It’s 2245 here on the California coast. I’m actually surprised I’m still awake.
Happy New Year everyone!
Happy New Year – 2020!
May your 2020 be blessed and joyful! Even our challenges, may we grow from them. That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
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We had a wee Clan Piper horn blowing, with the kind that make lots of noise and the ones that blow out in an uncurling strip. Upset PIper Dog, so he went outsides.
Saw revellers on CBC at Quidi Vidi NL, Ottawa, and then a split screen of Winnipeg and Saskatoon, both counting down.
At midnight, I pulled out three confetti poppers , one for each of us, and we popped them. Piper Cat 3 immediately pounced on the confetti to conduct her cat-scientist experiments.
The Cub insisted on shaking the Moët et Chandon before he and I opened it together. Cork bounced off a couple of walls.
He dutifully took a couple of sips, but then passed his little glass to me, saying “Chug it!” I explained that one does not chug the Queen of Wines.
Mrs Piper and I toasted each other with the champagne flutes we bought twenty years ago. Took them out of the original box, which says “A toast to the year 2000!” Have used them every New Year since then. 
Then our traditional New Year treat - smoked oysters on crackers, with sour cream and capers. The Cub passed on that, opting for the vanilla gelato.
Now watching a Hallmark Christmas movie re-run, while Cub has quietly walked off with the Mac to watch YouTube until the dawn. Which by my estimation comes at 1 am CST. 
Happy New Year, all my Doper friends!
I went back and forth between Twilight Zone and CNN. I thought I was somehow seeing them both at once, when I saw Richard Quest in a Cats costume.
Best line: a very long balloon hits Andy Cohen in the head, and Anderson Cooper says “Is he seeing anyone?”
Happy 2020, everyone!
(I can’t believe it’s been 20 years since Y2K.)
Happy New Year!
And since I am now officially retired-Happy New Life!
Happy New Year!
And congrats on your retirement, Czarcasm!
I wondered if that’s what Anderson said. I love watching him on NewYears eve. He’s just so silly-cute. I do think he was tipsy tonight.
Holy crap!! You are 225 years ahead of me-What freakin’ time zone are you in??
Firecrackers woke me up. Happy New Year, my distant, unseen, but cherished friends! May 2020 be kind to us all.
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I liked my little New Years eve party. We coulda had a better turn out. But *quality over quantity, I always say.
(*who am I kidding? Where were you all? We had champagne and snacks and everything)
Congrats! Best wishes for the work-free life of 2020!
Sorry I missed the party, but between the Kahlua and cream and the nyquil, I was pretty much out of it well before midnight. Tho before then, I actually watched an entire James Bond movie for the first time in my life. Roger Moore didn’t take the role all that seriously, did he? I’m pretty sure that won’t become a NYE tradition for me.
21st year!
Spent my evening cleaning out the camera & backing up photos. Set the alarm for a group sunrise photo shoot. Woke up but decided to roll over & get more sleep; glad I did as it may be mostly sunny somewhere but not here, like was called for. S’ok, I got great, & different, sunrises twice in the past eight days.
I was using heat, shiatsu, and finally pain pills for my neck. I conked out. Sorry, didn’t mean to blow you off.
2020 has the potential to be one of the best, or one of the worst years. It will probably be a horrifying mishmash of both. And we can all come back here to SDMB to celebrate and/or bitch. Celebitch, maybe?
Happy 2020!
~VOW
My Wife and I have taken to playing chess, having a few beers and a toke or two when not working the next day. Oh, and classic rock on the satellite dish. So it was a night like any other. I won two, she won one.
Taught her to play 2 years ago and she is getting better. My dad taught me when I was 9yo, so I have a bit of an unfair advantage.
She bought us a new chess board for Christmas, and we have been breaking it in.
Some couples have movie night, we have chess night.