A Singularly Lonely Christmas

calicocat

Hope today went well LB.

I have been lardarsing in bed with a plate of pate and cheeses and been watching flipping cookery and food programmes....i was meant to be alseep!!.....but thoroughly enjoyable afternoon I have to say.

Mum got out without any injury this morning. 'Cat' is larding it on the quilt safe in the knowledge no-one will move her off.




I must get up.



I must get up.



Right.....will get up, get ready, wizz to mates for the lunch they are keeping me, get accosted by the mad aunt C, then off to work.

Hope everyone's day has been enjoyable.

topsyturphy

Delurking to wish you all a happy Christmas

parsniphead

Hope today went well LavenderBees.

I bet you need to put your feet up after now.

Merry Christmas to you and everyone on here.

Listerbelle

Thinking of everyone on this thread.

Seasons greetings and here's to a better 2014

xx

Byatt

Merry Christmas, one and all.

LB, won't be around till about 9ish I think, looking forward to hearing about her day.

Hollyberry

LB - Hope it's been a good day of volunteering. Happy Christmas to all the lovely thread contributors here, and also their naughty but fabulous felines.

wizzywilc

Thank you LB and all respondents for such a warm and positive thread. I've lurked and learnt, but just wanted to come in to wish you all good things for 2014.

groatie_queen

Hope you had a good Christmas Day, LB and everyone else. Enjoy a restful evening and sweet dreams, cats permitting!

springdreams

Merry Christmas LavenderBees. I hope you had a lovely day.

Merry Christmas to everyone else posting or lurking too.

LavenderBees

Hi Everyone :wave:

Thank you for all your lovely good wishes yesterday. I hope you all had a lovely day...

Sorry, I went AWOL for a while to collect my thoughts.

Yesterday's volunteering was ok. This was the first time that they had tried a two centre approach, and where I was allocated was in the 2nd centre, and too quiet really. Most of the guests stayed where they felt comfortable in the original centre (and who can blame them?). Apparently, it was manic there. Much more relaxed with us.

Having said that, my wee team of volunteers were lovely, chatty, got stuck in, needed no managing at all and I eventually mastered the two-way radio :rotfl:. Mostly, we had other volunteers dropping in for refreshments, and we did have a handful of guests, who seemed to enjoy our company. So, it was different to how I'd hoped it would be, but it was all fine.

Would I do it again...? Absolutely, but would ask to be somewhere busier so I felt like I achieved something myself.

****ALERT - I'm going to pull the mood down now.....Sorry, but I guess this is the reality of grieving. The problem was that I then came home to an empty house, and my mood plummeted. It hit me last night that Christmas was just one of many many hurdles to overcome in the future. This is permanent and, as stupid as it's going to sound, I just hadn't ever looked beyond Christmas. I expected to feel relieved at getting over the Christmas hurdle reasonably intact, but all I've realised is that I've got over a small hurdle to be faced with the much bigger hurdle of how I get on with life after Christmas.

So....last night was a toughy. Not in a weepy way, but in a taking stock kind of way.

And before you all ask...no, I don't have any answers :rotfl:

I woke feeling pretty rough, and almost succumbed to a wallow, but NO! I'm made of sterner stuff than that, and, much more importantly, I'm hungry and my beef is defrosted so needs cooking :rotfl:

My beef is in the oven, which is smoking so badly I expect the fire brigade any time now (which is good as there was no handsome fireman volunteer for me yesterday ), and all my veg are prepared. Sally's Sloblady thread will have another member very soon

I can't say I'm in a pink champagne mood, but I've finally popped the rather satisfying cork, and, later this afternoon, after I've eaten, I'll finally open my pressies...I have opened one for the cats, and my youngest has already eaten everything that was in it . I'll make him write a thank you card tomorrow.

So, my lovely virtual friends, that's where I'm at. I was going to say up and down, but the up would be a teensy bit of a lie. I'm glad I'd designated this as a PJ day. It's exactly what I need.

Does anyone have any funny stories from yesterday to give me a laugh. All welcome...

LB xx