Happy New Year's Eve Bah Humbug
Friday, December 30, 2005
New Year's Eve has never been a big deal for me. I have no desire to go out and wait for midnight with a raucous crowd with silly hats and noise makers. Maybe I'm a stick-in-the-mud. So we will do what we have done for the past (decade?)...order Chinese food and over-eat and watch movies at home. We'll let our son stay up later than usual and we'll go outside with sparklers and shout hurray to 2006 and then go to bed, usually before midnight even strikes. I find the whole countdown thing kind of syrupy and sappy. When I was still at home, my parents and I would stay up and my dad would go around giving everyone a New Year's kiss, and we'd hear the ships in the harbour all blaring their horns. The random fireworks would go off and my mother would say it was gunfire. Hotbed of crime we live in (drip drip drip, goes the sound of my sarcasm). I eagerly anticipated midnight on the turn of this century, because I thought the world was going to end as we knew it (did you?). We watched the New Year come and go in other parts of the world first, and after seeing they survived, I think I went to bed. Tomorrow I will go shopping and then get home in time to play loads of games and have a fun family evening. Mr.C has the next four days off, so I intend to enjoy this extended weekend, before reality slaps me in the face by mid-week.
Good Night Friends. What fun will you be having this New Year's Eve?
This entry was posted on Friday, December 30, 2005 at 11:45 PM.
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12:32 AM
What a great pic of you! Love that smile!
We're eating black eyed peas...it's an old family tradition for both of us...and probably staying up to watch the ball drop in NYC...other than that, that's it! LOL
I've enjoyed getting to know you this year, Cathy...wishing you all the best in 2006!
Love,
Sarah