NYE

[RJDiogenes]

I'll be indulging in the same routine that I have for a number of years now: Chinese Food and Three Stooges Marathon.



When I was young, I usually spent it with friends in Hartford or New York, though I never went to Times Square. I also did First Night a few times, which was fun enough, but riding the Red Line on New Year's Eve is the stuff of nightmares.

3 Stooges Marathon. I think I'm in love!

It's on AMC this year, I hear.

It's probably better than doing Trafalgar Square.

A friend is doing the whole Trafalgar Square thing this year. I really don't get it. There's basically nothing there apart from a big Christmas tree and (I think) a giant display screen showing the fireworks that take place near the London Eye. And yet, she's still planning on going there. All you get to do at Trafalgar Square is get squashed in an oversized crowd of drunken revellers and then freeze in the cold afterwards while trying to get back home on an overburdened transport system. Can't think of a worse way to spend New Year's Eve, in fact.

First Night has ice sculptures. And nice restaurants.

 

[Capn Flukie]

I've got no plans for New Years, I probably should do something, I have so few of them left.

 

[tomalak301]

I never do get any plans on New Years Eve, and I'm getting over a cough so if nothing happens, I might just stay in and watch Farscape/Babylon 5. I stay up past midnight anyway every night so it's not a big deal anymore. Just can't wait till 2009 is over.

 

[iguana_tonante]

It's my birthday so I always get to eat and drink for free.

That's definitively cool. Best wishes and best drinks!

I will do the same as the last ten years: go to some friends' home with the fiancée, have a little party, some chit-chat, lots of finger food, maybe watch a movie or throw in a board game. Nice, warm, comfortable fun.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

Will finish work asap 4'ish. Pick man up, get dressed up and go for early, indulgent dinner. Then back home before it all gets too raucus, for crap tv, pjs and baileys
Son, however, is going to a big party in London ~ he's 17 and very welcome to it
Whatever you're doing, have a wonderful time

 

[AstroSmurf]

I have three invites so far, all of them interesting, none of them tempting. I may just stay in instead. To be honest, New Years is a little wasted on me these days. Everyone is ready to go to bed at 1am when I am just getting started. So rather than deal with being left on my own, I say I just start the night like that. Besides, watching the bloody clock tick over is rather boring and listening to Ryan Secrest blather on for two hours would make me suicidal.

What did Bill Nighy's character in Love Actually say? "Let's get pissed and watch porn." Sounds good to me. Easier than having to deal with my aging friends and their impossible bedtimes.

 

[trampledamage]

I have three invites so far, all of them interesting, none of them tempting. I may just stay in instead. To be honest, New Years is a little wasted on me these days. Everyone is ready to go to bed at 1am when I am just getting started. So rather than deal with being left on my own, I say I just start the night like that. Besides, watching the bloody clock tick over is rather boring and listening to Ryan Secrest blather on for two hours would make me suicidal.

What did Bill Nighy's character in Love Actually say? "Let's get pissed and watch porn." Sounds good to me. Easier than having to deal with my aging friends and their impossible bedtimes.

You need to party in Ireland, Irish parties don't really get going until midnight and then just continue on all night! Which is wasted on my because by ten o'clock, I'm bored and want to go to bed

 

[AstroSmurf]

Maybe that explains it then. I am Irish! Well as Irish as someone born in the US can be. I guess I should say "mostly Irish". Either way, I love a good rowdy party that goes until dawn. Just bring some good beer, something to dance to and I am set to go until morning.

 

[An Officer]

I feel the same. A party should be a massive one, with no bedtimes, or nothing at all.

Will stay in and eat good food and watch DVDs, already shopped for salmon and fresh cheese on toast. And appletisers - which taste far better than champagne, without all the unpleasant side-effects.

I think the last new year's eve I celebrated was probably about 3 years ago, I went to a huge nightclub in the city centre - literally thousands of people there - they had bouncy castles and a foam room... after a few drinks - it all got a bit unco-ordinated, and I came home wet and with a few bumps and scrapes - but what a night! Boy was I shattered the next day - total zombie at work. I think this year will easily beat that.

 

[Kestra]

Okay I decorated lightly around the place and got out our china which has never been used, and I'm feeling a bit more festive. It's going to be a funny sight tomorrow, eating lobster cakes and champagne from crystal glasses and fine china whilst in our pjs!

 

[RoJoHen]

Okay I decorated lightly around the place and got out our china which has never been used, and I'm feeling a bit more festive. It's going to be a funny sight tomorrow, eating lobster cakes and champagne from crystal glasses and fine china whilst in our pjs!

I wanna come!

 

[Kestra]

Come over! I even put up some white Christmas lights around the place--aren't you the one who likes those? We'd make you play games and stuff though. Rock Band and maybe we'll get really crazy and play Star Trek Scene It!

I'm such a nerd.

 

[RoJoHen]

Come over! I even put up some white Christmas lights around the place--aren't you the one who likes those? We'd make you play games and stuff though. Rock Band and maybe we'll get really crazy and play Star Trek Scene It!

I'm such a nerd.

As long as I can chug a bottle of cheap strawberry champagne (it tastes like Jolly Ranchers!) when the ball drops, I'm all for it.

This is the first New Years in a really long time that I don't have plans. It's starting to bother me.

 

[Kestra]

You can drink anything you want. We actually have a ton of alcohol here that we've never even touched.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

Currently having a few bourbons & cokes and having BBQ soon.

 

[WillsBabe]

Just got in the Champagne, brandy and sugar cubes. We're doing Champange cocktails. Friends are bringing over port and cheese. I'm looking forward to using the crystal Champagne flutes we were given as a wedding present. We don't get to use them very often, but I'm always nervous when I use them.

Kestra, you NYE plans sound stupendous! I want to play Trek Scene it, too!

 

[RoJoHen]

We don't get to use them very often, but I'm always nervous when I use them.

I always chug straight from the bottle.

 

[WillsBabe]

^ So do I, depending on how the evening's gone!

 

[RoJoHen]

My friends and I always bought our own individual bottles of champagne so we wouldn't have to worry about glasses...or sharing... As soon as midnight strikes, we all pop our corks and toast with a bottle in our hands.

 

[WillsBabe]

^ Also, if you have the good stuff, you don't have to share with the folks who brought a cheap cava!