Today, we were looking forward to spending Xmas Eve with our best friends of 13 years before moving across the country where we know no one. That was the plan. The stomach flu virus had a different plan. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, it's Xmas Eve, and my partner's quick afternoon catch-up with his friends has turned into 5 messy drunks in our house at 1am. So it's no to the "us" time evening we had planned before spending tomorrow with our families who live over 3 hours away. Guess who had promised to drive and now can't? FML
Today, after our Christmas plans got cancelled because of COVID, to make ourselves feel better we made travel plans somewhere else, which also turned into a red zone the night before our departure, we are now going out for breakfast as our highlight of the year. Thankfully they are open. FML
Today, it's New Year's Eve. I'd made plans to spend time with my fiancé's family the past week, then my fiancé and I were supposed to drive to my parents place today to celebrate NYE. Unfortunately, this week has been full of sickness. I spent all yesterday bedridden, and now my fiancé is too sick to get out of bed. FML
Today, I flew my wife, myself and three kids to pay a surprise visit to my parents who were going to be alone for Christmas. When we arrived, we found out they decided to go on vacation. We have nowhere to go. FML
Today, I showed up at my mom’s with homemade soup, since she said she wasn’t hosting Christmas Eve because she had the flu. My entire family was there without me. FML
Today, I am passing New Year's Eve alone with my cat because everybody around me decided to celebrate in close committee, had a family emergency, or caught the C plague. FML
Today, after having recently moved 300 miles to be with my boyfriend of 2 years, I have to celebrate Christmas alone. He never thought our relationship important enough to tell his family about me, and doesn't want it to be "awkward." FML
Today, after buying over $300 worth of food and alcohol, I found out all my friends aren't coming to my New Years party but headed to the BIG party at the local club. The one which I sold my ticket to after my friends convinced me to throw a party instead. FML
Today, a friend had invited me to Christmas dinner since I have no family close by. When I got there, she told me that her and her husband had forgotten they had another dinner to go to, and asked if I would watch their kids for them. They each grabbed a handful of cookies I had baked and rushed out the door. FML
Today, I'm spending New Year's Eve absolutely alone. My girlfriend canceled our plans the day before so she could spend it with strangers and booze. Somehow, I still love her. FML
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Marelena20 23
who's we?? sounds like someone with split personality disorder wrote the FML.
lexiieeex3 32
Oh I'm so sorry OP! Hopefully you can can all get together after you get settled into your new home and you're all healthy. Best of luck with the move and the flu!
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TweetAnne 13
Getting sick during the holidays is the worst. Hope you feel better op and merry Christmas. In this situation it's truly the thought that counts. You should make new friends once you move.
lexiieeex3 32
Oh I'm so sorry OP! Hopefully you can can all get together after you get settled into your new home and you're all healthy. Best of luck with the move and the flu!
ezrocks4u 29
Yeah, there's a flu spreading like the plague currently-I got over it completely by day 4-5. You'll probably feel better by Christmas!
LAUGHINGKOMODO 25
Goodluck getting better in short time:)
Tripartita 45
What?! How the hell did you learn our plan? Comrades, we've had a long journey together, spreading through droplets of moisture and making it past the first, second, and third lines of immune defense. Let us not be deterred by the enemy obtaining leaked information! Let us move onward—maybe to the BRAIN!—and moreover: Let. No. Icosahedral. Structure. FALL. BEHIND! AHHHHHHHH!
r1has 28
Ahhh the good ole stomach flu, canceling plans, making people unable to look others in the eye while describing their illness, and generally being a shit heel since the beginning of time
c420racer 13
Maybe Jesus is punishing you for calling it x-mas instead of Christmas. Just saying....
awesomeamandas 37
it was Santa.
Scotth901 22
FaceTime the SHIT OUT OF THEM! IN THE NAME OF CHRISTMAS SPIRIT!
maritime1992 5
That stinks. You can greatly reduce your chances of catching that by washing your hands. it's generally transmitted by getting infected fecal matter in your mouth
Mortimer14 9
Everyone in my household has been hit by this in the past 10 days. First my Nephew, then me, then my sister. All laid up for two or three days unable to move other than to run to the toilet. And I think we just gave it to a neighbor. Sorry in advance.