we just played some cards and now watching the BBC America Doctor Who marathon...

Kidding.

2000 was cuz of the odometer change. Now it just means I’m a year older cuz my b-day is in January.

Add that to the list

Now it is just about remembering the year on checks and such.

totally agree

I haven't been to a New Year's Eve party in years and years, and even then it wasn't that much fun - just a bunch of people drinking too much. I'd rather stay home with the cats and binge-watch stuff on Netflix.

Same as you. Drunk people that quickly get obnoxious

Trying really hard to have big fun and party... I’ve never understood it. It always feels like awkward forced gaiety.

It’s an important holiday celebrated across the world but NYE has never been my favorite part of it

: )

Tonight it's just fireworks scaring our dogs.

Also my birthday (And Rachel Maddow's) Tonight its just a bunch of fireworks that scare my cats.

Samhain...

Ice, sleet and snow outdoors.....

Grabbing the remote

I just watch old movies, like I am doing now (just taking a little break to check into DU). I am pretty happy to see 2018 over though. Hoping 2019 will be a better year for us and a worse year for Trump and the republicans.

2018 was a giant pain in my ass

The same goes for Valentine's Day with me. It is like society pressures you into having a good time but ends up having a negative affect and I feel disappointed instead.

All the pressure to celebrate and be happy. Weird. It creeps me out.

I often refer to all or any of them as Hallowe'en just because of the creep factor in the joyful expectation area.

When I taught 6 year olds it was the way it is supposed to be...all of those happy expectations that were sincerely meant. It was just fun and happiness(pure and simple). It is mostly like that with kids and those around them. When we get older and more experienced about the real world then we aren't as easily, ignorantly joyful, simple and pure.

Xmas hoopla, and nobody much wants to party the older we become.

But New Years Day can be fun and healthy; visiting, cooking good food, starting off the new year in a positive way.

who the hell has anything left of sanity to celebrate NYE

Mrs calls it a night way early

It's just me and one loyal cat

And I think back on New Year growing up, food we had "for luck" after midnight, hell I think I hear the ghosts of Guy Lombardo's entire orchestra playing tonight on a phantom black-and-white TV, while dad - since departed - smooched mom

But sad? The memories are good!

And it depends on how you play that song. This sets it right for me:

Me and a cat and neither of us cares

Just instinctively dislike it

Lots of incoming bad memories.

And don't have to get up at 3 a.m. tomorrow.

This year wasn't so great so I'm actually glad it's almost over, about half an hour to go here in AZ.

I love it!.. and New Year's Day Tomorrow!

Maybe I shouldn't post that.. but it is kicking your thread

Glad when anyone is having a happy time : )

That just isn’t me on NYE. But party on!

because of the Blue Wave, House Democratic Majority!

The last two New Years were not so happy come to think of it.

This is a reason to celebrate -- the GOPers no longer have the House to twist government into doing their insane work.

Earth to celebrate this Year!

A Very Healthy Happy, Blue-Wave New Year's to You and Yours, Hermit!

We start this year with hope that was absent a year ago, because of the big blue wave!

two years ago when a lot of us were just numb.

It's like 180 degrees here!

I think they're just trying to trick me.

Had to go look at photos to make sure there was such a year. I spent it immersed in wood working.

Wife and I had our traditional New Year's toast of homemade wine. That's the extent of the partying here.


(Can't sleep -- some kind of respiratory infection. Big dog's snoring is making me sleepy, but it's easier to breathe sitting up, so I might as well read).

immersed in wood working(sounds nice) and I took a 5 month news black out from July to December to entertain two of sisters visiting the Island at different times. And, I moved to a new town.

The Ignorance is Bliss was in full bloom.

That's awesome you and your wife enjoy your home made wine on New Year's Eve!

It's what I do when I can't sleep.. I roll over and fire up my laptop. Good luck getting back to breathing better!

It's like celebrating President's Day.

So going back to work is easier the next day?

Talking about earlier years.

It's just kind of another night for me.

...and I got carded less than a year ago for buying a beer.

So I'm stickin with 39, like Jack (Benny).

And I no longer enjoy being another year closer to my ultimate demise..?

It scares my livestock and my LGDs... really cant stand 4th of July either.

The idiots in my neighborhood start at around 8:00, and noise doesn't stop until around 1 AM. So much for a good night's sleep...

For a lot of us just another nite.

Any new year's resolution? I'm going to be less of an asshole.

Maybe it's the way I was raised. New Year's eve was not a big deal in my family. It was just the day before Jan 1st. When we'd all forget to write the current year on our documents for about a week.

It never held the same family togetherness or other sort of significance to us as Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Maybe, after Thanksgiving and Christmas we were just tired of holidays by then.

I don't think that makes you dull, or a bummer at all.

It's actually something I dread. Transitioning into a new year always feels stressful to me. Then it takes me at least a few days to get used to the fact that the year changed.

I'm with you completely.

it's always depressed me. I can't be happy about another year passing that hasn't lived up to anything I hoped it would. Each year just another year of unmet expectations. Even when I was a kid I found it a sad occasion. I guess I spend too much time dwelling on things and being too introspective.

But it's a huge day for my wife who is an immigrant from Asia.

I sure enjoyed my New Years Eve.

Now my ears are ringing in the new year.

It always seemed so over hyped!

i breeze past midnight.

It's just another day to me.

without really thinking about what they are doing or "celebrating", it's just what everyone does. I question lots of what "everyone" does

Everyone had to turn in their watches and I stopped all the clocks in the house. And the tv was off. I hate New Years Eve. This year was perfect. A couple friends came for dinner. We ate and they left by 10. I was asleep by 11:30.

We live about 5 houses from Detroit proper. At midnight, Detroit's go outside and fire off their guns into the air. It sounds lie a war zone for about 20 minutes. And no, those aren't firecrackers.

How can you tell New Years Eve from any other night in Detroit?

(I say that as someone who lives in the 'burbs of Detroit.)

But not like last night.

...was at a house party there once where everyone was told to seriously duck when the hour struck, for fear of stray bullets through the windows.

passed away!

When i was kid (early 1980's) we would usually see a movie then go all night bowling.....That was popular back in the day, the place had about 48 lanes all packed w/people that night....

Now I don't really enjoy "forced" holidays - those that marketers tell you how to behave and what to buy and what to do on any specific holiday. Too contrived for me. There's a reason that suicides rise during the end of the year holidays. Too many expectations that never materialize.

and for probably lots of people, the holidays are a painful reminder of how alone you are.

I always turn my thoughts to the elderly, the alone, the sick, the incarcerated, the marginalized, the vulnerable, etc. during the holiday season.

It's almost like people are mentally checked out from Thanksgiving until the first or second week of January.

We all know that few of us are going to keep those resolutions from past experiences.

Too jaded. The Great Recession pretty much put the kibosh on it for me. I used to really get into it, but after several years of no money for anything other than being thankful just to have a roof over my head, I got out of giving a damn about getting plowed and raising a ruckus just because a calendar says it is a different year.

If I were married or had kids, then I might go out.

in by sundown, asleep about two hours later, just like any other day that ends in "Y"

so the odds of me staying awake for midnight are in the neighborhood of non-existent. Add in the fact that I don’t drink and the whole thing becomes quite meaningless to me.

I’m a Thanksgiving guy. Other holidays are wasted on me.

After we moved into our new (new to us) house in Feb. of 2010, that winter I realized NYE was going to fall on a Saturday and we decided to have a party, more as an open house than anything, to show off the house (which was still being redecorated but what the hell) I don't know if we were in a party vortex or what but EVERYBODY showed up,
bunch of old friends and current friends, brother and his wife from Muskegon, and my sister in law's 90 year old grandmother who sat on the couch drinking sour apple martinis. We had people everywhere, in the living room, the fireplace room, the dining room. I've never had a party since that turned out that great. Weather cooperated, being Michigan. But last night husband and I had chicken fajitas followed by ice cream and watched a Columbo from the 90's, big hair and 3 piece suits galore. Took the dogs out and in bed by 9:00 with iPads and books. Fine with me.

There's no pressure to have to have a good time so therefore it's much more enjoyable.
Plus there is no crushing hangover on New Year's day.

So I never got into the habit of partying on New Year's Eve. After I started working full-time, it was just so irritating to get my circadian rhythms all out of whack at the very end of the break - I'm a teacher - just in time to start getting up early again. I have a tradition of watching all the three extended editions of LotR on NYE, and I watched most of them yesterday, but this year, I donned my noise-cancelling Boze headphones and went to bed before midnight. Gasp!

or stay overnight at sister's house. I stay up for the countdown.