As i sit here alone on the eve of a new year, i wonder how many other readers are doing the same, and what the reason is for their solitude.
For me it is just the way it is, as i have no personality and am a rather dull commonplace (very common) sort of guy. i have never been invited anywhere for any reason at least not by my peers, and only out of pity by a very few relatives. i don’t have any friends, so every new years it’s the same old routine, sit home alone and try to stay awake to see the new year in on tv.
i am not looking for sympathy just wondering what others who are in the same bucket are doing. 
I’m alone. About to take a nice, hot shower, watch “Ever After” (it just came in the mail today), maybe flip on a TV at midnight, and sleep in as late as I can.
Why am I alone?
Cause I am 
I’ve never celebrated New Year’s by partying and have always spent it at home doing whatever. Just another day to me. Tonight, I’ll spend it watching Pirates of the Carribean, Boys Don’t Cry, and *Philadelphia *while drinking soda and eating pizza.
It’d be better if I had someone cuddly to spend it with, sure, but c’est la vie.
I’ve got too parties to go to, but they are both over an hour away. I am too old to drive that far on this kind of night. And so I have decided to stay in instead. I don’t mind, as a bachelor, I am used to being alone.
I’m here by myself, too.
I don’t have a whole lot of friends, quite frankly, and I tend to be an inside type of person, content to curl up with a book and do something quiet. I do have a boyfriend, but he happens to be in New Mexico right now (at a club, the wicked wicked man! :D), which is why we’re not doing something.
I’m usually not bothered by the solitude, but I think the fact that I have had a good deal of it in the past week or so means I’m just plum getting tired of it. I gotta say, I’m a little bit lonely right now. However, if I’d just been a little assertive (something I’m not good at) I probably could have wrangled something into the evening’s events. So it’s really my own fault. I don’t want to sound whiny and pitiful or anything.
Thankfully, in about 30 minutes, Rico is going to open his chat thing, and I’ll check that out. Maybe futz around in there for a bit.
I’m definitely going to sleep early tonight, though.
Happy New Year!
I thought I would have had more time to insinuate myself into some kind of celebration, but I got it into my head that New Year’s Eve was SATURDAY. I was reminded that it was actually today just last night. Harrumph.
I don’t go out on Amateur Night.
I’m hangin’ with the folks but we don’t do anything special. My brother’s family might have joined us but I think they were rained out or snowed in. Ummm…I had a glass of Asti. Does that count?
Ha! This reminds me of the year I did a whole lotta drinking. We’d gone to a party at someone’s house on NYE, and then decided that on the night of the 1st we wanted to go to the local bar for a couple of beers. The place was deserted. We knew we were hardcore to be out drinking on New Year’s Day Night.
I’m now reverted back to amateur status. :o
The rest of the family is out of town so it’s up to me to hold down the fort and look after the dogs. Had two invites to go out, but both of them were at least an hour’s drive each way and I really don’t want to be on little country backroads on a night like this.
Um, guess having a raging sinus infection of doom doesn’t help matters much either? So that’s three strikes and I’m (not) out. The nighttime OTC meds should be kicking in pretty soon now, so I probably won’t even be up to watch the ball (or acorn on WRAL) drop. Happy New Year to you all anyway.
Boyfriend is in Hawaii, and I am recovering from a protracted bout of extreme laziness- I havn’t left the house in days. It’s cold and rainy outside and even though the New Year’s festivities are just outside my door, I’m not sure if I’ll make it out.
MMmm lazyness.
I’m alone. And naked beneath my clothing.
After going through Retail Christmas, I am just too pooped to party.
I have a nasty cold that just will not go away. I just don’t feel like getting in my car, trying to find a parking space then have to drive back. I’m going to watch The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies and begin the extras on the LotR: RotK
I’m alone too, but only because my boyfriend and I are both feeling too crummy to face the commute to each other’s houses. No big deal; the cold medicine will kick in anytime soon anyway, and I may be lucky enough to sleep through the gunfire that will pepper my neighborhood for about an hour.
I’m at home. I’m tired. I’m a bitter, cranky old lady before my time (I’m 26) and honestly, the idea of going out and partying and getting drunk with a bunch of other drunk people doesn’t sound appealing at all. I have a nice cup of cranberry cider (thanks, LaurAnge!), took out my contacts, and am wearing my wickypants in my toasty little apartment. It’s really very pleasant.
Mostly alone (my brother is off at his own computer and mum’s downstairs with the dishes), lonely, bitter, and feeling like a good cry. My pardon.
Follow Rico’s link and come chat!
I’m usually alone on NYE, and mostly by choice. If someone invites me to a party or something I’ll go, and there have even been a few times when I’ve had a date for NYE, but I don’t actively seek out something to do. It’s not a big deal to me (if they fall on weekdays I almost always work on both 12/31 and 1/1), and I’m usually up until at least midnight anyway so it’s no biggie to tune in to last 5 minutes or so of Dick Clark’s show and watch the ball drop. Tonight I just finished watching The Punisher, I’m about to watch an episode of The West Wing (on DVD), and then I’ll watch the countdown. I’m pretty content, actually.
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Happy New Year.