What do you do for New Year's Eve?
 

Do you have plans for the big party?

My plans include: staying home and avoiding the crazies, staying home and avoiding the crazies, and staying home and avoiding the crazies.

Keryx and I are going to bed about 10:00 P.M. and wake up with out a hangover.

That's my kind of New Year party! Then again, I'm old and boring. ;)

We're going to a friend's house nearby. Haven't gotten our families together in a few months. We'll probably come home at 10 or so and go to bed by 11. They usually have illegal fireworks there that we set off in the street. At like 9 pm.

I'll be ringing in the new year with Ma and my aunt Jaqui, who is staying at Ma's house from the 29th til the 11th Jan.

Oh and Pilau and Dante as well :)

Should be fun. We can get drunk and have a good natter.

I'm spending the 30th over in Hebden with the two J's. We'll be having a second Christmas dinner and gift giving etc as we haven't had the chance to see each other since the 23rd. Waiting til the 30th 'cause J's (f) kids will be at their Dads that night, so there will be a spare bed and we can talk without the kids taking over:P Most likely we will also end up watching several episodes of Blake's Seven! I'll be taking Pil with me too, and I have it on good authority that J(m) has bought him several intiguing dog toys.

My bro, SiL and the girls will be sunning themselves on a beach on some island off the coast of North Africa.

New Year's Eve is amateur's night, as far as I am concerned. There is no way I'm going out there with all those beginner drunk drivers. I've partied enough for three lifetimes, anyhow, so its a book and in bed by 10:00 for me. Time keeps speeding by no matter what I do.

Updated website rollout. Crossing my fingers.

Just me and the younger kid. Maybe not even him. My traditional Nothing. Hoping to avoid family-of-origin family in the coming year.

Do all y'all normally go to bed that early, or is it an anti-new-year uncelebration?

We are going to Great Wolf Lodge!

Both kids are bringing a friend. We'll have fun in the waterpark, order pizza, then go to a dance party. Then waterpark the next day and maybe a NY buffet brunch.

My main goal that evening is to enjoy an adult beverage or three while sitting in the Adults Only hot tub. :D

That sounds like FUN!

Can I borrow someone's kids? :)

which one? Sandusky?

Mason. North of Cincinnati, next to Kings Island.

New Years is the one Holiday I wish I was someplace else like in option #5 "Attending an all-inclusive party with overnight accommodations" but I am going to be home with family for sure.

I work every New Years. My trade off for not working Christmas.

I get into bed with a book at 10:00, then I usually read for an hour or so. Its not anti-New Year's, just my normal routine.

I usually attend one of our neighborhood 'bond fires' and bring in the new year with a drink in hand but since I'm married this year...we've just have to see. I know that no matter what I'll bring in the new year with CapnHowdy!

Well howdy....juju I didn't know you were Mrs. Cap'n howdy!

No Problemo. Beest will build a trebuchet between hockey games tomorrow. How do you plan to catch them?

Similar plan here.

drink all night; watch movies, party by myself (usually) and stay up until dawn. Greet the new years' dawn, then crash.

I will be home and totally sober; however, despite my best efforts to go to bed, I will instead be kept awake until at least 1:30 AM by douchebags with fireworks, because we live just barely outside the city limits, so everyone flocks out here to set off their stupid noisemaking fire hazards. Yeah, I'm a huge buzzkill in real life, too.

I was gonna answer, "Nothing!"....thinking what a big bore I would sound like. But as it turns out, I fit right in. :D

New years is the hugest anticlimax. always has been. whatevz.

I hope I hope I hope my netflix movies get here today or tomorrow, then that's what I'll be doing. If not, I have other movies to watch, but I'm really looking forward to being scared silly.

If they don't come click the watch instantly tab. I bet you can find something.

It's just another day for me.

Get together with friends from high school, drink alot, eat a lot, kidnap a foreign dignitary. You know, what most people do on New Year's Eve.

That's a good point. I forget about that feature, but my computer station isn't quite as comfy as my couch and my giant (small) whatever inch TV. :)

I hope you all have a great new year, whatever it brings.

Then you'll just have to put on your party pants and go have fun. :lol:

We're going to friends within walking distance :D

One of my gfriends is begging me to come to their house. Her husband's bday is the first. I love both of them to death, so I might actually have to ditch my at-home plans. Plus, I always have fun over there, I can spend the night safely...but I really wanted to stay home. That's how old I am! I don't want to disappoint them, though. :)

I agree. It's just another frigging day peoples.

New Years at our friends' house. I don't drink, but it's still about a 1 hour drive back in the early morning.

Watch out for those that do, have a safe return.

FYI, they currently have the entire first 5 seasons of SNL on Netflix instant view. You get to see the old Buck Henry pervert babysitter skits, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in a 50 beach blanket movie. Etc. etc.

OMG...thank you.

Eh, I'm in a damn computer chair most of the time anyway. It's my natural habitat. Left leg tucked under. I'm a zoo exhibit.

So, does it cost against one of your movies? I can do that. I get 3 at a time, so I can always leave one for online viewing.

Nope.
Lots of documentaries are instant too. I watched Food inc last night.

DON'T DO THAT! Trust me, I did it for a long time, and I'm paying dearly for it now. My knee is permanently screwed. :(

Going to look at that stuff. Thanks guys! :)

I was invited to play cards with my ex-coworkers.

The last year was really good.


Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' auld lang syne.


...but I am not going. I am going to celebrate with some sparkling cider and my kid and watch a movie.

It's the knee I had the meniscus cartilage removed from when I was a freshman in college (HS basketball injury.) It adapts, that scar tissue that supports your knee.

Well, I hope so, anyway. :p

:headshake

I had to laugh at this. As I read it, I was sitting in my computer chair with my left leg tucked under. :D

Instructions.

If you cross your legs like that this is what can happen!

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My mom told me that when I drove my parent's 1973 Impala (they bought it from my dead great uncle...lol) that I drove with my left leg tucked under. Well yeah...that giant couch front seat and no clutch? :lol:

Bad link, Merc. :(

Ha! We had that car. Chevy 350 with an absolute mush box transmission. It slept 5 comfortably if Dad stayed awake.

*moves left leg forward*

Yeah, this was the car I would drive into the pizza place parking lot where we hung out as teens, and we'd sit about 4 of us on the hood. I thought it was a 450 engine, but I have no idea what those numbers mean. I thought one of the hood-poppin' muscle car guys had told me that.

My dad didn't worry about me as much in that car: it'd take a tank to bring that baby down.

Any suggestions for cheesy movies?

Does anyone else have the tradition of beating pots and pans to make noise to scare away the evil spirits at midnight?

We did that as kids! I'll have to do that tonight if I go to my friends' house. It'll freak them out.

We used to 'first foot' our neighbours at midnight. And they'd do the same with us. We also used to put something on the inside lintel of the front door. A piece of coal and something else (can't recall what. Might have been grains of rice or somesuch).

Was planning to stay in.
Also had prepared for unexpected first-footers (first visitors after midnight).
Went first-footing ourselves to neighbours, got home around 3.30am.
Beautiful beautiful moonlit night.

dawn's rosy fingers are approaching . . . I'm dancing in the New Year!

We had a "rollickin" good time. We sat on top of the building and drank "near beer" while smoking cigars. We watched the fireworks show from the ODA compound. They fired parachute flares and star clusters. The IA (Iraqi Army) were shooting tracers. Pretty nice show!

Hi Sarge! Neat show, I'm sure!

I went to my friends' house. There was one guy who was obnoxiously drunk, and it kind of put a damper on, but we persevered. Only 3 of us made it until midnight, and I brought all kinds of party favors so their house was a mess! Confetti crap everywhere. My friend is kind of a neat freak, so when I got up this morning (they have almost a separate apartment in the lower part of their house, and the bed is the bed I gave them once because I was moving, so I was so comfortable) she had it all cleaned up already. I need that kind of OCD.

Good times with good friends.

I usually burn new years wishes...Too busy in New Orleans.....I did get to tour the city in a bus today!

I haven't even drank yet.....bleeergh.....

Capnhowdy and I had a rockin, blasting, good time just the two of us at our little 'Love shack' We sang and danced and of course drank champagne and whiskey. Capnhowdy cooked a wonderful supper and we finally sat still long enough to eat late in the evening but it was great! We took pictures but Capnhowdy will have to talked into putting them on the net.

lol - don't bet on that!