New Year's celebrations

[Aubrey 10]

I'm curious about New Year's plans, given the economic situation and for VJ'rs spending so much on immigration expenses. We personally have no money to spend on NY celebrations this year thanks to immigration and extended time without a work permit, so we're watching the ball drop on TV and maybe having a friend or two over for BYOB and games.

Discuss

[christeen 966]

Doin it up BIG time here this year... We got a big party we are helping to host with lots of drinks, food, games and fireworks!!! Hubby's first NYE in the states and we have always been on a ship for the new year (for the past 7 years) so I want it to be fun and rememberable!!!

[Dave and Helena 0]

We actually made a reservation for New Year's Eve at one of our favorite local restaurants today. They're having a five course dinner with wine pairings for $85/person. After that, champagne at home in front of the fireplace....

[Jenn! 918]

Hubby will be working as usual on NYE. I will watch the ball drop on TV if I am awake.

[Nagishkaw 510]

I don't know yet.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Nothing special here. We'll stay awake until midnight - maybe watch on tv for the various celebrations, and then kiss at midnight to welcome in the New Year. Last year we welcomed in the New Year online in a chatroom together with some friends from across the country . It was interesting as we got to welcome in the New Year several times as it passed the various time zones. We may do that again as well.

Edited December 26, 2009 by Kathryn41

[Rhiannercakes 14]

We're hopefully ordering pizza and having chips n dip.

Dunno though, we're broke until payday which is the day after.

[redglasses 1]

I will probably go to the Strip and watch fireworks from one of the casinos.

Or watch the fireworks from my home if I don't feel like going.

[~krakatoa~ 27]

On New Year's eve, I'd probably be working my a$$ off in the gym like what I did on Christmas eve.

After that, hubby and I will probably end up staying home or eating out in our fave restaurant.

Edited December 27, 2009 by ~krakatoa~

[Marilyn. 340]

well on New years eve we will be driving back from Vegas.. not sure when we plan to leave Vegas exactly so who knows where we will be at midnight..

[Mary Lou 681]

Thinking of going out for dinner, then quiet night in.

I have to work NYE and NYD

[JelloShotGirl 0]

Probably nothing...............going to bed early.....we are moving and we have to vacate our house by the 31st. Thats going to be tons of fun LOL! Plus both of us are working till 11 pm that night...........

[TBoneTX 45,288]

New Year's Eve is absolutely amateur night, si man, and I strongly prefer to stay in and avoid the drunken idiots. However, the wife is lobbying me to go to dinner with another couple. I will not drink one DROP of booze (because of all of the lurking puercos), and I will insist that we head for home no later than 12:05 a.m., si man.

In the late '70s, when I was around 18 years old (legal drinking-age in Iowa at that time), my best pal & I spent a snowy New Year's Eve secretly partaking of a bottle of Old Overcoat (or some such 800-proof Kentucky bourbon) downstairs in my parents' house. We couldn't drink very much, because it blew our eyeballs out. I saved the bottle and took it with me wherever I moved during subsequent years. Whenever I was alone on subsequent December 31sts, I'd take a belt when the ball dropped in Times Square. An hour later, if I was in the Central time zone, I'd have another snootful at midnight (it took that long until my head cleared, si man), then screw the cap back on and put the bottle away.

The stuff lasted me until 2004 or 2005, si man (hic). I reported "the end" to my pal, and he was favorably impressed with my memory of the original snootfuls and the continuation of the tradition, si man.

[SuperDuper! 230]

We always go to a foam party to bring in the new year!

[Dr. Obvious 49]

I'm not exactly sure yet. I think it involves a bottle of Freixenet and a Wii.