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  1. 12-31-2011, 6:45 AM #1
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    Smile Ringing in the New Year Alone

    Anyone else enjoy being alone on New Year's Eve? Several friends have invited me to join in the festivities downtown and think I'm crazy to stay home. I like to spend the last hours of the year to reflect on events of the year and decide how I want to improve myself in the coming year. It's also when I like to start a new journal, which I won't maintain past the second or third week of January, but maybe that's something I'll change this year.

    “Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy and chivalry.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    I had a guardian angel at one time, but my little devil got him drunk, tattooed, and left him penniless at a strip club. I have not had another angel assigned to me yet.
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    We'll be staying home tonight, Just Charlotte, me, and the little dog. Too many crazys out there. We'll be enjoying the new patio I hope to finish today.
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  4. 12-31-2011, 7:48 AM #3
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    Have not went out for several years, the last time we went out for dinner on new years eve the local "nice" restaurant doubled the prices for new years eve, we promptly got up and left.
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  5. 12-31-2011, 8:10 AM #4
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    Give me a quiet end to the old year anytime! Of course, Belinda, you're not really going to be alone, we're all waiting for you at the other end of the wire......

    Happy New Year!
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    It has been quite a few years since we have gone out on New Year's Eve. If we do decide to go out some year it will be at a hotel or casino where we can rent a room so we don't have to drive home in the risky traffic. Several years we have gone to bed prior to midnight but the fireworks usually wake us up when they are fired.
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  7. 12-31-2011, 1:22 PM #6
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    We haven't gone out to on New Years Eve in years. This year, Sharon is in Houston and I am in Lewiston so I will definitely be celebrating the New Year alone. I hope she doesn't call and wake me up! LOL!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ken Fitzgerald View Post
    We haven't gone out to on New Years Eve in years. This year, Sharon is in Houston and I am in Lewiston so I will definitely be celebrating the New Year alone. I hope she doesn't call and wake me up! LOL!
    Does this mean your the King of the Remote again? I'm the Queen of the Remote. I think I'll go put on my sparkly tiara and get ready to bring in the new year.

    “Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy and chivalry.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  9. 12-31-2011, 2:23 PM #8
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    Yes...I own the Remote until Thursday at which time I will relinquish my right to the throne, return to the dungeon and do whatever she tells me! LOL.

    I will probably sleep in the New Year, so I won't wear my crown.
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    Diane and I PLAN to NOT go out anywhere.

    We like the quiet house and the ticking clock on the wall.

    Alone?? Nah, diane and I are not alone.
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  11. 12-31-2011, 2:57 PM #10
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    I generally spend midnight on new years eve alone, usually because I have passed out by then... We always have parties at our house and I wake up to find about 20 people sleeping in every corner of our home, tonight the party is a little smaller maybe 15 instead of the 50 or so usually. Hardly anyone drive from our parties, if they are from out of the neighborhood they stay over if they are from the neighborhood they stumble home on the boardwalk, we have yet to have anyone fall in the water... For us it is just an excuse to have lots of family and friends over, it wouldn't bother me a bit to be alone tonight as long as we had a party next week!!! Actually I need to go, 2PM is my official "mix a drink" time for party days, except this year I am drinking St Sabastian Dark, taste just like Coca Cola, a friend gifted me a case for X-mas!!


    PS Belinda it may not be St Patty's day but downtown Savannah is always worth the trip. You can always stay home next week. Just my perspective.
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  12. 12-31-2011, 2:58 PM #11
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    We aren't going anywhere. We've got a bottle of champagne and a bottle of sparkling grape juice in the fridge and plan to watch TV and play Wii. We aren't even planning to go out at all today AFAIK which is unusual for us on a Saturday--usually its errands day.

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    Candy an I like to go out to dinner in New Years Eve. For us it is an anniversary celebration. We were married on New Years Day 30 years ago.

    Sometimes we stay home to avoid the crazies. Most places we would want to have a meal are closed on New Years Day.

    This year she is in California tending to her parents.

    I will be home alone with just the chickens, the geese and the cats to keep me company.

    However, on New Years Day I will be driving up to Seattle to see my son before he flies off to Korea for his Air Force assignment.

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    Chateaubriand, a glass of good Belgian beer, some tunes, and hopefully asleep by 10. Why would I go out? A nice meal by myself in a quiet house, vs. sloppy drunks and noise. Pretty simple choice.
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    You can't fool us Belinda, you just want to hit the sack early and get a jump at watching the football games in the morning........
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  16. 12-31-2011, 4:14 PM #15
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    I'm crying "Foul" here. Rumor has a new pair of shoes is itching to go out on the town tonight.......
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