A Great Way to Beat The No Real Family/I'm All Alone Christmas

[Guest guest]

I watched " Noel " on fancast.com last night and cried buckets. It is basically

about loneliness on Christmas Eve and the stories are tremendous! You can watch

it for free on your computer under 'holiday movies' on there, but anyway.

Every year for the last ten Christmases I have found myself all alone and pretty

miserable. My only company were mostly perverts and weirdos on Yahoo Messenger

who also had no family they bothered with for whatever reason and no friends who

weren't busy with their own families like mine were, but I devised a different

plan for myself which works somewhat well and while it doesn't alleviate the

loneliness on the holiday itself, it does add considerable cheer to an otherwise

horrible holiday to be alone on.

I invite all my close friends who are more like family to me than my family ever

was to my place a Saturday or two before Christmas for a party here. I cook and

bake for almost a week making it a gourmet celebration; buy them all gifts of

course ahead of time and do a Yankee Swap which adds fun and most of all

alleviates some of the " I have to buy gifts for EVERYONE?!' feeling. In that I

tell them to do what their heart tells them to do. Of course over the years

this band of friends have become friends with each other, but they normally only

see each other when I get all of us together for other non-traditional holidays

and some traditional occasions like everyone's birthday party or Chinese New

Year (none of us are Asian but it doesn't matter - it's fun anyway). For that

we all meet at a local Chinese restaurant because by then we are all SICK of

winter already in the northeast and it's great fun for a night out.

So my Christmas this year is this coming Saturday, Dec. 11th. After that my

Christmas is over more or less but it is really fun.

I hope this helps someone else in the group who also does not see their nada or

fada or other family for what ever reason.