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TEB

(12,917 posts)
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 09:49 AM Dec 2017

What is your new year eve plans Im kissing the dogs then the wife at midnight

We’re staying in not even walking to pub. I gave up booze that’s besides the point. The boys will be making pine apple meatballs and pepperoni cheese bread and a tomato dipping sauce probably out of a jar. these two guys love to cook and bake. I’m gonna try and make a huge pot of lobster bisque I got a recepie off a very nice lady from my cycling class under the wife’s guidance. And a dad pot of chili mild not wild. And wife she is gonna teach us how to bake homemade bread. Oh and pigs in a blanket oh and the wife’s chocolate cake. And dads mushed macaroni and cheese, I made it by mistake once. I was simmering the noodles and they got mushy. So I added velveeta and baked em for half hour and we have half assed mush macaroni and cheese casserole.

New Year’s Eve is a grab and growl kind of day around here. Watching college football and kicking back well I’m off to the store to get the groceries and stopping state store for wife and mother in law they like wine. Wonder if I can get mad dog 20/20 in gallon boxes for them . Let me hear your plans friends enjoy be safe especially if your out.

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What is your new year eve plans Im kissing the dogs then the wife at midnight (Original Post) TEB Dec 2017 OP
in that order? CurtEastPoint Dec 2017 #1
My question as well.. whathehell Dec 2017 #2
Right? 2naSalit Dec 2017 #17
We're staying at a small resort on Cape Cod PJMcK Dec 2017 #3
Are you kissing your wife after kissing dogs too? whathehell Dec 2017 #4
Just joking TEB Dec 2017 #5
Glad to hear that. n/t whathehell Dec 2017 #15
Well, we have our 17-year old Cocker Spaniel with us! PJMcK Dec 2017 #9
Love the one your with TEB Dec 2017 #11
I understood the OP's sentiment. LuckyCharms Dec 2017 #18
Goody for you.. whathehell Dec 2017 #19
You as well TEB Dec 2017 #7
ewww WhiteTara Dec 2017 #6
i want all those recipes! esp the meatballs and cheese bread.. samnsara Dec 2017 #8
Ok TEB Dec 2017 #10
Shell need to thaw out if she is coming from upstate NY. redwitch Dec 2017 #12
She is home TEB Dec 2017 #22
Okay, then well alternate. Ill kiss your wife, then the dogs jberryhill Dec 2017 #13
Ok TEB Dec 2017 #14
Depends. What are we drinking? jberryhill Dec 2017 #35
I hope to be kissing my wife, particularly if my sons are out. NNadir Dec 2017 #16
I'll be staying in, just me and the kitties TexasBushwhacker Dec 2017 #20
Me, too. First time in years I have no plans. Going to sort out my 2017 receipt pile to prep taxes. lindysalsagal Dec 2017 #21
If I call her "the wife" I'll be sleeping with the dogs NotASurfer Dec 2017 #23
Understood TEB Dec 2017 #26
We'll celebrate the New Year of London and Paris. JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2017 #24
Posting an image spam to the Facebook groups I help run sakabatou Dec 2017 #25
Well my wife is pretty clearly sick underpants Dec 2017 #27
The kids saw it yesterday TEB Dec 2017 #29
Regular evening routine: LWolf Dec 2017 #28
I had to doublecheck today's date peacebuzzard Dec 2017 #30
I never go out on New Year's Eve. blogslut Dec 2017 #31
I don't either. Too many amateur drunks on the road TexasBushwhacker Dec 2017 #33
Well be looking for eats on OBX woodsprite Dec 2017 #32
Nope. Lunabell Dec 2017 #34
I'll be indoors, warm, and perhaps even asleep at midnight. Yonnie3 Dec 2017 #36
We're staying in. We'll grill some steaks, I'll have some champagne and wine, and beaglelover Dec 2017 #37
I'm working. Have fun, kids jmowreader Dec 2017 #38
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2017 #39

PJMcK

(22,054 posts)
3. We're staying at a small resort on Cape Cod
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 09:58 AM
Dec 2017

It's quite beautiful to be here during the off-season. Although it's frigidly cold, the ocean and the beach are lovely. The people are wonderful and there aren't any crowds. Lots of great food, though!

Tomorrow night, our friends are going to join us and stay over. We never go out on New Year's Eve; that's for amateurs!

Have a happy and safe evening, TEB!

LuckyCharms

(17,460 posts)
18. I understood the OP's sentiment.
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 11:55 AM
Dec 2017

Sorry you had to do the rolling eyes on a nice and innocent thread. Give the guy a break.

TEB

(12,917 posts)
7. You as well
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 10:06 AM
Dec 2017

I been telling my two guys we need to go the store get ready. And now they decide to hit the showers. They need to go along to get the spices for what they will be making.

samnsara

(17,650 posts)
8. i want all those recipes! esp the meatballs and cheese bread..
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 10:06 AM
Dec 2017

..I live too friggen far from anything to walk...even the drive takes an hr R/T..so we will stay in.. MAYBE go to town early to the wine bar to check out my inventory ( they carry my art work) have a bottle of overpriced wine and expensive appetizers then come home and crawl into bed WAY before midnight.

TEB

(12,917 posts)
10. Ok
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 10:11 AM
Dec 2017

Cheese bread is Italian seasoning shredded cheese mozzarella and if I remember she covers dough in olive oil adds pepperoni and cheese rolls em up and bake at 350 for like 45 minutes. She is on her way home from upstate ny.

redwitch

(14,948 posts)
12. Shell need to thaw out if she is coming from upstate NY.
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 10:19 AM
Dec 2017

Baby it’s cold outside! We will go for a bit to a friends party a few blocks away. We are driving, it’s that cold. And we will be home before midnight, not a late night person any more.

NNadir

(33,563 posts)
16. I hope to be kissing my wife, particularly if my sons are out.
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 10:47 AM
Dec 2017

We are attending a get together with some old friends - but they want to end it by 10 pm - fine with me.

My oldest son may go to a party among sculptors if his boss invites him as he did last minute, last year - he's an intern.

My youngest son, this being his first year in college, will be going to a party among his high school friends.

If they're both gone, I'll definitely be kissing my wife, gloriously alone with her.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,220 posts)
20. I'll be staying in, just me and the kitties
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 12:41 PM
Dec 2017

I quit going out on NYE a long time ago, but this year we're supposed to have freezing rain so I DEFINITELY won't be going out. I think I'll go to the library today and check out some books and DVDs. I'll make some chili and cornbread, and get black eyed peas to eat on New Years Day.

lindysalsagal

(20,740 posts)
21. Me, too. First time in years I have no plans. Going to sort out my 2017 receipt pile to prep taxes.
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 12:51 PM
Dec 2017

I empty it out every new year's and start the year with an empty bin. That way I know where to look for something if necessary. Get that chore done. I'm bummed I won't be able to watch Kathy Griffin.

NotASurfer

(2,155 posts)
23. If I call her "the wife" I'll be sleeping with the dogs
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 01:39 PM
Dec 2017

Makes her mad, apparently she feels it reduces her to the same nameless posession status as "the car" or "the couch".

"She who must be obeyed" is likewise inadmissible.

These waters are sometimes difficult to navigate.

I think I'll go with a suggestion tweeted by the Moon Pie folks: hang a Moon Pie in the room, and when we meet beneath it, I will tell her how much I respect her rights and dignity.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,371 posts)
24. We'll celebrate the New Year of London and Paris.
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 02:23 PM
Dec 2017

By the time midnight arrives here in the eastern U.S. time zone, we will be sound asleep.

Party on!

underpants

(182,922 posts)
27. Well my wife is pretty clearly sick
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 02:32 PM
Dec 2017

So me and our girl will be avoiding her for today. Hopefully we'll be going to see the new Star Wars (finally) tomorrow and get offf the streets before sundown.

TEB

(12,917 posts)
29. The kids saw it yesterday
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 02:38 PM
Dec 2017

I’ll wait for it to DVR but they enjoyed it have awesome time. Hope your wife feels better

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
28. Regular evening routine:
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 02:35 PM
Dec 2017

Read or watch tv or both until I'm sleepy; go to bed. Wake up. Keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Try to remember to write the date correctly.

peacebuzzard

(5,183 posts)
30. I had to doublecheck today's date
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 03:15 PM
Dec 2017

I get lost in time often.
Well, tomorrow I plan another regular day. PowerWalk with the dog, work on some lingering projects and try to wrap up a few stray agendas. I will take care of the critters around here, try to stay sane and steady, eat well, make a couple of calls and that is it.
I hope to not hear a single firework but that’s asking too much, my neighbors love any chance they can to set them off.
I would like to sleep through midnight, but that may not happen.
For those with more elaborate plans, I wish you a safe and pleasant turn of the year.

blogslut

(38,019 posts)
31. I never go out on New Year's Eve.
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 03:28 PM
Dec 2017

The only exceptions were all those years I was a waitress and had to work. I prefer to stay in where it's nice and quiet.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,220 posts)
33. I don't either. Too many amateur drunks on the road
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 05:03 PM
Dec 2017

A lot of people who aren't normally big drinkers overindulge on NYE, then get behind the wheel. I had a friend in high school whose dad was killed by a drunk driver on NYE.

Plus, I go out to clubs to enjoy music anyway. Clubs on NYE are just crowded and cost more. No thanks! I don't drive after the Super Bowl either.

woodsprite

(11,928 posts)
32. Well be looking for eats on OBX
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 03:41 PM
Dec 2017

And plan on checking out the new “Shelly Point” (weather permitting). Shells galore!

Lunabell

(6,114 posts)
34. Nope.
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 05:14 PM
Dec 2017

Kissing the wife first, then my dogs. Lol, I'd be in so much trouble if I did it in reverse.

Yonnie3

(17,497 posts)
36. I'll be indoors, warm, and perhaps even asleep at midnight.
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 07:21 PM
Dec 2017

Last year I worked an outdoor laser show, providing a mid-sized sound system. It was in the 20s with wind chill in the teens. The wind blew the fog out of the venue, so there were very limited 3-D effects. I spent 12 hours out in the weather for this job and even with thermal underwear and lots of layers I was chilled to the bone. I believe I posted here in the Lounge during that night.

This year instead of that, I'll stay in and approach the new year with no chills, no hangover (a tradition with me since 2000), and lots of rest.

May the new year be prosperous and peaceful for you and yours.

beaglelover

(3,495 posts)
37. We're staying in. We'll grill some steaks, I'll have some champagne and wine, and
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 09:55 PM
Dec 2017

we got Ben and Jerry's ice cream for dessert. We only eat ice cream about 2 times a year so it's a real treat for us! We'll snuggle with the beagles on the couch and watch some TV and we'll be in bed well before midnight. Boring old gay married couple!

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