It is our personal tag on it which defines it for ourselves. I'm sorry to hear yours is so recently. December 23 has hold such place in a previous year. Merry Christmas to you.
What about November 8? I know that's Tara Reid's birthday and she is a totally awesome actress. Who else's birthday is that? Or did you mention that particular date for a more tragic reason?
I haven't had any outstandingly bad personal experiences this year, so I would have to count the dates when one or two friends and relatives (and various celebrities I liked) passed away. This year has been beset by an unusually large number of celebrity deaths. :(
Sorry to hear that, Jane. I last had a fall 5 years ago (December 17, 2011), but fortunately I wasn't seriously injured. I landed on my right arm and it was painful for me to use it for about a week afterwards, but it wasn't broken. The cause of the fall was ice on the ground.
I hope you get well soon, Jane. I once injured my leg in a fall in 2002, and I was off work for a year. I still get occasional pain from that from time to time.
My mother, who had fallen and broken her hip about 10 days prior, was transferred from a very nice hospital to an unconscionably bad nursing/rehabilitation home. Our efforts to move her to a better facility was stymied by bureacracy and our lack of time/resources/knowledge to implement such a transfer. My mother required constant 24-hour supervision, which had overwhelmed my sister and me, who were spiltting Mom-watch duties.
The physical and mental exhaustion were so bad I nearly checked myself into a hospital.
This post was edited by OldSchoolTheSKOSlives at December 25, 2016 10:35 AM MST
I think you and I both had the worst August ever this year but last August was even worse for me. My mom died August 30, 2015. I don't count the year. This year was UP and DOWN so much I just am glad I hung on.
It's getting better. Keep saying this to yourself. It is called the right-wing denial exercise. It is GETTING BETTERRRRR. (God save us all)
Last night, I took my Mom and cousin to a Christmas Eve service at a Cleveland-area Latvian Church. Since the proceedings were done almost entirely in Latvian, I focused on trying to generate a more general Christmas spirit in my mind. I partially succeeded.
While 2016 ***sucked***, at least I met some really tremendous people who are doing God's (broadly speaking) work. So there was a blessing or two in there as well.
Sometimes I like the idea of prayer being in another language. You get the energy behind the thing.
And yes, you meet a Mother Theresa type here and there, and they can transform you life with no words at all. Just being there and seeing them sincerely at work and loving it is just the best example of "God's Work" I have ever witnessed.
Ritesh 