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And hope you are having a fine day, however that shakes out for you, but our holidays have always felt unsatisfactory to me, to one degree or another. It's always best for me when I just spend them alone somewhere gorgeous.
Gave up begging my family to pick somewhere seriously pleasant to go OUT to a sumptuous meal together so we could just enjoy each other to the max without all the sweaty brows and gift measuring and bickering. Cheaper yet opulent; way more relaxing; much more conducive to true enjoyment... but no. We gotta shop and slave for each other.
Don't get me wrong. Holiday meals were, in the main, marvelous, and the leftovers even better. It was just everything surrounding that getting more insufferable with each passing year.
If there's anything worse than faking good cheer, somebody let me know... ESPECIALLY when it's SO easy to fix it so nobody's having to fake it. I am STILL unsure if all the fakers in my life get that whatever they're faking ONLY comes across as fake.
Why don't people GET that?
pipe up any time....
