Alone with no family at all...can anyone relate?

[Babs2u]

Crazy but sometimes I try to honor departed family members by serving some of their favorite food. My sister always had German stollen at Christmas so I bought a mini stollen at Aldi.

 

[MarciKS]

Crazy but sometimes I try to honor departed family members by serving some of their favorite food. My sister always had German stollen at Christmas so I bought a mini stollen at Aldi.

Nothing crazy about that at all. It's actually pretty sweet.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

So true. I've also found that if a new or fairly-new acquaintance asks you what your hobbies are and you don't answer with something really interesting like sky diving or volunteering at archaeological digs, their eyes glaze over and they move on to someone else.

Maybe just say you submit analytics on marketing trends to a consulting firm, then let them wonder what that means.

 

[officerripley]

Maybe just say you submit analytics on marketing trends to a consulting firm, then let them wonder what that means.

Heck I don't even know what that means.

 

[Babs2u]

I clicked on my horoscope and got a laugh. It said I am due for some alone time. I think I have that covered.

 

[Veronica]

So true. I've also found that if a new or fairly-new acquaintance asks you what your hobbies are and you don't answer with something really interesting like sky diving or volunteering at archaeological digs, their eyes glaze over and they move on to someone else.

I dont have any hobbies but Im "interesting" and I collect weird stuff.
Would that count?

Seriously. Everybody has something that makes them worth listening to.
But If youre going to drone on and on count me out.

 

[officerripley]

Everybody has something that makes them worth listening to.

Unfotunately, I don't think that's the case. I think there are some people who nobody would want to listen to. On a planet of almost 8 billion, the law of averages dictates that there would have to be at least one person like that and there are probably more than one.

 

[Veronica]

Unfotunately, I don't think that's the case. I think there are some people who nobody would want to listen to. On a planet of almost 8 billion, the law of averages dictates that there would have to be at least one person like that and there are probably more than one.

Unfortunately now that I think about it youre probably right. Although sometimes they can be very amusing.

One of the perks of being old is Ive been known to lose focus and wander off mid sentence.

 

[smiley]

sometimes I think that wot we've got now is the result of wot we never put enough effort into at the beginning? I came from an extended family structure many years ago which immediately post war disintegrated - I don't think i caused that though - just got bowled over in the rush to get out?