Personally, I normally stay at home and watch some of my favorite TV shows or movies I have on DVD that I haven't viewed in some time. Last year, I watched the entire first season of CHiPS . This year I plan to watch the entire first season of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
It was my in-laws's anniversary, and we would take them out to a nice restaurant. My father-in-law passed a way a few years back, but we still take my mother-in-law out to celebrate her anniversary. We then go back to the house, play games, drink drinks, eat, and watch the ball drop on TV.
Murphy's Law NYE show at the Late Trash bar, or work, depending.
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Not really anything special. May turn on the TV to see the countdown in New York or Toronto or something like that.
Drink lime sherbet punch, play cards, shoot the breeze, eat finger foods, maybe a bonfire if it ain't rain In.
I've done nothing the last four years. Maybe I'll break that cycle this year. Talk to me tomorrow night.
Usually, nothing. I'm lucky if I'm still awake at midnight.
I'll go out during the day for some random driving and dayhiking. I like to get back home just as it's getting dark, and the wife and I are in for the night. I'll mix a few drinks and get loaded (doesn't take much; I rarely drink anything the rest of the year), make a pot of spaghetti for dinner, and camp in front of the TV. Usually will do my own Twilight Zone marathon from DVDs (it's unwatchable on the SyFy channel).
Quote from: hbelkins on December 30, 2016, 07:54:09 PM
Usually, nothing. I'm lucky if I'm still awake at midnight.
That was me until I graduated from high school in 2013 and then I found myself staying up past midnight on a regular basis.
Struggle to stay awake till midnight for no good reason, then immediately crash in bed.
A few years ago, we had several friends over for New Year's. We had wine, snacks, games. From about 12:30 on, everyone kept saying they should really get home, but then nobody could move. We literally sat there for three hours, saying every so often how late it was and how we should get to bed. Three freaking hours and no one could muster the energy to actually get up and go. Now half of them have had babies recently, so staying past 9:00 or 10:00 doesn't really happen.
Usually go to bed around 10 PM and get up at 5 AM the next day. New Years Day usually is pretty quiet in the morning meaning it is great for a undisturbed distance run. I prefer to avoid Christmas and New Years for driving activities due to the high number of extra officers out looking for DUIs.
I may still be driving back to my parents in the Omaha area when midnight hits this year.
Depends on my work schedule. This year I'm working until 10 tomorrow and then back at 8 Sunday morning.
Party at friends' house (but not this year for various reasons), then leave before midnight to party at extended family's house (with some friends there). Usually some sort of games tournament (3 generations of family including kids) with prizes. The friends had a trivia contest last year (sample question: which 3 countries share the island of Borneo?) In the past, we've brought in the "Beers of the World" box from Costco, arranged the beers in order of when their place of origin hits midnight, and sampled them in that order.
I'd love to leave the TV off, but by tradition everyone starts watching Times Square and we do the countdown. Hold a penny and grape in each hand for wealth and health. There must be a third item to stop the new year from sucking donkey balls that we evidently did not do for 2016; sorry about that. Then at 12:01 we send and answer a bunch of texts, while some watch the afterparty stuff on TV which features prerecorded performances of the worst music of the past year.
The last time we went out (restaurant/bar) for NYE was before any of the extended family's kids were born.
I always have to work. New Year's Eve is the casino industry equivalent to Black Friday.
Quote from: hbelkins on December 30, 2016, 07:54:09 PM
Usually, nothing. I'm lucky if I'm still awake at midnight.
We celebrate Newfie New Year (10:30 Eastern) just in case.
In Spain there is a tradition of eating twelve grapes (one for each bong) at midnight (6 p.m. Eastern). And like every year, I'm going to do so.
2nd year partying with the girlfriend and her sisters. Normally I'm the last one up and first one awake :-D
Usually my Mom and I go visit some friends who we usually don't see except around New Year's, for dinner and some bubbly when the ball drops. Our friends are very, ahem, interesting people. How interesting? When they visited relatives in Phoenix, they seriously agonized over which airport to make the connecting flights. It proved so important that eventually we got a postcard in the mail from the airport in Chicago (which they eventually went through) saying how nice the airport was. I wish I was making this stuff up!
We're just gonna watch maybe some movies, then switch to the countdown. Nothing too special.
I have my 6 year old with me this year.. Ex wife is going out... We will hang out with my parents eat finger food.. Eatch some football.. Make a bonfire and make some smores
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We stay home. Going out to crowded bars or the like lost its appeal years ago. I'll cook a nice dinner (this year, beef tenderloin) and we'll have some good wine. We have a jar of caviar to eat too. Probably watch HNIC the WJC since HNIC is preempted.
Usually we just stay home and watch 'New Year's Rockin' Eve', but there were a few years in the late '80s/early '90s when the Cincinnati affiliate preempted it because it was too much for Cincinnati to handle.
Also, years ago, we used to listen to the special edition of 'American Top 40' where they counted down the top 100 songs of the year, but this tradition got ruined 25 years ago.
Stand in line regretting forgetting mustard yesterday.
Bragging to people on the Pacific Coast that at 12:01 AM, January 1st, 2XXX that I am from the future and that you should live here just to do that.
I also was meant to be in Massachusetts three days ago, but that never happened.
Quote from: noelbotevera on December 31, 2016, 10:00:41 PM
Bragging to people on the Pacific Coast that at 12:01 AM, January 1st, 2XXX that I am from the future and that you should live here just to do that.
I also was meant to be in Massachusetts three days ago, but that never happened.
There are advantages here though. Basically the whole world still revolves around east coast time which means 10 AM start times for major sports events.
Most always for me, I am in some place other than home. This is because my family always goes on our winter vacation in the later part of Christmas Break, which means pretty much every year we have just arrived at our destination by the time New Year's Eve comes around (this year, we arrived just yesterday). This year I am in Steamboat Springs, Colorado (on a ski trip). I will say for the most part so far it has been a pleasant trip, minus a few issues that have come up. I was actually in New York City two years ago during New Years Eve and saw the ball drop. So every New Years is usually exceptionally good for me.
It's now January 1st, 2017, 12:04:46 AM Eastern Time.
I usually stay at home and play board games and card games with my family and watch the end of the countdown (switching between the New York and Niagara Falls countdowns).
I spent this New Years Eve playing Twilight Struggle (board game), COD Black Ops III (video game), Big Two (card game), and Catan (board game).
Sleeping, gaming, or getting drunk. Not much else to do, sadly.
I'll trade ya. Two nurses didn't show, and I'm flying solo on a two nurse floor.
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Our family tradition is to go out to dinner earlier in the evening before it gets too crazy at any of the restaurants in town. The later on, we open a bottle of wine, fix some shrimp and watch the ball drop on TV. After midnight, Mom would call family on the West Coast to talk to them from the future before going to bed. This year, both of my parents are sick with bad colds, so we stayed home for dinner and skipped the phone call because her voice is gone.
In years past, my parents would go out, and Grandma would watch my brother and I. In those years, we'd fix various snacks, play cards and watch the ball drop before going to bed.
My usual NYE is driving up to SF (as a non-drinker, I'm the automatic "designated" in our group), having dinner at Hunan Restaurant on Sansome, hitting a few clubs, and ending up at Pier 23 listening to jazz until about 1 a.m. However, GF is out of town taking care of her sick goddaughter; the friends we usually do the NYE routine with are themselves sick (food poisoning from an overseas trip -- watch your food intake in Myanmar), and it's frigging cold around here and has been for the past couple of weeks. So I snagged some BBQ, cranked up Miles Davis on the audio system, and am sitting here posting to this forum. Fitting end to a forgettable year! :-(
Apparently sleeping for ten hours, I must have been tired and really not cared about the clock rolling over because I was out by 9:30 PM last night. :-D
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 01, 2017, 10:44:35 AM
Apparently sleeping for ten hours, I must have been tired and really not cared about the clock rolling over because I was out by 9:30 PM last night. :-D
I barely managed to stay awake long enough to see the ball drop. I was so tired that when I went to sit on the bed after it was over, I missed and crashed on the floor ass-first. Floors aren't as soft as they used to be... :pan:
Quote from: noelbotevera on December 31, 2016, 10:00:41 PM
Bragging to people on the USA that at 12:01 AM, January 1st, 2XXX that I am from the future and that you should live here just to do that.
Fixed for me :sombrero:.
Work
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on January 01, 2017, 05:56:25 PM
Quote from: noelbotevera on December 31, 2016, 10:00:41 PM
Bragging to people on the USA and Spain that at 12:01 AM, January 1st, 2XXX that I am from the future and that you should live here just to do that.
Fixed for me :sombrero:.
Except the rest of my family celebrates New Years 13 hours ahead of me, so I fixed it for both of us.
Quote from: roadman on December 30, 2016, 02:05:45 PM
Personally, I normally stay at home and watch some of my favorite TV shows or movies I have on DVD that I haven't viewed in some time. Last year, I watched the entire first season of CHiPS . This year I plan to watch the entire first season of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
I did much the same, except my entertainment choices were Fractured Fairy Tales and various Russian car crash videos on YouTube.
I went out railfanning on New Years Eve. After that, I stayed up until 3 in the morning.
Depends on my work schedule. Last year I worked New Years Eve nightshift. This year my wife and I were off so we just chilled out together, sipping champagne and waited for the ball to drop. I was asleep by 0130.
For the majority of my lifetime I have spent New Years Eve at my aunt and uncle's house, since they throw a party annually for it. But in a couple recent years I've skipped it in favor of hanging out with my girlfriend/fiancée's friends/family.
I'm getting to the point where I'd love to just spend it at home so that I don't have to be driving anywhere after midnight and don't need to stay up later than necessary for it. But we'll see how I feel at the end of this year.
Almost always just stay home and watch the ball drop on ABC, and usually go bed by 12:30.
I was destroyed by 12:01.
This year was more low-key for me. I grabbed a bite to eat w/a friend then headed home around 10:30-11. Watched a couple of DVDs and then went to bed around 12:30.
Because New Years Eve and New Years Day fall on a Saturday/Sunday, they were standard work days, with the actual New Years holiday being on January 2nd. My buddy works Saturday nights, and I work Sunday nights. Since he wanted to spend New Years Eve with family, I did a shift swap. I ended up working from home and had zero support calls.