Looks as if I will be all alone for New Years.

Hope it is not the trend through the whole year! :(

I'll be alone too.

So I guess we won't be alone. :-)

hope to see everyone here.

-LK

I have not gone out on New Years Eve for years, by choice. It's amateur night. And I don't like noisy crowds either, I like to visit.

But I am going out (for a change) on Friday night the 2nd with some buddies I used to work with for an unrelated reason. We are "celebrating" getting laid off one year ago. :eyes:

Happy New Year! :party:

I don't want a major relationship mind you! I would just like a person to cuttle. I would prefer a male, but I'm not that choosy!And it seems that the feeling grows more when New Years comes around.

This marks my 2nd holiday season alone. 3rd since my divorce, 2nd since my dad died. (Mom died 9 years ago, and no other living family.)

My baby brother is too wrapped up in his family and worrying about paying for the beemer and all his material things. (Yes, we're quite the opposites, so we don't see each other much.)

So you get online and see all your online friends are off doing things as well, and it just kinda creeps into a general funk.

I'll be much better come Jan. 2nd it isn't even funny. It's just like you said, it'd be nice to have someone here to snuggle up with. Sometimes it seems like "everyone but me".

Guess I'll be here new year's as well. (Not that it'll be bad company, anyway.)

When I felt lonely, I sought out community service, and it made me feel much better and put my life in perspective. I read books (and made interesting selections) to patients at AIDS hospices who couldn't read any more since the KS had all but blinded them. I taught homeless people in San Francisco how to use computer programs like Word and Excel and how to type -- and put them in touch with temp agencies who helped them find the first real work they'd ever had.

Those experiences helped me feel like part of a greater whole and banished the loneliness very quickly. They also gave me lots of hugs to get and give, because the recovering homeless and HIV patients are used to being judged and not shown the love they deserve as human beings.

Maybe that would help you?

of stuff to occupy me already. Between a full time job, new house (with all hardwood floors to be refinished, etc.), my Photoshopping in competitions, counseling to friends, etc. I have a ton to do. It's just in fighting off the "blahs" this time of year.

Like I tell anyone who is potentially interested in me up front. I'm comfortable living alone. I don't "need" anyone. I'd like to be able to share things with a special someone....good and bad. Not looking for a maid, cook, housekeeper or anything else, just a good partner in everything. Just this time of year is seemingly devoted to "family" things and special someones.

And note that I have done community service. I used to help on Shrine paper sales, delivering food baskets at Christmas, etc. and you're right...it *is* a very good feeling. Still don't scratch that one little itch that kinda pops up this time of year.

And welcome to DU! :toast:

At the beginning of this year I was laid off from a job I loved when the company went bankrupt, single with no romantic "prospects" and no money, feeling low, low, low. I felt like a total failure professionally, at love, etc. I barely had enough money to drive back from California to my parents' house and crash.

I started at a job that I did well at.

Then I got transferred overseas to England where I have met the person I think is the love of my life.

Now life is wonderful, and it never would have happened if I'd not had that "bad luck."

I am like you -- I don't "need" someone, but when the right person comes along, WATCH OUT! :-) The right person will come along -- the universe will be sure of that. Just keep doing what's good and comfortable and Mr./Ms. Right shall be along. Promise. :-)

And there's people out there who still deny things happen for a reason.

I'm staying the course I've charted, just looking for the lady who'll co-pilot with me.

save it for midnight

:hug:

as you can access the DU. I'm not going out, I am staying right here and will be seeing the New Year in with the others who are online here. :party: :-)