Naughty or Nice?
If you survived Thanksgiving and all those well-intentioned relatives asking about your dating life, congratulations! You cleared the first holiday without sinking into a funk about your lacking love life. Being single and dateless during the holidays doesn’t have to spell doom. For all of us who are single during the holidays, here are some tips on holidating:
Mingle: You know all those e-vites that are sitting in your inbox for holiday gatherings? Open them! Even if you don’t know who you want to take, just RSVP and go! The goal should not be to score phone numbers, though. Relax, be yourself, and laugh. When you aren’t focused on the numbers game, I think you are able to enjoy the people/experience more. Trust me. I’ve had the most fun at holiday parties without a date. I played the card games, sipped on yummy drinks, and grabbed random hot guys to stand under some mistletoe! (Yes, I have been known to carry my own. Don’t judge me.)
Venture out: It’s getting cold, the days are shorter, and the single people seem to disappear! This just means you need to be more creative and go where lots of people are gathered. Ice skating rinks, sporting events, bookstores, museums, or a cozy restaurant/cafe with comfy surroundings. Relaxed people are sexy. I bet you could strike up a conversation with interesting people who share similar interests.
What are other activities single people can do during the next few weeks? Lots of days off which means plenty of leisure time! What do you plan to do for fun during the holidays?
Do single people try to avoid meeting someone new because they don’t want to get caught up in that holiday trifecta: Christmas, New Years, Valentine’s Day?
Do you ever “relax” your dating standards just so you can get a snuggle buddy for the cold, winter nights? I have to admit that the thought of having a sweetie to curl up with in front of the fire is awfully tempting!
Is it wrong to do the “expiration” dating thing just for the holiday season? How does one even pull that off? Yes, this would fall in the naughty category, have you done it before?
What are the perks for being single during the holidays?
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448 comments Add your comment
czBrat
December 23rd, 2009
11:51 am
i refuse to get addicted to farmville!!! i jus refuse. too late for me. wish i could access at work. i’d be a true farmin fool!
Beautiful
December 23rd, 2009
11:52 am
@SexyCool
A friend said!..”Live as if you have arrived to that place of revelation, Unforgettably described as destiny & destination, Although still on your journey to a rainbow pre-archived, Every sign tells you to live as if you have arrived”…
lurker
December 23rd, 2009
11:53 am
You folks are seriously addicted
lurker
December 23rd, 2009
11:56 am
is diva on vacay?
Beautiful
December 23rd, 2009
11:56 am
when life knocks you flat !!!!!!!! roll over and look at the stars!!!!!!!!!!
Beautiful
December 23rd, 2009
11:57 am
@lurker
i’m MIA for life!
Dream_n~ 4 days til the B-day celebration..
December 23rd, 2009
11:58 am
@ Melo.. thanx.. Wishing your family a safe and wonderful Christmas/New Year also!
@ cbratz: What’s farmville?
czBrat
December 23rd, 2009
12:02 pm
farmville is a facebook app (game).
Dream_n~ 4 days til the B-day celebration..
December 23rd, 2009
12:03 pm
I won’t ask for much this Christmas
I don’t even wish for snow
I’m just gonna keep on waiting
Underneath the mistletoe
I won’t make a list and send it
To the North Pole for Saint Nick
I won’t even stay awake to
Hear those magic reindeers click
‘Cause I just want you here tonight
Holding on to me so tight
What more can I do
Baby all I want for Christmas is you
Ooh baby
All the lights are shining
So brightly everywhere
And the sound of children’s
Laughter fills the air
And everyone is singing
I hear those sleigh bells ringing
Santa won’t you bring me the one I really need
Won’t you please bring my baby to me…
lurker
December 23rd, 2009
12:05 pm
@lurker
i’m MIA for life!
Wow Beautiful, good I guess.
Luvbug
December 23rd, 2009
12:07 pm
Time to go…
God bless each and everyone of you with a continued and renewed loving spirit and abundant happiness and satisfaction that contagiously overflows to everyone around you…more love, more joy, more giving, more truth…always!!!
Luvbug
Beautiful
December 23rd, 2009
12:08 pm
@lurker
it actually isn’t. i’ve tried letting this blog go, but can’t.
MEAN OLE' GRINCH
December 23rd, 2009
12:08 pm
Pagan Christmas sux!
lurker
December 23rd, 2009
12:09 pm
GRINCH, keep Christ in Christmas. How’s that for ya?
lurker
December 23rd, 2009
12:10 pm
Beautiful, I guess as long as it ain’t an addiction that kills, you should be good.
Mr. Lurker
December 23rd, 2009
12:10 pm
ON the first day of Christmas Santa gave to me
1. One booty squeeze of Moe’s bootay? Does anyone have Moe’s bootay FB addy?
lurker
December 23rd, 2009
12:13 pm
Mr. Lurker, I gather you’re not into pancakes chicks?
THE INFAMOUS DK aka MR. DONKEY KONG
December 23rd, 2009
12:17 pm
Come on with the lurker sh!t ya’ll.. I mean join the fam.. Dont sit on the sidelines and take pot shots and not be bold enough to say who you are.. After you see so many lurker, Lurker, Mr Lurker, The Lurker, that Lurker or this lurker it gets old the novelty has gone past its expiration date..
Santa
December 23rd, 2009
12:17 pm
merra chrimus
lurker
December 23rd, 2009
12:19 pm
and on that note, this lurker signing off FOR GOOD i’ll just lurk from now on
Beautiful
December 23rd, 2009
12:20 pm
@lurker
yea. if you say so. i think i know what will kill my blog high. i’ll just have to wait and see if i’m right.
don’t get me wrong, this blog has done a lot of good. the best thing is how i communicate with folks, mainly females. it is actually ok to not agree with the majority and be your own person even if you get the gas face. i love saying how it really is and giving the middle finga when due. no sugar coatin’ it.
can you believe a lot of folks have complimented me on this? it’s crazy.
SexyCool - Loving ThatDude
December 23rd, 2009
12:21 pm
And how on earth would we know THAT?
THE INFAMOUS DK aka MR. DONKEY KONG
December 23rd, 2009
12:23 pm
Dont sign off for good.. Just come up with a name and join the Fam.. All insight is welcomed.. It doesnt have to be agreed with but its welcomed.. As you know I have my days but I still say what Im gonna say.. And couldnt hide if I wanted to.. My writing style is so me people would call me out..
Beautiful
December 23rd, 2009
12:28 pm
where’s dat sexy 2CPTG?
czBrat
December 23rd, 2009
12:28 pm
soooooooo slow here today. probably gonna be even worse tomorrow
guess i’ll curl up under my desk with my john grisham.
Beautiful
December 23rd, 2009
12:30 pm
@brat
it’s gonna be slow for the next two weeks.
czBrat
December 23rd, 2009
12:32 pm
Beautiful, funny thing is this time last year our department was mad busy. the quiet is cool cuz i get to surf, but even that’s moving slowly
Beautiful
December 23rd, 2009
12:34 pm
@brat
just keep in mind that there are about 100 or more lurkers lurking. i know a few ppl who don’t comment, jus read.
Melo
December 23rd, 2009
12:34 pm
where’s dat sexy 2CPTG?
u been on da prowl for that man for daaamn long loooong time Beautiful..why he skirting u but hitting others…
u sure ur coochie is str8??
I liked ur 11.56..”roll over and look at the stars” its nice to know u like to keep ur tatas,bra less, looking up,jus in case!
Dream_n~ 4 days til the B-day celebration..
December 23rd, 2009
12:35 pm
Cbratz.. You work on Christmas Eve
SlimOne...just called me Nicety!
December 23rd, 2009
12:36 pm
Kudos to the 12 days of Christmas!!!!!
czBrat
December 23rd, 2009
12:38 pm
yes, Dream_n. only a year with this company, so i have to build up the seniority to get time around the holidays.
Dream_n~ 4 days til the B-day celebration..
December 23rd, 2009
12:43 pm
Gotcha.
THE INFAMOUS DK aka MR. DONKEY KONG
December 23rd, 2009
12:43 pm
Slim 1 – Hey there Lady.. You ready for these Rodman Shorts.. Oh I forgot.. How you like your eggs again?
THE INFAMOUS DK aka MR. DONKEY KONG
December 23rd, 2009
12:47 pm
Last night I had visions of sugar plums dancing in my head.. And I aint talking bout no fruit..
Dream_n~ 4 days til the B-day celebration..
December 23rd, 2009
12:49 pm
My exes mom has to work on Christmas so we do Chritmas that evening before she has to get some rest for work. My boss does Christmas on Christmas Eve also, so I’m heading over there around 12:15 when they’re done opening up their gifts…..
I’ve always done Christmas on the actually day so it’s kinda odd to do it the night before….
Melo
December 23rd, 2009
12:53 pm
I wonder if The young Buc scored a fast one on Diva and kept her over nite.
WD has neva ever abandoned us like this..she must have overslept at the young guy’s place..hope she ok.
@SlimOne..u wearing underwear to wrk today…?
I hope u get ur Xmas wish of a volunteer soldier coming over for few hrs to knock off some cobwebs
Raining on Xmas nite…my fav kind of weather..im gon abstain sex for 4 days jus so i can recoup some enregy for Thursday nite and friday morning!
Willie Dynamite (feeling like 10K in a brown paper bag)
December 23rd, 2009
12:54 pm
Afternoon all,
I see we are bootleg blogging and trippin, My kinda day.
Random Thought – Alicia Keys can get it. Right now, tommorow and next Tuesday.
THE INFAMOUS DK aka MR. DONKEY KONG
December 23rd, 2009
12:55 pm
Willie D – Well you must be feeling good today.. Cause 10 Grand in a Brown bag is the best..
Willie Dynamite (feeling like 10K in a brown paper bag)
December 23rd, 2009
12:56 pm
aint it, mayne thats some nostalgia.
Melo
December 23rd, 2009
1:02 pm
aint she too young for yu WillieD?
THE INFAMOUS DK aka MR. DONKEY KONG
December 23rd, 2009
1:02 pm
Willie D – Im still rolling with that Kelly Rowland.. That chick does it for me.. She moves like good sex.. Her skin is flawless.. She has come into her womanhood wonderfully..
Tazzee
December 23rd, 2009
1:02 pm
Afternoon folks!
Raqi – did the complaining chick make it to your party, if so, how did it go?
THE INFAMOUS DK aka MR. DONKEY KONG
December 23rd, 2009
1:03 pm
Melo – Keith Sweat told you what it is.. You may be young but youre readyyyyy, Ready to learn.. Hey now..
Beautiful
December 23rd, 2009
1:04 pm
@Melo
2C and i are friends. we kid a lot and fight more. jealous? and i’m sure that if i wanted him i could have him. ha!
Willie Dynamite (feeling like 10K in a brown paper bag)
December 23rd, 2009
1:05 pm
Melo – She grown, plus I aint tryn to keep her jus wanna borrow her for a few then I’ll set her free.
DK – yeah she underrated. Pretty smile, chocolate skin. move like good sex (ima havta steal that 1 from you).
Melo
December 23rd, 2009
1:07 pm
jealous?
yea,u cld say that….i like the way u rock ur ponytail…i cant think of another blogger but me sampling ur stuff!
Beautiful
December 23rd, 2009
1:10 pm
@Melo
please shut the f*vck up! ugh!
Beautiful
December 23rd, 2009
1:12 pm
i feel sorry for your wife. i can see you live a double life. how sad.
Melo
December 23rd, 2009
1:16 pm
@im jus saying….
i know ur head game is tight..next time i have a bizz trip to the west,even if its to colorado,ill have to divert to cali for a day or tow…..u the reason why..
@Tazzee,they have become even stronger friends after the party…the report was yesterday but is available in todays bootleg version.