New Year's Eve

[NickC]

New Year's Eve

Well, its now 1.15am and I'v been home about 45mins putting my (normally well behaved) drunken wife to bed! Left a great party too! Had resigned myself to a hellish hangover - feel cheated:H

DVD day tomorrow!

NICK

[tawnyfrog]

New Year's Eve

No problems here - drank 4 glasses of red over 4 hrs. Watched a fantastic 2004 "The Eagles in Melbourne" concert on tv and had an overwhelming urge to smoke grass. Interesting reaction considering I haven't smoked dope in over 25 years ...

... ahhhhh, the distant memory of happy hippy times.

Tucked up safely by 11pm. Wondered if I should now buy a hairnet and bed sox.

Happy New Year to all. Be well.

[KizzieCat]

New Year's Eve

Happy New Year to all! Just give the word and I will send hair nets, courtesy of my "hairdresser grandmother". I hope my hair looks as good when I am in my 80's! However, I am not much for coloring, myself, so unless it gets really bad...I will go for the silver.

Some are silver and others are gold......make new friends, but keep the old.....

Speaking of the 80's? When can I have big hair again? It's coming back, right?

I know 2007 will be a wonderful year, because I have new friends.

Love you all.

-Kim

[soccermom]

New Year's Eve

Meant to say to---hope Beth and Allie have a wonderful night....still early here..only 8:20pm...goodnight all.
love..

[Hawk]

New Year's Eve

Hi everyone -

I am safely home and stuck to my plan. Two beers at this afternoon's football game and 2 wines at dinner. Now I am typing here and husband is in bed (not feeling well). Thought about having a wine when I got home but then the bottle would be open for tomorrow (in the odd event I didn't finish it...) and I want to start AF tomorrow. So, I feel ok.

Lush - I am sorry you feel crappy. Tomorrow is a new year and we are going to do this. I believe I may be Queen of the Squishys. Tomorrow we shall plan. Try to enjoy fireworks and daughter and look forward to happy healthy 2007.

Judie - 7 miles????????? Wow Woman. You move!

Laura - Monty Python festival sounds fun. Did you see Spamalot? You must - it is a riot.

Beth and Alle - Hope you have a super time meeting. I think its so great that friendships here are going beyond the keyboard. It reenforces my belief that this is truely a great group of people.

E - hope you are feeling better. High on cough syrup! That made me chuckle bec/ I have been there and people didn't believe me! Enjoy the rest of your trip. I use a program to clean my PC.....it erases stuff i didn't even know was there. Its called PC Confidential.

Fan - Apologies on doubting the Packers.

Have a very Happy New Year everyone and tomorrow is a whole new fresh start! We can do anything!

[Saint Jude]

New Year's Eve

:woot: :banana: :danthin:HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Just got home from work a while ago. Made it in time to hear the neighbors firecrackers going off over by the river. Hubby's in bed already... he was when I got home, but got up to give me a New Year's smooch. Door's open! Come on over... Me & the doggies will be breaking in the New Year for the next few hours! Best wishes to everybody! Love ya Bunches!:l

Judie

[tumadre]

New Year's Eve

It's 3:20 AM, and I'm completely sober. We went to a party at a close friends' house, and I said I'd be the DD and not drink (my husband is ALWAYS the DD so I can drink). Then on the way there I got this sudden craving, and it hit me that I'd not taken any supps, Topa, nothing! to help me with the "not" drinking at the party. What an idiot! My husband asked if I wanted to go back home and take something if it would help, and I said No, I'd do it on willpower (not really sure if I'd be able to, thinking about that first glass of champagne).
These friends are ones we've shared many bottles of wine with, usually over good food and late into the night. For the party tonight, they had gathered together the group of people that had supported them this past year during a very terrible time-his grown daughter committed suicide, leaving behind a 10 year old daughter for them to raise. Our friends have been married for less than 10 years, and she never planned on having or raising children, much less a step-grandchild. She has been the one who has taken it all on with grace and love, and we've done all we could to support her (of course...as they've always been there when we needed them).
Tonight was all about gratitude. We sat in a circle, young and old, and passed a candle from one to the other, sharing what we were thankful for this past year. There were many tears, and some laughter. The party was at first filled with many people, then dwindled to just a few couples and one family earnestly talking and seeing in the New Year. One Mayan family shared their tradition of eating one grape for each coming month in 2007 and secretly making a wish for that month, much like a resolution. The grapes must be eaten all in the moment before the clock turns 12:00. You can imagine that many of my months' (secret) wishes included less alcohol-but I didn't say that out loud, or it can't come true!
After midnight, it was just about six of us, and I was still sober. I kept drinking sparkling water, or cranberry sparkling juice, or whatever was sparkly but non-alcoholic. I drank from whatever glass everyone else was using. My weakest point was at midnight, when I asked for champagne to be poured into my glass-just a little-for the toast...When I went to drink, I touched my lips to the liquid, but didn't open my mouth. It was the oddest thing.
Just as we were leaving, at 1:30, in came some wild friends whom I'd heard about...they're Irish, own a pub in San Francisco, young, great looking, and had just closed down the most popular dance clubs in town. They were wasted, and brought champagne...my friends' husband was already close to passing out on the couch when they got there, but quickly revived with their energy. My husband was pretty drunk, too, as was my girlfriend. Again, pretty interesting to be the only sober one in the room. I felt a bit of a "Mom", cause I wanted to go home-my daughter was home and waiting for us. But, surprisingly, I didn't feel like I was as boring as I thought I'd be (well, I was a bit of a stick-in-the-mud, but I could still be pretty funny). I had a good time with them, and we ended up staying another hour, then I drove home without the usual paranoia of being stopped.
When I got home, I told my 16 year old (probably a little self-righteously) that I had found it interesting to be the only one there at the party not drinking, and to see people get a bit silly and/or foolish. I want her to see that there is some sort of pride in NOT drinking, as opposed to the how-much-can-you-drink pride that is so prevalent in her peer group and in our society as a whole...
OK, off my band wagon for now. I'm going to have one glass of wine and some Ritz crackers before bed.
Happy New Year to you all, no matter where you are in your battle-we are all on the same side of the hill.
Tumadre

[Hawk]

New Year's Eve

Tumadre -

Excellent! It sounds like it was quite the eye-opening experience and perhaps a good way to start the year. It is about graditide ! Your friend's ability to take all that has happened and adjust.....well, what a beautiful person she must be. Friends like that don't come around often. I am glad you celebrated (so successfully!) with wonderful people!:goodjob:

Happy New Year!

[Saint Jude]

New Year's Eve

Tumadre', Thanks for sharing your evening with us. Sounds like definate quality time spent. I love the Mayan tradition, and your friends sound like wonderful people. Glad you had a nice night. It sure is great to wake up & feel good on New Years Day! Kinda odd... I almost forgot what that felt like.

[louie]

New Year's Eve

Tumadre,

what a wonderful night, and so special in so many ways. The mayan tradition sounds beautful.

And as for will power, don't know whether I could have just had the champagne touch my lips - awesome.

Happy new year,
Louie

[lushy]

New Year's Eve

Tumadre, that just sounds like a wonderful evening. Wish I had had as much restraint as you. Nothing feels better than waking up proud of yourself and not hungover and actually remembering the entire evening and conversations. Happy New Year to you.........

[Owly]

New Year's Eve

Well I hope everyone had a good time new year's eve. I drank a huge amount, as did everyone else I was with. But I failed in my oath not to drink the next day Feeling the consequences very badly now, you know those days you feel so bad you're not sure you'll survive the day? Not eating anything yesterday will not have helped, and taking an E will make the hangover much worse and could even last days.

I got into a fight with my friends because I wanted them to come back to mine after the club but we went back to theirs which is the exact opposite direction. I knew that the journey home the next day would virtually guarantee me drinking as I don't travel well. Of course I should have just gone home on my own after the club but didn't want to be on my own, in the end, I love my friends.

OTOH it looks like I'm back with my old girlfriend.

Happy New Year and hope you can stick to your goals