What happens on new years eve?

Here in sweden the customs are to get discustingly drunk, have a fistfight with the father in law and blast firecrackers... We, who dont drink will celebrate at the horse ranch with the owners and the employees, with no explosives, for the animals sake. Eat Maine-caught lobster and get home by 10, cuz Mrs is working early morning at the airport..

What do you guys do?

 

Recently, I try to stay up to watch the "ball" drop on TV at midnight, then its off to bed. LOL Not much of a party animal here. Last year the ball dropped without me. This year, we have a few friends over so I guess I better stay awake. LOL Happy New Years to everyone!

 

Every year we ( 3 couples ) get together and play cards, snack, no booze, barley make it to midnite and are home before 12:30

Prity exciting eh?


But in my younger years......

 

We are having a party at the house, but I have to close here at Napa on New Years eve and open on New Years day. This gives me only a small window about 5 to 6 hours to get hammered drunk and get to bed and sleep it off. I'm sure sunday morning I will be hungover, grumpy, late for work and possibly smelling like a liquor stores garbage can.

I was once in Finland Lowlow and the getting drunk and fighting people you're supposed to love was a nightly occurance. I have never seen anything like it and at the tender age of 17, was never once stopped or even asked my age going into a bar.

 

I added pretty much this same thing, sorta, to another post here.
One year ago I spent many days in ICU at the big city hospital. I had heart failure and left this wonderful world. Somehow I was needed here more than Hell so recovered.
I do remember hearing doctors and nurses sort of celebrating in ICU.
One year later, I do not plan a repeat. My lovely bride and I have no plans...Actually I didn't plan last years New Years event either. So I will most likely sit here at my puter and tease other homebodies while my wife stares at her magazines and works puzzles.
Now, that does show our ages. But at least we are still alive and kickin. HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL.

 

I think they were celebrating your return to the land of the living. Glad you decided to stay a while longer.

For me, for New Years Eve, I will either go to a friend's New Years Eve party, or just stay home. Since I don't drink, nor do most of my friends, none of us really like the idea of driving home after midnight on the one night a year when most of the other drivers on the road with you have all had too much to drink. We had a wake up call two years ago to the dangers of being on the road after midnight on New Year's.

A couple years ago, I left the party at the same time as two other car loads of friends. So we were all out on the road together heading home on a two lane highway when a drunk driver tried to pass us all (at double the speed limit) on a hill with oncoming traffic cresting the hill. He ran our three cars plus one additional car off the road going our direction and two cars coming the other direction ended up in a ditch. Luckily no one was hurt, but just as every one was about to pull the idiot drunk from his car he took off (yes, he locked up his brakes and came to a complete stop sideways across the road). I doubt he out ran all the cell phone calls to the police that night though (since the calls provided his license number).

 

4 years ago for me, my friend! I almost didn't make it (Pancreatitis) Allways nice to be on the lawn, not under

 

Tedy

I had Pancreatitis in Sept. 07', I have to take it pretty easy now too. It sure is not any fun. I am now diabetic and have to keep it to a couple beers now and then. On New Years maybe some wine or a shot! Woo Hoo!

 

I just tune in to some satellite feed showing the ball drop. That's all we have ever done since I was a kid. Nothing fancy. I don't drink.

I do need to keep an eye outside since all the rowdy partiers up for the week are drunk and shooting off their huge illegal fireworks, with the flaming pieces raining down onto everybody's houses and into the woods. Last summer, one got lodged between the floorboards of my deck. Good thing I was home.

 

Glad you made it through, and no...it isn't any fun. I miss food, I'm talking real food.... I go off the wagon every now and then food wise and allways pay for it. As for a shot, I wish, just can't do that peroid. I had a couple bottles of spirit given to me via work and I handed them over to my apprentice....I also told him, drink them NOW, rite here! But like any young kid, he didn't listen

 

Haha! Finland, sweden, denmark and norway is about the same.. Good thing though, that the police is at a double/triple as many as normal, so we actually dont have that many dui here.. Not to speak of, we have a really good public concious here about driving drunk, and almost no one will accept that anyone takes the car ( maybe thats were all the fights start??)

 

Damn Tedy I so know what you mean by "missing food" between 07' and now I have lost 101 lbs. I'm strict with my diet as well. I cheat as well but just with say a cheeseburger, sweets have been off my list for 4 1/2 years now. Sometimes it can be frustrating.

 

Don't take this the wrong way but you are all making me really glad to have the health problems that I have...

 

None taken brother...I would never wish diabetes on anyone...it sucks.

 

We have a much stronger national aversion in the US to driving drunk than we did say 30 yrs ago thanks to the efforts of Candy Lightner and MADD(Mothers Against Drunk Driving) but it can still be a problem.