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Gifts (boxes) given to the less fortunate (or lower classed) in honor of Saint Stephen.

 

This day is historically England's name for St. Stephen's Day. Saint Stephen was the first Christian martyr, being stoned to death in Jerusalem around A.D. 34-35. St. Stephen's Day is usually celebrated on December 26, which is a public holiday in some countries or areas in Europe (UK, Germany, Alsace, northern part of Lorraine, Catalonia) and around the world with predominantly Christian populations. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, St Stephen's Day is celebrated on the 27th of December, although in Greece the Greek Boxing Day (Synaxis Theotokou, ??????? ????????) is also celebrated as a public holiday on the 26th of December and is not related to the English version.[citation needed]..wiki

 

it can be any day after christmas

 

full marks!!:thu:

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Derail and rant away, Ren...


we are all friends here:thu:

 

 

Thanks guys. I've been debating bloggin here about my last 24 hours, I know there is some great people, with all kinds of perspectives on life, but I really don't want to derail your thread. I'll start my own, I don't really know what advice I seek, I just need to get it off my chest. I've found {censored} sticks inside me and builds far worse than it needs to unless I spill it somehow, somewhere.

 

I'm stepping out to get some air and hopefully a coffee if Tim's is open, then I'll be back and will do my own.

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Thanks guys. I've been debating bloggin here about my last 24 hours, I know there is some great people, with all kinds of perspectives on life, but I really don't want to derail your thread. I'll start my own, I don't really know what advice I seek, I just need to get it off my chest. I've found {censored} sticks inside me and builds far worse than it needs to unless I spill it somehow, somewhere.


I'm stepping out to get some air and hopefully a coffee if Tim's is open, then I'll be back and will do my own.

 

those who sit and wait also serve...:)

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Have a good cup, and see you back in a few:thu:

 

 

I've tried a few times now. I have some of it written. It either just starts getting to me too much, or I just sound like a whiny bitch because it's just too involved to get into the full story.

 

Can I just summarize by saying I hate the holidays and will be spending the rest of them (while I live in Ontario at least) by myself, alone, and would be happier for it?

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I didn't know the US recognized boxing day. I bought a couple studio racks and a matched pair of condensers today. Would have been more but Long and McQuade was closed.

 

Renfield, if my wife is as gung ho about christmas next year as she was this year she's spending next season with you.

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I've tried a few times now. I have some of it written. It either just starts getting to me too much, or I just sound like a whiny bitch because it's just too involved to get into the full story.


Can I just summarize by saying I hate the holidays and will be spending the rest of them (while I live in Ontario at least) by myself, alone, and would be happier for it?

 

 

 

Sounds like the space I've been in the past couple of days.

Yesterday I wanted to go, get out of the apartment, get some coffee, sit and keep quiet. Oops! No cafes are open on Christmas.

 

This has been an un-fun period.

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Sounds like the space I've been in the past couple of days.

Yesterday I wanted to go, get out of the apartment, get some coffee, sit and keep quiet. Oops! No cafes are open on Christmas.


This has been an un-fun period.

 

 

Count me in. This has been a heavy {censored}ing week for me. I would have loved to have slept through it. Bring on 2009, I've had enough of 2008.

 

Thankfully on the coffee tip, I'm working at Starbucks right now, so I get a free pound of coffee per week. I made sure to grab up some Kimodo Dragon blend to brew at home.

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Count me in. This has been a heavy {censored}ing week for me. I would have loved to have slept through it. Bring on 2009, I've had enough of 2008.


Thankfully on the coffee tip, I'm working at Starbucks right now, so I get a free pound of coffee per week. I made sure to grab up some Kimodo Dragon blend to brew at home.

C7

 

 

Geez! It's hard to even say what the problem is, for me. Things have just been gloomy.

 

I just had some hot chocolate, maybe I can sleep 'til 1JAN09 and start all over again.

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Geez! It's hard to even say what the problem is, for me. Things have just been gloomy.


I just had some hot chocolate, maybe I can sleep 'til 1JAN09 and start all over again.

 

 

 

 

Sorry to hear it, bro - I hope things start looking up for you, Ren, and C7 real soon...

 

 

 

- georgestrings

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Sounds like the space I've been in the past couple of days.

Yesterday I wanted to go, get out of the apartment, get some coffee, sit and keep quiet. Oops! No cafes are open on Christmas.


This has been an un-fun period.

 

I was with "friends" on Christmas and I really wish I was home alone, knowing what I do now. I think I'm going to end up alone a lot from here on in, holidays or otherwise. This place fills me with such a terrible depression, there is just no good for me here, no light at the end of the tunnel. The longer I remain here, the more miserable I become. :cry:

 

I have moved away from family and friends before, but there was always a drive that put me where I was. I was where I was because I wanted to be, so it never got to me at all. I was very happy where I was, even if it was a fresh start, no friends or family locally.

 

I am not entirely here by choice, and it's really eating at me that I can't leave. I am forced to deal with an utter c*nt of an ex (and I do not use that word lightly), I loathe my job and the job market here is scary, unemployment more than doubled in the last year, and it will only get worse with the automotive sector drying up here. I've also lost pretty much all of my friends here for one reason or another. I'm just feeling incredibly depressed, isolated, alone and lonely. Hurting my back the other day hasn't exactly helped my mood either. I have been in such pain the last few days that it's only multiplying my bad moods as I have to cope with the pain on top of everything else.

 

I'm here in this province for my son, only, and he does bring me immense joy. I can honestly say that he is the only light in my life at this point. I can't help but think that I am just being selfish by considering moving away for a better job, life, whatever. It kills me to think about leaving him behind. But is a life worth living if you are utterly miserable and depressed pretty much all the time?

 

I'm becoming very angry and resentful and I hate it, it's so not like me to be this way. I am becoming this anti-social, cold, cruel, argumentative person. My job is on thin ice because of my attitude that I can't seem to do anything about, my friends are disappearing rapidly, and I don't blame them one bit, I wouldn't want to be around me either. I hate who I am becoming to be blunt, yet can't seem to find ways to stop it.

 

I wish I was alone on Christmas because of a few things that went down as a result of what I just mentioned and some other personal life {censored} involving the ex that I am mostly going to be leaving out of this. The latest being that she's now using our son as a weapon to get {censored} out of me, or to just plain give me grief because she can and finds it fun to torture me and make my life worse than it already is. I was home alone on Boxing Day and I almost certainly will be home alone on NYE too, and I think this is probably for the better.

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Derail and rant away, Ren...


we are all friends here:thu:

 

 

Well, I derailed a bit all the same. I didn't get into the main issue that ruined Christmas for me this year, but you should have a decent grasp on part of what's been troubling me as of late now.

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