Darksi4190 wrote:Well it's nice that someone still does, because I sure as hell don't anymore.
I know at least 5 people in the same exact position in life. It's nothing personal. It's not failure. It's just the result of decades of modern economics. If you still have friends and family who help you out and enjoy having you around, you are doing alright.
In the mean time, school is a great place to meet people who like you for your personality and don't care about your job or living situation. Enjoy it while you can.
Zod wrote:I gave up about 20 years ago. It's basically the most horrible time of year.
You know what makes me annoyed the most? It's never (or at least not usually) stuff that was out of my control. I almost always do it to myself.
It's like I subconsciously don't want to be happy this time of year. I just create things to be stressed about. Particularly by starting things right before the holidays start.
I should probably be getting to sleep right now. But I did just find a hot chick on OkCupid whose interests actually line up with mine, so let's see if I get a response.
Finding girls that actually have profiles worth replying to is almost a chore. I mean plenty of hot pics but the profiles might as well be cardboard cutouts, yesh.
spent christmas morning going to an orphanage giving foods and gifts to the kids
it was very worthwhile and probably the most decentest christmas i had thus far, better spent than pigging out
anyway... the guise who organized it are awsum party-going hard-drinking folks, and our group also had foreigners (yurpeans) working for NGOs, and for the whole month these folks have been going around orphanages and special-ed schools just trying to do nice things to kids down on their luck
and, idk, it kind of makes me more pissed at those hoity-toity uppity well-to-do do-nothing yuppies and affluent folks from the places i came from, and how all these monied prim and proper folks are just all fat and (diabetes) insipid(us). i'm getting more disillusioned at the ruler and priestly castes.
the people should no longer, and can no longer, wait on them
In my family, every year for Christmas we draw a name and buy a nice gift for that person. I got my aunt's name and bought her a jewelry set. She's not easy to pick a gift for, but she really liked this one - in fact, she'd been eying the very set I got her.
Now, I don't expect some kind of awesome gift. Some of the best presents I ever got were simple but thoughtful things. I'd be happy getting a box of chocolates because it means the person who got me the gift knows I fucking love chocolates.
I cannot say I'm very happy with an IOU from the person who drew my name but then forgot about it.
Especially when that person is my mother.
Rant over.
(My sister made up for it with an awesome time traveler's field manual tho)
I am one of those people who is perfectly content with a gift card to a store I'd like, or if not that then I'd take cash and/or a check.
It's not that I'm opposed to putting thought into gifts or anything, but after a couple times of buying somebody something they'd like but it turns out they already had gotten themselves (since I don't keep an inventory on what people I know own) I kinda figure it's easier to just let them pick. Which means either gift cards/money or else just straight up asking "so what would you like" and screw the surprise.
Unless it's a gag gift, like the year I agreed to "less than $20 spent" on a gift, so I gave them a small box with exactly $19.99 in it.
I am a very easy person to get gifts for because I'm happy with pretty much everything. And everybody who matters knows you can always just get me Lego.
I got my mom a watch. I was looking at one for myself but it just didn't feel right, and the ladies version was nicer I thought. She loves it.
I got my sister some sort of facial cleaning tool, my ex at the cosmetics shop helped me pick it out. Was exactly what she wanted, in a colour nobody else has yet.
I got a box of chocolates and a gift card ($unknown) to banana republic.
Oh well.
I picked up a book about Kennedy, about his secret recording system in the Oval Office and it came with 2 CDs of recordings. I'm going to read it and listen to it and then give it to my friend who loves JFK.
Also picked up a big bio of Ike. I'll be giving that to a friend after reading, as well.
So, today I received two albums of The Moody Blues ("Days of Future Passed" and "To our Children's Children's Children"). Currently listening to the first one.
Man, I dig that shit. Kinda remind me of that other band, "Aphrodite's Child".
