I’ll be home drinking some wine with my birds 
[sub]No, the birds won’t be imbibing, just watching while I do.[/sub]
I’m with y’all - it’s not a very big deal to me. I spent New Year’s Eve 2000 at a bar getting very drunk,and as luck would have it, I spent the first day of 2000 getting very sick. I’ve learned my lesson.
I don’t want to have to worry about those people who don’t bother to get a Designated Driver for themselves.
I’m in for the night, I have good food & good wine.
All the best to you, dragongirl.
Sigh I remember when staying home was unthinkable, now it is exactly the opposite.
This year our block is doing a progressive dinner neighborhood thing, going from house to house for cocktails, dinner, dessert etc. I just hope I can stay up to midnight. I am really more of a morning lark type person and just do not think NYE is all that exciting anymore.
I will be bartending at a hotel party. If not I would be at a house party. I generally treat this as any other day. A crowded bar is the absolutely last place I would be.
It’s New Year’s Eve?
–checks calendar–
Well. So it is.
since it isn’t christmas yet, no partying allowed.
i’ll be reading a book, looking over at the tv and mr clark, at midnight.
just wait 'till jan 14th! that is the day you can party!
there is a new year’s ball that is scheduled on the closest saturday to the 14th. evening gowns, tuxedos, waltzing.
ah, the joys of being on the julian calendar.
Well, I could be going out to an all-you-can-drink party at a friend’s apartment, but me and the ol’ ball and chain (ow, dammit, stop throwing things!) are going to see the Harry Potter movie and have some drinks at home.
Something about partying two blocks from the Russian Embassy while we’re on a heightened terror alert, coupled with the sobriety checkpoints and generally shitty state of DC roads we’d have to drive over, just puts me off.
My sister wants to go out with friends, but my mom insists on having the two of us home, as stated previously. Mom says that New Year’s Eve should be spent with family… but my sister says (and I agree) that people our age (she’s 19, I’m 26) don’t spend NYE at home, but go out with friends.
Then again, last year I spent a quiet night in my apartment at home… just watching TV and talking to people via ICQ. It’s not THAT bad at all, just being by yourself. Besides, I think my patience for my family has just about run out… I’ll be happy to go home!
F_X
New Years sucks.
I really hate it.
Mrs. Mojo and I have never gone out for NYE in our 16 years of marriage. We have a tradition of a very private party for two.
I’ll be home alone. No, I’m not happy about it.
'taint no biggie to me this year, either. Not sure why.
When I was young, we used to go to my grandfather’s house for a big party, with family and friends. Then as a young adult, I’d party with whomever I was dating.
Now I’m married & have kids. I’ve been out twice in the last seven years, once before our daughter was born, and again for the year 2000, where we had an old-time family party.
You know what, though? My apathy isn’t really bothering me. I’ll probably stay up for the ball drop, then head off to bed. And tomorrow, I’ll do laundry & pack for the NYC Mega-Fest.
Now there’s something to get excited about! 
I just got home from work about 15 minutes ago with nothing planned for the night. Then I noticed that Eddie Izzard in on one of the HBO channels tonight, so the evening’s not a total loss.
Well, I was going to go into town and do First Night, but I locked myself out of my apartment. I did get in after an emergency call to my landlord. I will be staying up until midnight, I suppose but mostly to make sure this awful year ends! Sorry, folks, 2002 has not been a good year for me, and I want to make dead sure it leaves!
Oh well. Hopefully 2003 will bring better things? At least I made it this far.
CJ
I probably won’t even stay up. Normally I would, but I just feel empty tonight.
I’m a kid but I’m not going to be involved in any activities cuz I am a pathetic loser.
So I’m going to be home alone tonight. I’ll watch some TV and maybe put Dr. Strangelove in the DVD player. No guarantee that I’ll watch it, though. And after that maybe I’ll go to my room and sulk! Yes that would be a fun time. Ha ha ha.
Yes, i am kind of bitter on the whole no friends everybody hates me pathetic loser issue.
New years sucks. Worst time of the year.
*Maybe it’s much too early in the game
Aah, but I thought I’d ask you just the same
What are you doing New Year’s
New Year’s Eve? *
Me, I spent it at home on the couch with the spouse watching TV. At midnight we popped the corks on some little bottles of Moet & Chandon, toasted each other, phoned the folks back in the home country to wish them a Happy New Year, and went back to watching Strange Days on television.
But to all those reading this, in whatever manner you may be spending this evening, may you receive everything you need in the new year, but only the * good* things you deserve.
Cheers!
The Goboyfriend and I were scheduled to go to a tasting party by a professional chef friend of his family, but my poor baby has a haeadache, so we’re going to stay home (which suits me just fine because I’d much rather be snuggled with my bf on the divan with a flute of Tattinger in my paw and Dick Clark on the tube).
I’m cooking a lovely Moroccan lamb tagine and some lobiani (Georgian bean-stuffed bread) for a small, mellow party with a few friends. I HATE going out to big parties on New Year’s; can’t stand drunks in smoky bars anytime, and certainl;y not when I’m trying to feel celebratory. Low-key is good, as is nonsmoking!
Ah, if only I had a honey to smooch at midnight, though; my last love interest has recently decided to fall for a good friend, and tell me all about it. The last time I had someone to smooch at midnight was 2000, and all I could think was “am I really going to greet the new millenium with this schmuck?” We broke uo a few months later, after 4+ years.
New Year’s resolution: be smooching someone I adore by this time next year, if not by February!
All alone for the first time ever on NYE. I thought I’d be blue but I have a steak marinating, a couple bottles of cheap champagne and lots of time to be lazy. Oh! And I have the hottub all to myself and can pop in there nekkid for a change. All of a sudden it seems much more satisfying than parties and drunk drivers.
I’ll be at work in the lab until midnight then I’ll go home to the kitties. At least, I hope I get to go home at midnight. Seems that everyone decided to bleed tonight.
And tomorrow I get to do it all over again.