It has been years since my SO and I have gone out for New Year’s Eve - was fun when we were young and stupid, but now prefer to stay at home and avoid the crowds, over-priced drinks, over-priced cover charges, over-drunk patrons and the potential drunk drivers.
Most likely we will watch the Las Vegas fireworks from our balcony, and be in bed, asleep, by about 12:20 AM.
However, I certainly don’t begrudge those who have great, fun plans for the evening and wanted to know - what are your plans this New Year’s Eve? 1/1/11 is kind of a cool series of numbers to celebrate.
It depends how I’m doing, physically. Among other things, I’ll be recovering from cataract surgery. So we might just stay home, where my partner gets to play nurse.
I was going to slap you for not partying it up in Vegas on New Years Eve. Then I realized that I was in NYC and Times Square is pretty much the last place I ever want to be on New Years.
Well, Times Square is where I’m going to be for New Year’s Eve (NYE). I don’t live in New York, and watching the ball drop in Times Square* with a million other people is one of those bucket-list things (albeit low on the list) that I decided to do this year as part of a general Christmas-to-New Year’s trip to the East.
Before the “Millenium” NYE** I never went out for NYE. Since then, I’ve gone out every year.
*No Times Square porno-theater jokes, please. :smack: I said the ball. Unless you’re imitating Lady Gaga, most aren’t covered in electric lights or on a pole atop a tall building.
**Yes, I know this millenium actually started Jan. 1. 2001. The big parties were on Jan. 1, 2000. Party like it’s 1999 and all that, you know.
I live close to Sydney harbour, so it’s not possible to escape the NYE fireworks and be in bed before midnight, short of getting out of town for the evening.
All of the neighbours in my street usually congregate for drinks at about 10.30pm. Then we stroll down to the end of the street and watch the fireworks. Once they’re over we all make a bee line straight back home. I’m generally in bed by about 12.20.
We usually spend some time the next morning cleaning up the rubbish left behind by the revellers.
I hadn’t thought about the significance of the date. However, I did coincidentally plan to have my annual vacation the first week of January. So I have a whole week to recover from debauchery!
But I’ll probably just get pissed on jagerbombs while playing WoW.
Hmm, that’s a good question. I don’t know if we’ll go out to a small party or stay at home. I highly doubt we’d go out; overpriced drinks and drunk drivers are enough to deter us, even in our young age. The best New Years parties are laid back affairs with lots of food, some booze, and generally catching up with people, maybe playing a board game.
A few of my friends andIi are hanging out at a friend’s house. We have a non drinking friend coming, in case we go out and need a DD.(Last NYE I was the DD)
I will probably spending at least a portion of New Year’s Eve moving. As I’m not a night person on even the best of days, I’d put the odds of me remaining up until midnight at 50/50. Assuming I am awake, I’ll be with my girlfriend and my buddy (whose place I’m moving into), so I’m guessing the three of us will sit around playing video games, playing board games and generally bullshitting.
In other words, my kind of New Year’s Eve – being with a small number of people I care about and being fairly mellow.
ETA: I am, however, considering making my approximately once-a-decade trip to the Rose Parade on New Year’s Day, though.
Mr. Rilch and I are going to see Christopher Titus. It’ll be the early show, so if we’re invited to a party, we can still go. If no party, we’ll go home and watch Dark Side of the Moon, which is a quasi-tradition with us.
I wish I could celebrate, as it’s our first New Years as husband and wife, and also the first in our new home. But I have New Years Day in the holiday rotation at work, so I’ll have to be in the lab bright and early at 7am, which means waking up around 5am, so no partying for me.
I’ll ask my husband to come kiss me at midnight but I know he’ll refuse to do it because I’m a light sleeper and he’ll be afraid to wake me.
Lake Tahoe in California/Nevada, USA! I get way too excited for Tahoe…the casino, bars, restaurants, club, and rooms are all in one hotel building. No need to be out in the cold, and no need to drive anywhere. I would NEVER just go to a bar or club on New Year’s in my city. Too many drunk drivers.
We usually have one or two other couples & their kids over for dinner, board games or some Wii, drinks, and the ball drop. Then the kids go to bed and as soon as they’re asleep, the real debauchery begins*. In the morning we do a big greasy breakfast and take our time starting the new year.
Probably the same plan for this year but we don’t know who’s coming yet.
*Typically, another glass of wine and then we fall asleep.
I have never had a good NYE celebration. I always end up holding someone’s hair while they puke or attending unfun parties full of horrible people. 2 years ago I decided to say fuck that and just stayed home, got some chinese takeout, and watched several episodes of Roseanne. It was awesome! That has become my new go-to NYE celebration and my husband and I will be spending NYE with chinese takeout and some kind of TV series on the tube. I’m looking forward to it!
For those of you who want to be in Times Square on New Years you need to plan to get there around 2 or 3. They start blocking off streets not long after that and you can’t get close enough to make it worth being crammed in with a million people much later than that. You might even want to get there earlier that, actually, but if you aren’t there by 3 I’d say find a restaurant that still has open reservations because you aren’t going to enjoy the ball drop.
For the last several years I’ve done a fondue party. So far it’s been my favorite way to celebrate: a nice, long, interactive and fun meal, and next thing you know- it’s nearly midnight!
