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Mom went into the hospital days two days we were supposed to come up. Spent much of the holidays around the smell of hospitals.

A friend's brother died. It was literally out of nowhere. And said friend is stick home with Covid - which isn't what did him in, but still. Massive suckage.

Plus it didn't even feel like Christmas this year. Visited family, but...I dunno. It just wasn't, this year.

Being old and depressed

I know I am late here but I have quite the Christmas story. For Christmas I spent the holidays with my Mom. Over the holidays one of my mom's neighbours tasked my mom with looking after her cat while she is in Sweden with her son for christmas. My older brother came down with two of his dogs which are loud and very big pit bulls. On Christmas day my Dad came over and got my mom and my sister a puppy (the dog my dad owned got pregnant and had puppies) so there was lots of loud animals around the house. For safety precautions the cat was temporarily moved back into my neighbours house over Christmas with me and my mom checking on him periodically over the next two days until my brother and his two dogs left.

Fucking Darlene. Did you try her sugar cookies? She clearly didn't mix the baking powder with the milk again.

That bald guy who started a online bookstore. But not to bad overall, WFH.

Snow storm. The stage was set for a good Christmas because my asshole brother wasn't going to be there, but the weather ruined it.

My old job. They canned me for not liking my personality and made up non measurable matrices to do so. I could sue, but I really don't care. I'll let their business model fail since it's just high school with pay. I was going to leave anyways because of a lack of a raise and my boss was the biggest gym bro with a drinking problem. But I could have at least hung out and kept getting paid. I had a down payment saved for a house and it's dwindling to find a job with the right fit. Because this world is going crazy in many ways.

My mid 20s niece who lost an argument with my 2 year old great-nephew and spent the rest of Christmas shitty because people (me) kept making fun of her.

Work.

my local electricity company just let half of our city without energy from 15h Christmas eve to 08 on Christmas morning. Here in Brazil the tradition is to eat at midnight and then exchange gifts. This year it was not possible for me, my family and my friends.

I had to work on Thanksgiving and Xmas, multiple states away from everyone I care about, out in the middle of nowhere. Again.

Lost my grandmother a few days prior, got bumped out of my shitty job to a lower paying even shittier job, and have to pass on a good job opportunity bc it would mean a big move and my partner refuses to move with me. And shes going traveling for 1.5 months on vacation right away without me. We have a house together and have been together for almost 14 yrs.

• at least two wars going on right now
• darkness
• I hate Christmas, so... Christmas.

i looked at my cc bill