What are your Thanksgiving Plans?

[Charon]

Anyone have anything exciting going on? family u dread seeing? and the family members that make holidays a delight.

Anyone?

[IceWizard]

Oh... Talk about a shindig!!!

my 2 sisters and hubby's....
kids and their wives
and grand kids !!!
Should be a real h00t had by all

Ice

[Charon]

glorious. Have an awesome awesome time. It is wonderful to have family!!

[IceWizard]

Well.... Some of them anyway ...
I really miss my elders around this time of year...

Then it was a BIG family affair ...

Better days, nothing like it...
I love the family I have left...
They kinda "tolerate" me

Ice

[Charon]

Just be careful all as crazy people usurped my phone number. i got a message thank u for your order using some bug arsed number.

i hope i cleared that up.

Enjoy your family and watch out for the lunatics.

[NovemberRain]

What if your family are lunatics?

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I don't celebrate any holidays since my parents died. 

Only if my sis and her husband can come for the weekend, but his mother is a widow, so they spend most holidays at her house, which I understand. 

I have my older sister and her family here, but after my parents died in 2021, they havent invited me to one single thing. Not even Thanksgiving or Christmas. 

Which is terribly rude, yes. But I don't want to join them knowing they don't want me there. I suppose with me there, they can't be their true selves.

Jesus isn't invited, either. So, I'm in good company.

[Charon]

i shall be with my family, Price Harrison, my cat.
Food is way too expensive.

My sister tells me i can jump on a bus and find a food place for elders and disabled. Not so easy to do.

The rent Dennis and I are to pay, is murder since he passed away within a couple weeks of being here. I still dont know what was wrong with him. Breathing issues

His friends high tailed it here to take the vases he collected. Then they had a memorial for him and i was not invited.

I was with him ten, going on 11 years. People can suck.

And they all know i am alone. Unable to handle this rent alone. And I use a walker for awhile now which makes things tougher.

If you have family, please try to include them. Pick them up even.

It is not a holiday when one has a bare minimum off food. *after doing the budget*

And when no family wants to be with me. I don't live far away. But the excuse is my niece has a young baby. I am the youngest of the four sisters so i don't have old person germs.

My sister and i were best friends. She has me pray for her continuously. So she finally called a mutual friend, a pastor, and he told her to pray for Eileen. Heck yeah.

But she thinks i can jump on busses in an area i don't know. *we just moved here when Dennis had to be hospitalized four times, including the last visit when he died.*

They came here to take his vases but no one even told me they had a service for him.

People can be rats. And, often are. Happy Thanksgiving November Rain.

[NovemberRain]

I slept through Thanksgiving. I have a new cat I absolutely adore. He's so good and sweet. My sister who lives in the same town sent me a Happy Thanksgiving text. It was very difficult, but I sent one back.

My sis is upset because this older sister promised me I wouldn't be alone after my parents died. Promised help with anything that broke down, clogged, etc. Said her son and in-laws can do it all. They can, too. They redid her bathroom, their own kitchen cabinets, built my dad's shop.

Every time something breaks down, my sis's husband has had to drive three hours here to take care of it, or send  someone to fix it, and has had to pay for it himself.

Since 2021 when  my parents died, I have been alone not just for holidays, but 24/7.

Only when my sis and husband can come up have I spent time with anyone. They both got weird flus this year and said they would still come up, but my sis's husband got better (he had constant chills, coughing, and a temperature of 101) then my sis got sick. Hers is the lovely bathroom type of being sick. She also has no taste for the first time in her life. So I said please do not come. I'll get what you both had, but will be alone, and being sick and alone is not easy. I don't have transportation, either.

She's still sick. A bit better, but can't taste anything.

Sick and tired, is what I am. Tired of turning the other cheek, tired of trying not to be bitter, tired of everything. Definitely tired of this broken world.

The neighbors are usually gone, and they all have family. One across from me recently died. He was very old. I'd love to have his home. It's upgraded and I love the layout. It's been for sale quite awhile, but no one is buying. 

I want to be with Jesus, and my mom and dad and grandparents, and other family members who've passed on. 

Sorry for the pity party. Never did I expect my life to be like this.

But I have more than many others do. Heat, AC in winter (triple digits here in summer and I get heat stroke very easily) running water, a washer and a dryer, a TV with only streaming, but a lot to watch, and a phone. And, my beautiful and so sweet tempered cat. 

I've had wretched anxiety and depression my whole life, and it sucks. But, it could be, and will be, worse with what's going on between us and other countries.

I have to order my groceries too, Charon. Getting them in the house iss difficult. 

I've had some real weirdos, who purposely tossed them about, and where I asked nicely NOT to place them, but lately I have had wonderful deliverers. 

There's far more that I don't know how I'm going to deal with. Medicaid issues caused by an extremely rude woman who didn't do her job, and it caused me to lose my benefits. They were reinstated...but my health plan was dropped because of it, so now I have to choose between two, and I have no info, nor the thinking ability to understand any of it, which means my refills, which are not to be abruptly stopped EVER, will be stopped. They're phasing out Medicaid for many and having these people choose a health plan. It's still "Medicaid", and I have no choice or I lose my benefits. 

I could tell them I'm an immigrant, then I'd get health care, money, a free home, etc. But I'm already in "the system." 

But I wouldn't do that because it would not be fair, nor would it be right.

I miss my parents! And aunts and uncles. 

Sis and I are late babies, so everyone was older and now, dead.

Older sister here has "issues." Congenital pathological liar, and more. She was adopted. Her children turned out to be selfish snots, just like she always was.

That was mean, I know. But it's true. She put my parents through h***. 

Oh, Jesus please take me home! 

Again, sorry for this downer of a post.