Anyone else alone on xmas Eve?

[Katashi_itto]

Recovering from hip replacement Surgery. Haven't even had the staples out yet. Doing walker races with the cat.

Well Merry Xmas everyone!

[avebury]

1. My dog Toby and I are cat sitting for

a friend. The housing development she lives in is in a more rural area so it is really really quiet. The temperature rose up enough today to start melting the ice on the trees from last Friday's ice storm. All the furbabies are getting along really well. I have told my friend that I think that one of her cats now wants a little doggie friend to play with.

Merry Christmas to you too!

[Katashi_itto]

2. Thanks!

[madokie]

37. Merry Christmas to both of you

Merry Christmas to all people where ever you are, what ever you're doing. I love you all

[Vashta Nerada]

3. I am.

It sucks.

[Katashi_itto]

7. Well hang it there, I find after so many similar ones. It makes the good ones so much more

precious

[roody]

19. I wish I were.

[passiveporcupine]

46. I've been living a hermit life for some time

And am fine with it, but I understand where you are coming from. When I was younger, healthier, and alone, I fixed my loneliness on Christmas by making a Christmas dinner and inviting single coworkers to share it with me. It was always fun and heartwarming.

Now my body won't let me fix big meals, or I'd still be doing it.

Don't be afraid to reach out to others. Instead of sitting back and being lonely, go out and try to help others. You will be so glad you did.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Yep

By choice - could've gone out for a drink. Always fine on my own. Multitasking as usual - watchin' Man of Steel ', playing with the cats, sorting out banjo parts and fiddlin' about here.

Hope your hip's fine soon - I settled for steroid jabs.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

[Katashi_itto]

8. Awesome movie!

[VanillaRhapsody]

5. I am....and working to boot..

sigh...I work from home so that doesn't change the status...

[Katashi_itto]

10. Thats rough, but put some music on!

[tammywammy]

6. Yes, my mom's sick today.

I was going to spend the day with her, but she's sick. She said we'll do our Christmas on Friday. I'll spend part of tomorrow with my dad and stepmom.

The upside is I bought myself a PS3 for myself and it was delivered today, so I'm playing with that.

[Katashi_itto]

12. Hopefully mom will be better soon

[tammywammy]

20. Just a stomach bug, I was more than happy to reschedule. :)

[Katashi_itto]

21. :)

[tammywammy]

31. I'm playing this game that came with the PS3, The Last of Us.

Entertaining so far. I've had a Wii for years and mostly played the Lego games, so this is out of the norm.

[Katashi_itto]

40. I've heard thats a great game. I got Outlast, set in an insane asylum

very creepy!

[Dustlawyer]

49. I am sick with the flu that I came down with yesterday. It has been nice (to the extent that

my family and friends dropped off medicine and soup) to see that I am loved so much! It makes feeling like a train has run over me just a little better. Lol. Happy Holidays everyone!

[tammywammy]

56. I hope you feel better soon.

I was sick last year Christmas week.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Well you have all of us in the virtual world

I am sure the cat is far more entertaining though.

Merry Christmas and may you heal soon. If we were in the same town I would bring you dinner, no serious I mean it. Hell, I might bring some to the Guard on duty tonight.

[Katashi_itto]

11. Thank you very much! That means alot to me

[uppityperson]

13. Working as usual but I get off at suppertime here so can go home and hang out with Mr, a book,

a glass of home made eggnog. I hope to get presents mailed this week, am very late.

Merry happy to you.

[firsttimer]

14. I am but it's fine

I'm sort of a loner anyways , I have my dog and a cat I found (or she found me)
at my back deck . I live out in the country so people think it's okay to drive from the suburbs and dump animals off .










Hope you feel better

[maindawg]

15. Well I am now

I was going to share Christmas eve with my eccentric neighbor[and dear friend]. When I walked in the door, I said what the hell it smells like puke in here ! She said 'oh, i through up egg nog earlier' I am just getting over the flu and nearly retched myself as I was high tailing it the heck out of there. So that is my Christmas eve for you.
I think I will just watch Scrooge.

[el_bryanto]

16. I am as well - although I have a dog for company. nt

[Little Star]

17. I wish you a speedy recovery and a merry christmas eve.

[Katashi_itto]

18. you too!

[hfojvt]

22. I am, but it's a big work night for me anyway

I have to dress up as Santa, put antlers on my dog and then go break into all the houses and steal all the presents, decorations, and food and then take them up to the top of Mt. Crumpet ...

It's more work than people give me credit for.

[Brigid]

62. For you:

[Kurovski]

23. I love that musical version. Feel better soon!

I will very soon not be alone and I will hear "Why isn't all this work done, it's that goddam internet, right?!!"

[LiberalArkie]

24. I am alone now and have been most of my adult life but

I have 4 cats and a dog and the last few years 2 days of Doctor Who to keep me comfy. Taking hydrocodon and Valium helps me through the holidays also.

[okaawhatever]

50. Huh? hydrocodon and valium help. Are you in pain? I hope you don't take those recreationally. Hope

you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and whatever pain you're feeling goes away.

[LiberalArkie]

58. I usually have real bad back pain but I ignore it most of the time. So I treat myself to

a good recreational buzz every couple of weeks and then hit the weight bench while I am numbed up and the muscles won't hurt real bad. My spine looks like an elongated S.

[okaawhatever]

60. Oh back pain sucks. Hope you have a merry Christmas and get a chance to hit the weight bench. nt

[Overseas]

25. Happy Holidays!

Hope you feel better soon.

[LumosMaxima]

26. I might as well be.

Hope you have a happy Christmas & recover quickly from your surgery.

[villager]

27. Yeah -- sons are at their mom's house. I'm on my own, cooking, hanging out,

getting ready to watch Charlie Brown, I think, and some dinner later, with perhaps a walk and a cigar after.

Will catch up with eldest son tomorrow, when he cooks with a friend. Not sure when I'm seeing my social butterfly of a youngest son, who is also going away with some family friends for a few days -- maybe not until our road trip north to see my mom...

...who had her leg amputated (!!) earlier this fall, two weeks after my dad's memorial.

It's been... quite a year...

[okaawhatever]

52. Oh your poor mother. I'm glad you can visit her. I'm sure that will make all the difference and

brighten her spirits.

[villager]

54. Thanks. One of my two sisters lives at home....

She thought she was "done" for awhile, after nursing my dad through so much of his illness.

Then this!

But yes, I'm glad I can visit her and help out too, from my usual perch some 400 miles away... !

[cantbeserious]

28. My Cat And I Wish You A Speedy Recovery

eom

[GoCubsGo]

29. It's me and my cat.

Normally, I prefer it this way, but I had a godawful day today, and wish someone else was here to distract me from it.

[renate]

59. I'm sorry

When I need a little distraction, watching videos on YouTube can be helpful... you can travel the world from your armchair.

Hope tomorrow is a lot better for you.

[GoCubsGo]

66. Thanks.

But, I'm not sure tomorrow will be much better due to this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018540537

There was also a lot of weird shit that went down around where I live today, too (home invasion w/ shooting, and shoplifter killed in car chase). Just a really crappy day. Some of that will be better, but I'm still going to have to go back and tend to two freaked-out kitties who are missing their brother.

[renate]

68. that's so sad

It happened to a friend of mine (i.e., it was her dog that died while she was away and she got the sad phone call). It's hard, of course, but I'm sure that your sadness and compassion will make it easier for your friend--I think it will really make a difference to know that someone else is sharing in their sorrow.

I wish your environment felt a little more settled; it must be disconcerting to have gone through your bad time while other bad things are happening around you.

[GoCubsGo]

70. He wasn't completely well to begin with.

He had some sort of immune system problem, and his people knew his lifespan was going to be shortened, despite the fact that he's been doing well. He also had urinary tract issues, and I suspect he may have gotten blocked, although he wasn't showing any of the symptoms. They actually took it better than I did.

I think things around me will be okay, although I'll feel better when they catch those home invaders. Meanwhile, I'm watching a show I hadn't seen before, "Bones". It's pretty good, and fairly distracting. Not much else on tonight that I want to watch. I probably should have stuck to my original plan to watch "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", but I just don't feel like it...

[westerebus]

30. I have myself for company, so I'm never alone.

Now the cat to whom I belong will tell you that as humans go, I'm acceptable company.

Take care and a speedy recovery.

Merry and Happy

[tridim]

32. Yes, but I met someone today.

It's all good.

[applegrove]

33. Hanging out here, listening to the story of Jesus on CNN, eating candy canes. Bliss

[99Forever]

34. You're not alone.

You have friends here! Merry Christmas to you, Katashi_itto.

[Katashi_itto]

42. Merry Xmas to you too!

[earthbot1]

35. I am this year

I hope to not be next year, but I am okay with it for now. I did just get health insurance, so one less thing to worry about.
I hope the cat let's you win a race now and then! Me and the cat tonight...although she is sleeping yet again!
Wish you a speedy recovery!

[LisaLynne]

36. Sometimes I wish ...

all of us who are alone could move to the same city and form a kick-ass support network.

Speedy recovery! Glad the cat is doing it's part to help by racing you!

[Katashi_itto]

43. What a nice idea!

[Bennyboy]

38. I am

First Christmas without my Mom and my family is a ways away. But my roommies are gone and I have the house to myself, something that doesn't happen often.

I've got two fresh crabs, a loaf of sourdough bread and sixer of moose drool, so no worries.

[Katashi_itto]

45. :)

[sakabatou]

41. No, got my family and my cat

[vlyons]

44. I'm alone tonight

and I'm really ok with that. I'm playing a computer game (Grepolis), drinking a little wine, reading stuff at various favorite blogs and just being ok about everything.

I'm content, my bills are paid, my health is ok, not pissed at anyone, and just generally grateful to be live and well. May all beings be from suffering and from the causes of suffering. May all beings know happiness and the causes of happiness.

Merry Christmas, God lives within you as you.

[kristopher]

47. For your consideration

You were probably expecting this...


Film Review: Reeves comes off bogus in 'Ronin'
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- In Japan, the story of the 47 ronin is so central to the country's national identity that a special word exists for the act of retelling it: Chushingura. But despite this long tradition of flexible reinterpretation, the Hollywood-backed "47 Ronin" takes such liberties with the underlying legend that a different term comes to mind, one better suited to American actor Keanu Reeves' involvement: "bogus." So far, Japanese audiences have been slow to embrace a CG-heavy version of the story that offers Keanu as a previously unsung "half-breed" accomplice. Meanwhile, domestic crowds are being deliberately misled to think he's the star -- a high-stakes bait-and-switch sure to backfire on this narratively stiff but compositionally dazzling production.

In theory, director Carl Rinsch's considerable visual talents should have been the draw, with the expectation that the first-time director would deliver on the promise of his dazzling short film "The Gift." Sure enough, in his hands, "47 Ronin" rivals the epic martial-arts films of Tsui Hark or Zhang Yimou in terms of sheer spectacle.

But as the budget crept ever skyward, reportedly reaching as high as $225 million, Universal's marketing department shifted into panic mode, opting to disguise the fact that the true heroes of this epic Japanese legend were themselves Japanese, and positioning Reeves' character -- described as the shameful "love of one night" between an English sailor and a local peasant girl -- as a superficial ploy to attract international crowds.

Like all Chushingura, "47 Ronin" recounts the tragic Ako incident (spoilers ahead), during which Lord Asano (Min Tanaka) was forced to commit seppuku after illegally striking an unarmed royal guest, leaving the 47 samurai who had been under his command without a master. After more than a year adrift, these ronin (as disgraced samurai are known) returned, staging a daring night raid in which they took their revenge, vindicated their master and were ultimately forced to sacrifice their own lives in punishment.

Sanada...

http://mainichi.jp/english/english/features/news/20131225p2g00m0et011000c.html

We're going to go see it, but when we saw the previews both our jaws hit the floor. I don't know if we can ignore the title and pretend it's just another tall tale or not.

[rury]

48. I had a knee replacement in August and am alone, too!

Happy Healing and Happy Holidays to you!!

[boomerbust]

51. I am

But that's ok. Just spent a week back home over Thanksgiving. Didn't end well. You know, the old left-right smackdown.

[DesertFlower]

53. just my cat and me. my neighbor sent dinner over.

hubby passed away 19 months ago. we were together almost 41 years. i miss him sooooo much. going to a friend's tomorrow. i could have gone to the neighbor's house but both their families are there and i wouldn't feel comfortable. i don't know the families.

[okaawhatever]

57. Oh, I'm so sorry to hear about your husband. 41 years, wow. That's awesome. nt

[DesertFlower]

72. thank you. nt

[okaawhatever]

55. I am. I have two dogs and neither would do anything like walker races with me. One has unconditional

love for me, the other not so much. Let's just say there are conditions. Definitely conditions and they mostly revolve around food and attention.

[polly7]

61. Merry Christmas Katashi_itto!

I hope your hip is healing well. I have company, but they're snoozing in front of the tv and I'm sitting here trying to forget for a bit there are two counters full of dishes to do.

[Brigid]

63. Alone too, at least for tonight.

Headed for Mass and Christmas dinner at church in the morning. Rereading "A Christmas Carol" and hanging out with the cats right now.

[The Straight Story]

64. I am, mostly. But it is good :)

My daughter is with her mom in California for the holidays. She made the trip safely, though both of them (and myself) have bad head colds.

That she made it OK is my Christmas gift.

I plan on hanging out with my son tomorrow and playing 7 days to die, eating dinner, and then going over to a friend's place because he is all alone for the holidays. If I feel a bit better.

Tonight though, going to play some of my game and watch some Downton Abbey, Dr Who, and the Fades.

[H2O Man]

65. I am.

There are two large dogs here with me (Rocky, who is 1/2 huskie, and 1/2 German Shepherd; and Sam, a boxer mix).

I'm working on a legal document for a labor case that will be filed in early 2014. I take breaks, and check in on DU, and play with the dogs. Then back to work. I'll have a big chunk of it done by morning.

[Demo_Chris]

67. Merry Christmas! :)

[madrchsod]

69. well.. my grand daughter is sleeping

the dog is passed out on the bed,and the wife is working..i guess two out of three ain`t bad.

happy holidays and get better !!!

[justiceischeap]

71. Just me and my cats.

I didn't even think to get anything to make a dinner for myself tomorrow. I kept forgetting it was Christmas.

[2naSalit]

73. I'm up here on the

mountain and listening to a recorded reading of the original Story of the Nutcracker of Nuremberg... couldn't find it online, unfortunately, it's almost 3 hours long and read by one person with incidental orchestral flourishes, a really good production. Don't have the credits on the bootlegged tape i made! Wish I could find it online so I could share!

It's my years-long tradition since I usually spend the holidays alone by choice.

[tabbycat31]

74. I'm not alone (I'm with my parents)

But to be honest we aren't even celebrating. My grandfather passed away on Saturday and we've spent the better part of the last few days (and them more, since I had to work through Saturday then travel to see them on Sunday) planning a funeral.

[Katashi_itto]

75. Hang in there! You Have a Good Christmas

Think Good memories