Can't be arsed with Christmas

[hairymuffet]

Is it just me?
As I get older I can't be bothered
I used to love it all
The excitement, shopping, wrapping
Putting up the tree
I'm putting the tree up today and I can't be arsed with any of it

OMD the dawdlers have arrived in London in force this week!
Tell me about it, made the mistake of going into town on Monday. If ever I've been tempted to carry a flame-thrower, that was it.

SHORTEST DAY IS HERE!!

This is what we should be thinking about - an extra 10 minutes of daylight each week from here on in. Doesn't sound like much but sunrise in Glasgow today isn't until 8.46am, and sunset at 15.45pm. Thoroughly depressing.

You're right Luna, getting the shortest day over and done with is A Good Thing. By end of January, there is definitely a bit more light around and it feels like we are very slowly edging towards Spring

end of January? end of December you get 5 minutes!! ha ha obbsessed

hi randomer, I was wondering if you were okay.

yes, it is the shortest day but by now I am so ground down by lack of light I can barely remember my name, much less the names of my colleagues so it's hard to squeeze out a feeble yay. Also the mass exodus of my friends starts today - I'll feel better when they get back for New Year.

gosh it's such a fucking awful depressing time of year and the dreich is back in London with a vengeance.

Ifailed - you went to London on Monday voluntarily?! I am only travelling in because of work. Oh and there's bleeping noisy kids on the train every journey home now. Tomorrow I'm working at home and it's meant to be sunny so hopefully I will get a lunchtime walk in my local area.

It is amazing how time crawls so painfully slowly at this time of year, then May, June, July, August fly by!

am I ok? not really its damage limitation here for me

I hear you, randomer.

I dont feel the Christmas spirit and I should as this year is going to be a lot better. I have four children and they are all excited. It's mine and my partners first Christmas together so I know it will be great and shopping is all done but I just don't feel Christmassy and feel damn right fed up. I'm hoping that it will change for Christmas Day and my old self will surface again.

DH and I have cancelled Xmas altogether

After 3 IVF cycles, 2 cancelled IVF cycles, 2 pregnancies, 2 miscarriages and 3 surgeries, and now sitting with a cancer scare (until my oncology appt on 4th Jan) we cannot be arsed to pretend to feel festive

My mum died 4 years ago shortly before Xmas so it's not a joyous time of year for us anyway

We don't do presents in my family anyway (not since we were kids) and DH and I decided to stop doing presents a while back. We haven't done a tree or decorations, we're hiding out at home the two of us so we don't have to pretend to be jolly with family or friends. We aren't drinking so trying to endure any kind of social gathering sober and making excuses for not having a drink would be unbearable. We can't be arsed to cook a meal neither of us will want to eat so we're not doing Xmas lunch. We're just getting some cheese and biscuits and all that jazz so we can pick at what we like.

Xmas is for the kids anyway, and we are very much lacking in that regard, so we're fucking the whole thing off entirely. Bah humbug!

Banana . I remember your thread about people bringing babies in to work. It's really dreadful, I'm so sorry. Bollocks to Christmas but I hope you both get some peace and rest over the next week or so x

oh sorry banana

I tend to find the winter washes over me in a fog and I can't remember a lot of stuff because I get so low....but....I just had a phone call from a former neighbour who reminded me that one year we had a nice tea and cake together after getting back from our families and we both talked about how boring it was. Then we tried having a local potter and saw so many families rowing, it was like some sort of game - can you spot 50 rowing families between here and the high street? I had forgotten about that!

I've taken the December calendar page down because I know it's a write off. Now I can only see the nice things in the diary for January

trending topics is showing a serious level of batshittery

I'm convinced if we had a major national holiday in the middle of summer there would be less crazy - I think a lot of people are affected in some way by bad weather and short days but don't know it. It's hard to believe that all the stress is down to commerce?

did you have a good 25th May? Are you ready fo summermas? can you imagine!!!

Id love summermas. I might do it and inflict it on friends and family.

I do remember 25th May because I was planning for a big night out on 26th
May which was one of the best nights of the year

Sometimes those planned nights can be a let down but that one was fucking awesome!

It's our Xmas day today. I'm counting down the hours to bedtime.

Isn't it amazing how long it feels? For me it's because it's bleak midwinter.

I haven't left the flat yet. I will pay attention to family when I get there but I will hop on here at some point to listen to those who cba with it all either.

I've been faking it, I have zero interest in it at all this year. Trying so hard for the kids, I think its my own stuff going on tho, also eldest no longer believes in FC and I thinks its DD2s last year too so that's making me sad.

Omd so bored nodding off already.

bananafish81 I hope 2017 brings you a baby, maybe spend the festive period ducking like bunnies and pray for a miracle.

I can't be arsed. Just put the tree up now. Presents aren't wrapped. House won't be tidy.
I've been suffering anxiety, DCs dad has packed in his job to pay less maintenance, DP broke up with me a couple of days ago, I need to find someone else to watch the DC while I wprk, I just found evidence that xdp is already planning on getting his dick wet elsewhere and I'm just so fucking over everything.
Tomorrow I'll be entirely alone with two hyper kids, struggling to stay calm and not shout whilst doing the bloody dinner which seemed like a great idea at the time and now I'm like, well, the kids probably won't bloody eat it anyway.
I haven't even bought myself a gift.

I'm just so bloody tired of everything.

Bah bloody humbug.