Am I the only one who does'nt care about New Years ?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

This has always been the one holiday that I could care nothing about. I am not sad or depressed ... I think its overhyped. Its just another day. Bah ... someone pass the Champagne.

[Bennyboy]

1. This year...not so much.......

every other year I have spent NYE with my favorite band. The Grateful Dead every year since 68-69 and then String Cheeese Incident after that. but now SCI is done and the GD are not doing anything.

SO I am gonna stay home this year. Pretty big bummer...

[LeftyMom]

2. I've got an unpaid day off for it, and I'm none too thrilled.

I need the money more than the time off.

x(

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

6. I know what you mean ...

I know exactly what you mean.

[SPKrazy]

3. I've felt that way for years...

not sure how I feel this year, it actually seems kind of lonely this year.

[no name no slogan]

4. Nah. I'm staying home and doing laundry

after working a regular workday new years eve. I could honestly care less about it.

[qwertyMike]

5. When I was young about 100 years ago

It meant I could get a free kiss at the dance.

Now I go down to City Hall (Halifax, N.S.) and freeze to death, but drink a lottta hot chocolate.

My kids are a little older now, but we still do it - for nostalgia I guess.

Fireworks at midnight - can't beat it.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

7. Fireworks at midnight was big when I lived in Germany.

It was a sight to see if you were on a train and seeing the fireworks shooting from villages.

[qwertyMike]

14. In Cape Breton N.S,

They all go out and shoot guns in the air at midnight (Toward the sea I should add)

Mike

[Inchworm]

8. It's just another day here too

Actually for the last several years it has been a day I go against the norm and remain sober. Yup, just another day. I guess it would be cool to be in a great embrace at that particular moment in time, but hey.. I want that at this moment too :D

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

12. it's amateur night

:P

:hi:

[Inchworm]

15. A fact I'm not proud of

:blush:

:hi:

[lizerdbits]

9. Not much anymore

Early/mid 20's is a reason to go out and drink. Now it's a paid holiday so I can get something done. This year I'll probably take the day and use a gift card I got from my grandmother. And go to the gym if my cold clears up.

[applegrove]

10. It is good to take a look back at the past year. If only to take your own

pulse and ask if smoking is really something you want to be doing - as I ask myself these days.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

13. I actually had a great year this year.

I grew up a lot this year and I feel stronger.I think I am not looking forward to New Years because I am anxious and hoping that the year 2008 is a great year for me :)

[applegrove]

19. Here's hoping 2007 was the start of a trend. And growing up helps

that alot.

[MorningGlow]

11. New Year's for pagans is Samhain (Halloween)

January 1, therefore, really doesn't mean anything. Plus it infringes on my birthday (the 2nd); nobody wants to celebrate my birthday the day AFTER. Plus I'm not a huge fan of fireworks, and any New Year's party I've gone to, single or married, was a total bust. I'm still wondering where all those allegedly kickass New Year's parties are, because I never found one in all my 40+ years. So...overhyped? Yeah, I'd say so. :shrug:

[DarkTirade]

22. Yeah, my grandma's birthday is on the 1st and that's probably what I'm gonna be celebrating. :)

'sides, the only girl I'd want to kiss at midnight is out of the state at the moment. So unless I meet somebody else in the next day or two... :P

[MorningGlow]

25. Welp, at least we don't have a blizzard 'round here this year

That's always the other big January birthday challenge in Rochester--managing to have a party or go out drinking when it's -40 degrees with blowing snow, which has happened on more than one of my birthdays--most of 'em, in fact.

My mom hands me a cake at our New Year's Day family dinner, and reminds folks to bring me small token presents, and that's my birthday. It gets so I forget it's actually on the 2nd.

[DarkTirade]

29. Yeah, I went away for a couple days to my brother's house in VT for christmas

and came back to a barren, snowless landscape here...

Sucks, 'cause I just moved back here after living in FL for 20+ years and I never did get around to making a snowman. :(

[MorningGlow]

30. Patience, grasshopper

I hear we're getting 3-6" tonight. Cross fingers!

[DarkTirade]

31. Heh... typical. And I had errands to do tomorrow... :P

Couldn't it have waited until tomorrow night?

I keed, I keed...

Out of curiosity though... IS there anything to do in Rochester on New Year's Eve?

[MorningGlow]

32. Yeah, me too

Pick up some coffee beans for me at Leaf & Bean for me? :evilgrin:

Anyway, over the years, I have gone to private parties, parties sponsored by the Memorial Art Gallery, and the fireworks show downtown. I have yet to find a kickass party in these parts. I hear the big 'do is still downtown, but that's more family oriented--kettle corn and fireworks and stuff. All I know is it's outdoors, it's cold, and there's no "adult beverages", so I haven't been since I was in high school.

Parties? Every bar and bowling alley has one. DECENT parties...? Ya got me. :shrug:

[DarkTirade]

33. Where's Leaf & Bean? :)

I found a nice little place downtown in the Eastman area recently, but I forgot what it's called. Don't think that was the name though.

[MorningGlow]

34. Ah good coffee

Leaf & Bean is on Chili Avenue (Rt. 33)--one of the strip malls on the north side of the road...but don't ask me which one. There are SO many.

You found Java Joe's, perhaps? That's right next to the Eastman School. Or perhaps Spin, on East Ave.?

If there's one thing we've got around here, it's a decent amount of independently owned coffee places to compete with Starbucks.

[DarkTirade]

35. That might be the name, not sure.

I also found a nice little place in Victor that's a coffee-shop/breakfast place. Great home-cooked style breakfasts and really good homemade bread. Can't remember the name, but it's right across the street from a nice shiny new Duncan Donuts... and guess which parking lot is usually full? :)

Unfortunately since they specialize in breakfast, they usually close around lunchtime.

[MorningGlow]

36. I think I know the one you're talking about

I think...although there are several good places right on Rt. 96 just before and right in the village. I don't get out to Victor too much these days (in Livingston County now, although I used to live in Ontario County).

[DarkTirade]

39. I have to go out to Victor three times a week, hence my familiarity with it more so than the rest of

the Rochester area. :)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. No, you're not. Never cared much about it.

The only time I had any real fun was on the evening of 12/31/99, when a friend and I rented an airplane and flew around Minneapolis, wondering if the power grid was really gonna go out at 12:00 GMT. Otherwise I just stay home watching movies on TV. This year I have to work on both days, anyhow.

[bikebloke]

17. No big deal for me.

I don't care for the drinking. I've always been a light drinker even when I drank more. Though I never minded the snogging with women strange to me at midnight.

[texanwitch]

18. I enjoy the time around the day because that is when we have our big beach gathering.

This is the only time of the year we get together anymore, many have moved out of the area.

Some of the people attending work on Yule(Christmas) so this is our time to be together.

[billyskank]

20. I get a day off on tuesday.

Apart from that, nope.

[Iggo]

21. I'm in bed by 10 on New Year's Eve, anyway.

Once I quit drinking, it became just another day.

(Yeah, i know...boring. But I'd rather be boring and alive and free than exciting and in jail or dead.)

[DS1]

23. I like the day off

other than that. meh.

[RadiationTherapy]

24. spring equinox is WAY better

...at least you can SEE some change of season. After 3 months of fading and 3 months of "death", spring is a welcome (and obvious) relief.

I dig the renewal idea, but think it is silly in terms of when we celebrate it...

OOOh the Gregorian/Julian calendar is STARTING OVER!!!

[tigereye]

26. I like the idea of it...

we have a little family celebtration here at home with chips, goodies and watching the ball drop. I always think we should go out to First NIght, but we never do - either too cold or too wet. I make gingerbread and last year I made a nice Red snapper dish.


Then we sometimes go out to see friends on NY Day. It's nice to go to a NY day open house, with lots of good food and drink.


It's not a big deal like it was when I was in my 20s - we used to go to a couple of parties, and race to be at our best friends' house by midnight.

[Chovexani]

27. I don't either

Then again I'm Pagan and ours was on 10/31.

Chinese New Year is WAY cooler, anyway.

[femmocrat]

28. My two least favorite holidays are NY and Labor Day.

They both represent the end of vacation time to me.

New Year's doesn't even have good food. Or TV. bleah.

[Sultana]

37. NO

Because I always spend every New Year's at home x(

[mcscajun]

38. You are not alone.

I haven't cared much about New Year's Eve in quite some time. Maybe it's being on my own too long without an SO, maybe it's just getting older. :shrug: Maybe it's a combination of the two. Maybe it's NYE fatigue.

Sometimes there's a party to go to, sometimes there isn't. Sometimes there's a party but I'm sick, the weather's bad, or I just don't feel like going. So I don't. I don't stay up and watch the ball drop half the time unless I'm at a party, where it's like an obligation.

In the end, it's just another tick of the clock, another flip of the calendar. :shrug: