If my re-registration went through, I would like to spend some time there either Christmas eve or Christmas. I know holidays can be difficult for many.

I'm lucky in\that I learned not to let it affect me in bad years, ever since eating spaghetti with plain Ragu sauce from a convenience store on Christmas eve at age 21 right after my teen GF had left me and while not speaking with relatives, living in some godforsaken far flung place going to school, weeping softly by myself, while I smashed cockroaches with my shoe on the wall of the kitchen between tears.

Oh, your mom's annoying, you say? You didn't get alone time with your favorite cousin this year at the holiday gathering, you say? Bring it. I'll be in LL for a while, hopefully.