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Do you like christmas?

Kay

This is my least fave time of year.

My family consistently throw a big Christmas party and I'm sure they know it unsettles me but they still do it anyway. Loud music. Loads of people. A whole weekend of this and I'm trapped in the house. I like Christmas music if it's played quietly and the decorations can look nice but the busy city and large gatherings make it a really unsettling time for me and when my house is suddenly like it as well I get the usual sense of dread.

Yesterday my parents informed me this year there will be another party for me to endure. My dad says if I don't like it I could move. I will move out for definite when I can afford it, money is tight as I've only just got in to the workplace and my chosen job nursery assistant the pay sucks LMAO so for now I'm having to save and save and save to afford the finer luxury of escaping my parents house. Sadly despite my trying to explain about autism they don't get it. I'll be 25 next year and I'm hoping at some point then I'll be able to look in to renting an apartment, if I can afford Londons rather expensive properties.

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  • I struggle with the run up to Christmas, the annoying adverts have already started. I find that by the actual day my brain is fried from overload. This year my wife and I are not doing Christmas, we have just bought our future  home by the coast and plan to go there over Christmas and work on it. The house has been empty for 3 years and requires a lot of work. We are doing a ‘Christmas with the Kranks’.

  • in reply to Roy

    Cool way to spend Christmas. I live in an old house and it’s been undergoing restoration for the last couple of years, started with the loft which was mouse infested and leaking on one side of the house but is now watertight, carpeted and mouse free. There’s an old wine cellar under the house all stone floored and walled but that’s a long way off from being usable. Enjoy your restoration this Christmas I bet that will be a blast.

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  • in reply to Roy

    Cool way to spend Christmas. I live in an old house and it’s been undergoing restoration for the last couple of years, started with the loft which was mouse infested and leaking on one side of the house but is now watertight, carpeted and mouse free. There’s an old wine cellar under the house all stone floored and walled but that’s a long way off from being usable. Enjoy your restoration this Christmas I bet that will be a blast.

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  • in reply to Roy

    Your house sounds a beautiful place. I love older houses they have so much character. I hope you put in the Juliet balcony and french doors, that would be ever so pretty. I've got french doors here but no balcony. We also have water from a spring that's at the top of the mountain but pressure is very poor here, I don't know anything about it but a pump is probably required. I hope you will have a lovely Christmas in your new place. 

  • in reply to cintrodinara

    I’m really looking forward to starting work on it, your house sounds very interesting and I’m sure stressful at times. We have flagstone floors and stone walls, luckily the roof was replaced by the previous owner. I’ve got a mad idea to fit a Juliet balcony and French doors upstairs as the view is amazing. Our water supply comes from a spring, i can see the system needing a better pump as pressure is poor. Christmas Day dinner will be something from the microwave, anything is better than dry turkey!