This will be my first christmas alone. I bought a house this week,
putting down my own roots. Will probably still be painting on Dec. 25.
lol. Turn up the music and surround yourself with friends!!! That's my
advice.

That is a good idea, you can always invite friends from work over or
have a painting party on Christmas, or volunteer at a soup kitchen or
some church feeding the homeless, that would get you out around others.
Just a thought.

I dunno if they have it in your area but we have "shoebox" clubs. Where
you fill a shoebox full of christmas stuff for a kid and then they come
see santa and get a shoebox and you are there to see them open it. Its
really fun.. just an idea to look for something like that.

Holiday blues means different things to different people...for some its
the first holiday without a loved one, to others the
end of another year that maybe goals were not meant...these are the
things that make one sad...!

Ontario.. thats true but doing things for others always makes me feel
better

Well I have to say I feel sad thur all the major holidays for I miss my
parents every major holidays all of us use to have a big dinner then sit
around and grisp or watch football or basketball on the TV. But since
they died we all do our own thing:( I miss the get togethers, I just
might down south Georgia for a visit:)

th holidays have a special meaning for me,but my family is so spread
out,,,this is what I gloom about th holidays,,,
for me it is not having family around this time of th year....

feels like nobody gives a rats ass...but I know they do...M.

I might just go LA after christmas to spend time with my friend:)But my
son gets me christmas:)

i knows it should be a good time of the yr but it just aint for me my
last ex girl ruined that time of the yr forever it seems like. it just
depresses me badly. but anyway hopefully at least the kids will enjoy
it.

Just get a new girlfriend...?

This holiday season is gonna be rough for me. I'm used to being mostly
alone during them but this year I'm 1500 miles from any close friends
and my kids and I'm not going to be able to afford to fly back for
Christmas to see my kids as I had hoped to :( Haven't seen them in 8
months and odds are good it'll be that much longer to maybe even a year
before I can :(
I have the time off due me but the price of a plane ticket and then the
need of renting a car not to mention just eating expenses (I can stay
with friends in Ohio or my Mom depending on where I actually stay so
room isn't an issue) would eat up what I've managed to save since I
moved here and then I couldn't give the kids a darned thing so I'll be
sending them checks with love instead of seeing them.

Nope, I can't say that I've had that feeling during the holidays.

I had a sad year this year... the first full year without my mother, who
passed away last year of cancer. Things are getting better and having
all the new grandkids help alot.

Thank gawd for kids

this will be a sad holliday for me
my mother stayed in PR and my brother is
sick, I usually get realy drunk during that time
think this year I will do it alone,
but Im one of God's child and I know that somehow
I will be ok.

The holidays suck for many of us because of the expense, travel,
preparation and commercialism. Plus, for many of us, it means gathering
with people we wouldn't necessarily want to hang out with otherwise.
Then, after all the hoopla...poof!!...it's over.

shorter days and no old lady to keep ya busy!