Best New Years Ever?

[neil kleid]

So, this year ends this week and with the baby here, it's looking like we're doing the new parents New years - dinner and a DVD with other new parent friends.

I LOVE New years. Usually, I go to the same steakhouse with a group of friends and then either ring in the year with karaoke or at a pub or hearing music or such. The only exception has been 2000 when I spent Y2K eve holed up in the country with a ton of water, canned foods and a shotgun. This year looks to be the same (replace "shotgun" with "poop machine baby") but I'm curious... what was YOUR favorite New Years experience?

WEIGH IN

[Kris]

To be honest, I am searching for the elusive "perfect" New Years.  Wait, I take that back, New York in Times Square a few years back was pretty freakin' fun.  That's probably #1.

I have had MANY that I adore, but I regret to say that I usually have such high expectations that New Year's has failed to meet them time and again.  What am I expecting?  I couldn't tell you.  As I said, it's elusive.  I enjoy myself immensely, but somehow can't shake that feeling of being let down somehow.  And I can't explain it.

So this year, I am doing something I have NEVER done.  I am spending it completely alone. This is my agenda:

4 DVD's.  1 movie, 3 that have an entire season of a series that I love but have missed because I don't have Showtime or HBO (Burn After Reading is the movie, and then Entourage Season 5, Weeds Season 4 and Californication Season 1).  I also bought a book by one of my favorite authors (Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell).  For dinner: filet mignon, mashed potatoes, and my last batch of homemade cream corn.  A bubble  bath and 2 bottles of champagne.  I also have my favorite cheesecake.  For breakfast the next morning, I have bacon and eggs set to go, with a mimosa.  And I have a back up apple cobbler in case I veer off course and don't feel like making what I planned.

There is NO WAY I will make through all of those DVD's, or the book.  Or hell, even the cheesecake!  But the point is, I have no expectations, I've just surrounded myself with tons of good "me" stuff to do, if I feel like it.  Time for reflection and meditation.  Typically New Years has been spent with someone I love, be it the husband, boyfriend, brother and sister or friends.  This year, it's all me! 

We'll see how it goes.   

I already cleaned the oven/kitchen, the office and the bedroom.  Tomorrow it's the bathroom and the living/dining rooms.  I'll be ringing in the New Year with a sparkling home, good food, good book, good movies and a nice bubblebath!  And on the 2nd, I hit the gym again and start on my resolutions!

[neil kleid]

Honestly? That sounds amazing. We're taking Jack over to some other babybound friends, having hors d'oeuvres and champagne and watching some DVDs until midnight.

First, though< i bought some hefty steaks and deli pickles for a nice, quiet dinner

Happy New Year, all!

[nilskidoo]

Alright, this was the end of '02.
I co-owned a house with a cousin of mine so close to Churchill Downs you could hear the bugler from the livingroom. I had brought my baby sister up from Houston for the holidaze, and she wound up moving back to the area. We had planned a party.
Part of the reason why my sist had moved up was because of a guy who she had met online, and who happened to also be a resident of l'vile, KY. He was a senior at UofL, and he was a midget. Dwarf. Seriously. He was a sports broadcasting major, though apparently he wanted to oneday produce porn. A very unique individual.
My elder sis had passed away a couple of years prior, and I had since become friends with some of her college friends, who all seemed to live up to the otherwise derogative description, "lipstick lesbians". To this day, they remain some of my closest friends.
Back to the party- all persons mentioned were there. My sist, had bigger eyes than stomach with regards to her intake of alcohol, had retired early. My cousin's girlfriend got relieved from work early as well, so he left me to entertain my sist's online midget lover, and 4 painfully beautiful residents from the isle of Lesbos. It was uncanny fun for all.

I call that my Jerry Springer New Year's, and I swear to every god of any pantheon that I write %100 truth.

[Shadowline Pimp]

Two things from your story should have given you the obvious conclusion to what SHOULD have happened....

[My sister's online dwarf lover] was a sports broadcasting major, though apparently he wanted to oneday produce porn.
...
[I was left] to entertain my sister's online midget lover, and 4 painfully beautiful residents from the isle of Lesbos.

Bow chicka bow bow

[Kris]

   Definitely a memorable New Year, Nilskidoo...

My NYE plans this year changed last minute when I got an e-mail from Seth Damoose (I Hate Gallant Girl, ya'll) that said he and his wife were going to be in Chicago and did I want to meet up for a drink, along with another couple that was driving in from Milwaukee.

Crazy kids drove in, had no dinner reservations and no idea what to do.  So I managed to get a reservation in at a restaurant near me, had my filet mignon there instead of making it (god, SO good), we got tipsy, came back to my place and rang in the New Year. 

They left, I turned on a DVD I had (the room was spinnin') and then passed out halfway through it.  Woke up 3 hours later at 5am, wide awake.  Drank an entire bottle of water.  Fell back asleep at about 6:30am and slept until 11am. NO HANGOVER!

Made my bacon breakfast, and spent the ENTIRE day yesterday doing nothing except watching Weeds and Entourage.  Had some pie.  Some cheesecake.  More champagne.  It was nice not being on the computer for the entire day.