gravy!

Turkey breast roast ( and gravy!) with roast potatoes, roast carrots and parsnips, sprouts. stuffing, cranberry AND gravy, eaten! It was delicious... Stuffed I am but content ..I think the word is REPLETE....

Posy

Yes, it's been very mild in Dublin.
Hope you've had a lovely Christmas, Catmaniac!

Justin Credible Darts

spent the evening watching Spiral (engrenages)....wife at her mothers, dog snoring, fire lighting and no one bothering me.

wonderful

Postgrad10

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

spent the evening watching Spiral (engrenages)....wife at her mothers, dog snoring, fire lighting and no one bothering me.

wonderful

We watch that too on BBC 4. Love that series.

Millionaire only not

marko99 wrote: »

I'll be spending the 36 hours from 9am on Christmas Eve until 9pm on Christmas Day travelling down the west coast of the USA from Seattle to LA, I just love long train trips.

I'm interested to see what sort of people my fellow passengers will be!

Brilliant I’m dead jealous- fair play to u

Justin Credible Darts

Postgrad10 wrote: »

We watch that too on BBC 4. Love that series.

finished season 7 about a week ago, and since it was so long since I had first watched it, went back and watched it from the start again and on to season 5.
Superb show

jimbobaloobob

Enjoying a warm fire and some music
Haven't spoken a word since morning.

Thargor

Graces7 wrote: »

Turkey breast roast ( and gravy!) with roast potatoes, roast carrots and parsnips, sprouts. stuffing, cranberry AND gravy, eaten! It was delicious... Stuffed I am but content ..I think the word is REPLETE....

Graces7 what island are you on if you dont mind me asking? Feel free to say mind your own business

Graces7

Sounds perfect! Totally perfect! Hope the goose was good...

nothing wrote: »

On my own again, had a few invites but to be honest I prefer the day alone. No worries about falling out with anyone, no fighting over the remote, no being dragged out of bed at an ungodly hour, no stress of slapping on a smile for the sake of it. In the last decade or so, I've done 4 with family or friends, and 6 to 8 alone, much prefer the peace alone.

I've got a goose in the oven (I expect I'll be eating it until Easter!), have all the trimmings in, looking forward to an excellent meal tomorrow.

A few presents in the corner waiting to be opened, no decorations up at all except a handful of cards.

It's been nice having a few days away from the study, catching up with friends and exchanging gifts.

I'll probably spend the day in front of the tv and chatting on various messengers with friends to see how their days are.

Graces7

Am exhausted, so heading sleepwards imminently.. Glad Christmas is but once a year as dearly as I love it, all the preparation and cooking .... ay me!

No regrets and it has been a wonderfully peaceful and healing time, but time now to close the shutters and stop the world!

Thanks to all here for all you give.

Hope all here enjoy the rest of the season.... Blessings and peace..

nothing

Graces7 wrote: »

Sounds perfect! Totally perfect! Hope the goose was good...

It was fantastic, and loads left! Delighted with it.

Day itself was slightly hampered by drunken fighting neighbours at 3am, so there was an afternoon nap and a delay in dinner. Of course being alone meant it was grand to do that.

fryup

Foweva Awone wrote: »

Not on my own as such, but in hospital, and won't have any visitors. Family are too far away. It's grand. I know all the staff here and they are so so kind. And there's a few other patients on the ward here too, and the dining room is all set up for Christmas dinner with decorations and crackers and all the rest. There's certainly worse places one could be.

a morgue ?

Posy

Now, that's not a very nice post to somebody spending the festive period in hospital.

If people can't post anything nice here, don't post anything at all.

asteroids over berlin

Only once, in Sydney, i had arrived a week earlier and luckily found and moved into an apartment in 2 days.
I knew Xmas day would be strange but i hated it, the aussies weren't teally big into it and i knew literally nobody. I seen an advertisement for a big gig in Bondi - Judge jools, so bought a ticket, dear god what a mistake, dreadful tacky music, i still shudder to this day ha. 16 years ago this year ha

Graces7

nothing wrote: »

It was fantastic, and loads left! Delighted with it.

Day itself was slightly hampered by drunken fighting neighbours at 3am, so there was an afternoon nap and a delay in dinner. Of course being alone meant it was grand to do that.

Sorry re the neighbours... Mine are perfect! They know I am unwell and twice this last week they have crept down the long drive and left gifts at or on the big gate... Once it was a tub of Roses and yesterday a calendar ….such kindness!

What puzzles is that there is the sack of coal delivered over a week ago that is half way down the drive that I cannot move and they have left it there!

And yes, being alone makes life more flexible

Weltsmertz

You know what. All the people on this thread saying how wonderful and enjoyable it is to spend Christmas day alone, eating dinner alone and watching telly alone. I don't believe you. Not having anyone to spend Christmas day with is not the wonderful experience you are claiming.
It makes one feel more alone than usual and a bit of a social failure.

Mehaffey1

Weltsmertz wrote: »

You know what. All the people on this thread saying how wonderful and enjoyable it is to spend Christmas day alone, eating dinner alone and watching telly alone. I don't believe you. Not having anyone to spend Christmas day with is not the wonderful experience you are claiming.
It makes one feel more alone than usual and a bit of a social failure.

Shhh don't break the illusion if they are managing to kid themselves!

My first Christmas single in almost a decade, spending it with my parents, as lovely as they are it's still sh1t

zerosugarbuzz

Weltsmertz wrote: »

You know what. All the people on this thread saying how wonderful and enjoyable it is to spend Christmas day alone, eating dinner alone and watching telly alone. I don't believe you. Not having anyone to spend Christmas day with is not the wonderful experience you are claiming.
It makes one feel more alone than usual and a bit of a social failure.

I disagree with you. I have never spent Christmas alone and when I was younger I would have dreaded the thought. Now I think it depends how evolved and mentally mature you are. It is one day, a grown up adult that isn’t ruled by their emotions should be able to deal with spending it alone, either by choice or circumstance. I am very impressed by the people on here. If the need arises I think I would enjoy the day just like you have 🎄

splinter65

Weltsmertz wrote: »

You know what. All the people on this thread saying how wonderful and enjoyable it is to spend Christmas day alone, eating dinner alone and watching telly alone. I don't believe you. Not having anyone to spend Christmas day with is not the wonderful experience you are claiming.
It makes one feel more alone than usual and a bit of a social failure.

See, here you are assuming lots of things. First of all you are assuming that the people who are spending Christmas Day alone are doing so because they have no one to spend it with. What you have to realise is that some people, for many reasons, wish to be alone on Christmas Day despite being invited to be part of a group. In actual fact for some people Christmas Day is an opportunity for some alone time.
Just because you would feel a social failure if you were alone at Christmas time doesn’t mean that others would, or that being considered a social failure would be important to them, as it clearly is to you.
I would say that if your only reason for being in a group at Christmas is to be seen as a social success then you need to review your priorities.
Lots of people consider quite rightly that Christmas has now become extremely over commercialised, and the pressure to join in in the illusion of togetherliness and peace and love to all mankind is not for them.
For some people it is primarily a religious feast and all the food and tinsel is too tacky.
Just because not everyone views Christmas as you do doesn’t mean that they are lying.

Weltsmertz

Be honest. Christmas was never really a religious feast. Even for those that are religious. Since the rise of Black Friday and January sales I'm not sure that it really about consumerism or commercialisation either. The impression given is that it's about getting together with loved ones and close family. If you don't have any well then you either spend it alone or force yourself into the company of semi strangers you don't really want to be around.

Sorry. I just don't buy all the protestations from posters on this thread that they are alone on Christmas day out of choice and preference because spending it with others is too much hassle or too stressful or that they need "alone" time It can be the loneliest day of the year. And claims by posters here that having dinner alone or watching telly all day alone are empowering and wonderful experiences come across as false.

Graces7

Oh just ignore him! Look at some of his other posts; same style same technique.. eg Lorenzo on the weather forum!

I have had the most fulfilling and peaceful Christmas ever, alone, through circumstances that I chose. And as for several reasons eg no immune system, I cannot be along folk. But also I find peace in solitude.

If you cannot be happy in your own company you can never be happy

My faith in the real Christ-Mass is strong and intact, as I have written there already. it being a religious celebration does not mean no special food. Someone once referred to it all as " The biggest birthday party in the world"!

We should thank this jaundiced poster for helping us to reaffirm all the positivity, caring and love expressed in this thread.

Oh mr WM? Welcome to my ignore list!

splinter65 wrote: »

See, here you are assuming lots of things. First of all you are assuming that the people who are spending Christmas Day alone are doing so because they have no one to spend it with. What you have to realise is that some people, for many reasons, wish to be alone on Christmas Day despite being invited to be part of a group. In actual fact for some people Christmas Day is an opportunity for some alone time.
Just because you would feel a social failure if you were alone at Christmas time doesn’t mean that others would, or that being considered a social failure would be important to them, as it clearly is to you.
I would say that if your only reason for being in a group at Christmas is to be seen as a social success then you need to review your priorities.
Lots of people consider quite rightly that Christmas has now become extremely over commercialised, and the pressure to join in in the illusion of togetherliness and peace and love to all mankind is not for them.
For some people it is primarily a religious feast and all the food and tinsel is too tacky.
Just because not everyone views Christmas as you do doesn’t mean that they are lying.

Posy

I think this thread has been summed up perfectly.

I hope everyone had a lovely day, be it alone, with excited kids, with the in-laws, with adults sitting around the TV in a food coma, or on holidays by a pool just enjoying your own company.