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How will you be spending it? Partying till the wee hours with friends? Staying up with the family? Going to bed early because you have to go to work the next day?
Into the sack at 7:30, not because of work -- long retired -- but to rise early for Mass. I'll do my partying New Year's night, if you consider watching a DVD accompanied by a couple glasses of red wine and a couple of beers as "partying." That's how you party when you're old but still in good health, and all your loved ones are dead.
Around 11:30, I'll start my black eyed peas soaking (so I can cook them the next day), put on some comfy jammies, pour myself a glass of sparking wine, and settle in on the sofa to watch the ball drop. Then I'll probably doze off on the sofa.
My oldest son is visiting and this will be the first birthday I have celebrated with him for 10 years so we are pushing the boat out and having a party.
We had a large tree fall in a windstorm on Christmas Eve so we have a ton of wood to burn on the bonfire so we will be indoors and out with buffet foods, hot punch and fireworks.
My husband and I put on our jammies, get a fire going, and make the deliberate decision to drink a bit too much - by ourselves and in the comfort of our own home! Sometimes this leads to karaoke. Sometimes it leads to falling asleep on the sofa and waking up when we hear car horns beeping outside.
Anyway, our quiet New Years Eves are a favorite evening at home for us. There's usually interesting stuff on TV that night too, so sometimes we just watch stuff like that and commiserate over the past year.
2015 has been a really tough year for us and we're both glad to see it be done with. Hopefully 2016 will be more positive (both my inlaws were very sick and then passed away this past year after extended illnesses, and then the DRAMA over the estate with extended family was bizarre and very upsetting).
My town has a thing called "First Night", which is a city-wide alcohol-free NYE celebration. You buy a badge for $12 and have access to all sorts of different shows and entertainers all around town, culminating with fireworks on the beach at midnight. I will be going with a guy I am seeing, very low key, just wander around in silly glasses and see some shows.
Since we moved into our home 2 1/2 years ago, we started a new tradition which I love: we go out to dinner early to a Mexican restaurant (early in order to avoid all of the drunks), then we come home & have a few drinks while watching movies & the ball drop.
Our friends invited themselves to dinner with us this year and I'm a little disappointed, since we will have to go out later (one of them has work until 6) and I've enjoyed it just being the two of us. Oh well.
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Going to Baltimore, get drunk as hell with my friends, and dance like no one is watching.
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