Open gathering and chat post!
Dec. 24th, 2016 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mni(Consider this journal entry properly bedecked).
This "Christmas season" is hard on everyone -- even those who enjoy & celebrate it can find it exhausting. And for those of us who don't -- or can't -- celebrate it (for whatever reason) it can be especially isolating -- particularly for those of us whose primary social connections happen through these here Interwebs.
So:
I'm posting this entry as an open discussion/chat thread, so that we have a place to chat and commune through the comment threads.
Come sip a warm (or cool, depending on your season) spiced beverage of your choosing, and grab a plate full of virtual goodies.
I'll be checking back in frequently over the next 72 hours or so.
Welcome! Welcome!
Edited to add:
I also can't forget (or, rather, I can, but should not) that today is also the first day of Hanukkah. So have a video that
ysabetwordsmith posted a couple of years ago:Because I also know many are over saturated with Christmas songs, by now...
large coffee and small problems
Date: 2016-12-24 07:05 pm (UTC)I need to learn how to host things (as an intovert!) in self-defense.
(dotdotdot for relatives and holiday stress)
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Right now I'm feeling glad and grateful with a side-order of worried, because an old family friend dropped by with her partner and we had a good chat, but with some things unsaid. (I'm at my parent's house for the holidays, along with my sister; we're all pretty okay with each other, no major traumatic history, but there is still occasional friction which has serious layers because it's evolved over our entire lives.)
Earlier, I was feeling frazzled and wrong-footed and panicky, plus guilty and awkward, with an awkward wedge of gratitude in there somewhere. I lit a candle in my room for personal spiritual purposes, but my mother had previously asked me not to, and someone came in and took the candle at some point after I fell asleep, and it weirded me out and now I remember why I lived with a locked door as a teenager even though I like and trust my family, because they don't know how to talk to me instead of just...assuming they know what's what. Then before that, I was feeling so cozy...and before that, oh, I don't even know.
And now we're debating eggnog recipes and what to use up out of the fridge. *facepalm* My mother will never, ever, ever believe that if there is leftover cream, I will drink it in my coffee and this is not a problem. Nor that planning and picking recipes to use things up now mean one shouldn't be trying to save enough eggs to still have some of those on hand to maybe use later.
I just. *flails*
Re: large coffee and small problems
Date: 2016-12-24 07:14 pm (UTC)Leftover cream can go so many places. Mmm real eggnog sounds delicious.
Re: large coffee and small problems
Date: 2016-12-24 07:18 pm (UTC)Lol!!
Re: large coffee and small problems
Date: 2016-12-27 04:47 pm (UTC)Re: large coffee and small problems
Date: 2016-12-24 07:16 pm (UTC)I'm never comfortable with candles for me, personally. But I wouldn't ask someone not to light one for themselves...
Yeah... cooking and relatives.
This is where the proverb: "Too many cooks spoil the broth" comes from...
*empathies"
BTW, my aide is an introvert; one thing she says is: People often say that Introverts should 'get out more.'; what about telling the extroverts to Stay Home!!! ;-)