Can I Fix This?

ciarasdreams

I seem to have done something very stupid again today which is that I gave in to pressure and have signed up to go to my work Christmas night out and I really do not want to go at all. It is a formal and partner thing and I do not have anybody to take with me because I am and will be for a very long time decidedly single and I am worried that I will just look really sad and pathetic. Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions on what I can do about this please because I am really struggling.

roxy7699

You could claim a prior engagement that was long forgotten, or pull a sickie on the day?

ciarasdreams

roxy7699 wrote: »

You could claim a prior engagement that was long forgotten, or pull a sickie on the day?

I was thinking about the sickie option earlier because I cannot really get away with the prior engagement one because everyone I work with knows that I only moved here a while ago and still do not know very many people in the area.

Gemmzie

Have a family emergency that night so you don't have to go?

SarahNeedle1872

Hi Ciara,

just caught up with ur thread and wanted to pop in and say hi!

U are doing really well in such a short time, I hope it all continues for you.... I'm looking forward to reading updates

Sarah x

ciarasdreams

SarahNeedle1872 wrote: »

Hi Ciara,

just caught up with ur thread and wanted to pop in and say hi!

U are doing really well in such a short time, I hope it all continues for you.... I'm looking forward to reading updates

Sarah x

Thank you I just hope that I do not bore you by whining all the time about just how bad my life really is.

ciarasdreams

I was planning to sort through all the things that my sister sent for me to ebay before I go to my second job but I just cannot find any motivation to do it at all. I had a horrible few minutes earlier where I was so worried about appearing all alone and desperate at the Christmas party that I phoned my sister and was actually going to ask if she could lend me my brother in law for the occasion so that nobody would actually know and I was only saved from myself by the fact that she was in a meeting and could not take my call. I have got used to feeling degraded and embarassed recently but I think that had I actually said that to her it would have just been one humiliation too far.

chevalier

You could start some rumours (!!!) and take your sister! Maybe as a thankyou for all her help.
And no worries about my siblings. I have learned (just about) to live with it. The ones I feel for a bit are my DS's who haven't had a chance really to get to know their uncles.

Best of luck with the xmas thing. I keep thinking it is really far away but it isn't really now.... gulp!
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southernscouser

ciarasdreams wrote: »

I seem to have done something very stupid again today which is that I gave in to pressure and have signed up to go to my work Christmas night out and I really do not want to go at all. It is a formal and partner thing and I do not have anybody to take with me because I am and will be for a very long time decidedly single and I am worried that I will just look really sad and pathetic. Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions on what I can do about this please because I am really struggling.

When is it?

Theres no shame in being single hun! :undecided

ciarasdreams

chevalier wrote: »

You could start some rumours (!!!) and take your sister! Maybe as a thankyou for all her help.
And no worries about my siblings. I have learned (just about) to live with it. The ones I feel for a bit are my DS's who haven't had a chance really to get to know their uncles.

Best of luck with the xmas thing. I keep thinking it is really far away but it isn't really now.... gulp!
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That idea would really appeal to my sister and I might actually ask her how she feels about doing it because she is usually completely outrageous anyway and she she seems to get some kind of strange pleasure out of shocking people while sitting there smiling and acting like she is completely innocent.