I'm "feeling lonesome tonight", (thanks Elvis!), keep me company please!

[liberalhistorian]

Well, here it is another Friday night and I'm "all by myself" (thanks, Eric Carmen)! The kid's at a friend's house, so it's just the five cats, two dogs, the computer and me!

You know, I thought that when I got to be an adult the weekend nights would be a lot different, but I was wrong. SIGH.

So, keep me company here, tell a joke, tell a funny story about something that happened at work or with the family, tell me something silly one of your kids said, make up a dirty song, etc., etc. If we can't have lives on the weekend, we can at least still keep each other company!

[Cha]

1. I thank goodness for my computer and DU!

In fact.. I thought at work today when it was getting time to go home and I was sooo tired..."at least I'll get to "see" my virtual friends tonight"! :D

It's been a hellish week for cars and I'm just glad it's over.

How's that "dating service" you were thinking about at one point? :)

[liberalhistorian]

4. Actually, it was a service investigating

the backgrounds of potential SO's, as well as doing checks on applicants for dating services. I'm still working on the business plan for it, I bought a business plan book and am working my way through it. I want to make sure the plan is as perfect as it can be.

[Kamika]

2. Well Im lonesome aswell

21 years old , and sitting home on a Friday night..

Im planning on getting extremely drunk soon though

[liberalhistorian]

3. Ah, nothing more depressing than

getting smashed by yourself, lol! Actually, for me it's probably a good thing because I get smashed on just one drink or beer and I act totally crazy, uninhibited and foolish until I start coming down and then I get REALLY depressed. Definitely NOT a pretty sight!

[Kamika]

6. Same

I get drunk really easy.. But i just become even more of a smartass

[Bronco69]

5. If you were in Dallas I would invite you

to come to the club where my partner plays jazz. I'm going to go in a couple of hours. There's nothing like it. Sit back, have a few cocktails and listen to some great music.

[liberalhistorian]

7. That would, indeed, be nice.

I love jazz, and for some reason it's great to listen to in an atmosphere like that.

[Bronco69]

9. He plays alto and soprano sax, keyboards,

and does vocals too. Usually he sings with Denise Lee who will be playing Shoshana Johnson in the Jessica Lynch movie sunday night. She's a fabulous singer as well as actress!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Desert Places

by Robert Frost

Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.

The woods around it have it--it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.

And lonely as it is that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less--
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
With no expression, nothing to express.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars--on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.

(Too bad Frost didn't have DU!)

[liberalhistorian]

10. That is, indeed, one of his great ones,

thanks! As the daughter of not one, but two, English teachers, I think I've read every poem of his.

[Droopy]

11. I'm just drinking and hanging out on DU

Try some alcohol, it helps. I know how you feel. I'm a 31 year old college student who is stuck in a dorm full of 18 year old kids. Talk about nobody to relate to. So I decided to go down to the store and get me a twelve pack. That's what I usually do on Friday nights. I sneak it in in my back pack so I don't get asked for any favors.

On a different note let me tell you something. You know, if I could sing well or play some sort of musical instrument I think everything would be alright with me. Do you ever get that feeling? It's like if you could just express yourself in a talented way that everybody would like then everything would be ok.

[Elidor]

12. This one's for you!

Are you...lonesome tonight?
Do you miss me...tonight
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray
To a bright uh-summer day
Uh-when I kissed you and called you sweetheart?

Do the chairs in your parlor
Seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your body
And wish you had hair?

(laughter)

...filled with pain...
...shall I come back...
(laughter)
tell me dear
are you lonesome...(laughter)

oh, lord, lord, lord!

I wonder, haha...

You know someone said...the world's a stage and each must play a part...

(laughter) I- (laughter) oh, god! Oh, man, I tell ya! (laughter) hoo! Lord! (uncontrollable laughter)

...and I had no cause to doubt you! (laughter) Oh! (laughter)

(in response to backup singer: ) Sing it baby! (uproarious laughter)

Shall I come back again?
Tell me dear
Are you lonesome (laughter)

Is your heart filled with pain
Shall I come back again?
Tell me dear (laughter)
Are you lonesome tonight? (laughter)
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"I want what Elvis is having!"

I'm off to shoot some pool and dance till dawn. Wooooo!!!

[NightTrain]

13. Hmm....

Since you've stopped answering my e-mails, I'm not sure I'm one of the folks you'd want keeping you company tonight. But if I'm wrong about that, just say so!

[LincolnMcGrath]

14. Chain Letters or Chain Mail?

Home alone here too. Boys are spending a night at moms.



What you think?

[Armstead]

15. Deprogramming

Ah yes, the weekend night syndrome. If you don't have plans or a Signifigant Other it feels like a defeat to be at home. The house seems quieter and darker.

I'll admit it's difficult being single. Here's a suggestion though. One way to make it easier is to relax through that notion of dreading weekend evenings alone. If you've got plans on a particular night, great. If not, that's fine too.

It helps a lot if you can start deprogramming yourself that it an obligation that you are supposed to be out carousing on Friday and Saturday nights. It's really just another night. No different than Wednesday really.

It takes a lot of internal pressure off if you can see that myth about expecting to be out every weekend night for what it is. A myth. Most people do spend a lot of weeekend evenings at home. That notion of going out every single Friday and Sat. nite is just social programming. The idea is largely perpetuated by people being afraid to admit that they ever spend weekend evenings at home.

The only time it stops being a pressure is when you're mated. And then people do what they REALLY wanted to do all along -- which is to stay at home guilt free on weekend nights.

[latebloomer]

17. Good points, Armstead!

When my kids go out, I yell, "YEE-HA!!" I CRAVE being alone, and cultivating my true homebody nature. But I'm lucky enough to have a good husband, finally, who I met when I was 37.

Before that, I spent a lot of years forcing myself to go out when I didn't really feel like it, just cause I felt I "should" be looking for somebody.

[latebloomer]

16. Is there any cool place to go

around where you live?

Though, judging by the horror stories you tell, I would doubt it. Ever think of moving??

[populistmom]

18. You need a new Elvis song.

Can't Help Falling in Love has always been my favorite (nice and sappy). Actually, sometimes I've found I can be completely lonely with a lot of people and perfectly content sometimes by myself so I can actually have a chance to think a little.
I hope things can be how you'd like for them to be. In the meantime, we all like you and we're here. :)