Got any exciting plans for New Years?
We have some friends who are having a New Year's Eve party that we'll be attending. The best part...they also have small children, so none of us wanted to be out super late. They have a sister who is visiting from her home in Italy, so we are celebrating New Year's according to the Italian time zone!
My sister is having a 2000s themed fancy dress party so I'll probably go along to that.
What will you go as? (That's what you folks call "fancy dress," a costume party, right?)
I'm invited to an "on-air" party by the folks who host a radio show I regularly guest on. My wife is invited, too. It was fun last year. Mostly they feature the musical guests, so I just watch the show and hit the buffet.
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
We're going to some friends' house for a party. We'll be kid-less, so no worries about getting home late for us, bonus!
The only solid plan I am aware of is that there shall be barbecue involved. Long tradition of grilling in the snow, but I'll stay happily warm in the house with the other sensible ones.
I'm going as Michael Moore if I'm going.
That's a good one, AG...be sure to wear a soiled baseball cap!
We're going to a Zanies comedy club to see Jimmy Pardo, then dinner at some foofy fern bar of a place that I've been to before which is the kind of place that chicks go for lunch with the girls and straight men avoid like it's on fire, then the local bar scene for as long as I can stand it as I'm the DD on New Years because I dislike Amateur Nights out at the bar. This is what my fiancee thinks of as a good time. Were it up to me we'd just stay home and screw, but what do I know?
Hell, if I didn't do things just because they made me feel a bit ridiculous, I wouldn't have much of a social life. - Santo Rugger.
We're going to a concert with some friends, if it doesn't snow again and they can make it to town.
Heh - we're going with or without them. We haven't gone out for NYE in ages - the last few years one or both of us have been sick. NYE is my favorite night of the year, so...yeah. We're going come hell or high water.
I'm going to pick bums up in my car and then drive them off a cliff.
Staying home. NYE is the anniversary of our first date, but neither of us feels up to seeking out babysitting, braving the crowds and crush, etc. So we'll stay home, maybe have over my brother for a while, and bust out the 1.5 liter magnum of Duvel that artifex procured for the occasion:
It will be a night to wish you could remember!
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Hell, if I didn't do things just because they made me feel a bit ridiculous, I wouldn't have much of a social life. - Santo Rugger.
I think I'm going to see a live performance of The Rocky Horror Show, done by the same local group who did it last year. It was awesome, and the venue is even bigger and better this time.
On a related note: I just realized this...New Year's Eve is the 20th anniversary of me becoming vegetarian.
Crazy.
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
Celebrate with steak!Originally posted by Oliveloaf
We are having a small very informal New Year's Eve party starting at 7pm with friends and family (also friends) coming over. I doubt it will more than 20 tops. There will be Lasagna, Sausage and Peppers, a Ham, Hot Hors D'eurves, junk food, Beer, Wine, White & Chocolate Russians and whatever else gets picked up or brought. It is usually fun and relaxed.
I'll probably play Beatles Rock Band and fuck around online. Like I do every night.
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I will spend New Year's Eve with a friend of mine and a handful of other people. That's very nice, but hardly exciting.
Like every good German I will observe one of our most sacred New Year's traditions. I will watch "Dinner for One", a British comedy sketch written in the twenties, first broadcast on German Television New Year's Eve 1963 and repeated every year since 1972.
It is a bit hard to explain. Looking at the sketch in isolation won't help much. It is basically a quarter of an hour build-up to a punchline. You have to see it in the context of the ritual surrounding it. It doesn't really work if you watch it the first time. You have to participate a few times over the years to become part of the collective experience of multiple layers of annual ritual, ultimately almost empty except for self-referentiality... Ok, I digress. Let's just say it's a classic TV sketch suitable for drunk viewing.
The German-language intro is largely irrelevant. It just explains the basic premise to an audience that for the most part won't be able to follow the English dialog.
Miss Sophie is about to celebrate her 90th birthday and her butler will have to impersonate her long dead friends, just as he has been doing for many years.
My brother and I are going to watch a marathon of Supernatural DVDs, eat popcorn and homemade milkshakes, and argue loudly about linguistics and physics.
We haven't planned the arguments yet, but I know they'll show up eventually.
(I might go wild and spike my milkshake with some creme de menthe.)
Make sure he takes plenty of pictures of your hands as you make the popcorn.
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Oh, he will. The action shots of my hands making the milkshakes will be to die for.
I will be home with the folks. Every year my parents throw their traditional New Year's Eve Not-a-Party (tagline: No one's invited but everyone's welcome). So that'll be fun. The kids all go downstairs and rock out while the adults chill and shoot the shit in the living room. There's a pinata and snacks galore and then half the guests spend the night and head home early in the morning new year's day sometime around 4 pm. It's pretty much a blast. And this year I'll get champagne at midnight.
The White and Chocolate Russians are Ice Cream Shakes. Kahlua and Vodka are the liquors.
Dinner at a friend's house. Then, on New Year's Day, we're having some other friends over for desserts and games.
I have a date!
Going out for an early dinner then going to a small party at another friend's house.
My son is having a very small party at my place (I learned last night) - He didn't get too upset when he learned that I wouldn't be at home.
They weren't singing....they were just honking.
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You can't just say "date" and leave it at that!!! I mean, is it: First date? 100th date? Friend date? Blind date? Hot date?
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Dude it's Jali. Of course it's a hot date.
Hell, if I didn't do things just because they made me feel a bit ridiculous, I wouldn't have much of a social life. - Santo Rugger.
Well, of course she is hot, but it takes two hot people to make a hot date. Otherwise, it's just a pity date. Or an escort service.
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Mmmm....Escort services.
Hell, if I didn't do things just because they made me feel a bit ridiculous, I wouldn't have much of a social life. - Santo Rugger.
I just got off the phone with some friend's of mine, looks like I am going to go see a Greatful Dead/60s cover band tonight. I swear to god if I'm bringing in the new year to the strains of Dark Star I will punch a hippy right in the bong-hole.
Give me whiskey when I'm thirsty,Give me a cold beer when I'm dry, Give me root beer when I'm sickly, Give me a headstone when I die.
Yes! Punching hippies is awesome.
Hell, if I didn't do things just because they made me feel a bit ridiculous, I wouldn't have much of a social life. - Santo Rugger.
SWMBO and I did a Murder Mystery Dinner. Sadly, we didn't catch the bad guy, but we had a great time anyway!
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