I’m spending Christmas (and New Year) on an oil rig off the East coast of India, roughly 12,000 miles from home. Is anyone else this far from friends and family this time of year? Or maybe you’re just sneaking off to a motel to avoid the in-laws - let me know!
I’m in Tucson this week, taking care of UA stuff, and house stuff for my parents (they’re getting a house here so I get the in-state tuition, and in a few years they’re going to retire and move here).
I am spending this Christmas in Mosul, Iraq as oppossed to Indianapolis, IN. I’ll make the best of it, as anyone can do. I have received some lively decorations in the mail, and to much laughter and chagrin I got to watch a group of about 15 Muslim Iraqi’s put up a 50 ft. + Christmas tree in the lobby of the Civil Military Operations Center that I work in. Pictures available upon request. heheh (btw, I know they are muslims because I asked each one of them, I had to have integrity with my irony)
I’m away again too.
Second year in a row. Nature of the beast, I guess. . .
Hey Dryfreeze, I’d like a picture! Can you e-mail me one?
Tripler
On call for the Orange Alert, but at home this week.
Tripler: sure thing, you want the christmas tree or the office decorations? or both, lol
Moi. I fly to Paris tomorrow evening…
I am in San Francisco right now.
Heck, send both! 
Tripler
Thanks, bud!
I did that last year; was in a small town in north-central India, though. I was delighted by how thoughtful people were in trying to make the holidays a little less lonely … the flowers and a box of chocolates for Christmas were a pleasant surprise. 
This year, Christmas will be with family but in a new place (parents and sis recently moved), so… it doesn’t really feel like I’ll be “home” for Christmas, if you know what I mean.
As a backwards twist to this, I live about 2-3 miles from my parents… and they asked me to spend the night at their house on Christmas Eve.
I’m not sure if they miss me that much (they see me almost every day) or just don’t want me to be lonely since my daughter will be at her dad’s. Either way, I gotta love 'em. Nevertheless, I will be sleeping in my own bed that night, thank-you-very-much.
I live an 8-hour drive from home, and I had back surgery a month ago. No way can I take an 8-hour drive, or a flight. So, I’m spending Xmas away from what I consider to be “home”, but I’ll be spending it with my husband, stepson, dog and 2 cats, so I’ll muddle through. Of course, the percocet helps…
I live 1,700 miles from home (a 24-hour drive, so it takes two days to do safely). I moved in mid-July. Two years ago I spent a year in college, but I went home over winter break, so this is my very first Christmas without my family. I’m rather homesick.
Me! Me! Me!
The past two Holiday seasons I have been offshore on a drilling rig in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea. This year I am not offshore but I am in Rock Springs, Wyoming on call for the cementing department. Being a Brit I am about 24 hours worth of flying away from home so that is pretty far. The good thing is that everyone has taken pity on me and I have lots of invites for lunch and dinner and parties this evening so it won’t be so bad. My mam is the one taking it hard that I won’t be home
Happy Holidays everyone where ever you are
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Well, I’m from New Jersey, but live in Arkansas now. Have for four years. NJ will always feel like home, and even though I have a husband and some friends, I still feel like I’m away from home for the holidays. I do have to give my MIL credit though, she does what she can to make my holidays better. She takes some of my NJ traditions, and brings them to her traditions
I just moved to a new town. My mom has to work all through Christmas (a registered nurse in a major hospital) so I’m alone. I am not happy at all about it. Everyone is either away or just too busy.
I will probably just watch football and make myself a nice meal tomorrow. And try not to think of all this.
I’ve been here a year and a half now. My husband and son are here, so it’s “home” now, but I miss my family pretty fiercely. This is where I say thank you to all of my online friends for making me less homesick.
Happy holidays, everyone.