Plans for New Year's Eve/Day

[3113]

Any?

As I find New Year's Eve celebrations in California quite pointless (after watching every other place on Earth cheering and sending up fireworks it's something of an anti-climax when midnight finally arrives here )...

I shall be having my usual New Year's Day celebration: A luxurious breakfast while watching the Rose Parade. Let's hear it for silly floats and marching bands!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

We will go visit HM's mother and SO on the 31st, making sure to be back in the den with the rock rolled over the front before sundown! New Year's Day will likely be just another day off. I remember the coverage of the Rose Parade from decades ago when they would show you the entire float and keep the commentators faces off the screen. I miss that, so I don't watch any more. Great parade, rotten coverage these days, IMO.



And another anti-Hollywood grump hits the fan.

 

[glynndah]

We will go visit HM's mother and SO on the 31st, making sure to be back in the den with the rock rolled over the front before sundown! New Year's Day will likely be just another day off. I remember the coverage of the Rose Parade from decades ago when they would show you the entire float and keep the commentators faces off the screen. I miss that, so I don't watch any more. Great parade, rotten coverage these days, IMO.



And another anti-Hollywood grump hits the fan.

Try watching the House and Garden channel. More float, less face.

We usually celebrate at my mother-in-law's. One glass of champagne at midnight (well, midnight EST, anyway) and then head off to our own house long before midnight CST.

The parade, football and black-eyed peas the next day. Then, chicken marsala made with the leftover champagne the night after that.

Traditionally we have a seafood feast to commemorate the New Year, but the date is flexible. Usually the most convenient Saturday of the break. Antipasto, soup, fish, lobster and/or crab, pasta, salad, breads, fruits and cheeses and chocolates for dessert. Ten courses or so and about five hours of eating, cooking, conversation and dishes.

 

[Lady_Guenivere]

Hogmanay with the neighbours...we start at one home and then have a travelling party throughout the evening...going from house to house eating up all the leftover cookies and cakes and of course sipping a cocktail here and there...

Fun night.

 

[3113]

Hogmanay with the neighbours...we start at one home and then have a travelling party throughout the evening...going from house to house eating up all the leftover cookies and cakes and of course sipping a cocktail here and there...

Fun night.

What a cool idea for New Year's Eve! And to get rid of all those left-over xmas cookies

 

[cloudy]

New Year's Day I'll fix the traditional hopping john and greens, but other than that? We don't usually do a damn thing but lay around the house.

I kind of like it that way.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

New Year's Eve I'll be going out...probably to Closet (a lesbian bar in Boystown) with a friend or two.

New Year's Day is my father's birthday, so we'll celebrate. I might bake. Other than that, New Year's is pretty low key.

 

[TxRad]

I'll be working.

Why should New Years be any different from Christmas, My birthday, and Thanksgiving.

Damn, bah humbug, in triplicate.

 

[SeaCat]

Working, working and working some more.

In fact I have already received my assignment.

I'll be working a triple once again this year.

0700-1900 December 31 I'll be working my usual shift in Oncology. I then get a one hour break so I can drive my wife home and grab a snack pack.

2000-0700 I'll be working and on call for the E.R.

0700-0800 Jan.1 I again have a slight break so I can again drive home and get my wife.

0800-1900 Jan. 1 I'll again be on Oncology but I'll also be available as an On Call for the E.R.

Life is going to suck big time but at least I'll be getting paid for this. (Unless my boss or the Corp. finds another damned loophole like last time.)

Cat

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I will be sitting around at home, and probably in bed early.

 

[buxxxom]

I'll prepare the traditional New Year's Day meal of roast pork, collard greens, black eyed peas, and cornbread.

What's important is what I'll NOT do: the tradition in my family is to NOT do anything on New Year's Day that you don't want to do every day during the year, or if you do it on New Year's Day make sure you like it, cause you'll be doing it each and every day for the coming year.

I love to cook.

I hate laundry. I will NOT do any laundry.

 

[Isid]

i will do my usual

 

[Stella_Omega]

Hoppin John, greens and ham at my house, but i don't expect many takers until late in the evening-- "my boys" are playing a gig new years eve and morning will be sometime in the afternoon for them. Myself, I am SOOO looking forward to no-one in the house except me and the SO that night!

 

[fifty5]

New year is Scots, so much of the family will be with the other grand-parents, leaving us quiet.

I guess a glass of single malt (Glenmorangie) at midnight will go down well though.

 

[Lady_Guenivere]

What a cool idea for New Year's Eve! And to get rid of all those left-over xmas cookies

It is actually quite fun...if the snow is still here the kids will go tobogganing in front of our house (we have an awesome hill...the kids call it Cardboard Hill because years ago- before it was a subdivision, the neibourhood kids would find old cardboard boxes and go sledding with them down into the farmers field).

I am looking forward to New Years this year...2009 was a challenging year. I love fresh starts.