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What are your thoughts on the New Year?

Is it happy, a time to think of the future, and usher in a new day, with new hope?

Is it sad, a time to think of things past, and wonder about what could have been?

Is it a time to be with friends, who you might not see during the rest of the year?

Is it a time of cheap hookups at the stroke of midnight?

For me, New Years always been mostly happy, and mainly consisted of celebration with friends, and general merrymaking. Recently, however, a tinge of sadness has become apparent. I have not seen many years (under 30), and yet, friends who have died, and friends who are no longer, are numerous enough that any time of remembrance can be quite painful.

What are your personal thoughts?

My thoughts on New Year. Hmm. Well, the thought looming largest is that I have to get to the airport by 8:00 pm to pick up my daughter so that we can spend a week together trying not to fight.

My thoughts on New Year. Hmm. Well, the thought looming largest is that I have to get to the airport by 8:00 pm to pick up my daughter so that we can spend a week together trying not to fight.

Sounds like a bitching good time..

Well, it'll signify that only one holiday remains (MLK's birthday) before Bush gets the shoe, err, boot. :D

This year it is pretty significant...time for me to put the hell of this year behind me and get some hope that 2009 might just not suck so bad.

I'll be up in Vermont with about 20 of my good friends, snowboarding and drinking by a fire, with no internet or phone reception. I can't wait.

I have to work that night. :(

There was an inordinate amount of celebrity deaths this year. (including my grand father's, while not famous, it impacted me the most.)

I have to work that night. :(

that makes it 4 out of the last 5 years I have had to work on that night...:(

One more year alive.

Another year with my friends and what I love.

Another year of this wonderful, one-off thing called life.

That's worth celebrating!

I love New Year's Eve/Day because I get this great feeling of ending and beginning from it. The closing of one chapter, the start of the next. It's the only holiday that I'm kind of superstitious about -- the only one that it really matters to me how it goes.

I like to spend New Year's Eve relatively quietly, having a really excellent dinner and drinking really excellent wine/champagne with just a few people I really like. Then I like to spend New Year's Day doing what amounts to a whole day of the wish for what I'd like to be doing for the whole rest of the year -- that usually means working on art or writing at home.

Normally, right about now, I'm looking back and toting up all the things I got done in the past year and what I didn't (the Whole Life "To Do" List), but for some reason, this year, I feel so weirdly out of sorts and unfocussed, I'm having trouble even remembering what the hell I did. A lot of people I know say they feel the same.

Maybe it's post-election stress let-down or something. These past several years have been some of the most stressful ever, and 2008 has been the suckiest since 2001 -- you know, watching the whole shitty house of cards come tumbling down all at once, at last. And now that we're finally at the end of that -- that we're finally at a place where we can start doing new things maybe (even though not all of them will be good or fun, at least they'll be new) -- I feel like all the stress fell out of me and it turns out that was the only thing holding me together all this time.

I'm going to a cocktail party tonight, so maybe that will snap me out of it.

Anyway, 2008 ends a very long chapter (8 years) where other people, far away, impacted my life way too much. 2009 is going to be a long, tough year of picking up the pieces and reorganizing everything on a tight budget. But I am looking forward to it, and I do have some relatively ambitious plans.

So, HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!! Out with the old, in with the new. :D

I frankly want to take this time to try and truly be happy. I want the New Year to bring me the work opportunities I so desperately deserve, I want my family to be happy and ok, I want me and my guy to be ok, I want to just move forward. 2008 was stressful enough, I just hope '09 brings me better luck. And gods, I need to stop these sudden weepies I get just from watching something sad, even on an anime!

I'm going to dress up as dangermouse.

Its another year I lived like a bum.

What are your thoughts on the New Year?

Is it happy, a time to think of the future, and usher in a new day, with new hope?

Is it sad, a time to think of things past, and wonder about what could have been?

Is it a time to be with friends, who you might not see during the rest of the year?

Is it a time of cheap hookups at the stroke of midnight?

For me, New Years always been mostly happy, and mainly consisted of celebration with friends, and general merrymaking. Recently, however, a tinge of sadness has become apparent. I have not seen many years (under 30), and yet, friends who have died, and friends who are no longer, are numerous enough that any time of remembrance can be quite painful.

What are your personal thoughts?

Newyears? Time to get drunk.:D

I frankly want to take this time to try and truly be happy. I want the New Year to bring me the work opportunities I so desperately deserve, I want my family to be happy and ok, I want me and my guy to be ok, I want to just move forward. 2008 was stressful enough, I just hope '09 brings me better luck. And gods, I need to stop these sudden weepies I get just from watching something sad, even on an anime!
That happens to me, too. It's ridiculous. The slightest little sappy thing sets me off, it doesn't even have to be sad, just anything sentimental. I put it down to being stressed out.

I'm going to dress up as dangermouse.
You're gonna look so cute!! *gets weepy at the thought*

Well for people in the USA we get a chance to see Obama wave his magic wand. 2008 wasn't exactly pleasant but it wasn't a terror for me either. You usuually start the year on a high note then somewhere around February it wears off. Who lyrics come to mind mostly. Meet the new boss ... same as the old boss...

I may end up celebrating alone, watch the ball drop in Time Square and get smashed.

I'm planning on having a drunken new year kiss but also it looks like everyone is going their separate ways next year so this is gonna be like a goodbye

...I spent all my money drinking last night :(

I frankly want to take this time to try and truly be happy.

silly Nanatsu nobody escapes nsG

That happens to me, too. It's ridiculous. The slightest little sappy thing sets me off, it doesn't even have to be sad, just anything sentimental. I put it down to being stressed out.

<.< >.>

I sooo totally do this (though I just well up not actual bawwing) and its especially keen when I see children/babies which I'd put to how crazily paternal I've gotten over the past year

I may end up celebrating alone, watch the ball drop in Time Square and get smashed.

if you can fly to Luton airport I can arrange a lift and you can party with me for making the effort

You're gonna look so cute!! *gets weepy at the thought*

You do realise that the entire costume consists only of a belt, a badge saying "DM" and an eye patch don't you?

I'm weeping at the thought!

silly Nanatsu nobody escapes nsG

I know. I already tried.

You do realise that the entire costume consists only of a belt, a badge saying "DM" and an eye patch don't you?

omg its the evil Captain Dark Mustache!!!

I know. I already tried.

save yourself the shame and just tell everyone your looking porn *nods* (everyone does this surely?)

I have some friends coming over, my street has a big ass barbeque out, and there'll be fireworks.

Good times :)

Certainly better than the rest of 2008...

You do realise that the entire costume consists only of a belt, a badge saying "DM" and an eye patch don't you?

I'm weeping at the thought!
So small! So cute! So vulnerable! Little Dangermouse! *sniffle, tear*

So small! So cute! So vulnerable! Little Dangermouse! *sniffle, tear*
I didn't realise Dangermouse was shown in the US.

Cool.

I didn't realise Dangermouse was shown in the US.

Cool.
No, actually, I was just imagining HSC in the costume. ;)

It's funny, my family has more traditions for New Years than we do for any other holiday. One of them being cooking everything in our pantry/fridge/freezer so that New Years day they're all empty. I over-shopped last paycheck though so the food bank is going to get a rather nice donation. That might become a new aspect of this tradition.

New Years Eve all our friends come over (kids and adults) and we party until past midnight. We all meet up the next day for breakfast in our pajamas. Then the kids and hubby go home and begin preparing for our "Day 1" party, while I go shopping (since my cupboard is bare!).

Day 1 party is fun. We eat on the floor picnic style our favorite foods and make plans and goals for the year to come. We talk about the plans and goals we accomplished the year before and we make up a family mission for the new year.

No, actually, I was just imagining HSC in the costume. ;)

Then I can't help but read something into the "so small!" part of your statement :eek2:

Look, it's January FFS!

PS

it's HCS - "Holy Shoes & Cheese" just sounds stupid.

That happens to me, too. It's ridiculous. The slightest little sappy thing sets me off, it doesn't even have to be sad, just anything sentimental. I put it down to being stressed out.

Do either of you smoke the waccy baccy?

It's an arbitrary date based on an arbitrary calender we came up with to try and tell the passage of time on one little dustball in one little remote corner of the universe?

And it's fun too.

Then I can't help but read something into the "so small!" part of your statement :eek2:

Look, it's January FFS!

PS

it's HCS - "Holy Shoes & Cheese" just sounds stupid.
It's okay, I understand. ;)

And sorry about the misspelling. You're right, I totally screwed that up. :D

Usually, I try to weasel my way in to some friend's party, am merry with th rest until about 11pm, when I start getting inexplicably melancholic and weepy till about 1am.

The party thing went out of the window when the boyfriend announced he'd have to work on the 31st, but I made him promise to be home by 11pm so he can due his damn partnerly duty and hold me when I start getting weepy or it's his ass.

save yourself the shame and just tell everyone your looking porn *nods* (everyone does this surely?)

I'm lost.:confused:

SNIP

its not a party until there is at least one drunk girl crying in the corner :)

I'm lost.:confused:

well do you tell people what you spend all day doing on the internet?

I'm lost.:confused:

porn = less embarrassing than being on NSG

*quickly looks at porn*

well do you tell people what you spend all day doing on the internet?

Not really, unless they ask.

its not a party until there is at least one drunk girl crying in the corner :)
Good thing I don't drink, eh? ;P

New Year's Eve means it's time for Maineiacs's "New Years Around the World" thread. It starts tomorrow at 5:00 am in New York, 10:00 am in London, and 9:00 pm in Sydney then goes on for 25 (yes 25) hours.

"we know a man, his name is lang, and he has a neon sign,
and mr lang is very old, so we call it old lang's sign"

of course i'm aware its really some kind of archaic celtic meaning something along the lines of "for old times sake" which generally sounds like preposition to get plastered.

er, so what was the question?

well i do look forward with great hope that the recent pseudo-conservative dark age will have ended and science (and minor little things like honesty) will be once again encourage and permitted to flourish.

my nostalgia has always been for a future that only partially arrived with the going open to the public of this internet.

of course i don't expect everyone to become rocket scientists, i just look forward to an end to rocket scientists, and anyone else who tries to be honest, being burned at the stake.

I'll be looking back at the many failures of the year, yet another in which I've stumbled through without a clue of what I want to do with my life. I'll be contemplating the fact that, as at the end of the year every year, my number of friends can still be counted on one hand and that I've been invited to no New Years events. I'll eventually come to the conclusion that nothing is likely to change about this next year or indeed any.

Luckily I've got my famed optimism and general sunny disposition to see me through :p