Is New Year’s Eve the Worst Holiday?

Richocet ^ | December 30, 2014 | Jon Gabriel

[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.

[miss marmelstein]

I posted twice. My cat walked across the keyboard!!!

Happy New Year.

[NorthstarMom]

Absolutely true. It’s been years since I was there as a kid, but we had the same experience. The wealthy South American tourists treated everyone else like peasants.

[Ditter]

LOL! Happy New Year to you and your cat too! :)

[Biggirl]

Learn that from a friend who did that also, her husband, when I spent New Year’s one year. :)

[Mozilla]

Nothing like Obama’s NBC running New Years Eve celebrations right now from North Korea. I saw the hammer and the sickle in some monument and now they are running pictures of Kim Jong Un.

http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/live-video/watch-live-new-year-celebrations-around-the-world-336810563837

[9thLife]

NYC is a beautiful wonder, a monument to human excellence, teeming with people who love life.

[xp38]

New Years Eve in Sydney Australia can be sublime. You roll out a blanket in a good spot to view the fireworks on the bridge or are in a boat on the harbour. It is usually a warm summer evening. Picnic while the Symphony orchestra plays throughout the evening on the radio while sipping champagne topped with a great fireworks finale of the bridge being lit up. Here is the 2015 celebration that has already happened this morning EST.

[Chickensoup]

They discontinued First Night in our neck of the woods, too darned cold and how far WILL you walk to hear a folk/fusion/grunge band?

[Chickensoup]

I thought it was the feast of the Circumcision?

[Chickensoup]

How about “I watched my son being born”...while attempting to elude the police has a nice ring.

[Biggirl]

It is a group of titles, Mother of God, Circumcision,Octive of Christmas,World Day of Prayer for Peace, and New Year’s Day.

[Chickensoup]

When I was young and looking at my 56 Missal it was Circumcision Day. No others are listed.

[InvisibleChurch]

thank you

[InvisibleChurch]

That would be the annual purge. It runs from 7pm March 21 through to 7am March 22.

[Biggirl]

Well, that was before VC 2.

[Chickensoup]

Yes, more the pity.

[exnavy]

I’m going to take your word for it.

[9thLife]

Thank you. That’s generally what I expect when I open my mouth (figuratively or literally).

[Zionist Conspirator]

In my later pre-Noachide years "new year's eve" was my favorite holiday. No, I never went out or anything, but I watch Guy Lombardo on TV the last few years before he died. I still miss him.

I also have always been fascinated by calendars and the measurement of time.

[rabidralph]

I’m watching Twilight Zone on SyFy. My NYE is great!