~what are you doing New Year's Eve?~ and please don't drink and drive~

[lady cop]

well Christmas is over, and i hope everyone enjoyed theirs. now we face amateur night, the drunk-driving stupidity olympics as it were....get drunk, fall down, :convertible: but please don't risk your life or anyone else's by drinking and driving...... HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE HERE! 2005 will be the best yet! what will you do this year? any resolutions? :party:

[Dingfod]

On New Year's Eve I'll be smack in the middle of five day shifts, 6AM-6PM, so I'll probably go to bed about 9PM.

[Dingfod]

Oh, yeah... resolutions: I resolved some years ago not to make any resolutions and I've held to that pretty well.

[wade-w]

I'll probably spend it here.

[Ex-zombie]

I will be cooking our traditional New Year's Eve dinner-tempura shrimp. I will have exactly two glasses of champagne. I've had enough of the day after drinking puke-a-thon. I have no resolutions for the New Year as I have learned I just won't keep them.

[Socratoad]

Hmm, I'll either be here or asleep. The wondrous days of upchucking, resolutions, revolutions and somebody else's wife trying to swallow me headfirst on the dance floor with stupid balloons falling from the ceiling, Auld Lang Syne blaring from dog knows where, all these are but distasteful memories I'm doing my best to forget

[Adora]

Probably chilling with friends and family.

Resolutions suck.

[Corwin]

I've been invited to a party out of town.... the invitation to drink also came with an offer of a couch for the night. (No biggie... I'm anal about that anyway. I'll drive after one drink. That's it. I'd probably be safe after two... but I don't push it.)

[seebs]

We're most likely either gonna stay home, or walk across the street to my old college roommate's place, where there is always a new years party.

[ApostateAbe]

I very seldomly make holiday plans. I don't know what I am going to do. I am thinking about going clubbing downtown.

[SharonDee]

I'm shopping around for plans but I haven't found any yet. As usual, I'll probably come up with six or seven ideas and then not do any of them.
:kickcan:

[viscousmemories]

Ya bunch of insufferable party animals. :D

Yeah I'll be here too. Sober. :woopdedo:

[Gawen]

I don't go anywhere on major holidays. To risky. I'm a chicken shit when it comes to getting plastered by a DUI. And I'm speaking of the OTHER guy, not me. I haven't gotten drunk since 1979. Also, as ironic as it seems to me at least, I never venture out New Years Eve...too much shooting going on. The ironic part is that even in Michigan (where I'm from) had a lot of tracers in the sky as does where I live now...right about midnight.

In the early evening, while it's still light, I plan on visiting a friend for a wee party. But I expect to be out here durring the day and the rest of the night. I do plan on a shot or two of whisky and plan to be in bed around 11pm...at the latest.

[wildernesse]

We probably won't be doing anything much. I don't drink, so no problem with the drunk driving. Maybe we'll make some big dinner and dessert and rent a movie.

I love making resolutions, and it doesn't bother me at all that most of the time they don't work out. I have fun while they do! So, my resolutions are to: be more active, try more new things, eat dinner at the table instead of on the couch, write my friends and family regularly, keep up with my journal, go to Sunday "school", volunteer, socialize with new people, and be more disciplined and orderly.


Woohoo!

[AspenMama]

My boyfriend's friend's band is playing in a small bar (http://www.elkcreekstation.com/)in Pine, Colorado . But we may not go-- This really cool B&B (http://www.meadowcreekbb.com/) was all booked. :(

May just cook a fancy dinner at home and enjoy a reserve bottle of cabernet :winedunk: by the fireplace.

New Year's Resolutions are pretty much the same as always-- get a new better paying job, lose more weight, clean my office, read more, spend less... etc...

[BigBlue2]

I'm meeting a few mates and we'll probably end up doing a pub crawl through Sydney :cincin: :friday:

[Zatarra]

I don't know what I'll be doing, but it's most likely I will be at home. I wouldn't know what else to do anyway. Boring but safe.

[Petra]

My flatmate is playing with one of his bands at Pauanui (http://tour.thepeninsula.co.nz/pauanui.htm), but I think I'll just stay home and be boring.

I have to refocus for 2005, and need to work out my personal deadlines. Zoe starts a new school year in early Feb, and as soon after then as possible, I'd like to start working fulltime again before I go mad. :yup:


So, chances are I'll be home alone (hopefully), drinking a bottle of bubbly, listening to loud and raucous music, smoking a giant spliff, and hanging out here at the FF. If all goes well, it will be a perfect evening. :)


New Years resolutions are - get a good job, get healthier and fitter, get organised. That'll do for starters, I think. :cool:

[LadyShea]

We have reservations for a party at The Top of the World Lounge at the very top of the Stratosphere Tower. They had several packages to choose from (gourmet dinner and dancing, a DJ and beer, party on the pool deck, etc), but the lounge was the most intimate and romantic; a jazz band and singer, and a split of champagne. We will have a birds eye view via the 360 degree windows of the fireworks, which are shot off the roofs of 10 different hotels on the Strip, all synchronized. 2005 is Las Vegas' Centennial, so the fireworks this year are supposedly the most impressive ever (and they are always impressive).

Driving on NYE is just plain stupid all around in Las Vegas, as they close the Strip and 300k drunk tourists are walking the streets, so we will be taking a taxi.

I don't make resolutions, never saw the point.

[freemonkey]

I've been invited to tag along with boss & some of friends for a day in Seattle, plus dinner & a show, but that means I'd have to come up with some cash. Plus, they are all at least 20 years older than I am. Plus, since hubby's working and they are all couples, I'd be the 5th, 7th, 9th, whateverth wheel.

So what I'll probably do is hang out at home and do some year end/new year soul searching stuff, which was my original plan anyway.

I don't normally do New Year's resolutions, but I've got a bunch of..... um, adjustments..... I want to make in my life. Starting roughly around the new year gives me a way to keep track of time, so I may just make some official resolutions this time.

[Skep]

I'm going to get toasted http://skeptech.net/emotipad/cache/SmokeJoint2.gif and watch the Twilight Zone marathon on Sci-Fi and/or the Three Stooges marathon on AMC. :weirdtv:

[Shake]

Oh, you mean besides celebrating my 35th birthday???

We've got some friends from NC coming to town, but I'm not sure what we're doing yet. I'll have to check with my social coordinator ... er, wife.

[lady cop]

hi SHAKE, and HAPPY NEW YEAR'S BIRTHDAY :bday: :birthday: :club: ....have a good one! i will be home quietly :yawn: , but normally on new year's i am one busy cop!! i'll have to turn on scanner/radio for vicarious thrills. i hate being off-duty actually! rats.

[Goliath]

For New Year's, I'll be in Minneapolis, where I'll probably be plastered (but not while driving) and with friends.

[justaman]

I'm going to be shagging my ex-girlfriend senseless. I may drink-drive, it'll depend on whether she lets me drive her car :D

Come on, you have to admit that drink-driving is kinda fun. Everything's just zoomin along all crazy. And you're thinking "Yes." You don't know why, but you think it.

*waits for lady cop to come riding in on a moral high horse* :P

Man does anyone else get the impression lady cop might have a job somewhere in law and order? She's fairly subtle about it, but I swear those are the vibes I seem to be getting...

[lady cop]

"subtle" doesn't work for me usually :D . and sometimes we 'law and order' types are useful.forgot my horsie though :gallop: ... have a great New Year's Justaman :wave: and a safe one as well. :party:

[Goliath]

Come on, you have to admit that drink-driving is kinda fun.

No, I don't. You are not in control of what I do or think. Deal with it.

And you're thinking "Yes." You don't know why, but you think it.


No, I'm not.

[Sweetie]

Lots of things are fun perhaps, until someone gets killed in the process, it tends to spoil the fun just a leetle bit. People who don't have that fact in the forefront of their minds when making known, aware, obvious, preventable and irresponsible choices that kill people, mothers and fathers, children, families, I mean we have statistics, it happens often enough, scare me.

I only know one guy who killed a man while drinking and driving and served time for it. Another case in my area recently is where one woman managed to only kill six people, that's all, just six. She's going to jail for a very, very long time and I'm pleased so that she doesn't remain a danger to me and my family, I love my children and if they have to die, I only hope it is not because of such preventable stupidity.

[justaman]

Wasn't actually talking to you specifically, champ :)

[Goliath]

Wasn't actually talking to you specifically, champ :)

I have no idea if this was addressed to me or Sweetie. If it was addressed to me, then why were you trying to browbeat me into saying that drunk driving is fun when it is not?

[noblesavage]

I'm going to hang out with my girlfriend in the show me state. :yup:

[pescifish]

I'm all DONE (finally) with holiday socializing and now my time is my own! :linedance:

I'm hanging out at home, fireplace going, movies running, champagne bubbling, house sparkling (more or less) and some of the most awesome leftovers from our family holiday dinner here last night: rib roast, asparagus'n'shrooms, mashed potatoes, salad.

I'm screening my phone calls and staying home the rest of the weekend. avoiding all contact with living beings except the furred and feathered. This is truly the life for us friendly outgoing social misanthropic hermits!

I do hope to catch a friend of mine online (later) during his annual unusually tipsy toast to the new year with a bottle of wine. :winedunk:

[Sweetie]

I guess I'm staying home, everybody took the party three hours away to our popular lake spot, friend owns the bar, snowmobiling, etc.. I'm home with the kids of course, oh well. Watch a movie, have a drink, get a good night's sleep and my son's birthday tomorrow, so.

Happy New Year! *cheers*

[lady cop]

i am all snuggled up watching bogart movies, :comfy: and turned on my scanner to hear all my buddies having fun tonight :miranda: (damn i wish i were out there) and my sweetheart called me at his midnight :unitedkingdom: so i am happy. :affection:

[Ymir's blood]

In between surfing the net, I plan on finishing watching Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr (German 1932) and then probably going on to watch Castle of Blood. (Italian 1964)

:behead: :scissors: :gore: :shutup: :dracula: :ghost: :undead:

[Socratoad]

And me? I'm gonna sit here quietly sipping Drambuie and plotting world revolution. :adminpwr:

[SharonDee]

I'm sitting here at 10:25 CST with a husband who's been drinking beer since 7:30 this morning. It's touch and go as to whether he'll make it to midnight.

Me, I'm trying to decide between Bailey's -n- coffee and hard apple cider.

[godfry n. glad]

Home after the arrival of the new year...an evening spent with good friends watching South Park episodes, Stooges shorts and 50 First Dates.

I had one tequila shortly after arrival. I drove home safely.

Happy new year, every one of you. I wish the best to you all.

godfry

[JoeP]

I'm all DONE (finally) with holiday socializing and now my time is my own! :linedance:

...

I'm screening my phone calls and staying home the rest of the weekend. avoiding all contact with living beings except the furred and feathered. This is truly the life for us friendly outgoing social misanthropic hermits!

:yup: I'd go for that. Instead, spent evening with increasingly dotty in-laws and then flaked out. Everyone around is behaving stressed (for fair reasons like visitors having a highly unreliable borrowed car, and dumb reasons like spending every waking minute worrying about visitors, children and puppies) ... and then talking at length about their stress which I can't stand. So now I'm isolating myself with FF, WinAmp, LOTR DVD features***, and possibly some dabbling in str_replace, EnumWindows, etc.

And did I mention: *** with a second monitor.