Posted on 12/31/2014 4:41:02 AM PST by C19fan
As a kid, New Year’s Eve fascinated me. It was a night when grown-ups dressed up, drank fancy cocktails and danced across ballroom floors. Granted, my parents only went out a time or two, but I had seen the movies. Most adults had the times of their lives and I couldn’t wait to join them. We kids would fight to stay up late, bang pots and pans and light the illicit firework or two, but it just wasn’t the same.
Once I hit drinking age, I spent several New Year’s Eves at college bars or block parties where I could finally join the excitement. I rarely found much. Most the celebrations were overcrowded nightmares of sweaty throngs and queasy drinkers. Hardly the tuxedo-clad soirées I had imagined as a lad. There wasn’t even a big band, for pity’s sake.
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I'm with you on that!
I quit staying up until midnight years ago. Tomorrow we will watch the Rose parade, maybe take down the Christmas tree, and have dinner at a restaurant that will be serving stuffed roast pork and sauerkraut. Ho hum.
Although come to think of it, we really ought to watch the Sugar Bowl.
For many years I had always though, good grief, another holy day of obligation for I as a Catholic and one week after Christmas? Yes, for years I had questioned the need why this extra obligation for New Years.
But as I have gotten older, I realized that it is a good thing to start the new year right.
We drove down there from Kalifornia in late October, and stayed at the Galleria Westin....I "concur" about the traffic and congestion. We cabbed it to an affair someplace way down Westheimer, and on the way back even the taxi driver said he hated being anywhere around that huge mall from Thanksgiving through New Years.
When I was a child in the 40,s in Houston we didn’t,usually have fire works. my dad got his shotgun out and fired it into the sky at midnight. i could hear other gun shots around from other guns, no one was getting shot.
Invariably someone sets off a few fireworks at midnight, waking us up and making the dog bark.
We had one New Years Eve party at our house about 35 years ago. I came down with the flu.
I do fondly remember my parents having some friends over with Guy Lombardo on in the background.
Even when I was single and going out on dates or with a bunch of girlfriends on New Year’s Eve, I never quite understood what I was supposed to be celebrating. I didn’t feel any excitement about the clock clicking over from one day to the next.
The best thing about it is the Walking Dead marathon, IMO.
When I went to Disney World for the 2000 year celibrations, came upon and I mean upon a LOT of British and Japaneese tourists.
Christmas is the one I dread - too much emotional sickness between my NPD Dad and my intolerant gay sis....I stay home and celebrate quietly. As for NYE my excitement stems from a fresh bag of doritos and a Bombay gin and tonic watching Pandora radio on the TV
I live a couple of miles from the yearly “first night” celibrations, which includes fire work displays. One early for the kids, and then the traditional one for the adults. Could hear for the first few minutes of midnight, BOOMS.
I do in the neighborhood a yearly scream welcoming in the new year. Then I go to bed.
How do you watch radio on TV?
I worked in a large hospital’s ER for a long time.A couple of years I worked from 4PM New Year’s Eve to 8AM New Year’s Day.All I can say is “Good God Almighty!”.The only worse time was one year when the Boston Marathon (held in March) was run on an 85 degree day.Just about every ER within 10 miles of the course (including ours) had patients literally lined up out the door.
Pandora has a channel on my roku - I scroll down to the station I want and turn on the radio tuner so it comes thru my speakers....my hipster son rides me daily for being so old as to watch the radio...the picture is basically the album cover and the artists name
a yearly scream......... that’s funny! :)
I was responding to a poster who said NYers shot guns off on that holiday - I believe he meant because they were all shooting at each other. In fact, I’ve never heard a gun go off during New Year’s Eve. Of course, it’s going to be different in other areas where guns are used in celebration.
I was responding to a poster who said NYers shot guns off on that holiday - I believe he meant because they were all shooting at each other. In fact, I’ve never heard a gun go off during New Year’s Eve. Of course, it’s going to be different in other areas where guns are used in celebration.
As a kid, mom and dad would buy all sorts of cold cuts, cheeses, rolls, pickles, etc, (and set up a buffet for all of us kids 7) and we would wait until new year and bang pots and pans.
First in KY, then OH, now in FL.
How about "I watched my son being born"...
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