Merry Christmas!

It's been quite a long time since I've been in these parts of the smolnet, but I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

I have moved away from across the country I am in recently, and as a result I'm spending my first one away from family.

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Also given it's quite late (or early), could I have some hot coffee and french vanilla creamer? If not hot chocolate would do perfectly as well.

periloustxt

Merry Christmas, linuxnerd!

The fam is thinking of you regardless of the distance!

kai

Merry Christmas, hope you have had a lovely time.

taterinx

Is your holiday spent completely alone then? Or are you celebrating with friends, etc.? Whatever the case, Merry Christmas. By extension, happy new year :)

monpetit

I can't even remember the last time I spent the holidays with my parents and siblings. (lol)

Merry Christmas!

tetris

Merry Christmas, and I can relate. Second year away from my (admittedly broken) family, surrounded by my in-laws and everything just feels a bit off. I'm not unhappy, its just I'm used to reminiscing with my siblings and watching crap in my.native cheeky slang -- whereas here they were reminiscing and watching crap in their native cheeky slang, and I just felt a bit left out.

Still, I am well fed and well drunk, so it can't be that bad.

taterinx

Can relate to things not quite being the same as they were. Not in a super bad way, but it's definitely bittersweet. Like, I never bonded with my family or extended family super well, but at least I was young enough to occupy myself with whatever plastic I chose from an Argos catalogue, and felt like I at least belonged in that space in spite of my quietness.

This year, nan's across the ocean celebrating Christmas with her other children (we've been hogging her so it's totally fair), and my friends + partner have stronger bonds with their families this Christmas. So, like you said, I'm not unhappy, and this isn't even unusual anymore, but I miss when the emotions around the holidays were less complicated lol

Got some super nice strawberry gin though this year, so cheers to that.

tetris

I'm currently in the process of moving back home, and I guess this year will be the test of whether things will feel better for me being more near my family, or whether I was viewing things with rose-tinted nostalgia glasses, and the problem was in my head all along.