What Are You Doing New Year's...New Year's Eve?

We've gone out for sushi with our best friends every NYE for the last ten years or so.

We have reservations at our favorite place for 7:00.

Usually, I'm in bed well before midnight, but this year, I'm staying awake to watch 2016 BURN!

My partner and I are going to his sister's cottage for the whole 3-day weekend...just to relax and spend some quiet time together after the madness of Christmas! We had Christmas Eve with my 3 brothers and their families and my kids and my grandkids. We had Boxing Day with his 6 siblings and their families. We are ready for US time. (-: I will be making a full-on turkey dinner with all the fixins on New Year's Eve...and we'll probably be asleep by 9 and miss the ball drop. (-; We might even go for a late night walk on the lake, just for the eerie weirdness of it...if the moon is bright enough.

This will be our 3rd New Year's Eve together...my magical life!

Myrealana said:

Usually, I'm in bed well before midnight, but this year, I'm staying awake to watch 2016 BURN!

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Good point! Besides, it might be the last one. Trumpocalypse and all.

The Ladylove and I have a tradition of hanging out at the bar of the best restaurant in town and going crazy on the dessert menu.

A tranquilizer of some type for me. An open curtain for a cat which enjoys fireworks.

My BF and I will be cooking tom yam soup (pork spare ribs, tofu, mushrooms, sausages), drinking a bottle of sparkling soda (apple & peach) + eating a few slices of cakes. We have decided to buy different slices of cakes so that we get to try as many types as we can. LOL!

Usually I treat it like a normal day and get to bed around 11. I am not a party person, after all.

This year I think I'll take my 2016 to the fire pit in my yard and burn this awful year in effigy. Might even toast marshmallows.

Same thing I do every year - sitting alone at home like the sad little fellow I am.

Friend is having a house party so i'll go to that

My friends are getting married on NYE actually! Judging by the amount of alcohol they've bought for the wedding, I think it's going to be a doozy...

That thing where you don't go anywhere or do anything?

Yeah. That.

Watching fireworks on the river. They do fireworks here from two boats just offshore, so no matter where you stand, you get a front-row seat. It's the best!

Go to my daughter's house for a couple of hours. Drink some of SIL premium single malt scotch. Come home around ten.

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I have this really terrible superstition that has basically ruined my life, which is that whatever you are doing on NYE determines what you are doing in the new year. So I try to fit in a lot of stuff into the day. So far I've decided to start the day with a swim, then a jaunt to the coffee shop to write and doing some drawing. My wife wants a nature walk -- oftentimes we go to the beach -- and it's traditional for us to have crab for dinner because I hate black eyed peas. As of right now, I'm trying to decide whether we should have friends over for dinner or if it's too much work.

So essentially I'll be overstuffing the day and being a nervous wreck, which is more or less how I've lived the entirety of my life thus far.

We will share the evening with friends - hopefully with copious amounts of alcohol and food. But not too much because it's our son's birthday on New Year's Day and we have a second Christmas dinner, which I have to prepare. (It's a kinda bittersweet day as it's also my little sister's anniversary.)

We usually order a feast from the Chinese in the village. I imagine this year will be no different.

Hunkering down and waiting for it to be over. I'm a largely friendless shut-in. I do not want to be, but I engage in a lot of solitary activities and am painfully shy. Staying with family is not an option for a dozen reasons. I am also low-income and rely on public transit. Everything in Seattle is expensive, especially on NYE, and the buses stop running around midnight. They start up again around four in the morning if you're lucky. I seem grumpy, but am resigned and occasionally grim. I keep trying to change my circumstances.

Lavern08 said:

Oh, forgot to mention I'll put Black-eyed Peas in the crockpot and let them cook overnight in preparation for the (traditional) New Year's Day Dinner of peas + stewed tomatoes + rice + BBQ Ribs.

I think I'll make a Key Lime Cheesecake for dessert.

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No greens?? Don't you want some folding money with that luck?

We're going to sleep early (cause it took most of a month to get on a day schedule), and doing the black eyed peas, spinach and turnip greens tomorrow.

Last night spent the evening with close friends at their place. A small gathering and a wonderful time.

Today: Just the four of us here, with roast beef on the menu. And going down to the beach, bundled up, to walk the boards.

Happy new year, everyone!