I wrote this post last year about some of my New Year celebration.
I edited it and added other memories i cherish the most.....
Which New Year Eve you remember the most?
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GracefullyGrowing said on Dec 29, 2007....
Oh hands down - Y2K. I loved it when my brother-in-law sneaked down to the basement and JUST at midnight switched off the breakers - making my parents-in-law think the Y2K issues had come to be actually true. It was way funnier than I could, kindly, let on. I'm still laughing about it.~Grace~ -
polarheart said on Dec 29, 2007....
The New Years I remember best was going to church about and hour before midnight and there was a couple who asked to be married that night at that time and we were all "invited" (as we were all already there) to be part of their wedding - how cool is that? I just dont remember which year it was.Polar xPS: That post you linked is the one I remember about you first and foremost Ginger. -
momsrock said on Dec 29, 2007....
Hmmm I'm afraid I don't have a lot to choose from! I've never actually done anything to celebrate New Years... I've watched the ball drop from my living room a few times but I did it in my pj's and went to be shortly after! Some year I'll celebrate! :) -
gingersoul said on Dec 29, 2007....
Grace......ending with a prank is a great way to close a year....:-)...
Btw, that year ....my ex husband and i went to a pub with two of our closest friends and danced at the YMCA song i dont know how many times......with those funny little hats with 2000 written on them......i have a pic of me poking my tongue out....we were pretty drunk....we spilled wine all over our shirts but we made it sane and safe at home......
Pollie.....thank you again....You are right......that was really cool....
Moms...dont worry.....this year you and i will have the best party ever....you and i....even so far away.......lol....dont wear the same pj than i am going to wear though....ok?
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quietone said on Dec 29, 2007....
Oh this is an easy one-1994 new years eve I was stupid enough to get married the 3rd time - in Reno of all places!! 2 years later divorced -
gingersoul said on Dec 29, 2007....
Quiet.....wow....talk about celebrating!....lol...
well, at least you cut it short quite soon....:-)
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Mamie said on Dec 29, 2007....
Hi Ginger!! Miss you, Lady, and hope all is well with you!!My fav New Years was when I was in my early 20's, we went to a local club and danced the night away. We stayed at the hotel next door to the club and it was a big deal because we weren't married and I thought I was such a baddie!! I am sure I told my mother I was a t church!!My man has always been the first kiss for that first moment of the new year. Now many, many years later, we do watch the shows on tv and share a toast at midnight...but now (giggle) we usually raise our glass, me on my couch and he on his...and we go "yo"....hehehehe, then we fall asleep and move to bed whenever one of us wakes up. How pathetic is that? Oh well!! -
gingersoul said on Dec 29, 2007....
Mamie.....{{hugs}}.....things are slowly getting less hectic for sure...still working like a slave in Tara though.....lol......
That is not pathetic.......that too is what love is made of...long years together and still the first look to each other at the struck of midnight...and you know its true.....you have built a solid relationship....
I wish you more joy than ever in the nex year.....yo.....lol...
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secretlife said on Dec 29, 2007....
hiya ginger-it was fun to re-read that post from last year.i remember new years 2000.i had a huge open house party at my house that year-it was my 2nd christmas in this house. and we went all out that year-we invited all my relatives, all of my husbands. neighbors, friends.....i cooked and also catered sandwiches and salads and a few trays from this neat place on the highway....i remember lots of h'oderves...little hotdogs and eggrolls and pizzas....crab on toast, brushetta, fancy cheeses and salamis, tiny reubens and sloppy joes, and on and on.... Doors opened at 2pm and we did h'orderves til 6. then we had buffet supper...and after a big table of every desert you can imagine.the house was decorated to the nines inside and out, the rooms were filled and it was just a great night.i remember i was out buying for weeks before hand. and one of my purchases (purely impulse of course) were these champagne glasses with 2000 vertical on the stems....i still have them! lol......those open house parties became my theme for the next 4 years....i miss them. -
gingersoul said on Dec 29, 2007....
Secret......what a party! Really great.....i would have loved to be invited.....i would have pass the appetizers along...if i didnt eat them all, naturally....
Yes, it was fun to re-read that blog......and its always lovely to meet you here...{{hugs}}.
So what will happen this year at your home?
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secretlife said on Dec 29, 2007....
the last few years it's just my little family here.and this year i'm looking forward to a quiet evening.my sister has therapy that morning, and my kids have eye doctor appts.i'll be home in the afternoon making lasagna and eggplant for mom's new years day dinner.my oldest daughter was at her own party last year. and again this year.but beforehand, i'll have her and her boyfriend here and i'll whip up a few h'orderves. we planned to watch the latest Harry Potter on dvd and then watch Dick Clark and that sparkly ball drop.i have a few hats and noisemakers and a bottle of Asti Spumanti. and at midnight we will go out front and throw confetti at each other and shout in 2008...then ...lol 12:10 or so, i'll be sound asleep....they don't call me ms excitement for nothing, honey!happy new year to you and your daughter ginger. i hope this year brings you only good things. -
momsrock said on Dec 29, 2007....
GS...LOL... I will wear pink flannel with snowmen on them...and a ponytail...probably crooked and a little matted from laying down! Unless you wanted the matted look and then I could pull off the frizz....LOL :) -
skald said on Dec 29, 2007....
There are so many but one when I was 12. We did not have TV yet and I was upstairs with my uncle Gunnar and aunt Þóra listening to a comedy at the radio. Very much like they do now at TV. We had been to a bonfire very near to the house and I was looking at the fireworks. At 12 they always sing a salm Now the Year has gone into the centuries. More poetic in Icelandic and we all kissed new year, all of those things like they usually are but I felt so overwhelmed I could cry. -
Twylarants said on Dec 29, 2007....
My husband used to work a part-time job as a limo driver, so we never got to go out on New Years Eve. He would take people to parties or to Times Square, and the kids an I would watch the ball drop on tv, eat pizza and fall asleep.
One year he got a tip from his customers...a beautiful seafood party tray and 2 bottles of Miller Hi-lite beer. We ate the shrimp, scallops, lobster claws...but we don't drink at all. What the heck, the kids were asleep, so we opened the beer.
He drank half of his and fell fast asleep. I drank his other half, plus mine, and had a hangover for 3 days. What party animals we are!
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Aqua-Bristol said on Dec 30, 2007....
My favorite, hands down, was the one where my husband proposed to me. -
hotaka said on Dec 30, 2007....
Remember or cherish?
I'll never forget New Year's Eve in York. We had a big, BIG!!! dinner and after we had planned to relax until it was time to see the fireworks and hear the bells at the Minster. But I felt really ill from eating too much (I tried to finish what was on my plate like a good boy before desert). At midnight I was asleep and woke up to the sound of the bells. I mumbled "Happy New Year" to K and fell asleep again. Then during the night I spent a while staring at my reflection in the toilet bowl, waiting for something to come up (not from the toilet, silly). The next morning was a beautiful clear day and we had planned to drive through the countryside an enjoy the snow that had fallen on the 30th. I was so sick and queezy, however, that it wasn't until noon before I forced myself out of bed and attempted to eat a small yogurt. We went on our drive but it wasn't before sunset that I finally started feeling almost normal.
A more positive New Year's was my first year in Japan. I went to the local shrine where a big bon fire was lit and people made and served sweet saki and rice cakes. I was surprised when people started bringing beautiful decorations and threw them in the fire. I thought they were going to decorate the place. Instead I learned it brings good luck to throw your New Year's decorations in the fire on New Year's Eve.
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queenparanoia said on Dec 30, 2007....
well all my new years are all the same... and this new year will be different since i'm spending it with my grandparents. just the three of us... =) -
moonriver said on Dec 30, 2007....
ginger -- your blog (and ed's too) triggered a long reverie about new year's eve memories in my mind. instead of posting everything here as a comment, i posted it just now as a new blog, about greeting the new year with fire in our bloods. exactly one year today, i wrote another blog too, about my new year in the war zone. ah, new year's eve memories indeed!
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wakingharmony said on Dec 30, 2007....
Gosh there are soo many Ginger.... Ill have to think a bit a get back ....but 1st i want to read all this!! Thanks -
gingersoul said on Dec 30, 2007....
Secret......Asti Spumante has always been the drink of the day in my family too.......i am not crazy about any bubbling drinks...i dont like champagne either....but for New Year Eve as long as i remember i always drunk Asti.....:-)
Your plan sounds good to me.....i just now talked with my mom and my sister-in-law in Italy...they are planning to get together as usual at her house, have a good dinner, play one of our endless cards games and watch the fireworks from the balcony....
My city makes them bigger year after year...last year my mom called me and made me listen their noise thru the phone.....
Happy New Year to you and your family, Secret {{{hugs}}}
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gingersoul said on Dec 30, 2007....
Moms...oh, honey, i feel wild crazy this year...i go for the frizz look......lol...
ok, my pj is blue with little penguins so we are fine ....no matchy matchy ....and i will also wear my red socks .....just for good luck.....
woo wow...who will hold the remote control?
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gingersoul said on Dec 30, 2007....
Skald......you have very intimate and warm memories....i can imagine how nice must have been those bonfires on the snow ....and the reflection of the fireworks on all that white too...Happy New Year, my Iceland lady ....{hugs}
Twyla....man, if you are wild, woman!....LOL......shrimp and beer....woo woo.....too funny...but hey, not everybody can be like my ex husband....he could gulp down two cases of beer like water and still look cool as a cucumber......some talent he had......
Aqua......if you read my post, one of the New Year Eve i cherish the most has been the one my ex husband proposed to me too.....:-)
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gingersoul said on Dec 30, 2007....
Hotbabe....how nice to see you again...:-D. ....How is your little garden growing?.....*wink*
Geez, your New York experience sounds a lot like mine.....both have been darned groggy......even though for different reasons but we both missed the big party....lol.....funny...
I like the Japanese New Year Eve....
I wish you the best year of your life and i am sure you will have it {{{hugs}}}
Queenie.......try to make the best of it.....cherish their presence in your life now that you still have them.......i still miss my grandma ....Happy New Year, sweetie {{hugs}}
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gingersoul said on Dec 30, 2007....
Moon.......i will go to read your post, my friend. And i remember the other one too. Naturally.
Chinese lanterns are always swaying in the breeze.....koi fishes swim in the ponds.....calligraphies are written and kept dear....
I wish you the very best in the next year....because you deserve it {{hugs}}
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gingersoul said on Dec 30, 2007....
Margaret.......good for you if you have to think before picking one ...:-) -
silverwhisper said on Dec 30, 2007....
the one i recall most clearly is the one in which my wife and another woman were together. she and her husband had been good friends and we'd known one another for 2 years or so by then. it was a most exceptional evening and the first of several encounters between them, although that phase of their relatioship is now over and we're all still good friends. :>
oddly enough, that same couple will be visiting monday evening. it is, after all, our tradition. :>
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gingersoul said on Dec 30, 2007....
Ed......i remember you talked about that experience but i dont recall if you ever wrote a specific post about it ......if so...care to give a link here so we can re-read it again?
And about the fact they will be at your home ...i dont find it weird at all...its the same kind of relationship i had with a couple of my friends....the girl and i became lovers for a while...when our relationship changed we kept meeting all together with our respective boyfriend and husband ....:-)
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silverwhisper said on Dec 30, 2007....
i don't recall when i wrote it, GS. i think i must've mentioned it on someone else's blog entry, to be honest. i think i sorta mentioned it here, but that's a very old blog entry and i don't think it's what you meant.
and yeah, we were all friends first before any of that other stuff happened, so no, it isn't a surprise. :>
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gingersoul said on Dec 30, 2007....
Ed.......the link leads again to this post....:-) -
silverwhisper said on Dec 30, 2007....
that's odd...let me try that again.
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gingersoul said on Dec 30, 2007....
Ed.........thanks........this works.....i wasn't here when you wrote it.....but i remember of having read it when i went thru your posts during my first days of SC.....
Psst: I still found your arrangment a little umbalanced though....you admitted that to be completely fair it would have implied that you liked men, which you don't...so your wife made you agree to something you will never actually have the opportunity to put in practice.....it would be more fair if both of you would have simply agreed to have other stories...no matter the sex of the other people involved...
but this is just my opinion...if you are happy with your marriage....don't change anything and keep being happy ..:-)
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hotaka said on Jan 01, 2008....
Thanks, Ginger. But it wasn't New York. It was the original one in England. Love ya, toots! -
silverwhisper said on Jan 01, 2008....
GS: it was actually my idea, not hers. you've been with women yourself so you already know that there are things a woman can offer that no man can. and i'm secure enough in my marriage and our relationship that whatever any other man can offer, i'll always be a better option. :>
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gingersoul said on Jan 01, 2008....
Hottie.......lol...oopss...well.. a Times was in common anyway.....lol..
Love you, toots!!!!!
Ed.....yes, i agree with what you said about the different level of intimacy with a woman.......and i am very happy for the confidence you have in your relationship.
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silverwhisper said on Jan 01, 2008....
er...it isn't about a level of intimacy: it's about certain, shall we say, logistical options?
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gingersoul said on Jan 01, 2008....
....that too....lol......:-D
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