Gosh, I love the holidays.

[margaretc]

Friends post about loneliness and sucking at everything, co-workers are torn between family and work, relatives are all competing for what little time there is, conflicting party invitations vie with stressful year-end procedures and paperwork for time and attention

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[ovrclokd]

amen, sister. we "opted out" of the family txgiving madness, but it looks like christmas will make us pay for it; our traditional visit with his parents is being cut short so they can fly across the country the day after christmas to spend the rest of the holidays with his sister. who just had brain surgery, and clearly has the compelling claim for their attention... it just makes me sad that she and her family can't join us at their parents' house (as they usually do) and

for as non-traditional a lifestyle as i've chosen, i do tend to cling to the rituals i identify as mine. which just makes it hurt that much more when they start to disintegrate. we used to do thanksgiving with my family and christmas with his, every year, like clockwork - i never realized what a privilege it was not to have to negotiate over who went where when. but thanksgiving has gone to hell in a bucket; unless my father and i reconcile, which seems deeply unlikely from where i stand now, we'll never do that again. and now christmas is being cut in half

[margaretc]

Hey, wow, yeah, some things definitely just need to be said.
Amen.

[syaldia]

Nothing will steal my christmassy cheer.

Not even the fact that half my gifts are *planned* handmade and it's already December. Nope.