New Year's alone? HOW?

[funwdi]

Well...this sucks. I just got dumped and am spending New Year's alone. What really sucks is that I thought I was going out, got ready, didn't make any backup plans and mid-car ride, got dumped. I tried to call friends, but they're already gone.
Anyone else in a sucky situation?
I sure didn't want to spend it alone.
Oh...and it's my Birthday.
How to cheer myself up?

 

[SweetErika]

Happy Birthday!!!

I'm not sure...have a drink or three, do something just for you, read some great stories, and have an incredible masturbation session?

 

[salvador75]

auld lang syne

Sorry to hear that, funwdi.

I'm passing my last New Year's as a 20-something at home. Trying something different this year. It's not too bad but I'm strangely feeling all codgety about the party that's going on very loud outside my window. Man, I'm getting old and stuff.

Welcome to 2005!

 

[dollface007]

You're not alone, i'm having a really shitty time too. Not b/c of being alone, necessarily, but i'm supposed to be studying for a huge exam and i've realized tonight that I can't take it. I'm just not ready for it and if i take it I will fail. This could potentially prolong my grad school timeline (although, i'm hoping i can work it so that it won't). I've postponed this exam once before. I know that people will be disappointed in me, and since i'm a people pleaser, that sucks.

I do have some excuses for it...i've been ill, i have anxiety issues. However, I know this is mostly my own fault. I just plain haven't put in the study time. My schedule got thrown off when i got sick and then, BAM! i just fell apart. I let it get to me. This sucks. I'm a loser.

Oh, and as for your boyfriend, consider this:

Back before New Years 2000, I had expected my boyfriend-at-the-time to invite me to Miami with him for New Years. We had sort of a long distance thing and barely saw each other. We had been going out for over a year. Anyway, when I asked him about it, he said that he had thought about it and even talked to his mother about it (she thought it was a great idea), but decided that he wanted to spend his holiday in Miami without me b/c it would be too much of a "hassle." I should have broken up with him right then and there. Did I? No. I was an idiot. I stood there and accepted that I was a big hassle and that it was okay for my boyfriend to abandon me for the holidays. I went out with him for 10 more months.

Consider this dumping a liberation. Yes, you have a right to be sad, but you could have been like me....a pathetic loser who ended up a doormat, wasting almost a year of you life on somebody who's not worth it. In a way, my New Year's w/o my boyfriend was much more pathetic than yours. Meditate on that for a while.

 

[Bandit58]

I spent New Year's with my family in New Zealand, which is great cos I haven't seen my parents in over a year and my brother and his family for much longer than that - but I missed being with Gil so much. It is also a sad time because my dad is ill and is being put into a nursing home on Wednesday because Mum cannot look after him any more.

Last New Year's I spent with friends at the club - I was counting the days until my move to Australia. Maybe next New Year's Gil and I will be able to spend it together

 

[funwdi]

WOW

Thank you for putting it into perspective, everyone. I don't feel so bad. Happy New Year and hope everyone gets a better 2005. Sorry about your dad, Bandit. That really bites. I hope that everyone is okay with him going in the home. Hope you see Gil soon!
Good Luck, dollface with your exam. Don't resign yourself to failure! You will do better. And I hope your health is better, too.
Take care everyone and thank you for being brave enough to write!