How will you spend New Years Eve?

[WI_DEM]

[PDJane]

1. Reading and/or

doing needlework. Maybe pop in at a friend's for a bit.

Apart from anything else, the noise of New Year's Eve drives me to distraction....I can no longer distinguish between background and foreground noise, which makes conversations in bars and such impossible!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Doing zikar

That is a ceremony of remembrance, which involves chanting and singing sacred phrases and Names of God. Feels really good, as I feel that when I do it I am connected to everyone doing zikar in the world.

[Mz Pip]

3. Our weather is horrible

so driving anywhere is out of the question. I'm looking out my window at it looks like a friggin monsoon.

I'll pass on partying this year. I've got a good book and some DVDs. I'll just hope we don't lose power.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[rosesaylavee]

4. With relatives who are not getting along...

Wheeee!

Not.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. At home watching videos and reading DU

:)

I'd rather celebrate with you guys. :hug:

[niyad]

6. friends are throwing a private party--and then I will go home, and have

a glass of champagne to a new year that, we trust, will be a damn sight better than this one.

[Greyhound]

7. Another beautiful day here, surrounded by the pasty faced hordes

that will once again go on a shooting spree. Dinner & Harry Potter & in early.

[norml]

8. I'll be delivering pizzas, however I don't close

so I'm thinking of going downtown after work.

Maybe I'll run into some people I know, or maybe I'll hear about a party.

I arranged to not have to work in the morning, so I'll be able to stay up late.

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. At home with hubby, son and son's friend

having a 3 course fondue...cheese fondue {dipping cauliflower, asparagus and new potatoes), beef fondue (frying steak in oil...YUM, NOT low cal, but OH SO GOOD) and chocolate fondue (dipping strawberries, bananas and pound cake...mmmmmmm).

Then, I'm hoping to teach my son and his friend how to play EUCHRE and play all night. I really miss playing Euchre. NONE of my friends like to play...can you imagine?;) Champaigne toast to "GETTING THE IDIOT-IN-CHIEF IMPEACHED IN 2007" at midnight.

Happy New Year!:hi:

[kliljedahl]

61. You play Euchre?

Somebody told me you weren't playing with a full deck.



Keith’s Barbeque Central

[NYdemocrat089]

10. I'm going downtown to watch the ball (not Times Square) drop.

Our town started dropping a ball in 2000 and they have continued it every year. They said last year 4,000 people showed up for 2005 (about 20% of the city population) and this year they expect more. It's a great thing for the local businesses.

[Cobalt Violet]

11. I may go visit a friend if the weathers isn't too bad.

I get out of work at 6:00pm. If I don't go to my friends then I'll stay home alone with my 2 cats.

It's just another night for me.

[Poppyseedman]

12. I'm be getting drunk out of my mind, speeding and running red lights.

blowing off several shotgun rounds until early 2006. Oh' never mind that was twenty five years ago.

I'd be in bed by 12:15 after toasting my wonderful wife to a glorious new year.

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

I didn't say I'd be asleep

[B Calm]

22. Whewwww... had me worried

[GrantDem]

13. We are..

taking the kids out for dinner and bowling. Then we will be at home to welcome the New Year.

May '06 be a good year for Dems and may God bless my fellow DUer's.

[insanity]

14. Drunk

And in the morning I'll be wet, cold, and hungover.

[onager]

15. In a hotel in Alexandria, Egypt...

...where I've been for several months and will be for several more, probably.

One of the hotel restaurants is putting on a sort-of party. I'll eat and drink too much, no doubt. Their little Xmas party was sort of fun and interestingly multi-national: Egyptians, Germans, Brits, Italians, Canadians. And me as the Token American.

I sure as heck won't be strolling outside. Egyptians celebrate New Year's by symbolically cleaning house--at midnight they throw glass items like dishes and saucers out the window. Most of the residences here are high-rise apartments.

:scared:

[datadiva]

16. I'm in California

Watching the news for all the flooding. We should be okay here as long as the levees hold. There is flooding in cities all around us. We live in Stockton. :hide:

[benny05]

64. Hang on!

I know it's ugly out there...take good care...

[Kali]

17. Well most of our friends are no longer able to hang, so we will

try to make it to midnight with the 5 teenagers we expect in the house. Most of them will steal some beer and chug it in their room or out back somewhere. Not sure what we will be drinking for the duration, probably just beer too, some years we do margaritas or other mixed beverages, this year looks pretty routine. I will cook atomic hot chicken wings, pizza and other teen-friendly snacks and around 11 we will go start the fire. We save huge cottonwood branches and other assorted flamable matter in a HUGE pile for our New Years bonfires. Takes about one hour to really get going (thus the argument EVERY year about WHEN to go start it) shoot off a few fireworks, maybe the gun and toast with champagne etc at midnite if anybody is keeping accurate time. then back into the house and crash.

In the past we would have a whole crowd out, off the streets partying big time - lots of drunken revelry and always some decorating and photography of those that passed out too early hee hee. Everybody is too old now, and frankly we are getting there too.

[TexasLady]

18. i clicked other cuz Im staying home but..

my son's band is playing this evening on the front deck again this year. I expect a buttload of people, and love the music, some of it I havent even heard yet!

My H doesnt drink so he can even get a couple people home tonight if need be. Me on the other hand...
:party:

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

19. Watching "Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes" then the Jools Holland Hootenanny

http://www.zappa.com/babysnakes/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/show/index_20051231.shtml

[hang a left]

20. Making lazagna....

and we will be hanging with our 11 year old and his best friend. And I will be checking in with all of you. May the new year be, well....new.

[Mikimouse]

21. Playing Diablo II or Warcraft III...n/t

[B Calm]

23. Got me a 12 pack of Pacifico Mexican Beer iced down, a lime

for the beer, and plan to stay at home, drink beer and once in awhile say hi to people in DU..

[B Calm]

35. I'll also be pumping water from my creek into my pond.. Pics..

It has been a very dry year here and my little pond water level has dropped big time. We had a little rain this week, enough rain to get the creek flowing again, it's been dry all year. Trying desperatly to get the pond filled to the overflow using a 5 hp water pump. Almost there!!





Here is what my pond looks like from the road..

[Beelzebud]

38. Man you have a nice place! :)

That would be so cool to have a pond in your front yard! :)

Nice :)

[B Calm]

39. The only thing I need is you as a neighbor to help me drink my beer

and yell at all my republican neighbors!

[Beelzebud]

40. hehe, sounds good! :)

[ellenfl]

24. staying home and ordering pizza.

i figured out years ago that nye is amateur night so i try to stay off the roads. i can't drink more that one drink so i am always designated driver but why be at the mercy of someone else's inebriation?

my so (rick) has been asking all week what we were going to do. fortunately, there's a ball game on tonight so he is happy staying in and i talked him into pizza delivery instead of him stopping to pick something up for dinner. we still have a well-chilled bottle of veuve clicquot that we may open.

i tried to pawn rick off on my boss as a date for his wife. she likes to go out too but he doesn't. seemed like a perfect solution for the party-ers except for the driving part. :shrug:

here's wishing everyone here a happy new year and impeachment (of the whole cabal) in 2006.

ellen fl

[kerry-is-my-prez]

25. Been there, done that. Besides, the roads around here are dangerous enough

I live right off of one of the most dangerous streets in the State. I'm scared to go on there half the time already...

[SammyBlue]

26. Writing my fifth screenplay.

New Years has very little meaning for me.

[mark11727]

27. Well, let's see...

...if you asked me this thirty years ago, I'd have been either out on a date or hanging out with my buds, and maybe rolling in pre-dawn-ish.

Assuming I can actually stay awake until midnight, I've got a nice bottle of sparkling white zinfandel chilling (I was originally saving the Moet champagne for Kerry's inaugural, but now I'm saving it for the Chimpeachment), and until the ball drops, maybe take in a couple or three DVDs...

Happy New Years, DU. Here's to a better one.

[DinahMoeHum]

28. Having a neighbor-to-neighbor party at my co-op.

My place has tropical/Jimmy Buffett/Christmas decorations, and I'll have Radio Margaritaville on. They are re-broadcasting 2 shows tonight - 1) the December 31, 1999 Millenium concert and 2) a concert Jimmy did in Aspen, CO just a few days ago in his incognito disguise of "Freddie and the Fishsticks"

I will also have the TV on for the NY Giants game against the Oakland Raiders.

So, while the booze will be flowing, nobody will have to drive a car tonight, since we're all next door to one another.

And of course, champagne at midnight. We will close down by 1 am.

:party:

[B Calm]

33. Sounds like a fun neighborhood

[Perky]

29. Having sex with my spouse

WHat better way to ring in the new year.

[B Calm]

30. Now we know why you go with the handle Perky

[Perky]

31. Our own little way of screaming in the new year...n/t

[lady raven]

67. *blush* We used to do that

Now that we have a child, we just have quiet family evenings in, but we always screamed in the new year before he came along *blush*

[Jazzgirl]

32. I'll be alone cookin chicken and greens....

and drinking wine or Crown...haven't decided which one. Looking at movies. I don't like going out on NYE either. Too many crazy driving people!

[Buns_of_Fire]

34. Getting drunk at home, falling asleep at 11:45

If I'm feeling really frisky, I might go cow-tipping.

Nah, it's gonna be close-in. Tonight's the night I let the amateurs tear up the roads.

[Beelzebud]

36. Drinking wine. Smoking bongs. And playing violent video games!

Day of Defeat: Source
Counter-Strike: Source
and Asheron's Call until I get too drunk to play it. :)

[leftofthedial]

37. out at a bar working

playing "Auld Lang Syne" again, along with every other three-chord idiot rocker we can remember some of the words to.

[LWolf]

41. Other

At home, sleeping.

I'll make dinner, clean up, and do the evening routine, which will include reading before bed. Asleep somewhere between 9 -10:30. Toss the '05 calendars and put up the '06 before I go to bed.

[BlueStateGirl]

42. Working.

[smirkymonkey]

43. I feel better knowing that I am not the only one who chose to stay

in tonight! I had dinner plans w/ friends and a few invites to parties, but it's raining here and my roommate will be out all night :woohoo: so I have decided to take advantage of the peace and quiet.

I bought some groceries to make a nice italian dinner, rented a bunch of old movies and called my friends to cancel - one of my new year's resolutions is to be true to myself and to stop saying yes out of a sense of obligation. I am totally looking forward to it!

[PaganPreacher]

44. Party with Pagan friends

My good lady and I will spend the early part of the evening out for dinner at our favorite Mediterranean place in Kansas City. I am hungry for lamb, so I'll probably enjoy a broiled shoulder of lamb with grilled veggies, and a good Greek wine. My lady is partial to pasta and seafood.

Later, we'll go down to a party with friends- mostly Pagans of our same age (around 40). I have a bottle of Godiva chocolate liqueur, a quart of cream, and a jar of Dutch cocoa for midnight toasts; and a couple of Macanudo cigars to share around.

We are talking about having a "Lord of the Wild Hunt Run" around the neighborhood around midnight (think 40 to 50 naked Pagans running through yards and streets, laughing all the way!) I have a headpiece made from a pair of stag antlers mounted on a helm of leather, and I am quite a sight in boots and antlers!

Of course, all of that sexual energy has to go somewhere, and that is our plan for balance of the night. ARROOOO!

Happy New Year!


The Pagan Preacher
I don't turn the other cheek.

[CalebHayes]

45. I'm in highschool....

house party, c'mon.

[XOKCowboy]

46. Safe at home reading Salty Piece Of Land

It's too dangerous out on the roads. The amateur drinkers get twice as smashed and the cops are twice as agressive. So I'll be here reading, checking DU and hanging out.

[Liberal In Texas]

52. I enjoyed that. Buffett isn't the greatest writer to come down the pike

but all the same it was likable and kind of sweet.

[FreedomAngel82]

47. I'm doing

probably computer stuff and maybe watch some "West Wing" season five dvd set I got for Christmas and my parents, brother and I are going to go and eat out like we usually do. It's just another normal night for me and my family since we're not much for partying and we have church in the morning.

[ellie]

48. I'm going to a house party!

There will be food, alcohol, cards, and my favorite, beer pong! I live way out in the country and the place I am going to is even farther out than me.

[onager]

49. Well, that was more fun than I thought...

As mentioned above, I'm working in Alexandria, Egypt and living in a hotel.

The hotel New Year's bash turned out to be a lot of fun. The main dining room was filled with people of all ages, including some of my Egyptian acquaintances and their families. I spent most of the evening with two interesting female tourists from the UK (1 Brit, 1 Scot). Both smart as whips and both despise The Boy King as much as we do in here. Bu$h-bashing...a great way to ring in the New Year, no matter where you are!

[Tsiyu]

51. Well, Happy New Year!!!!!!

and glad no one threw any dishes at you!

I agree with the amateur night designation, so we are stocked for bear with chips, popcorn (consumed the pizzas already), cookies, chocolate, pork BBQ slow-cooking, tortillas, salsa, beer ( just enough), and I will fry bread dough as a traditional Italian thing.

Hopefully the older kids are heading out, and my youngest(12) and I will have a quiet evening watching movies, squaring off at Dog Bingo and "Life on the Farm" and being couch potatoes.

No, not romantic or exciting, but very peaceful and content.

One of our horses just escaped and brought the neighbor's mare back with her (this horse of mine is too darned smart-letting herself out and breaking the neighbor horse free in a matter of moments). They all got a treat of grain and the neighbors will come get their horse after the gals party awhile LOL. Hope I'm not in for a night of horse wrangling!!!!

Happy New Year to all!!!!! :party: :toast: :beer:

[Liberal In Texas]

50. You can take one off "going to the bar". We decided to stay home

she's reading and I'm DUing.

Too many cops and too many drunks. We going to our favorite pub tomorrow instead as Monday is a day off for both of us.

[cmd]

53. In for the night.

I have a bottle of sparkly chilling in the fridge. For excitement I'm the mouse traps tonight. We have an uninvited house guest.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

54. I live on a boat in the Florida Keys

and at midnight there are lots of fireworks from restaurants in the area shooting up over the bay, and since it is very warm tonight, I'll probably be sitting up on deck watching. Hubby went to bed already, so I will be alone, but surrounded by neighbors on their boats doing the same.

[Joey Liberal]

66. Lucky you!!!!.

[SpiralHawk]

55. Dancing the night away at the community circle dance

with a horde of local musicians, and my Mom. Dec. 31 is her 84th birthday, and she wanted to dance the new year in. Cool. I can dig it. I'm picking her up at 8, and then away we go...

It's a totally drug and alcohol-free event, and includes everyone from tots with their parents, to teens and elders. Always a hoot and a half...

OK, 2006 -- ready or not, here we come...

[proud2BlibKansan]

56. With DUers!!!

Going to a party hosted by DU friends :bounce:

[0007]

57. I'm doing New Years here, I guess.

[Catherine Vincent]

58. I've got a date tonight with a fella by the name of Jack Daniels

Just kidding. I'm going out to dinner with my sister and her kids. Then afterwards, we'll head to my house and will probably do some dancing acting crazy and stuff. And then tomorrow I'll be at my parents planning to eat some good GUMBO. :-)

:hi:

[politicat]

59. Watching Hush and Once More, With Feeling.

As a study in contrasts, they're really interesting....

[Kansas Wyatt]

60. Birthday is New Year's Eve, and I celebrate neither.

Just another day out of the year, and I hope next year turns out a Hell of a lot better than the last year.

[rocktivity]

62. The bubbly's on ice, and the rock videos are in the VCR

We're having a toast each time it strikes midnight in each of the United States time zones--champagne at midnight local time, a shot of jack for the rest. So we'll be rocking the house until at least until 5AM!!!

:headbang:
rocknation

[bikebloke]

63. Just finished the evening's film

Der Tunnel - Pretty good flick about folk tunnelling out of East Berlin in the early 60's.

Now I think I'll read a bit before crashing in another half hour.

It's so nice not having to worry about New year's plans anymore.

[Joey Liberal]

65. I'll give my dogs a treat and then hit the rack

Yes, I need to get a life:).........

[inanna]

68. Just staying at home tonight.

With my husband and daughter. Drinking some nice chardonnay and eating tasty munchies. Quiet evening...I don't really enjoy parties very much.

[Catherine Vincent]

69. Okay, I've been drinking some Tortuga rum and coke

Talk to me people!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :evilgrin: