Last to post wins

[Mr Ploppy]

This worked quite well on another forum site.

It may float or sink on this one. We'll find out.

Don't ask what you will win being the last to post, it will be something useless.

But have a go anyway.

I'm last to post so far. Am I a winner?

[mmMekitty]

How about Xmas? Holidays? Anything like that interest to you?

I tend to feel a need to stave off any possible feelings of isolation & abandonment, & 

I don't hav ea wide circle of people I know & most of them are either a health worker or one of my support workers, & my sis, who I don't see often, anywhay. I'm not seeing any other family at all.

My PDr will take his long break, my support workers have a break & one is in fact resigning, & no new support worker is available until Jan 13.

I don't even know why I feel I need to even do any Xmas at all - I'm not religious, old pagan or anything, don't have people around me who are into the gifts, lunch/dinner, or decorating - not even the songs all that much. Well, one of my support workers is a bit (she's having the week off to spend some time with her own family). None of my neighbours seems to either, indeed, a few may have other religious practices of their own.

Just so I don't have FOMO, I'll do my own Xmas lunch/dinner, I've already spent up big for myself , & I can find music & Xmas stories to listen to, too. I've been to a couple community events& I have another party, & I want to go out for lunch (although the cafe restaraunt worker has not sent me the menu as I had asked) on Dec 22, with my support worker before she goes on her week's holiday.

& I'm using a grocery store gift card from an organisation I belong to buy some expensive fresh cherries, Cashew & Macadamia nuts, & a few other items I don't normally get.

New Year's Eve doesn't bother me like Xmas does. Midnight usually ticks over without me barely noticing. People are still away, & organisations tend to still be closed for at lest the first week.

Hugzies

mmMekitty

[smallwolf]

I will attend the family service for Christmas.

I will be away next week on holidays with family. We get back home on Christmas Eve.

What interested me? Games, reading, gardening, cooking.

Do you live close to your sister? Speak to her much?

Do and Don't do Christmas hey? Spend big but you don't feel you need to do Christmas.

Assume you will be OK over the break without your support workers? Though it does sound like you have been doing more socializing than me.

The church where I work has a Blue Christmas event tomorrow... for those people who find the joy in celebrating Christmas. 

[On The Road]

Why am I here? 🙂

What mekitty and smallwolf were talking about??

Why time goes so fast and it's Christmas already??

Goodevening everyone

[mmMekitty]

Hello OTR, with questions. [Lrc smiles, welcoming OTR]

Let me try to answer your questions.

I think you came by here, because you were looking for someone to talk to. I'm sorry I had to go to bed as early as I had. I was suddenly too tired to barely keep my eyes open & to think of what & how to write. You are more than welcome

to read back a few posts, see what we talk about, & enter the conversation anytime. I tend to use this odd Discussion space to fool around in, & well, recently, Wolfie & I have talked of more serious things, too.

Note: I don't want to be last to ever post on this Discussion, so it's no race ti ne., just a bit of space for conversation & fun.

Time sure does go by fast! You are correct there. As I get older, time passes faster & faster. This year both sometimes feels like it has had some very long hours, but the whole 365 days have only taken six months. Some days of the early months really seemed to stretch out to feel twice as long, at the time, but now, I wonder as I misremember by as much as a month, things had happened.

OTR, with Christmas approaching so quickly, what are your thoughts about it? Do you celebrate or dread or avoid Christmas?

You like cooking, too,don't you, OTR?  Do you have a special Xmas meal you prepare for yourself?

Hugzies,

mmMekitty

[mmMekitty]

Hi Wolfie. Hope you have a lovely time with your family.

My sis lives in a rural area, where ther is no public transport. I'm not comfortable with that. I had hoped we could have reconnected better than we have since being back in touch with each other. She has her hubby, a property that needs constant attention, her horses & is a job that has her driving all over the state. Lots busy.

She has come to see me a few times, since finalising the legal stuff we had to do since our mother's death. While these visits are friendly, the conversation isn't deep at all. I literally have to ask her about anything I don't know or can't figure out. Even that the fellow she is with is her hubby - she didn't tell me, until I realised months later that I didn't know for sure. I had to ask.

I think it's something we have in common, not volunteering information.

I wasn't close to my family when I finally left home, more than 40 years ago.

I'm conflicted about Xmas. Not religious, don't want to really get into all the commercial crap & dislike the pressure to spend & spend, & to eat& eat. Decorating my place seems like a waste of time, being unable to see the things much anymore.

Yet, some of the music is pretty & some is silly. I like singing the songs with other people, winning a little raffle or two & I di, & my support worker did too!, & sharing in fun, which I've haven't done since COVID.

I am not so social. The events recently are me trying to get out more, risking COVID more because I feel I have had enough of staying home, pretty much isolating myself because I can't wear the mask & can't afford to get really sick if I do get COVID or flu.

I'm feeling very anxious going out alone, even to walk up the road.

The Blue Christmas sounds like the two community Christmas lunches I'd gone to before COVID. They were enjoyable, too, many of us strangers to each other, sharing the meal & company. We all had a bag of goodies to take with us afterwards.

Eventually, I'd like to try to participate in a community garden. Not sure how much I will be able to do without needing my support worker with me, helping with much of whatever there is to do.

Late now, so goodnight, Wolfie, OTr, & anyone up late, reading posts. Hugzies to you all.

mmMekitty

[smallwolf]

Hi. It sounds like you are not that close with your family? 😞

Though I also understand that as well. Sounds like my relationship with my brother.  We are Ok when together but do not really search or seek each other out.

On my relationship with Christmas ... thinking about this, I don't really have one. It is more of an occasion for children. In one sense, just another day. Get miffed about people running through shopping doors for sales after Christmas. Some adults i know get excited. But that's not me. We do have  a tree up at home and that is the extent of our decorations.

Good to read you had some fun with your social worker 🙂

On being and "getting out" ... you know that I don't tell you what to do - small steps one at a time. Being social takes time and practice. From your messages here, you sound very social and I would have thought you were til you told me, when that was previously. I am hopeful you will get to the community garden.

Time for me to go tonight. Night,

[mmMekitty]

Pleasant dreams. I'm calling it a night soon, too.

Hugzies

mmMekitty

[mmMekitty]

Peace & joy to you, Smallwolf, with my best wishes for Christmas & onwards!

Hugzies

mmMekitty

... listen.... jingle, jingle ... jingle, jinggle ...

"Ho, ho, ho! 

[smallwolf]

Ho Ho Ho 

to you as well... Santa returned to where once was...

[quirkywords]

a field of roses where reindeer swam and elves sewed presents.

ho ho ho