• lampshade said on Dec 28, 2007....

  I don't know.  Two of my friends are having parties.  The problem is that both of them are about an hour and a half away, and I really don't feel like going anywhere far because then I have to stay over.  Maybe I'll just stay home.

• bloc said on Dec 28, 2007....

  taking care of a baby ;)

• uniquely-ironic said on Dec 28, 2007....

  Maybe dinner out and a quiet evening at home

• silverwhisper said on Dec 28, 2007....

  lampshade: hi, nice to see you again! so what's the problem no going to either of their places, exactly? heaven knows staying off the roads that night would certainly be safer too, no matter whether you've been drinking yourself or not.
  
  bloc: well, of course! :>
  
  u-i: i think that sounds like it would suit you two. :>
  
  ed

• GracefullyGrowing said on Dec 28, 2007....

  I'm not sure how I will spend this year.  Yet.
   
  But it's *got* to be better than last year - where I was pulling an 18 hour shift in the psych unit and one of the patients held a . . . fork . . to the eyeball of another patient (yes, like a hostage) threatening to "poke his eye out like that kid in the movie with the BB gun" if he didn't get a glass of grape juice to celebrate with like he did with his family as a child.  It was quite a party, let me tell ya!
   
  Staying home this year *might* be a little more calm, if I play my cards right. ;~P
   
  ~Grace~
  (PS - yeah, we gave him the grape juice, thus, an eyeball was saved.  And no, I'm not joking, this is a true story.)

• skald said on Dec 28, 2007....

  Our family will dine with us. We will take the kids to a bonfire. Just for an hour all the firing will stop and most people will see a TV show that is just once a year on this night. At half past 11 the firing  will go on for hours. The kids will come out and we will all shoot. At maybe 1 or 1.30 we will go in. Neighbors and friends will look in. on us. This is all predictable as this is like this each year. Who knows when we go to bed but we will put the kids to bed when we come in. As we are old ahahah I hope to be in bed at 3 or half past.   

• silverwhisper said on Dec 28, 2007....

  GG: i agree, it's definitely gotta be better this year! i'm shocked at the thing about the glass of grape juice, though, although i suppose i shouldn't be considering what you said!
  
  skald: ah yes, the bonfire--i do hope you'll take pictures that you share with the rest of us, skald!
  
  ed

• harriedpsychmajor said on Dec 28, 2007....

  Well, Second Street (known to the Philly locals as TWO-Street) is the hotspot for New Year's celebrations. Now that I live right by that area, there will be many bacchanalian exploits to be had.

• the_infernal_optimist said on Dec 28, 2007....

  I'll be at home with DH, the kids, bff and his brother, probably playing D&D for the first time. :)
  
  ~Infernal
  

• skald said on Dec 28, 2007....

  Ed. If the weather is good I will. 

• Lastof8 said on Dec 28, 2007....

  Taking the kids bowling and eat at O'Charley's then home to watch Spiderman 3, EXCITING STUFF!!!  Although, what the hell, I shall drink at home during the movie!

• quietone said on Dec 28, 2007....

  sleeping....

• wombat said on Dec 28, 2007....

  Trying to wake up quietone so I can chase her around SC like tonight...ha..
   
  Hopefully celebrating that I am finally out of my job.
   
  Toasting in Happy New Year to all of you out there!

• lalalalalala said on Dec 28, 2007....

  what i usually do...nothing.

• momsrock said on Dec 28, 2007....

  Well, I'm feeling a little wild and crazy... so I might actually stay up to watch the ball drop this year....watch from my couch of course! :)

• evil_twin said on Dec 28, 2007....

  I'm not really sure yet. There might be a little party at Jack's house. But if there isn't, we'll probably just spend the evening alone at our house. We'll watch the ball drop and then go to sleep! Unless there's a party going on, we're usually in bed by 10pm. We're pretty boring young people :-P
  
  -evil_twin LA
  

• Mamie said on Dec 28, 2007....

  I think we are going to the movies and dinner out somewhere. Some years we take a nap and then get up for the midnight hour to toast each other. Have a great time! happy new year to you! Mamie

• jnana said on Dec 28, 2007....

  Salsa Dancing in Detroit!

• Eilan said on Dec 28, 2007....

  Getting laid.

• silverwhisper said on Dec 28, 2007....

  harried: you know that if you go there, you gotta take a few pics to post, right? :D
  
  infernal: please blog about it if you do wind up playing? :D
  
  skald: cool! i hope the weather cooperates!
  
  last of 8: welcome to my blog and thank you for visiting! how many kids do you have?
  
  quietone: heh...at least it will be restful!
  
  wombat: what's going on with your job? i know i missed some stuff...?
  
  lalalalala: why so?
  
  MR: hey, it was a long semester!
  
  kyle: dude, you guys are too young to be that boring on new year's! jeez, at least to go jack's!
  
  mamie: and to you! whatever you wind up doing, i hope you have a great time too!
  
  jnana: welcome to my blog! that sounds like a good night!
  
  eilan: well, of course you are! :>
  
  ed

• gingersoul said on Dec 28, 2007....

  Moms......wow...that is ever wilder than how i feel.......LOL....i might even move the tv in my bedroom then.......woo woo.....lol......

  Ed....I have been invited to a very glamorous downtown upscale big party by a coworker of mine.....the same one who invited me also to a glitzy Xmas party ...did i go to that party? No. Will i go to this party? I dont know...

  I never had a thing for New Year Eve parties.....even when i was younger.... .i think a day on the calendar doesn't match my personal calendar.....plus.....that song everybody sing at midnight makes me alsways so sad.....

  I like to watch online the places in the world that celebrate new year though.....and i like the fireworks ....:-)

• silverwhisper said on Dec 28, 2007....

  GS: you know, i understand re: calendar days vs. days that mean something personally, but me, i'm only so iconoclastic, you know? :>
  
  ed

• Zayda said on Dec 28, 2007....

  Honestly, I don't know what we are doing yet. Typically, there is a fairly good sized group of us that get together at one couple's house. But this year, they are away for the holidays, and the rest of the group, me and Mr. Z included, can't seem to decide what we are doing.
  
  
  

• gingersoul said on Dec 28, 2007....

  Ed.....oh, you are......indeed you are....as always.....

  you do remember......{hugs}

• silverwhisper said on Dec 28, 2007....

  super z: hey, welcome back! it's great to see you again!
  
  [bearhug]
  
  hm...if you're having trouble deciding, i say you let the little man choose. :>
  
  GS: o phooey! wait...remember what?
  
  ed

• MissMimi said on Dec 28, 2007....

  Probably following wombie around SC, is she doesn't mind.  B will probably fall asleep in front of the TV around 10.  We really party hard.

• silverwhisper said on Dec 28, 2007....

  [note to self: see about sending mimi blow-up keith urban doll]

• Zayda said on Dec 28, 2007....

  [hugs ed back]
  
  
  thanks....
  
  
  lol. if the little man decides, we'll be eating chicken nuggets from mcdonald's. :P
  
  
  i asked mr. z if he wanted to have people over here this year. he just shrugged and said "i don't know". heh...he's no help.
  
  
  

• MissMimi said on Dec 28, 2007....

  Ed, that is sick, perverted and twisted in an amusing sort of way.  LOL

  Zee, can I come over and eat chicken McNuggets with you? 

• silverwhisper said on Dec 28, 2007....

  super z: well, on the plus side, you know he'll be happy... :D
  
  mimi: and that's why you're my friend! :>
  
  [borrows LG's emphatic nod]
  
  ed

• Zayda said on Dec 29, 2007....

  mimi--you know you're invited any time. :)

• phoeby said on Dec 29, 2007....

  have booked a table at a cool bar/restaurant near the city. I'm going out with one of my best friends and her fiance. I'm looking forward to it, cos the place is really vibey and i love their company too.
  
  
  my ex will have my little boy
  phoeby

• moonriver said on Dec 29, 2007....

  ed -- finally, the twins are spending the rest of the holidays with me in this strangely familiar place. they're almost recovered from chickenpox, but they still can't move around until they get past the highly-infectious stage. teh sux, as you would say.
  
  i spent the whole morning bringing up log flitches from a local sawmill. good exercise...  for what? why, for a great new year's eve bonfire of course. bbq of hotdogs, marshmallows, and pieces of pork. and a bottle of lindeman's. plus a bagful of sparklers. just me and the girls. i made a vow to teach them a couple of indigenous dances for them to show their mother when they return... :-)
  
  

• lalalalalala said on Dec 29, 2007....

  oh moonriver! that sounds like fun!

  ed: it's what i always do.

  lala

• Aqua-Bristol said on Dec 29, 2007....

  Me? I'll be working--helping to host a midnight champagne breakfast.

• silverwhisper said on Dec 29, 2007....

  phoeby: i've always felt that such times are the best ones to spend time w/ friends.
  
  moon: oo, bonfire! [goes glassy-eyed and slack-jawed]
  
  lala: right, i get that. i guess my question is really why is that what you do rather than anything else, though?
  
  aqua-bristol: ugh, i've always thought that would be rough to do, to be honest. do you guys get any perks?
  
  ed

• lalalalalala said on Dec 29, 2007....

  ooooh got it ed...i'd rather do something fun but when i extend invites, i get no responses and of course i'm never invited either.

  lala

• Aqua-Bristol said on Dec 29, 2007....

  Don't mourn for me. I'll be off the next day, and there is always the chance that I'll get a few glasses of bubbly out of it. I'll be able to appreciate some talented musicians, too.

• silverwhisper said on Dec 29, 2007....

  lala: well, that's annoying!
  
  aqua-bristol: that sounds pretty damned cool, to be honest. :>
  
  ed

• lalalalalala said on Dec 29, 2007....

  ed: that's true. it's the story of my life.

  lala

• Aqua-Bristol said on Dec 29, 2007....

  It's only one of the many reasons why I love my job. But in case I don't get to do so before the ball drops: tie one on for me!

• moonriver said on Dec 29, 2007....

  lala, ed -- i had planned a bonfire last year too, the stack of logs were all ready, but the twins couldn't make it. i spent new year's eve at a colleague's house with his family, and had a nice midnight chat with the kids, and later with sophie. it was a lonely new year, and i found myself working alone in an empty office on the morning of jan. 1, troubleshooting network problems compounded with that taiwan earthquake... but i was glad i already met friends at sc back then, as i'm doubly glad now... :-)
  
  

• polarheart said on Dec 29, 2007....

  Edikins, I have no clue what we are doing on New Year's Eve. . .sad I know!  Mr Polar has been working all this time and right now I dont even know what his shift will be on that day. 

• destinydiva said on Dec 29, 2007....

  mr river your new year sounds like a fun one :-) x
  

• CreativeWoman said on Dec 29, 2007....

  So far I have no plans.
  
  CW
  

• gingersoul said on Dec 29, 2007....

  Moon.....while i do perfectly remember your lonely New Year Eve last year.......*wink*.....

  Ed.... lol......you evidently don't remember the criss crossed comments we both made last year to a blog of Alienated. He was asking about possible nominations for a possible Oscar party (or something like that....). I told him that if he wanted some iconoclastic personalities he should have picked you or Moon or Bloc.....

  tsk tsk....LOL

• blastfromthepast said on Dec 29, 2007....

  Hosting dinner with close friends, and then playing games until the wee hours.

• momsrock said on Dec 29, 2007....

  GS, we are a lively pair... set the town on fire if we're ever in the same place at the same time! lol
   
  Ed, I will be using that excuse for being a party pooper for the next few years! ;)

• ZsuzsiO said on Dec 29, 2007....

  New Year's Eve is like THE PARTY in some places. I grew up in Hungary, where even kids stay up till 12am to drink champagin and see the parents get drunk.

  Than I came to Israel, and was shocked that there was absolutely no celebration of any sort. I thought I got used to it with the years, but than I moved to the US and celebrating new year's eve returned to my life. I remember the worse NYE of my life about, let's say, 4-5 years ago, when I was already divorced but couldn't get no one to whach my son for me. I had to stay in, and I was desperatelly dialing numbers till the very last hour. Than got some whiskey I found some where in the house ( I don't keep liqour but one of my girlfriends left it there) and got drunk all on my own hating my life. I remember those mean girls who pretended to be my friends at the time were keep asking me what I did, and laughed when I said I've had a nice quiet night with my son....Bitches!

  This year? Well, this is my third year back in Israel. I didn't even realise during these years that there was a Christmass or NYE going on around the world I was so busy with my own drama in my life here. But after my brother's death and the fire (wow, it was exactly a year ago :-0 ) I've made up with my family, and during the summer I've started dating again. It must have been way too long for me to go on without dating guys, couse now, that I am manless again (it's been a week now), I feel like I've never been this lonely in my life.

  So, you asking me where I'm going to be....?

  I don't know. This week I was hoping my ex will try to contact me and try to bag himself back. I planned to stay cool, and say no, and I was hoping that he'll do somethign extremely romantic to show how sorry he is. Well, none of that happened, and by the end of the week I realised it'll never happen. All of a sudden I understud that it really is over, and that I miss him. Or just miss being with company, really, cause I'm not sure I miss HIM, I just know I hate being alone.

  I wish I could write now, that I'll probably spend my NYE night with him, and that we'll do something fun together. But I kind of realise it is not the way it's going to be. Should I keep my plans clear in case? Naaaaaaaa!!!

  So I'm hoping maybe some one might ask me out. I'm hoping it'll happen in time so I'll still be able to get some one baby sit my son for the night. It wont be easy if I'll have to do it on the last minute.

  But as it looks right now... My ass will be sitting at home, like ever other day, and I'll  watch how other people celebrated on the news.

  Happy New year for all of you, SC members! Happy New Year for you Silver!!

   

• wakingharmony said on Dec 29, 2007....

  If I make it back home for New Years Eve, Thomas is On call for EMS....The VFD & EMS usually Have New Years Eve at the Station With BBQ, Brisket Sausage...you name it....Side Dishes & Every one is welcome to Come  and Everyone can bring their fire works to set off at the station (Have a big field there and the fire dept is there to make sure it is all safe and the EMS how safe can you be!
  Happy New Year Ed & To the Mrs. And Everyone at SoulCast.
      Oh if I end up here at daughter "Shells,"  (which is unlikely, I'd like to be home....) They Have a Party @ the Club... AA party dinner bbq too! 

• frontanack said on Dec 29, 2007....

  I think I was sick last New Year's ?? hmmm// I wonder whether I will even know it is the day. . . have been losing track lately.  Dad has gone (Dec 23rd) ... seemingly in a blaze of northern lights (my sister in Michigan said the sky was flame red that night).. oh yeah: we had an ice slick here last NY's... I had to walk out a mile or so to meet my daughter Michael who brought milk and a couple of vodka coolers to me and Beau.  and Geri got a ride to town... and it was raining and we could barely walk, on the road.  It was very interesting actually.   and then later, a couple of Beau's friends somehow persuaded a parent to drive them out here in a 4x4

  so I was babysitting 3 teenage girls who were drinking vodka and kalua and beers (which the girls brought)... and knitting.  It was lots of fun.

  this year?  whatever else I am doing I will probably have the knitting needles going.  I seem to do a lot of that lately.  Have a good one, ed.

  oh yeah, and I will be keeping track of the lynx's tracks in the back yard.  I seem to have acquired a wild kitty: he keeps coming back.  I think it is a young one that is on its own for the first time, and is having trouble locating food.  but have not put food out for it: just the dogs are running about and all that.  I think he may have eaten the outdoor kitties earlier in the year.

   

   

• TinSoldier said on Dec 29, 2007....

  Well, getting drunk goes without saying, except that this previous year at least I seem to have done that almost every night.
  
  I will make some hot wings and some barbecue wings, and we will also have some kind of veggie tray and fruit tray and some meat and cheese and crackers.
  
  And we will stay up until midnight and say good riddance to 2007 and hope for a better 2008 (not that that should be too difficult).
  
  I mean, 2007 wasn't bad in the usual sense, but rather it was bad because there was almost no good to it. Almost everything was either mediocre or bad. Bleh. Good riddance.
  

• moonriver said on Dec 29, 2007....

  ginger -- thank you for jogging my ... uhh... memory in that direction, my dear friend.  i do remember all of it. there's a couple of extra seats by the campfire. and tomorrow i'm gonna hitch up another big bundle of log flitches, for a real dusk-to-dawn bonfire. wanna join? *double wink, grins from ear to ear*
  
  destiny -- wanna join, too? you can bring a friend with you if you like... and an extra bottle of wine... *wink*
  
  

• cakebottom said on Dec 30, 2007....

  I'll be with the boyfriend, his sister and our best mutual friend.
  It doesn't matter what we do, it can't get better than that. 

• queenparanoia said on Dec 30, 2007....

  boring...

  i'll be spending it with my grandparents though. just the three of us.... kinda sad because i wanna party...

• wakingharmony said on Dec 30, 2007....

  queen since you will be spending it with your Grandparents anyway enjoy....you never know how many more you will ever have with them both. Why don't you ask them about  their previous "New Years." Hope you have a Happy Every one! I used to call My Grandparents at midnight their time (if we were different time Zone) and wish them a "Happy New Year" They always knew it was me, all of them. When asked how they knew they'd say your the only one that calls and says Grandma? Or Grandpa?   {I found that rather sad, being that there were at least 8 of us with the same grandparents Not to mention the rest. Now they are not with us in body, but i try to always look to the stars and say Happy New Year Gramma And Grampa!
  

• queenparanoia said on Dec 30, 2007....

  waking: that's why i spend my christmas vacation here with them because i know they will be lonely. dont worry i'm sure well have some fun... ;) i still wanna party though! LOL... =)

• wakingharmony said on Dec 30, 2007....

  queen your so much fun I think you create a party where ever you go!! And you are so sweet! 

• queenparanoia said on Dec 30, 2007....

  waking: hehehhehehe i doubt if my grandparents would let me drink LOL... but dont worry i think we'll watch the countdown on t.v. =)

• Wish_Upon_A_Star said on Dec 31, 2007....

  My boyfriend and our friend are going to hit up the Xochimilcos for some nacho's and then go to the little casino by our house and play black jack and drink until breakfast then stumble up the street to our apartment and crash...
  and hopefully get laid :)
  

• biglove said on Dec 31, 2007....

  New Year's isn't a big holiday for us, we are having dinner with friends then probably going home and watching movies.

• circusdoll said on Dec 31, 2007....

  It IS interesting, how people spend these things in such different ways.
  
  I wish I could say we were doing something amazingly interesting and useful, but honestly, we forgot all about it~! XD; We'll just have to see what we can scrounge up, huh? =^___^=;

• wakingharmony said on Jan 01, 2008....

  i stayed home Thomas went to Fire Dept to do volenteer for the fireworks. i couldn't sleep.. then Thomas got home around 6 am there was a fire he had to fight for 4 hrs. He loves his work! That good....so he came home smelling of smoke.. and I made breakfast hes sleeping now.. think iam going to take a nap too.

• silverwhisper said on Jan 02, 2008....

  moon: that's a shame about the bonfire, moon. rough way to spend the first day of the year, if you ask me. earthquake?
  
  polar: i hope you guys did get some respite?
  
  CW: so what did you wind up doing?
  
  GS: ah...you know, i'd completely forgotten, you're right. was that before or after alienated nuked his blog entries?
  
  blast: hey, good to see you again! sounds like a good way to go, if you ask me. :>
  
  MR: hey, if it counts, it counts! :D
  
  zsuzsio: having read your blog entry about that guy, i think it isn't that you miss him, it's that you just miss the company, myself. i suppose that the western calendar doesn't mean that much in israel, huh?
  
  WH: ah, i forget sometimes that others help make sure that the rest of us can celebrate. i'm glad that there are people who can take the shifts at EMS at such times. :> your plans sound like a whole lotta fun!
  
  front: long time no see! [blink] your daughter's named michael?
  
  TS: i am extremely concerned by what you say in that first sentence. and as you know, i agree with you re: the big news story of the year. in a certain way, i agree with you re: 2007/2008.
  
  cb: that's great that you get along so well with his sister!
  
  queen: so how'd it go with your grandparents? wait, what about your friends and the rest of your family, though?
  
  wish: that definitely sounds like a good plan! :D
  
  biglove: i always wonder how many people treat new year's like it's just another day. i guess i've gotten an answer to that question now, huh? :>
  
  circusdoll: welcome to my blog and thank you for visiting! wow, i just got done saying to biglove that i wonder how many people treat it like another day, and here you guys went ahead and did so without meaning to! so what did you do instead?
  
  WH: that's great that thomas loves his work!
  
  ed

• queenparanoia said on Jan 02, 2008....

  silverwhisper: they are in manila. and i'm in iloilo. very far away some of my aunts and uncles would rather spend it in their homes and my friends are with my family. i have fun alone though... =)

• silverwhisper said on Jan 02, 2008....

  [considers a few possible comments and thinks better of it]
  
  :D
  
  ed

• queenparanoia said on Jan 02, 2008....

  oh shit... i type it wrong. i meant my friends are with their family... i typed too fast sometimes. sorry... =)

• silverwhisper said on Jan 02, 2008....

  no big deal. :>
  
  ed

• crybabylu said on Jan 03, 2008....

  this is how we spent ours!

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