New Years Eve
- Thread starter Drac
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Well with the out laws retiring I think this year we will be staying in!
I don't generally do anything for New Year's Eve - stay home with the dog, maybe buy something better than usual for dinner (mmm.... Chinese take out... or maybe steak... hmm.... gonna have to think about that one) - but I don't really enjoy being out in noisy drunken crowds or waiting forever to get a seat so I can wait forever to get my food.
We have a long standing tradition with two other couples, we get together each year for a quiet evening with people we enjoy being with. We take turns hosting and have been doing it for the last 20+ years.
Just the family here, as usual!
Partying styles seem to have changed a lot in the last couple of decades, and not just because we're all getting older... I really think the whole glow of the idea `New Year's Eve' party has dimmed quite a bit, partly because of much tougher law enforcement targeting impaired driving, partly because out own attitudes towards that sort of thing have changed in the direction of less tolerance, but mostly because a lot of people, young as well as old, seem to view the future with a good deal more apprehension than we used to.
When I was a university student, it seemed a foregone conclusion that we—all the world—were making steady progress and that the New Year, and all new years, should be greeted enthusiastically as the place in time where the next stage of that progress would be realized. I don't think most of us feel that way now, certainly not to anything like the same degree. I think New Year's is a much more reflective and low key time for that reason...
When I was a university student, it seemed a foregone conclusion that we—all the world—were making steady progress and that the New Year, and all new years, should be greeted enthusiastically as the place in time where the next stage of that progress would be realized. I don't think most of us feel that way now, certainly not to anything like the same degree. I think New Year's is a much more reflective and low key time for that reason...
KempoGuy06
Grandmaster
Ill be at my best friends apartment, drinking beer, eating food and playing PS3 all night.
B
B
Well being married with three kids staying home, but the added value is we leave New Yeras day for Colorado so staying home is a great thing this year.
No special plans... I think the wife intends to sacrifice a bottle of champagne.
Regarding changes in practices...
I know we're not seeing the drunks and fights and such that we once did. There are still parties, and I'm sure some of the bars get rowdy... but in the town where I work, we haven't seen New Year's Eve as being a really major issue for years. I think sanctions about DUI have led to more sanity over the years. And, more and more of us have to work the next day.
(I remember the first year that the department store I worked in for several years was open on New Year's Day. I'd been to a party, and literally left the party, and slept in the parking lot of the store, since I had to open it up. We didn't expect anyone there... and looked in hungover disbelief at the crowd waiting to get in...)
grydth
Senior Master
I have 2 daughters who were born in September. I am never ever doing nothing on New Year's Eve ever again.
Doc_Jude
3rd Black Belt
Sounds like what's gonna happen at my house. Have fun!
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
Staying home
My days of going out for New Years are happily long over
My days of going out for New Years are happily long over
Gordon Nore
Senior Master
I voted "Not doing anything." We generally stay home and watch the celebration at Toronto City Hall on TV. I think I lost interest in the Holiday as a result of tending bar on New Year's Eve for a few years. It's a rather loud holiday for my liking.
Live True
Brown Belt
For the last several years, we've stayed home on New Years Eve, but we host a "fuzzy slippers/silly movie" party on New Year's Day. The idea is to ring in the new year in comfy clothes, laughing with freinds...it's great! Sometimes we only have 1 or 2 folks show...sometimes we have a crowd...either way, we have a great time and laugh in the first day of the new year.
Gordon Nore
Senior Master
That sounds like fun.
Live True
Brown Belt
It's hysterical...and we get to see some horribly funny flicks...some horrible...some funny..and some...both...in a "rocky horror" kinda way
OP
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I hear ya Gordon..I was a bouncer for years and always dreaded having to work New Years Eve..
