One of my guilt pleasures is Ben & Jerry's Coffee Heath Bar Crunch Ice Cream. It's so yummy :). Usually I try to stay slim, but I thought I'd make it a Thanksgiving Treat since I'm not spending Thanksgiving with anyone.
I didn't have anyone to spend last Thanksgiving. Almost didn't last year, but my Aunt in San Diego was nice enough to invite me last minute. I even got three unexpected presents, which was nice.
I don't have any plans for Christmas this year. I'm just thankful to have a roof over my head and shelter to keep me warm. When
grue23 went to spend Christmas 2003 with his parents. I just spent Christmas watching movies from his DVD Collection. I really liked "Can't Hardly Wait" with Ethan Embry and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Spending holidays by myself doesn't bother me as much anymore because I grew accustomed to it being an only child. While I still love my stepdad, it was really rough after my first year of college after I flunked out. My stepdad was so furious. He wanted to ship me off to military school, but my mom put her foot down.the
Unfortunately, he was angry that he couldn't punish me the way he wanted so he would just walk around the house seething mad. He didn't speak to me for over two years while we were under the same house with exception to "Happy Thanksgiving" and "Merry Christmas." He didn't even want to be in the same room with me. So I just hid in my bedroom.
Sure, there was work and school, but I would just go to school, come home, and go straight to my room. Many people take for granted the meaning of fear. It's a scary thing living in fear under a roof. That's why I developed an Immunity to the Silent Treatment. You learn how to cope with being by yourself when people don't talk to you.
That's why I get along well with my Journal, which is my best friend. Your Journal doesn't judge you:
- That's why in "Meet the Fockers," you see Robert Dinero say, "You know, LJ, you're the only friend I got." LJ = Live Journal.
- Robert Dinero's character Jack had all the Spy Equipment, which is the way my Psychic Abiliities work with all those wire taps.
- Owen Wilson is Kevin, which is for isabellaval's new boyfriend. I said that Owen Wilson was Hutch representing Davis.
- You even see reference to isabellaval in the movie because of the charater Isabel played by Alanna Ubach.
- Alanna was Serena on "Legally Blonde 1 & 2" I said Serena Scott Thomas was in the movie "Haven."
It's funny how you have people who make the news and those who watch it. It's the same thing with movies and television shows.
That's where I spent a lot of time lost in thought. It was like that from about 1994 - 1998. Then I met Christy. I lost Christy and was heartbroken over her for 3 years and
celticblissy came into my life and helped me forget Christy.
It's too bad there's no one there on Shangrila anymore. I suppose I could spend more time on there, but then I'd have to rebuild friendships and get to know new people. Personally, I get far along with a couple of DVDs and some Roleplaying Video Games. I might check out Morrowind 4 for Christmas to keep me occupied.
People take Christmas way too seriously and have forgotten the gift of giving as well as what it is to be truly thankful for the things you have, not about what kind of toys and how much money you're going to get from relatives.
Be thankful that you:
- Don't have parents who beat you
- You're not out on the street in the shivering cold because you have no shelter
- You have food to eat
- You have friends and family to spend it with if you're lucky
Sometimes you need to learn how to live with nothing and being flat broke so that you learn to appreciate the little things. There's that line in "Soak up the Sun" by Sheryl Crow where she sings something like, "It's not having what you want. It's wanting what you have."
That's why people should be thankful if they've got someone in their lives. I sit and watch a lot of people who have a significant other and they don't treat them nicely. There are some of us who don't have anybody and had never had anybody that cares about them and loves them.
People get so nitpicky in their relationships and pick apart every litle thing causing it to deterioriate. That's why they end up with nothing in the end when they break up. When people break up, it's such a waste of all the weeks, months, or years you spent building your life together only to tear it down and go your separate ways.
You can learn a lot from watching other people's relationships, how they fall apart, and learning from them so that when the time comes that you're ever in a relationship, you'll remember the misfortunes of others and avoid the pitfalls they were unable to avoid.