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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone here never really enjoy New Year's Eve?
Dont want to be a bummer but I just never really enjoyed it. I like New Years Day and the feeling of starting fresh. But the night before is always just sort of weird. Lots of expectation and then a sad song they play...
Ok thats all.
wcmagumba
(2,889 posts)we just played some cards and now watching the BBC America Doctor Who marathon...
realmirage
(2,117 posts)seaglass
(8,173 posts)Kidding.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)2000 was cuz of the odometer change. Now it just means Im a year older cuz my b-day is in January.
realmirage
(2,117 posts)Add that to the list
airplaneman
(1,240 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Now it is just about remembering the year on checks and such.
realmirage
(2,117 posts)totally agree
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,819 posts)I haven't been to a New Year's Eve party in years and years, and even then it wasn't that much fun - just a bunch of people drinking too much. I'd rather stay home with the cats and binge-watch stuff on Netflix.
realmirage
(2,117 posts)Same as you. Drunk people that quickly get obnoxious
Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)Trying really hard to have big fun and party... Ive never understood it. It always feels like awkward forced gaiety.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Its an important holiday celebrated across the world but NYE has never been my favorite part of it
realmirage
(2,117 posts): )
hunter
(38,325 posts)Tonight it's just fireworks scaring our dogs.
Cetacea
(7,367 posts)Also my birthday (And Rachel Maddow's) Tonight its just a bunch of fireworks that scare my cats.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)Samhain...
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Ice, sleet and snow outdoors.....
realmirage
(2,117 posts)Grabbing the remote
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I just watch old movies, like I am doing now (just taking a little break to check into DU). I am pretty happy to see 2018 over though. Hoping 2019 will be a better year for us and a worse year for Trump and the republicans.
realmirage
(2,117 posts)2018 was a giant pain in my ass
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)The same goes for Valentine's Day with me. It is like society pressures you into having a good time but ends up having a negative affect and I feel disappointed instead.
realmirage
(2,117 posts)All the pressure to celebrate and be happy. Weird. It creeps me out.
2naSalit
(86,765 posts)I often refer to all or any of them as Hallowe'en just because of the creep factor in the joyful expectation area.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)When I taught 6 year olds it was the way it is supposed to be...all of those happy expectations that were sincerely meant. It was just fun and happiness(pure and simple). It is mostly like that with kids and those around them. When we get older and more experienced about the real world then we aren't as easily, ignorantly joyful, simple and pure.
appalachiablue
(41,168 posts)Xmas hoopla, and nobody much wants to party the older we become.
But New Years Day can be fun and healthy; visiting, cooking good food, starting off the new year in a positive way.
realmirage
(2,117 posts)who the hell has anything left of sanity to celebrate NYE
realmirage
(2,117 posts)fierywoman
(7,688 posts)realmirage
(2,117 posts)NotASurfer
(2,153 posts)Mrs calls it a night way early
It's just me and one loyal cat
And I think back on New Year growing up, food we had "for luck" after midnight, hell I think I hear the ghosts of Guy Lombardo's entire orchestra playing tonight on a phantom black-and-white TV, while dad - since departed - smooched mom
But sad? The memories are good!
And it depends on how you play that song. This sets it right for me:
realmirage
(2,117 posts)Me and a cat and neither of us cares
realmirage
(2,117 posts)Just instinctively dislike it
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Lots of incoming bad memories.
realmirage
(2,117 posts)love_katz
(2,584 posts)And don't have to get up at 3 a.m. tomorrow.
realmirage
(2,117 posts)msongs
(67,433 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)realmirage
(2,117 posts)Mr. Quackers
(443 posts)StarryNite
(9,459 posts)This year wasn't so great so I'm actually glad it's almost over, about half an hour to go here in AZ.
realmirage
(2,117 posts)Cha
(297,513 posts)I love it!.. and New Year's Day Tomorrow!
Maybe I shouldn't post that.. but it is kicking your thread
realmirage
(2,117 posts)Glad when anyone is having a happy time : )
That just isnt me on NYE. But party on!
Cha
(297,513 posts)because of the Blue Wave, House Democratic Majority!
The last two New Years were not so happy come to think of it.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,400 posts)This is a reason to celebrate -- the GOPers no longer have the House to twist government into doing their insane work.
Cha
(297,513 posts)Earth to celebrate this Year!
A Very Healthy Happy, Blue-Wave New Year's to You and Yours, Hermit!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,400 posts)We start this year with hope that was absent a year ago, because of the big blue wave!
Cha
(297,513 posts)two years ago when a lot of us were just numb.
It's like 180 degrees here!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,400 posts)I think they're just trying to trick me.
Had to go look at photos to make sure there was such a year. I spent it immersed in wood working.
Wife and I had our traditional New Year's toast of homemade wine. That's the extent of the partying here.
(Can't sleep -- some kind of respiratory infection. Big dog's snoring is making me sleepy, but it's easier to breathe sitting up, so I might as well read).
Cha
(297,513 posts)immersed in wood working(sounds nice) and I took a 5 month news black out from July to December to entertain two of sisters visiting the Island at different times. And, I moved to a new town.
The Ignorance is Bliss was in full bloom.
That's awesome you and your wife enjoy your home made wine on New Year's Eve!
It's what I do when I can't sleep.. I roll over and fire up my laptop. Good luck getting back to breathing better!
Polybius
(15,467 posts)It's like celebrating President's Day.
Cha
(297,513 posts)So going back to work is easier the next day?
Talking about earlier years.
WhiskeyWulf
(569 posts)It's just kind of another night for me.
GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)...and I got carded less than a year ago for buying a beer.
So I'm stickin with 39, like Jack (Benny).
And I no longer enjoy being another year closer to my ultimate demise..?
jcgoldie
(11,638 posts)It scares my livestock and my LGDs... really cant stand 4th of July either.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)The idiots in my neighborhood start at around 8:00, and noise doesn't stop until around 1 AM. So much for a good night's sleep...
NoMoreRepugs
(9,453 posts)For a lot of us just another nite.
hibbing
(10,107 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Ciaphas Cain
(124 posts)Any new year's resolution? I'm going to be less of an asshole.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)Maybe it's the way I was raised. New Year's eve was not a big deal in my family. It was just the day before Jan 1st. When we'd all forget to write the current year on our documents for about a week.
It never held the same family togetherness or other sort of significance to us as Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Maybe, after Thanksgiving and Christmas we were just tired of holidays by then.
I don't think that makes you dull, or a bummer at all.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)It's actually something I dread. Transitioning into a new year always feels stressful to me. Then it takes me at least a few days to get used to the fact that the year changed.
I'm with you completely.
dgauss
(882 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)it's always depressed me. I can't be happy about another year passing that hasn't lived up to anything I hoped it would. Each year just another year of unmet expectations. Even when I was a kid I found it a sad occasion. I guess I spend too much time dwelling on things and being too introspective.
RandySF
(59,153 posts)But it's a huge day for my wife who is an immigrant from Asia.
JohnnyRingo
(18,640 posts)I sure enjoyed my New Years Eve.
Now my ears are ringing in the new year.
Paka
(2,760 posts)It always seemed so over hyped!
pansypoo53219
(20,987 posts)i breeze past midnight.
sinkingfeeling
(51,470 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)It's just another day to me.
HAB911
(8,911 posts)without really thinking about what they are doing or "celebrating", it's just what everyone does. I question lots of what "everyone" does
bif
(22,740 posts)Everyone had to turn in their watches and I stopped all the clocks in the house. And the tv was off. I hate New Years Eve. This year was perfect. A couple friends came for dinner. We ate and they left by 10. I was asleep by 11:30.
bif
(22,740 posts)We live about 5 houses from Detroit proper. At midnight, Detroit's go outside and fire off their guns into the air. It sounds lie a war zone for about 20 minutes. And no, those aren't firecrackers.
How can you tell New Years Eve from any other night in Detroit?
(I say that as someone who lives in the 'burbs of Detroit.)
bif
(22,740 posts)But not like last night.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...was at a house party there once where everyone was told to seriously duck when the hour struck, for fear of stray bullets through the windows.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)passed away!
Hawaii Hiker
(3,166 posts)When i was kid (early 1980's) we would usually see a movie then go all night bowling.....That was popular back in the day, the place had about 48 lanes all packed w/people that night....
llmart
(15,550 posts)Now I don't really enjoy "forced" holidays - those that marketers tell you how to behave and what to buy and what to do on any specific holiday. Too contrived for me. There's a reason that suicides rise during the end of the year holidays. Too many expectations that never materialize.
and for probably lots of people, the holidays are a painful reminder of how alone you are.
I always turn my thoughts to the elderly, the alone, the sick, the incarcerated, the marginalized, the vulnerable, etc. during the holiday season.
It's almost like people are mentally checked out from Thanksgiving until the first or second week of January.
llmart
(15,550 posts)We all know that few of us are going to keep those resolutions from past experiences.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Too jaded. The Great Recession pretty much put the kibosh on it for me. I used to really get into it, but after several years of no money for anything other than being thankful just to have a roof over my head, I got out of giving a damn about getting plowed and raising a ruckus just because a calendar says it is a different year.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)If I were married or had kids, then I might go out.
Mr. Quackers
(443 posts)in by sundown, asleep about two hours later, just like any other day that ends in "Y"
Codeine
(25,586 posts)so the odds of me staying awake for midnight are in the neighborhood of non-existent. Add in the fact that I dont drink and the whole thing becomes quite meaningless to me.
Im a Thanksgiving guy. Other holidays are wasted on me.
pamdb
(1,332 posts)After we moved into our new (new to us) house in Feb. of 2010, that winter I realized NYE was going to fall on a Saturday and we decided to have a party, more as an open house than anything, to show off the house (which was still being redecorated but what the hell) I don't know if we were in a party vortex or what but EVERYBODY showed up,
bunch of old friends and current friends, brother and his wife from Muskegon, and my sister in law's 90 year old grandmother who sat on the couch drinking sour apple martinis. We had people everywhere, in the living room, the fireplace room, the dining room. I've never had a party since that turned out that great. Weather cooperated, being Michigan. But last night husband and I had chicken fajitas followed by ice cream and watched a Columbo from the 90's, big hair and 3 piece suits galore. Took the dogs out and in bed by 9:00 with iPads and books. Fine with me.
Luciferous
(6,084 posts)LongtimeAZDem
(4,494 posts)Itchinjim
(3,085 posts)There's no pressure to have to have a good time so therefore it's much more enjoyable.
Plus there is no crushing hangover on New Year's day.
KitSileya
(4,035 posts)So I never got into the habit of partying on New Year's Eve. After I started working full-time, it was just so irritating to get my circadian rhythms all out of whack at the very end of the break - I'm a teacher - just in time to start getting up early again. I have a tradition of watching all the three extended editions of LotR on NYE, and I watched most of them yesterday, but this year, I donned my noise-cancelling Boze headphones and went to bed before midnight. Gasp!
treestar
(82,383 posts)or stay overnight at sister's house. I stay up for the countdown.