How Will YOU Be Ringing-in The New Year?

[JackTwist]

I'd love to hear how everyone here on Daddy's Forum will be celebrating the New Year's Weekend.

 

I'm driving to Las Vegas tonight and will see the beginning of 2012 on the Strip. On my weekend agenda: attending a Vanessa Williams concert with a good friend of mine Saturday night and hiring one (perhaps two) Las Vegas Rent-boys on Saturday afternoon and Sunday evening.

 

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[josephga]

working. I have actually never gone out on new years eve.

[Guest Ace]

Hey Jack;

I'll be at the Vanessa Williams show as well....(in the first row)...then to a local watering hole to drink champagne with friends.

Enjoy Vegas...Maybe our paths will cross!

[Bosguy]

Will be spending a quiet New Years but I will celebrate the New Year in a couple of weeks with 2 real HOT firecrackers--Nate and Raul

 

Boston Bill

[CowboyUp]

No fancy plans for me, Jack. Probably gonna order pizza, enjoy a few cold beers, watch Anderson Cooper & Kathy Griffin in NYC on CNN and fall asleep after the big ball drops in Times Square--I usually don't stay awake to see midnight Texas-time. Lame plans I know, guess I really am getting old.

[+ deej]

I never go out for NYE because all the amateur drunks are out.

[Lohengrin1979]

I was never much for huge NYE celebrations so I will be cooking a lasagna dinner for my roommates and a few friends and then we're going to hunker down with some good wine and watch The Fellowship of The Rings on the extended blu-ray version of the set. I know, such a wild night out.

 

Lohengrin

[leigh.bess.toad]

I just left my bf for the last time. This year. My actual NYE will be at home with 3 young men: my son and two of his friends for a sleepover (which is the most inappropriately named thing in the world). 3 kids on the autism spectrum for New Year's. But it will be fun.

 

BF and I went to see War Horse and it was wonderful. But they had a preview for Peter Jackson's new film adaptation of The Hobbitts. Release date? December 14, 2012. Now that is a preview.

[CowboyUp]

I never go out for NYE because all the amateur drunks are out.

 

Glad I'm not the only one deej!

[+ deej]

Glad I'm not the only one deej!

 

One of the great things about being on the west coast is you can have some friends over, watch the festivities from the east coast, and still have the dishwasher loaded and running and be in bed by 10 pm.

 

It's so very civilized!

[Phil_musc]

I hear you guys and understand, but a part of me thinks my sweetie and I should do something to mark the occasion. And yet, i agree - the amateur drunks will be out in force so driving is potentially taking one's life into one's own hands. It is also, and I know this sounds curmudgeonly, an arbitrary date on the calendar with no real significance other than what we choose to give it. I'm too old to believe in the concept of a clean slate - we carry our baggage from year to year - it's a part of life. So as far as starting afresh, well that's just hogwash. I actually like the idea of watching the Fellowship of the Ring. And Lee, I watched the trailer for the Hobbit on Youtube. Damn, how can we all wait until next December - it looks wonderful! Maybe we'll stay in and have lobster tails and shrimp and reminisce about wonderful summer days spent in Maine and P-town and the great seafood we had there. With some delicious single malt scotch thrown into the mix (just opened a bottle of Bowmore - what an aroma and a nice taste) - there are worse ways to spend a New Year's Eve.

[+ deej]

If you really wanted to celebrate a special new year this year you'd be in Samoa.

 

They decided to switch which side of the international dateline they're on. So they eliminated Friday. (Why Friday? If you're going to kill a day, make it a Monday!)

 

The good news is they're now the first nation in the world to celebrate the New Year.

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

I have a massage scheduled for midday. After a massage, I usually am a little drowsy, so I'll settle down and watch a movie and doze on and off.

[jgoo]

.... i agree - the amateur drunks will be out in force so driving is potentially taking one's life into one's own hands.

 

I much prefer to be out when the professional drunks are on the roads so I usually stay in on New Year eve too.

 

It is also, and I know this sounds curmudgeonly, an arbitrary date on the calendar with no real significance other than what we choose to give it. I'm too old to believe in the concept of a clean slate - we carry our baggage from year to year - it's a part of life.

 

Totally agree and I have never been big on celebrating New Years in any big way. I honestly can't remember the last time I stayed up to ring in the New Year.

 

Maybe we'll stay in and have lobster tails and shrimp and reminisce about wonderful summer days spent in Maine and P-town and the great seafood we had there. With some delicious single malt scotch thrown into the mix (just opened a bottle of Bowmore - what an aroma and a nice taste) - there are worse ways to spend a New Year's Eve.

 

That does sound delightful to me, except not being a scotch drinker I'll probably open up and enjoy a bottle of single barrel Jack that I got as a Christmas gift and enjoy one of the few times in the year I light up a good cigar.

[adriano46]

I have seen New Year's days in and out -- depending on what side of gthe world I was on. It is already New Year's in places where I once lived, so I was on SKYPE greeting friends there --

 

Like so many here, I am not big on super huge crowds (did the Times Square thing once when in grad school, it was fn, but never again). I drink socially - never to excess - and the idea of being with in the midst of amateur drunks keeps me indoors with the windows firmly shut.

 

Best New Year's celebrations were like that described by Lohengrin -- in past years I have cooked a special Italian-syled dinner for a few friends, they relax watching football games while I wash dishes and clean up, and at 11:0 I set out a small buffet of odd fods THEY like (kielbasa and saurkraut, smoked salmon, smoked sturgen, homemade liver pate' etc... and two bottles of very cold Brut champagne, we pop open the bottles as midnight hits NYC, toast the New Year (and I am back in the kitchen cleaning up and usually in bed by 1:00 AM).

 

This year, decided to break with this. Noting most of my close friends are spending the weekend with their grandchildren, decided to just celebrate alone, with a good book, and probably a good movie, and I will probably go out today and buy a special single malt scotch for a special treat but definately do not plan to be awake at midnight.

 

PS -- Lee, I think your own plans sound wonderful, and while I too hate the sound of "sleepovers" I hope you have a great time with your son and his friends.

[Keenan]

I'll be escorting this evening for NYE.

 

Keenan

[+ Axiom2001]

Will be spending a quiet New Years but I will celebrate the New Year in a couple of weeks with 2 real HOT firecrackers--Nate and Raul

 

Boston Bill

 

DAMN! I positively envy you in terms of "...2 real HOT firecrackers--Nate and Raul." But I do hope to meet both sometime during 2012; they've become amigos of mine at this site! - -

[+ Axiom2001]

During this century I have not done anything unusually special in seeing one year out and the other in. 2011 will be no different, and I am all right with this! I just view all of this positively

and take it in stride!!!

[seeker630]

I'll stick to my usual Saturday night routine of broiling a steak, opening a bottle of wine, and watching a movie.

[Decatur Guy]

I'm having dinner with friends. I will try to get back home before midnight to miss bowl game / NYE traffic.

[OneFinger]

I never go out for NYE because all the amateur drunks are out.

 

I, too, avoid going out because of the drunk drivers.

 

But, I just flew back to my "work" home in Portland. The local mass transit system here is fantastic and they're offering free fares for New Years Eve. I'm very tempted to take advantage of that and see how Portland parties. I know there is a local strip club and just might decide to drop in there for some eye candy.

 

I really wish more cities had great mass transit options.

 

In Utah a local attorney is advertising that they will reimburse you for a cab ride on New Years Eve (up to a 30 mile limit). That's sure a better option than driving after a party.

[Guest Wetnwildbear]

Starting the New Year off with a Joyful Noise

 

I'd love to hear how everyone here on Daddy's Forum will be celebrating the New Year's Weekend.

 

I'm driving to Las Vegas tonight and will see the beginning of 2012 on the Strip. On my weekend agenda: attending a Vanessa Williams concert with a good friend of mine Saturday night and hiring one (perhaps two) Las Vegas Rent-boys on Saturday afternoon and Sunday evening.

 

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Starting the New Year off - with a Hard Thick Tool in each hole. Whoever said three is a crowd didn't know how to

 

have fun. Wishing all a Hot-Sweaty-Throbbing New Year!

[jackboy48]

I really enjoy going to as many festive events as I can handle. In a little while I'll be meeting friends for an early dinner, then off to see the Broadway roadshow of West Side Story and on to a party at the top of a skyscraper with 3 dance floors, 19 musical acts, go go boys, laser light shows, and direct views of the fireworks! I'm going to shake, shake, shake!

[JoeBlow]

I live in Nashville and there's a big downtown celebration a la Times Square that gets way too crowded with way too many drunk folks. Last time I went, a guy vomited all over my shoes! This year, I'm visiting relatives out-of-state, so it will be a much more subdued observance of the holiday.

[mmk123]

earlier today, I went to the gym, grocery shopping and then took a nap

 

tonight, I am staying in. I am laying in bed eating my Thai food takeout and watching season 3 of my boxed DVD set of the tv show SOAP (right in the heart of the Alien Burt storyline)