Plans for New Years?

[SeaCat]

So what are you planning for New Years and New Years Eve?

The wife and I will be working New Years Eve until 1900. As soon as we are out of work we will be heading straight for home.

I will of course be making snacks and we will be staying up to watch the ball come down but we have absolutely no wish to be out on the roads.. Too many bars are hosting New Years Eve parties in our area and I have no care to share the roads with drunks.

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[TxRad]

From the looks of things, I'll be working also but without the luxury of being able to go home.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I recently discovered something new about writing, and plan to spend the evening writing a story that uses the new learning. Its a porn story, btw.

 

[3113]

New Year's Eve has always been something of a bust here on the West Coast (at least in my experience) because you get to see everyone else celebrating hours before you do! Look! New Year's in Paris! Look, New Year's in London! Look! New Year's in New York!

And all those places celebrate it so well! Fireworks and big crystal balls dropping, confetti drifting down from tall buildings....

By the time New Year's rolls around to Pacific time it's like I've already celebrated it globally, so why bother doing it again?

Which is why I celebrate New Year's day instead

To that end, I will be having my annual New Year's Day breakfast--lox, bagels, mimosas--enjoyed while still in my p.j.'s while watching the Rose Parade.

 

[jomar]

I'm thinking of getting hammered, yelling at the neighbors and pissing in the bushes...but I'm open.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Going to the leaf pile on time and sleeping through the whole thing. You've seen one New Year's Eve, you've seen 'em all.

 

[TE999]

We're having friends over for drinks and snacks, opening some bubbly, watching the ball drop, putting everyone's house keys in a bag and...did I say that out loud?

 

[litfan10]

Going to spend it in slave's arms as I'm visiting her and loving every second of it! Happy new year everyone !

 

[EmeraldKitten]

Going to my mom's for dinner.. having a few friends over.. playing cards, pool, and board games.
Probably watch the ball fall... if any of us stay awake long enough.
I'd like to watch 'Gone With The Wind', but my boyfriend isn't okay with that.

 

[michchick98]

Doing the same thing I've done for the past few years. Staying home and watching the ball drop, if I can manage to stay awake that late. First New Year's Eve without my dad. We usually rang it in together, either in person or on the phone (before I moved in with him after my fire in August 09). I was thinking about getting a bottle of sparkling grape juice to toast the new year, but it just won't be the same since I'll be alone.

However, I'm okay with being alone.

 

[Lady Reiha]

I'm working too until 10pm, then I'll be playing Rockband 3!!! ( with a bunch of sweaty, nerdy men!)

 

[sr71plt]

An early five-course dinner at a nearby upscale inn, hopefully with a minimum number of drunks between home and there--there are no bars in between, only a more-or-less empty university. Home to watch Julie & Julia, a half glass of champagne (not much; not fond of the it), and a romp in the hay. And before that, a mad dash to get a proofed book manuscript back to the publisher this year.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I'm going to the gym in a minute, and then I am going home to watch TV and futz* about on my computer.

* Futz is a real word according to this spellchecker? Color me amazed.

 

[oggbashan]

I'd like to go to bed early and sleep but the noise from other people's celebrations makes that impossible.

Locally several families will let off fireworks at midnight and for the next half-hour. Those who have been to the pub will come home noisily between 12.30 and 3 am.

Just don't expect me to be capable of civilised conversation before noon tomorrow.

Og

 

[SlickTony]

We're going to a small sports bar we've known and loved for the last couple of years, and bringing a friend along whose wife left him, like, the day before yesterday. It is his intention to drink himself under the table. I doubt we're able to keep up with him.

 

[glynndah]

Our traditional seafood feast for a dozen. Starting with an antipasto platter at dusk and ending with champagne and chocolates at midnight. That "midnight" will probably occur several time zones to the east...

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Working at the office until 9 pm, then bopping downtown to my Japanese spot to get toasted off of primo shochu and assorted washoku tapas with friends and strangers alike as I flirt with the bartendress. If any are in my area, all are welcome to join me!

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[SlickTony]

Looks delicious.

 

[slave_]

Going to spend it in slave's arms as I'm visiting her and loving every second of it! Happy new year everyone !

OH SO HAPPILY!!! Loving every nano second of being in your arms, soft touch and deep, oh so passionate kisses...

I adore you my Love!!!

 

[matriarch]

An early five-course dinner at a nearby upscale inn, hopefully with a minimum number of drunks between home and there--there are no bars in between, only a more-or-less empty university. Home to watch Julie & Julia, a half glass of champagne (not much; not fond of the it), and a romp in the hay. And before that, a mad dash to get a proofed book manuscript back to the publisher this year.

Loved that movie! Until I watched it, I'd never heard of Julia Childs, now I'm a devoted fan! Min bought me dvds of her tv cooking programmes, and her book, 'My life in France'. Wonderful reading, wonderful watching. Enjoy.

 

[matriarch]

I'd like to go to bed early and sleep but the noise from other people's celebrations makes that impossible.

Locally several families will let off fireworks at midnight and for the next half-hour. Those who have been to the pub will come home noisily between 12.30 and 3 am.

Just don't expect me to be capable of civilised conversation before noon tomorrow.

Og

Same here. Min slept until just before midnight, we watched the amazing fireworks from London, while Big Ben chimed out the new year. A very near neighbour was letting off fireworks for around 10 minutes.