What do you plan for New Year celebration?

revmaf · Sat, 27th Dec '08, 6:05am

This is a transparent attempt to gain vicarious satisfaction from other people's fun, since I doubt I'll be having much. I should have Jan. 1 and maybe Jan. 2 off, but no invites to parties and I'm in no mood to throw one myself. I will by default watch college football, I guess.

I'm sure most of you have more interesting things to do . . . so tell us.

Dice · Sat, 27th Dec '08, 7:00am

I'll be appreciating the fact that another Christmas holiday season is over and I don't have to think about it for another year.

dmc · Sat, 27th Dec '08, 7:21am

We're going to Florida to visit with two of my cousins that I haven't seen in over a decade and then leaving the kids with the folks, who will be down there for a couple of months, and going to St. Lucia for a week. SWEET!!!

(So you'll be short a moderator for a while as I have no intention of even looking at a computer while on the island.)

ChickenIsGood · Sat, 27th Dec '08, 7:30am

I'm getting back together with my graduating class (it's easy when there's only about 30 of you) for essentially a six-month reunion

Plus New Years is a perfectly good excuse to get crunk (and no, I don't really talk like that, lol, we just like to use that word around here and laugh at its absurdity). We were buying 'beverages' two weeks in advance, and it took some work to keep a few people from breaking them out early.

Morgoroth · Sat, 27th Dec '08, 4:44pm

I'm spending mine in Poland, Gdansk to be exact. Me and o couple of friends of mine got cheap flight tickets there and it's allways nice to see how New Year is celebrated in other countries.

8people · Sat, 27th Dec '08, 6:04pm

No idea, some of my geeky friends I RP with wanted to do something for New Years... only Alex and I of the group drink at all, and when something is meant to be organised it usually lands on me to do it... so it won't be by the looks of it.

Sal will be going to a friends party he agreed to where he lives.

So I don't know what I'm going to do, my parents always get miserable over New Years so I don't want to be stuck at home.

If I get stuck at uni I have no ID to go anywhere and will be stuck in my room listening to others breaking things and getting trashed.

Hoping to find somewhere I can be soon though

Disciple of The Watch · Sat, 27th Dec '08, 6:08pm

Intoxicate myself stupid. Then maybe delve into some art projects. Or destroy stuff. Or maybe all of the preceding, not necessarely in that order.

Erod · Sat, 27th Dec '08, 6:25pm

The usual, booze and fireworks with a few friends, always works.

Loreseeker · Sat, 27th Dec '08, 8:59pm

I'll be at home, with my brother (parents will be off to some party).

So, like every year - Christmas tree, presents, chocolate figurines, oh and watching fireworks from the terrace.

Gaming, most likely. (and avoiding holiday TV programmes)

Gnarfflinger · Sun, 28th Dec '08, 3:48am

I don't know yet. I hope to be laughing at drunks somewhere, but I'm 0 for 2 at finding a place to hang out so far (one cousin has to work, my buddy's hanging out with his gf's friend).

Kitrax · Sun, 28th Dec '08, 3:57am

Well...considering that I don't have to work this New Year's Eve...I'm planning on getting really, really, really drunk...where that will happen is still up in the air as we haven't decided who's party we're going to. Hell, I've got enough booze at my house to get 20 people drunk, so if all the parties sound lame, we can just stay home!

Montresor · Sun, 28th Dec '08, 12:08pm

If my throat doesn't get better

I will have to stay at home.

If it does get better, I am going to my sister's along with one of her sons, one of her grandsons (whose parents aren't there, leaving the boy to be spoiled by his uncles

) and modest amounts of booze and fireworks.

Barmy Army · Sun, 28th Dec '08, 12:53pm

End up in hospital having to get my stomach pumped due to excess of alcohol consumption. All's well that ends well.

Taza · Sun, 28th Dec '08, 3:48pm

I don't have any plans.

But what I do have is two half-liter bottles of 40% vodka, and a third of a gallon in 40% booze overall.

... so I'll probably just stay sober and miserable, playing TF2.

Gnarfflinger · Mon, 29th Dec '08, 3:21am

well, If I don't find a party or a place to hang out, the one channel has a Three Stooges Matathon that night, so I will at least have something to watch...

Saber · Mon, 29th Dec '08, 5:59am

Quote:

(So you'll be short a moderator for a while as I have no intention of even looking at a computer while on the island.)

Well, I just changed my plans. I was going to go skiing with friends, but now I am going to destroy BoM while dmc is gone.

Ragusa · Mon, 29th Dec '08, 9:28am

I'm invited to Bonn, and we'll have a nice little party with friends and a few colleagues. We'll get reasonably drunk (my goal anyway) and watch the probably spectacular fireworks over the Rhine, conveniently from a strategically well positioned balcony.

Caradhras · Mon, 29th Dec '08, 9:30am

The New Year celebration is a great time for socializing.

(I couldn't find the Champagne smiley).

Iku-Turso · Mon, 29th Dec '08, 9:31am

I think I'm planning to have good nice flu, just like last year, and the year before that, and the year before that...

There might be my soon-to-be brother-in-law's bachelor party, but so far I don't even know if there's any plans for that...

...but I'm still going to be sick, whether it'll be the flu or omething else, don't know, don't care...

Stefanina · Tue, 30th Dec '08, 2:24am

I'm going to a small party. I'll probably get moderately drunk, then take mom shopping the next day, after I sober up...

revmaf · Tue, 30th Dec '08, 3:56am

I may have to look into this getting drunk business. In a review of my personal memories I think I can say with some honesty it has been decades since I did that. If I'm going to stay home anyway maybe getting drunk is a good way to celebrate. Or maybe not; I seem to recall the next day as not so fun.

Barmy Army · Tue, 30th Dec '08, 4:57pm

I shall be rendered comatose.

8people · Tue, 30th Dec '08, 5:00pm

Going to Basingstoke with the boyfriend

His bassist is throwing a party.

ChickenIsGood · Wed, 31st Dec '08, 2:18am

I don't drink much so the next day is killer for me...

Which is probably a good thing, because if it wasn't so bad I would probably do it more.

revmaf · Wed, 31st Dec '08, 2:39am

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChickenIsGood

I don't drink much so the next day is killer for me...

Which is probably a good thing, because if it wasn't so bad I would probably do it more.

Well, just so. I think there are football bowl games to watch that night so that's something, anyway. And I am considering a recipe for something called "Good Luck Soup" which combines the traditional Southern U.S. foods eaten to bring good luck in the new year: greens, black-eyed peas, and (shudder) a type of cured pork known as, yes, hog jowl. The soup sounds kind of disgusting but it has a certain juvenile chemistry lab appeal. The question is, do I want to stink up my whole house to star the new year?

Sat, 27th Dec '08, 6:05am	#1
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Sat, 27th Dec '08, 7:30am	#4
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Sat, 27th Dec '08, 8:59pm	#9
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Sat, 27th Dec '08, 7:00am	#2
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Sat, 27th Dec '08, 7:21am	#3
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Sat, 27th Dec '08, 4:44pm	#5
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Sat, 27th Dec '08, 6:04pm	#6
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Sun, 28th Dec '08, 3:48am	#10
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Sun, 28th Dec '08, 12:08pm	#12
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Sun, 28th Dec '08, 12:53pm	#13
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Mon, 29th Dec '08, 3:21am	#15
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Mon, 29th Dec '08, 9:28am	#17
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Mon, 29th Dec '08, 9:30am	#18
Caradhras I may be bad... but I feel gooood! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Lugdunum Posts: 4,108 Blog Entries: 9 Like: 9 Liked 15 Times in 9 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 10,386 Level: 30 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 30.48% Daily Activity 2.46% Weekly Activity 2.46% Monthly Activity 1.51% Achievements	The New Year celebration is a great time for socializing. (I couldn't find the Champagne smiley).
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Mon, 29th Dec '08, 9:31am	#19
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Tue, 30th Dec '08, 2:24am	#20
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Tue, 30th Dec '08, 3:56am	#21
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Tue, 30th Dec '08, 4:57pm	#22
Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Join Date: May 2003 Location: England Posts: 6,532 Like: 14 Liked 43 Times in 28 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 16,264 Level: 36 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 55.85% Daily Activity 2.46% Weekly Activity 139.79% Monthly Activity 61.14% Achievements	I shall be rendered comatose.
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Tue, 30th Dec '08, 5:00pm	#23
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Wed, 31st Dec '08, 2:18am	#24
ChickenIsGood Gems: 23/31 Latest gem: Black Opal Cannon Commander Champion! Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Washington (state) Posts: 1,596 Blog Entries: 1 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 3,757 Level: 19 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 56.71% Daily Activity 2.46% Weekly Activity 2.46% Monthly Activity 1.51% Achievements	I don't drink much so the next day is killer for me... Which is probably a good thing, because if it wasn't so bad I would probably do it more.