What will you be up to on new year's eve?

A bit less than 8 hours to go here.

It's muggy & overcast (though quite warm) & you could hear a pin drop outside.

Perhaps everyone's having an afternoon nap, or something?

Me: a quiet night in, I think.

I could go over to some friends' house, but I'm rather enjoying just pottering about here. Very peaceful, it is.

So I may: read the next few chapers of The March.
Watch a video from my stash of unseens.
Go for a walk up the street & say g'day to my friend, A.
Cook something earlier, if I feel inspired too.
Hmmmm .... not sure yet!

Party!

I forgot the party option!

.... and the hangover the next morning!

Oh sweetie, it's been years now that I just try to stay awake until midnight. I know, it's pathetic, but true. Sigh.

Nah, not pathetic at all. You're obviously an early bird! Besides, Diane, those birthday celebrations will require some recovering time!

LOL, for both of us...

You have your priorities absolutely right, Diane!

Dinner down near the sea....then fireworks there, or a late film.

Oh nice, Deb!

(I assume you're experiencing the muggy, sticky weather we are, in Melbourne? B
By the sea would be perfect!)

I shall see the new year in with a bang. Cold_erinis in the city at fed square and boypad is at his gfs parents home up the hill.
so that being the case........as every young Newcastle lad knows, dont you ever let a chance go by oh lord

Good for you, dadpad!

Have fun!

It's starting to rain here.
Ok, not quite rain, like earlier.
Spitting optimistically, more like it.
It's going to be a wettish celebration in the city centre.

Did any of you ever do that? I mean hang around the big clock (in which ever city), get horribly drunk & ecstatic during that countdown to the new year?.... We see it on our tv screens, from NYC, London, where-ever ....

I confess I never did it.
The idea of being horribly drunk in the city, worrying about the public transport home & also the green gills the next morning sort of put me off.

Mumpad and I went to fed square one year, but it got dangerouse (and we got old). Getting home was always a problem as well.

Before I met mumpad I had no life.

You're very lucky then, dadpad.

Yes, I always wondered what those festive situations were actually like, when you were actually right in the middle of them. Not being a great drunk, I think I would have found hours & hours of it incredibly wearying.

A short party with friends. On bed with a good book.
Up and out on the morn of 1st Jan.

Son and stepson turned twenty and took themselves into the Big Apple for the Time's Square celebration.

Up close and personal, they found it rather sordid--and these are two young men whose finer sensibilities had not developed at that time.

This year I have a good book--one of a series--set aside for a reread. I may last until midnight--I may not.

Noddy-Hmmm.........Good idea. I have one of my trashy serial killer books
that maybe I will finish tonight. Mr. P. has been feeling really lousy, so I doubt if we will be doing much celebrating.

Diane- You are not alone. I can't remember when I was able to stay awake until midnight.

I will play a party at a local establishment... stay sober because I'm not an idiot and will probably be pulled over on the way home anyway and go through the "good evenng Mr. Quinney have you been drinking ?" bullshit.

I will arrive home and squinney will be sound asleep and I will have a glass of wine (or two) by myself in the living room and then go to bed.

You guys call it New Years Eve, I call it Sunday night.

We're joining friends for dinner and a party at a nightclub. Sonny Landreth (called one of the greatest guitarists on the planet by Eric Clapton and the best slide guitarist alive) will be playing and I've just learned that one of the Chicago network TV stations will be broadcasting live as part of their coverage. It's a small club and I want to be on TV even less than I want to have still photos taken, or NOT AT ALL, so I'll be spending the night hiding behind Mr B.

JPB, I'm with you regarding photos, but Sonny Landreth is just the sort of person that would get me out of the house on New Year's Eve. I'll bet I would even stay awake!

Happy hiding and even happier listening.