well, just give it time... over the years, it gets better!

o.O why can't you do both? Spend with family dinner and the countdown and then go out with friends...

Will be in the wrong province to do such a feat

I moved about four hours away from my family, so I've got an excuse. ;X)

Sorry you feel so down buddy, I know hollidays can be hard. *hugs* you take care and feel better, It'll pass *smiles*

Sorry it's a rough holiday year for you. Hope you get some of that 'friends' time you need.

Seeing extended family on Christmas is great! They all try to wriggle into your life to uproot anything they could percieve as bad, then announce it in a rude way in some perverted, unintelligent, and faulty scheme to feel better about themselves. ^_^ My family anyway.

It is fun, because there is no greater holiday joy than bringing to light the idiocy of the attempt, then getting very drunk.