Scarlet Pimpernel wrote:

(Mark Shaw) wrote in message ...

I have had an extremely ****ed-up year, and have very little to
be thankful for. I'm certainly not going to invite anyone over
and put out a Thanksgiving spread, but I don't really want to go
out anywhere, either -- any suggestions?


- I like the balloon idea. Generally, the best way to cheer yourself
up is to try and cheer someone else up. Assuming you want to be
cheered up.

- If you don't want cheering up, go with the booze suggestions. Wallow
in it.

- I you just want some distraction, go on a reading binge. Go and
re-read some of the books you liked as a teenager. Read George
Macdonald Frasers "Flashman" series. Or good escapist stuff, like
Wilbur Smith (When the Lion Feeds, The Sound of Thunder", etc), Robert
Ruark (Poor No More, The Honey Badger, etc). Harper Lee "to Kill a
Mockingbird". Mark Twain. Find some of the classics you always meant
to read. The list is endless.... (But avoid the Russians ;-)


/S


My warped dyslexia just read your last line as "the end is listless."
Hmmmm. That's depressing. . .

WTF, cheers anyway!

Peg