This will be my 28th New Year’s Eve. I’m going to be 0-for-28 on preserving a relationship long enough to have an SO on New Year’s Eve.
I’ve never kissed a woman passionately at the stroke of midnight. I’ve never had fun on New Year’s Eve. I’ve never looked forward to the holiday.
Why get myself all upset again this year? Why go out and spend ridiculous money on the obligatory black tie event? I’m so freaking tired of that.
I’m staying in. I’m getting a bottle or two of Dom. I’m gonna get drunk out of my mind and hopefully fall asleep before midnight. And I’m going to break the long-standing tradition of calling my parents immediately after midnight to say “Happy New Year.”
Or -wait a sec, I’m getting an idea here- maybe I should just say “fuck it” and hop a plane to someplace warm. I made a good amount of money this year, maybe I should put it to good use and go someplace equatorial. Celebrate with a fruity rum drink… Hmm…
Okay, I’m rambling stream-of-consciousness style now. I’m going back to bed.
Well, if it is any consolation, I’ll be working New Year’s, and the reason I sighned up for that shift is because I don’t have anyone special to share that night with. And I never have.
I am hoping, however, to get out of work by midnight and get to a friend’s party before all the fun is over. No expectations of romance, though.
I’ll just kiss whatever animal I happen to be torturing at midnight.
Michi
One more that will be home alone.
I can’t even remember when I had a fun New Year’s Eve.
The last ones I tryed to sleep away…
I just hate being alone that day.
I wish I could spend it with Montfort,
but he lives to far away and it costs to fly.
So thisone I probably will try to sleep away too.:(
I won’t be going out the NYE. I will be spending the night with my kids this year I had last NYE and I worked in a bar. It was less than pleasant seeing all the shiny happy people kissing and hugging so I’m not missing it. Next year I hope to be able to spend it with someone though.
New Year’s Eve + Romance = one more fake Hallmark-style holiday designed to make people feel bad. Whether you are with someone or alone, it always ends up being a big freakin’ anticlimax.
For the past 3 or 4 years I’ve gone out with my best bud on NYE. We would go to see a movie, go to a little restaurant in my neighborhood, and crash out after with drinkies in front of the TV. Some years, Fargo or another Cohn brothers’ Masterpiece was placed in the V.C.R. I’d always wake up on his couch the next morning, a bit hung over, and we would make a big breakfast and read the paper before wandering down the hall to my apt. No kissing, and no feeling bad about life! Last year, THE YEAR OF THE BIG EVEN NUMBER, we decided to attend a party after the movie & dinner thing. What a suckfest. Everyone totally overdressed, making sick jokes about the coming end of the world, the people who were coupled (which in Washington, D.C., means virtually no one) smugly dancing cheek-to-cheek, the uncoupled desparately trying to connect with someone before midnight…
Midnight came, and my friend and I short of shuffled our feet and did cheek kisses (like we always do) and then got the hell out of there. Ended up eating ice cream out of the container and watching Raising Arizona. Much better.
Okay, that was long.
This year I will be spending NYE at home with my parents, who claim to be having a party. I forsee lots of awkward conversation with my parent’s friends and then hiding in my room. Will anyone be online?
I expect this NYE to be like most of the rest in my life… Hubby and I will watch TV in bed and likely fall asleep before midnight. I have yet to meet anyone who LIKE NYE parties…
Well, my parents will be home, but they don’t count, and I’m never motivated to leave the house, even to cross the street to Gramma’s house. Drinking and playing card games there all night doesn’t appeal to me. Is that so wrong?
I think I went to a party a couple years ago. Just me and three other friends. It was fun, I guess.
Last year I brought in the New Year online playing Yahoo Checkers with some nice guys I met from England and some other country, Mexico or something. One of my friends was online, too, who hadn’t been invited to any parties, so I sort of “spent” it with him.
Luckily, I’ll be in Niagara Falls from the 27-30 so that will compensate a little bit. I’m hoping that my boyfriend has a New Year’s Eve party. He certainly has the right house for it, and we have cool goofy friends to invite. But I doubt that will happen.
I have no plans yet either. Most of my friends will be out of town, and I think the ones that aren’t have to work. If it’s clear I’ll probably walk down to the beach and watch the fireworks in San Francisco at midnight. At least it’s got to be better than last year, I spent NYE, and Christmas Eve as well, in the Emergency Room triage area. After that, I think maybe cowering under my bed for the night is a fine idea.
Just a suggestion guys, but why not volunteer at a homeless shelter or battered women’s shelter on New Years? It might make you all feel a litlle better, and you’d be doing something really good for other people.
No, actually, I won’t. My hubby’s job might require him to work over all of the holidays, including Christmas and New Years (he’s an investigator) and I was planning to volunteer myself.
I’ve actually made a tradition out of spending New Year’s alone. First, I make myself my favorite special dinner, with all the fixings and wine, and I eat at the table (a long time single, I’ve finally gotten better about cooking real food for myself, but I eat on the couch most of the time). Then, I make sure I have a good book and/or video. I take a long comfortable bath with whatever music feels rights, and I dress in clean comfortable fuzzy clothes. Around 8:00 I break open the champagne, some cheese and crackers or marinated mushrooms–then I channel surf, just in case, before I turn to the book or video. Around 11:00, I go back to TV–coverage of local events or celebrations around the world are pretty good when you’ve got most of a bottle of champange in you. At midnight, I go outside to salute the night and coming year, then watch the fireworks. Oh, somewhere along the night I’ll have chocolate as well–usually my homemade fudge, a treat I don’t allow myself often.
I honestly hope to keep this up when I find a boyfriend–going out on New Year’s is expensive, and the food/service/ambiance not as good a regular day. Staying home to snuggle and enjoy favorite pasttimes is special enough for me. I’ll get my guy in black tie with me in a dressy, slinky number some other night. I do like a man in a tux.
Oh, and relatively cheap champagne goes rather well with sunflower seeds–another habit I only allow myself occasionally. I’m abuying better champagne now, but i sometimes feel nostalgic for the old tastes.
Would any of you alone people like to babysit for me on New Year’s Eve? The kid falls asleep by 7:30 tops, I keep a well stocked fridge, and I’ll even rent your choice of videos and DVDs.
Being married to a musician, I’ve spent more than my share of New Year’s Eve’s alone. I’ve learned it’s not too bad.
Last year, though, I spent it with my family, including my husband. Last year was kinda special, though. Besides being 2000, my grandmother had just passed away a few weeks earlier, and her birthday was December 31st. So my family decided to have a New Year’s party, and it was the best. I’ve got to hand it to my husband–he turned down at least six job offers, all of them over $200 a man (I think the highest was $500), to spend New Year’s 2000 with me & the kids. Turns out, he was glad he did. We had a blast.
I have not spent NYE with an SO in years. It’s mostly my fault, since I kept myself emotionally cut off and made it pretty much impossible for anyone to have a relationship with me for many years. Luckly that’s not true anymore, and I’m a lot more emotionally healthy than I used to be, but there is still no one in the picture, and this year my sis and parents (who I usually hang out with) will be out of town. So I have no plans. Normally I wouldn’t care much, but I have been feeling lonely the last few months, and it’s been an emotionally difficult year, so I have a feeling this is going to be a bad NYE and that there’s a good chance I’ll end up feeling alone and miserable. Going out with friends is an option, but almost all of my friends are couples, and I don’t want to feel like a third wheel yet again.
I’m not much for going out NYE anyway, since there’s so many people driving that shouldn’t be, so unless I can find somewhere to go and crash for the night, I have a feeling I’ll find myself at home with my dog and 2 cats.
