New Year Eve...Plans?
 

I'm staying home, prolly watch the History channel and go to bed before the ball drops. Am I fun or what?

Youse guys have any plans?

I'm even MORE fun.

I'll be at the nuthouse.

We are celebrating by having dinner from Panera Bread.

It would be against company policy to have champagne, so of course, as in past years, we will.

There was a deal on at M&S - three party food selections and a bottle of Cava for a tenner.
So I bought two lots. Well I had a £10 voucher anyway.
Nom nom nom, very bad for me, but sod it. Big changes in the New Year so might as well see the old one out in style.

Mum & Dad are housesitting, so it's all for me.
Okay, I do intend to leave some for them - they're back tomorrow.

I might go for a kip in a little while, and stay up late.
Well, I don't like to when they're here - they're in bed by 22.00 most nights. Also I know there'll be fireworks visible from this room at midnight, so I may as well enjoy them.

I did think about going to a pub, but I really can't justify spending that much money (I was naughty in what I did spend).

Clutching my stomach in agony.

Maybe staying home with my cats.

Maybe house/dog-sitting at HG's sister's house (with cable, a big screen TV, and internet!)

I'd be just as happy home alone, except for the lure of internet.

We are having dinner tonight at a BYOB--so I'll be lugging along a big clanking bag o' booze of course. :D

Afterward, we'll be walking about 20 blocks back to our neighborhood as quickly as possible (there will be no taxi cabs available as we learned a couple years back), to see the Penn's Landing fireworks at midnight.

let's all get piss drunk on chat and have sex at midnight.....!




ETA:
DIBS ON JINX!

Sit around, knit, try to make my kids go to bed, maybe watch a DVD.

re: ETA. Well puh, the rest of us won't even bother showing up, then. ;) You're just being shellfish.:lobstah:

I'm going to hang with my roomy and go talk to myself in chat. Because I'm like that. :)

Oh and I will be having sex with jinx. First.

oh hai jinx. ;)

My wife works next door to Panera bread. I love that place. The manager gives my wife free stuff. I pretty much like everything they sell.

Our boss brought in Panera bagels and such this morning. Yum.

Stay in, build a fire, and read.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY

(beat y'all to it. cept you aussies i think.)

Well, so far it looks like I'm going to miss a big chat tonight.

First time off for about 8 years in a row. We got a hotel downtown and will be with the crowds and watch the fireworks for the first time in a long time. In the past we never could make it past 10pm to stay awake and watch it all on TV at home. Looking forward to the first few days off in a row for a while now. Even though I was off X-mas and the eve I had to many obligations.

Well, I am heading down the hill to mum's house. My bro, his wife and the two girls are heading up the hill to mum's house. So, it'll be me, mum, Bro, SiL, Meels, Soph and the two dogs.

Bro and SiL have been busy cooking curries. Mum's cooking the rice and papadums and I've been shopping for nibbles and fizz. Should be quite nice. Haven't done this in a while. Usually Bro and SiL go out and the girls stay with Mum; I drop by for a couple of hours but try to be at home for most of the evening.

Oh except last year when I was having my little whirlwind romance.

Truth is, I am feeling a little under the weather. Bad cold, sore throat, chesty cough, headache etc. I'd as soon just chill out in front of the TV, watching retrospectives and sipping port:P But I am sure I'll enjoy once I'm over there. Be nice to spend some time with the Family C.

All good things to Dwellars and those they love. *Raises a glass*

Well, since I did my puking last night thanks to a stomach bug, I am going to be DD for us and the other couple we are going out with. The plan is to hit a new restaurant that just opened, The Tilted Kilt, then a surprise party at a hotel for a mutual friend of ours, then who knows.

My this rice and banana taste good :)

Was going to do the above but instead four friends and assorted musical instruments are arriving any minute now for an impromptu ceilidh. I've even managed to find/cook enough food and find enough drink for a decent party, somewhat to my surprise!

Is that like a Celtic Hooters?

Yeah, dint you klick the linkie?

Yeah, chug an Irish Car Bomb for me.

Tonight is my 6th anniversary as a Cellarite. I will be celebrating it here at home alone tonight. TF is with her pseudo ex, and Selene and I are in the midst of a rather significant disagreement, making me lose all desire to go to the annual wild ass party we usually attend together. I will instead spend my evening making chili and cleaning the house in preparation for our annual NYD gathering.

You are all invited.

Well, it's nearly 12 hours since the new year started for us, and I went to bed well before the gong. Dazza stayed up for a while with the kids, but even he didn't make it. The kids stayed up and watched the fireworks on telly though.

I've got no staying power these days, and anyway, I thought new years eve was today. It wasn't till about 6pm last night that I realized I'd lost a day somewhere between then and Xmas.

I think I'm getting old. :(

Nah...not old, just not a kiddo anymore.

I remember hoping the adults would fall asleep first, so I could think I was grown up. Good times. :)

Yeah...actually, NYE doesn't hold the same joy and abandonment for me that it once did.

I think maybe I've had my quota of wild parties and now it's time to get down to boring. lol

have fun with that.

it's 10:40 in pennsylvania. time to party like it's 2009.

I thought I was going to have to work tomorrow really early (4 AM) so I made no plans. Finding out that I didn't have to work, I just bought a bottle of Stoli Raz and a case of Sprite.

Now I'm significantly buzzed and waiting 'til my girlfriend calls from Wisconsin at Midnight for her. I may pass out after that. Depends how much further I make it through the bottle before then. About halfway now.

We had one of the most amazing meals ever--the chef even made us a special dish. Then we felt a little ill...too much rich food! But it was worth it.

MB has to be at work at 7 a.m. tomorrow (or today, rather), so the feeling ill part was probably a good thing. It made us come home earlier than we would have otherwise.

Finished squaring away the house for guests about 1PM. About 1:30 (starting to cook) the power goes off... until 8:30. :mad:

I have cleaned the house. I am now sweating like someone with a higher liquid content than the rest of the human race. Cooling off before I go downstairs to do the washing up and take the rubbish out.

But then I'm going to kick back with my feet up and relax until my parents get back at about 17.00, secure in the knowledge that the place is (nearly) up to my Mum's standard and for once I have been proactive and not procrastinated.

Look at me starting as I mean to go on!

In bed at 1930, slept in till 0530 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!:celebrat:

Turns out I was up at midnight after all, even though I'd gone to bed around 11:00. Because we live just outside the city limits, and that's apparently a free invitation for every jerk ass yahoo to set off fireworks (my favorites: the ones that scream as they fly into the air) in the street in front of my house for over an hour, making the baby unable to sleep until they finally take their drunk asses home.

You know where a great place to shoot off fireworks is? The goddamn open fields just a couple blocks away.

I had a chinese new year too...;)

Pilau spent the last 15 minutes of 2008 and the first fifteen minutes of 2009 shivering on the sofa, trying to hide behind the humans. But Meels scored some lovely shots of the nightky lit up with fireworks from nearby display with her new camera.

Would much prefer not having him terrorised by wailing banshees and explosions though.

But, but, you should be flattered your neighbors feel you're so special they didn't want you to miss the show. :D

Was I pleased that I broke my usual habit of leaving things til the last minute?! Crikey yes!

My parents weren't supposed to be home til gone 17.00.
I got a call at 13.55 to say they'd just left and would be home in 35 minutes.
NO PROBLEM.
All I had to do was put on my bra (I tend to swing free if I'm alone especially if I'm hot).

The place was not in a complete state before I cleaned (I am respectful of my parents' house) but it would have been a very stressful 35 minutes if I wanted it to look as good as it did. Mum didn't mention anything, but in its own way that is a real compliment.

Good on yer, SG!

I toasted the new year with my cow orkers (fizzy apple cranberry juice, nobody got the real deal, I was in charge of the Panera order, as stated), and we snapped off a bunch of Christmas Crackers. Let me tell you, there is a big difference between the high end and low end crackers ... I got a whoopie cushion out of the big one, and an oversized plastic paperclip out of the small one. The jokes were cute, and even the cranky guy wore his paper hat.

We hosted a party, or rather, provided a house where others came to party. Not much drinking but plenty of food, talk, and laughter - mostly due to amateurs trying to do anything with the Wii while everyone else cheered and jeered and coached. "Oh wait, you mean my guy is the one on the left? I've been watching the wrong side!"

We went to a party. Affluent, big brand new house with hardwood floors and open plan, great party location. Good crowd - our usual pals were there, plus a bunch of other folks we didn't know. Including a guy my DH works with (coincidence!) and some guy on his mail route (again, coincidence - it wasn't in the same neighborhood.) DH said it was weird to be at a party with a cow orker and a "customer." LOTS of kids. Hosts had a keg, but I brought my own Mike's. Drank too much as usual (DH doesn't drink) but never really felt drunk, possibly due to all the yummy food - yet had a lovely hangover this morning. Ugh. Good times. :D

Next year I have to get more creative with my party food. I brought balls & weenies. Er...you know, meatballs and cocktail weiners in bbq sauce. There were 3 crockpots full of meatballs and two weenies. Well, mine was the best. :D

We lost our power on New Years Eve too. Only for about 2 hours though, in the afternoon. I walked with my mom to the mall to pick up some networking jacks at Radio Shack. Bright and sunny when we walked out the front door, but 4 blocks from home it got really dark and we had a thunderstorm blizzard that lasted 5 minutes. It was coming down so hard, you couldn't see more than a block. The wind all day was amazing. They had to cancel fireworks that night because the wind was so strong.