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Holiday blues get you?

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First, I get angry at all the hullabaloo and materialism, then I get sad. It's a me, me, me world.

Do you get the blues? What will you do this year to get through?
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The materialism of the "holidays" eats my soul. I walk around bloody and bruised from Halloween through New Years. Typically I get through it by making a difference - adopting a family in need, volunteering at a shelter or food bank, somehow finding a way to give. This year, I will have an excuse not to face it as, in 9 days, I will be going under the knife. A week in the hospital followed by 6 or so at home gets me through this depressing season without expecations from others. I'm not going to go so far as to say I'm glad I'm having surgery, but having a reason to lock myself away is a nice side effect!
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We Christmas adopt too. The children often have no idea what to ask for...
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christmas what's it all about,presents given and recieved ,some with thought some with no thought.the usual repeats on the tv ,in uk there is the james bond films shown every year.our queen joins us every christmas day to talk to us through our tv's at 3pm.after we have all over stuffed on a turkey dinner and christmas pud.then there's they mountain of washing up.but ur too stuffed to do it lol.so u try to nap in peace with people trying to talk to you.
on a personal note i dread christmas cos my kids live with their dad and it just brings back memories of when they was young all excited that santa has been.and now i don't even get to see them christmas.
but we do hang a stocing up for our 2 dogs and santa fills them with treats and toys and they unwrap them christmas morning.
baaa humbug lol
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The materialism doesn't bother me because I don't have any money! I do miss treating my daughter to the holidays. She's grown now and lives in California. This will be the last Christmas I get to spend with my ex-partner's children which will be sad.
I'm taking my grandmother out of the nursing home to have Thanksgiving dinner at my house but it will be only her and myself. We could have gone to my sisters but both of us have trouble with the crowd of people that will be there. It'll be a very stressful and lonely time for me. I just have to keep focused that the holidays will be over soon.
peace, t
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