New Year's Eve Plans

I usually go to bed when it gets dark and am just getting up around midnight.

I have a few snacks and will watch some cozy holiday murder mysteries on Acorn or BritBox mysteries.

I usually get ready for the new year by doing a little cleaning, laundry, pay any outstanding bills, make sure that the trash is taken out, the dishes are done, etc…. Just normal things but it makes me feel good to start the new year off fresh.
 
New Year's Eve was very important to me a long time ago - eating out at a place like Steak and Ale or Gallagher's - going dancing later, with Auld Lang Syne playing at midnight. And back then, I used to actually call ahead and ask if the house band was playing it, or if it would just a recording. Getting in at 2-3 AM, staying in bed until noon the next day.

Everything is different now. No eating after 6 PM, eyes heavy by 7 PM, and I'm just hoping the neighbors aren't going to have loud parties or fireworks.

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I usually don't go to bed until 2AM, so I'll be up at midnight regardless of what day it is. I prefer the anonymity of the night. My wife, on the other hand, is a morning person. She goes to bed around 9PM and is up early in the morning.

Our traditional New Year's eve dinner is king crab legs with maybe some seafood gumbo or clam chowder and then cheesecake for desert. We do that most years. I guess that's what we'll do again this year unless we think of something better.

And of course, we'll watch a New Year's related movie.

It's been a long time since we went out for New Year's eve. That's more for young people.
 
We go to a party full of stuffed shirts. My wife taught at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and she still goes to one of the Professors party that lives outside of the city in his 6000ft. home. I don’t like going there, but he has the food catered and it’s excellent.

They make broiled crab cakes, shrimp (already peeled), ham, pieces of tenderloins and an unbelievable mass of food. The other good part is that dress is business casual. The bad part is that most of the guests are either working or retired professors. That means they like to talk about their job. They ask me what I did for work. I tell them I was a pilot for United for 33 years. Most say “That’s nice” or “You had a good job.” and after that they talk about their job forever, until I tell them “Excuse me, I have to get a refill.”

It makes for a long night until midnight and my wife is ready to leave after most of the men have kissed her. I don’t know the women, but that doesn’t stop them from kissing me. I’m 6’4”. Some have trouble reaching me so they avoid me. The kissing is wild mainly because many of the guests are blitzed. The women are drunk on wine and the men get drunk drinking all kinds if drinks. There is a bartender there.

We have a two hour ride home. Good thing I only have two drinks and then Diet Coke. I did get caught in a sting in Maryland. I had to take a breathalyzer and my number was .02. The Trooper said he smelled alcohol when I put my window down. I told him the truth that I only had 2 drinks. He let me go.
 
Same as every New Years Eve for me since I got married in 1980. I go to bed about nine or ten and then my husband goes out and parties. There's a line in, "When Harry Met Sally," when Sally says one of the great things about marriage is you always have a date for New Years Eve. Hmm.
 
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My GF and I are going to a party of one of her friends. I asked her to the best of her knowledge, if she knew that there would be any drugs, like narcotics around? I have told her in the past that I can’t be around drugs. This pertains to private residencies. If the place would get raided, I don’t want my name listed among those detained or arrested.

We had a situation where 2 Marines went to a house party and drugs were about unknown to them. A former friend that was no longer being invited to the owner’s parties told police that the place is full of drugs. As it turned out, the place wasn’t full of drugs, but nonetheless, there were drugs confiscated. Everyone inside the house was detained until the police found out who had the narcotics.

Lucky for them, the 2 Marines were released. I learned a lesson from them. Don’t even be in a house where drugs may be found.
 
I was never too big on NYE parties or anything. What I did like was waking up NYM and discovering it was a whole new year and anything could happen! It usually did...
 

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