I have never been out on New Year's Eve.
In high school, I was once invited to a friend's home for a movie night. That was nice and perfect for the time.
In college, I was always home for New Year's Eve. If my boyfriend called, my father would set the timer on the microwave and that's how long I had to talk to him. No more.
In Japan, I was with a friend and her family for a very cultural New Year's Eve but still suffered aftereffects from MSG poisioning had in Taiwain just days before, so I did not feel very well. Year two had me in Thailand, on the island of Koh Samui and I went out to a discoteque that night...but only to return to my bungalow deathly ill on warm-water shrimp, something that had also almost been my demise in Ecuador. I didn't leave that bungalow for three days.
Back from Japan, met my current housemate, who I soon learned will not ask me out unless it is to a military museum, a holocaust memorial, a war movie or a battleground park. New Year's Eve? Go dancing? Have fun? Nope. War stresses me out terribly. It is just not one of my hobbies.
So I suppose I can get around this now by permitting my children to have friends over on New Year's Eve. Make this a good, child-friendly home for eating snacks and playing games and showing videos and providing noisemakers for what might be around 10:00 this year when all will be too tired to continue on until midnight.
And I may live vicariously through them.
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My Princess,
ResponderEliminarI'm the same way in regards to new years eve ( herein refered to as "nye" ). I just haven't really seen the point..
Well, let me be honest.. I've always had a clean dance card and simply went home for the evening. There really haven't been many people I've wanted to stay up until midnight and celebrate with.
I'm a hopeless romantic I guess. I want that scene from Top Gun with Kelly Mcgillis and "Take my Breath Away" playing in the background. Gauzy curtains blowing all over the place, and furniture being destroyed... Thats MY Idea of "nye", or dream at least..
Ahem.. Well now, where did that come from? Pardon me.
But just going out and suffering a sea of drunks, and putting myself in harms way in vehicles?
Nah, not my style.
I don't go out on New Years Eve anymore but I used to. Sometimes ending up walking home in the cold but it was fun. I don't like the crowds anymore and can't stay up past 10 or so. I'll try to stay up this year but I'm not going anywhere!
ResponderEliminarGreetings, Windrider:
ResponderEliminarNYE. I like that. Yeah, I prefer to watch those freezing their arses off in Times Square in the warm comfort of my home than to actually being there. But I hear you...does hopeless romantic mean that we hold out hope that ideal may come to pass? Or shall I return to an earlier comment regarding pessimism...?...or was that realism? Top Gun...you are sooo a child of the 80's. May we 80s children Rise and Join Forces!
Z: Good morning! I think I'll start the kids on a new NYE tradition...called "Let's End This Year with Takeout from MccyD's." ...although I, personally, won't touch the stuff with a 10-foot pole!
Takeout from MccyD's. How funny! I could go for a pizza from Pizza Madness.... maybe one with pineapple and jalepenos.
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