This has been such a shit year...easily eclipsing the last three also spectacularly bad years.

I'm old...well older than most of you anyway...and a birthday recently. If not for my son, I'd probably have spent the day alone. Not one of my friends offered to go out and do something. The people I've worked with for 12 years (ones I've taken out for their birthdays) couldn't even be bothered to join me for lunch. Not that they're obligated...but still. Then when you're own family is too preoccupied to even bother to stick around and have cake. So yeah. I don't have much of a social circle and am usually ok with that...but it's just starting to feel like some sort of Purgatory.