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It’s New Year’s Eve day … And I’ve decided to give you my take on New Year’s Eve and its celebration: It’s overrated. If you love this night and you party until dawn, I say GOOD FOR YOU! The way the night is built up, SOMEBODY ought to enjoy it! As for me and my hubby, I can’t remember the last time we went out for a New Year’s Eve party … let alone stayed up until Midnight. I mean WHY? I’ll just be tired the next day. I hope I haven’t been a downer for you all. I actually am not a New Year’s GRINCH. It’s just become another day for me. In fact this year, my husband and I won’t even be in the same state! We have been in Florida for vacation and he left early with our youngest daughter so SHE could be home for a party, and I stayed in Florida with my oldest for a few extra days of sun and fun!
What about all of you? What’s your take on New Year’s Eve? How do you feel? What do you do to celebrate (or not?)
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I’ll be honest, I’m not really into New Year’s much either. Usually I go to friends’ house and have a safe, warm celebration. Nothing overly exciting LOL. Tonight some co-workers and I might stop for a drink after work, but that’s the extent of it. It’s nice to have the day off tomorrow, but I don’t need to go to a big, expensive party to have a good time. I prefer low-key.
Happy New Year to you all!
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I usually have to tell myself Happy New Year! Hubby is usually out and so nothing exciting I tell my kids that are 23 and 24 it is just a night for people to get into trouble and we all know nobody needs trouble it seems to find us even when we don’t want it.
I am hoping for a better 2010 with all good things.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!
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I would say most the time we stayed home in fact I remember when it was just my husband and me we would be in bed watching tv he would fall asleep and say wake 3 minutes till I would and then he would say a minute till I would and then he would fall back to sleep. the last 2 years we went to some friends house played games, ate the kids played and after midnight we left. This year we are going to some other friends house. Hinestly I don’t care if I stay home and go to bed it is just another year.
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I forgot to add I hope you are seeing some sun and warmth while you are here in FL it has been cold where I’m at though yesterday was beautiful
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I usually go to Sol(friend’s restaurant) and have dinner with friends and listen to live music. This year, I’m just going over to a friend’s house and we are going to fix dinner and have a very laid back New Years Eve. I’m not really big on the whole holiday anyway. Seems to be another one of those couple’s holidays, so not as fun for someone who is single. :newyear:
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I am with you there Liza. It definitely is a couples thing or a whole group of friends celebration. Have a blast!
:newyear:
Peace and love,
Paula R.
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Before kids, my husband and I used to go out to some cheesy restaurant (think some dive…that didn’t jack up their prices and required no reservation). Since kids, one of us cooks a nice meal (tonight, hubby is making crab cakes, aren’t I lucky?). I was going to celebrate with the boys at noon, but we’ll be in different movies at that time (me, “Up in the Air”, them, “Alvin”). Hubby and I had a date night last night, so we counted that as NYE last night. Funny part of the story, is that we went ‘dessert hopping’ (as opposed to bar hopping) because the restaurant where we had a coupon for for dinner, didn’t have a dessert I wanted. LOL.
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Let’s see- by midnight hubby and a dog and cat will be asleep. Daughter and i will be down here doing our annual Die Hard movie marathon, taking a drink (or not) everytime he kills someone.It’s amusing. We might order chinese of pizza. She has to finish packing today for her flight back to Hollyweird tomorrow.
We don’t go out- it’s amature night.
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Oh, yeah
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Hey Carly, I stopped celebrating NYE a very long time ago, since I was in HS. I have a very boring ritual that I go through, and I watch the ball drop on television. I went to TS once, and that was my senior year in HS. My friend’s bday is NYE so we went out to celebrate with her. There were about 10 of us. We ate at a restaurant in NYC, which was my first time, walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and hopped on a train to TS. It was almost surreal. I couldn’t believe the amount of people that were there. Needless to say, I would love to experience that again, but with someone I care deeply about. I just want to live again.
Anyway, those of you who are celebrating in TS today. Please be careful, have a lot of fun…oh, don’t bring wallets or purses to this event because it is a prime location for pickpockets. If you have friends that have apts overlooking TS, that is the best way to go as well. Have a wonderful day. I will check back in later on.
Carly, enjoy the fun and the sun. The weather is supposed to get rainy/snowy/sleety here, so you are in the best place right now.
Peace and love,
Paula R.
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There, I’m happy to have used the icon–my celebrating is done! :) Actually, we’ll take the kids out bowling (early) and to eat (early) and they want to see Avatar, again… but if it was just hubby and me, we’d be in bed by ten. He’s been at work since 4 am. I’m kinda thinking him getting to midnight will be a miracle.
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We either go out for a quiet dinner or I make something at home. Then we watch A Christmas Carol, the one with George C. Scott or Alastair Sim. The last time we stayed up until midnight was the millenium in 2000. Otherwise, we don’t stay up that late. Neither of us drink and we aren’t partiers. We did have a neighborhood Christmas party this year and people stayed until 11:30! We were exhausted. That was the first party we’d had in several years. We are such a couple of old fogeys.
I’m even worse at national. People are guzzling booze down in the bars and I’m up in my room–reading with moisturizer plastered all over my face.
I do enjoy new years because I like thinking of all the good possibilities for the coming year and I like goal setting too.
Happy New Year everyone,
Cher :newyear:
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:newyear: My hubs proposed to me on NYE 20 years ago so we always celebrate that more than the incoming year. :newyear:
Here’s to health, happiness and prosperity in 2010!
Tami
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This year we are doing the Disney countdown. Yep, the kids are at that age they want to stay up til midnight.
Tomorrow, I am organizing more of the house and cooking black-eyed peas for luck!
Hope everyone is blessed in 2010.
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I’m with you Carly! My hubby and I are going out to eat with his parents (Chinese food, of course), and my son and his girlfriend are joing us for dinner before they go to a party.
I remember the days we used to really celebrate, but that seems so long ago now. I really just enjoy a quiet evening at home watching a movie and going to bed well before midnight.
Here’s wishing everyone a safe, healthy and Happy 2010!
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I’m usually up until midnight every night so this one night of the year doesn’t make much difference. I also really dislike large crowds–especially when there’s the distinct possibility of stupid and/or drunken people populating said crowd. Back when I was still gainfully employed, I was usually either working a 24-hour shift or on-call, which was fine because caffeine is my “drug” of choice. This year will be like the last few–Lawyer Guy asleep on the couch with a bowl game on, me on the laptop chatting on the internet with far-flung friends. I’ll wish them :newyear: in their time zone, we’ll say good night and I’ll curl up under the covers with a good book. This year, I get to do it on my new Kindle!
May all of you greet the New Year safe and happy, no matter how you choose to celebrate.
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Hubby and I will welcome the New Year behind our eyelids. We are usually very low keyed. Dinner at home and comfy clothes.
May you have a safe and blessed :newyear: everyone.
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I’m not exactly a Grinch…but as my daughter’s birthday is tomorrow, I’m much too busy with preparations for her party to do any serious partying the night before! Of course, I wasn’t much of a New Year’s partier before, either. My brother and his wife have a great get-together every year and I’ll try and make that at some point tonight. We do stay up until midnight…but we do that every night, so that’s not a big change!
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I love watching the glass ball drop in NYC at home, even though technically there it’s already the new year.
For me, it’s a time to celebrate and reflect on the past year’s accomplishments and perhaps remember the downfalls and disappointments. Maybe next year we can better prepare ourselves for what may happen again. Maybe we can learn from our mistakes. It’s all about learning.
Happy New Year to everybody! Let’s make it a good year!
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Carly, I totally agree with you, NYE is overrated. I will be working tonite and doing a 16 hr shift for the police department. This is the night that the police do a lot of dui/dwi checkpoints. Please be careful if your driving tonite.
I am 31 and I can’t even recall when the last time I went out to celebrate the new year. I just think its just another night. I am sorry if people go out to Times Square but me, no way am I standing out in below freezing temperature to watch a glass ball drop. I can stay home (except for tonite) and watch the ball drop in the comfort of my own home.
Hope everyone has a safe night. Happy New Years! :newyear:
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Ok thats suppose to say 16 hour shift.
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The last time I did much to celebrate New Year’s Eve was when it was turning 2000. My grandson, he was ten then, stayed with me, we spent the day watching Peter Jennings & seeing 2000 being celebrated all around the world then just before midnight he kept drifting off to sleep!! I kept having to say his name or shake him to stay awake, when it was midnight he sort of said yea & out he went! It was kind of funny as he was all excited about staying up until midnight. Since I’ve been single a good many years it has been a very long time since I did much to celebrate on NYE. One of my good friends & I used to get together, spend the evening talking, maybe drinking some champagne and eating whatever snacks we wanted. She passed away several years ago but NYE makes me miss her just a bit more because we had some good ones together. Since I am a night owl I’m often up until around midnight reading. Right now Leslie’s book, Pitch Black, is keeping me reading until I can’t keep my eyes open!
Whatever you do tonight enjoy, stay safe and look at the good things that will come about in the New Year.
:newyear: May the New Year bring you many good things, good health and time to read.
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New Year’s Eve is just the evening before a new year starts.
Have not gone out on New Years Eve in over 20 years.
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It’s been more years than I can count since we went out on NYE. (At least
20 plus!) We usually have our own celebration with lots of goodies and a
nice sparkling wine or champagne. Happy New Year to all !!!
Pat Cochran
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Sometimes we get a room in Seattle and walk downtown to the Space Needle. It’s fun, a little crazy but we like it. This year he is laid off and we don’t have the money. But even more than that…we just don’t feel the spirit.
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Unless we have a party to go to we just stay home and watch the ball drop on TV and have a little champagne. Happy New Year.
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:newyear: My hubby and I always celebrate on New Year’s eve by going out to a fancy restaurant with friends. Also, it is my birthday so we always celebrate that too. Then, the third thing we always celebrate my hubby and I got engaged on New Year’s eve. So, we always go out and have a fun time somewhere every year. This year we went out early because we are supposed to have a foot of snow here in Northwest Indiana. It is already snowing and the temps have dropped to the teens.
So we celebrated tonight early, had lobster and prime rib dinners. Absolutely fantastic! We couldn’t eat it all so we brought our leftovers home. We had a wonderful time and now we are home safe and sound.
I wish everyone a fantastic New Year!
Anyone want any snow?
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Happy New Year, everybody! I am a frequent lurker, but this is my 1st time commenting.
I am really pretty boring… live near a tiny town in Ohio… have two healthy and ornery young sons… and I love to read romance! LOVE all of the Plotmonkey authors!
We stay home on NYE with the kids. Usually my parents come over and watch the ball drop on t.v. and then they leave and we are all in bed by 12:30!
Man… if I won an online giftcard I would totally choose Barnes and Noble! I have been so busy before the holidays- I feel like it’s been ages since I sat down with a book!
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