Now I’m home alone, plugged in to watching Bones, and totally content.
I will be home alone tomorrow happily reading a book for my blood club meeting on Sunday.
I treasure my solitude.

Except for the blood club meeting.

If one farted while mooning the neighbors in freezing weather...
Would it make a cloud?

Not sure I would want to do that experiment.
But how amazingly Zen 😎

you would have to be outside and freezing other body parts.

(Unless those body parts are no longer essential.)

Our night of peace before the fireworks and guns of New Year's.....

I am sad missing my Dad though. Lots of tears shed the last few days.

and I’ve cued up The Big Lebowski ... this is my night 😎

✌🏻

Have a great night!

Darker than a black steers tookis on a moonless prairie night ...
there was no bottom ...

✌🏻

I never knew. Fine with it. Let it be.

Pretty exclusive too...

I'm feeling blue about being jobless and about the pardons, but not about being alone. That was by choice.

I hope everyone is feeling safe and at peace.

I'll surely regret it about 2am when heartburn launches its attack.

But for now, cheers my dear!

Thanks very much.

Now leave me alone.

You just keep on your side of the room!

I rent a condo with a crappy looking small front yard.

Even though it's not mine, I'm putting in the structures for a small garden that I'll plant with tons of bulbs, a terraced veggie bed, and stepping stone path. To make it more challenging, I'm trying to scavenge most of the building materials from empty lots and rocky fields.

I was absolutely in bliss today playing in the dirt.

I'm sick of Christmas music, ads, TV specials, shopping specials, etc. Nobody is giving me a new Lexus. Or diamonds from Kay jewelers.

Enjoy your evening and Christmas day, fellow loners! After tomorrow, it will only be about 290 days until it starts all over again.

Glad you got to get outside and enjoy it!

....cozy solitude (with exception of my two furballs) is how I roll.

Zooming w/ family tomorrow but that's the extent of it.

Five years ago "Zoomin with the family" would be a day riding go carts. My how our lives have changed.

Here's to a day of calm and peace.

Merry...Happy...and all that.

Gentleman friend is coming over tomorrow morning and I am making quiche. Then movies. We each get to pick a movie. One rule: No westerns or chick flix.

It ended up more like a frittata. Next time I might remember the pie crust lol.

Happy cuddling!

Except yesterday I made THREE trips to the store to finally get the cream cheese I use in the recipe. Has never failed to be great!

Have a great holiday!

Festavus for the rest of us!

Who knows when, exactly, Christ was really born.

As you know, the date is simply a holdover from the Pagan Winter Solstice festivities.

Jesus' purported life story (his greatness as an activist and philosopher notwithstanding), a retelling of the Osiris myth.

Biblical scholars themselves agree that December would've been a most unlikely date given the presence of shepherds at the time (suggesting Spring) or the "Star of Bethlehem" - almost certainly a Jupiter/Saturn conjunction whose closest occurrence, astronomers tell us, would have been in October, 7 BC.

In short, no one knows - not clergy, and certainly not televangelists.

So, yes: A Very Happy Festivus to you and yours too, dupagelib.

And a Happy New Year.

The food prep has me fearing I will gain back the ten pounds I lost this year in one day.

I lost 15 last fall. Quit smoking and found those 15 over the past year. Oh well, guess it's just a redo lol.

Wishing you and your wife a day of laughter and peace.

even here in SoCalif! Nice for a change and I think we might even get real rain next week. That would be a great Christmas gift!

Happy Christmas to all of the loners, introverts, shy people, hermits etc! Enjoy a nice quiet evening and day tomorrow!

that my morning started by picking up a case of bankers boxes to pack up piles of books and notes.
it snowed.
I made a nice dinner for one.
glad I did that before the power went out. I slept until it came back on.
Now I finally had my once a year eggnog with rum.
and fed cats.
Merry Christmas, blue. Here's to you and your post.

Haven't had that in years.

I woke up, fed the animals, and thinkin about a nap lol

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Paz.

Bought a pizza from a local Italian place, wrapped it up and put it in the refrigerator. I'll heat it in a skillet tomorrow for Christmas dinner.

This thread is starting to make me hungry lol

No tree, no guests. a quiet day tomorrow (as if we ever have quiet) with a foot of snow expected. We bought a 12 lbs turkey and spent time watching a chef's tutorial on how to debone a turkey in order to lay it flat, add a stuffing layer and roll it into a roast complete with twine. Mission accomplished. We are also delivering 2 ten week old Dachshunds to a family in the morning. I have to bathe them both -Mr. Frank and Mr. Beans- early and get them ready for their new home with kids! They have been living here for nearly 3 weeks awaiting their big Christmas debut. Beyond that, one more dog coming in -a veteran visitor- we are going to eat, drink, binge watch, and be merry.

Cheers DU folk. I honestly DO NOT know what I would do without your compassion, wisdom, smarts, and humor in these trying times. Let's get through this.

Frank and Beans are awesome names

You have such a big heart to be foster parents. I wish for more caring humans like this. Happy Holidays to you and all your furry friends!