by minimus 33 Replies latest jw friends
I would like to dare someone to put up a giant "Happy New Year" banner on one of the Brooklyn Bethel bldgs.
New Year's eve is my youngest's birthday, so we'll be shuttling her and her friends to the movies, shopping, slumber party, etc. Then I'll be going to my boy's buddy's house to help chaparone their high school party.(I'll sneak in a few leftover fireworks)
TR
You know that since the Society monitors this site, we should encourage everybody , if they are not far from the nearest BRANCH, to do something memorable in commeration of the New Year's Eve......You know banners, signs, practical jokes......(Just an idea).
Mr. Shakita and I are planning a very quiet New Years at home with the kids. I couldn't fathom going into Times Square with all those people pushing and shoving(I am a little claustrophobic)!
Mrs. Shakita
That's what Mr Blondie and I are doing, staying home and having a nice meal with the appropriate wine. I don't like crowds either. We are so boring, we may not even be able to stay up till midnight. The last time was December 31, 1999. Just wanted to make sure my computer didn't fry.
Blondie
Edited by - Blondie on 31 December 2002 9:24:52
Never been a big party hound so the big bashes don't draw me in.
But I do have a years end Ritual I started in 1999-2000
I ride a horse on New Years Eve Day and on New Years Day. I started doing this on purpose for "Y2K". I plan to do this on New Years till I cant "fork" a saddle then I will drive a team and wagon. (or ride in it)
Other than a few working Cowboys and mounted unit police I am sure that I am one of the few folks on the planet who have been horseback in two Millinieums, or 2 centuries.
Why? I realized that horses and the relationship they have to human history is a grand thing. In '99 I realized that by 1899 the Frontier was "closed" and the death knell for the horse as a working tool and partner had been sounded. How many people using horses in 1899-1900 really knew that in 40 or 50 years society would loose the daily contact with man's partner for so many centuries? My family has had connectons with the horse for years.
Farmers, Cavalry, Ranching......My great grandad was in the business of buying and selling teams for delivery work till the horse was obselete in out area-- the 1930's. My grandmother rode saddle horse in the auctions ring as a girl. It skipped a generation but I carry the equine gene in my line to this day and have passed it to my son.
So some time this afternoon I will throw a saddle on my old paint gelding and we will check fence for a hour or so. I could do this with the pick up but I won't. Same tommorow. My horse knows what this is about. He knows that he and I honor the past doing this. He ( and most horses kept other than Lawn Ornaments) well, you can all feel them swell with pride under saddle when they partner with you.
Dogs may be man's best freind.... but the horse as a partner is a lynchpin in human history.
Well, if we manage to stay awake till midnight, it will be a quiet evening with my hubby, in our living room. We will probably have gingerale and popcorn. (Last year, he pooped out before midnight and dragged himself on up to bed. I was trying really hard to keep my eyes open--when next thing you know, I hear all this celebrating, and realize that I had slipped off to slumber land, while sitting in my lounge chair in front of the tele. )
New Year's Eve is also the anniversary of when he proposed to me, back when '83 turned to '84. Staying up until midnight isn't a priority with us anymore. We'd just rather sleep if we need to. But, I do want to try to make it this time.
(The last time we were both up at midnight on New Years, was when we brought in the year 2000. Hubby is a DBA, and so he was anxious to see what affect/if any, the turn of the century had on the world's computers.)
Whatever you do, enjoy your good times and delegate a sober driver.
One of the neat things about breaking away is you can start new traditions. One of the traditions my family has now is New Year's Eve. When we were newlyweds, my wife and I shared a lobster tail and a bottle of wine on our first New Year's Eve. That has now grown to include two children, two basset hounds and a feast. For our feast we have wine, lobster, shrimp, crab, pate, prime rib, cheeses and fruit (stilton cheese and apples is fantastic!), carmelized salmon and this year we are adding caviar (it's great with chilled vodka). We eat on it for a couple of days afterward, but I look forward to it all year.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
I'm going to an early fireworks display, in town, followed by visiting a friend, for the night. We intend drinking and partying until dawn, then sleeping a little. Somewhere in the middle we shall doa little first-footing.
Scotland, traditionally, has a party that lasts for days.
I just hope I'm in a fit state to go to work on Monday...
Only a few hours left!!!
Hey Minimus!
Are you going to do anything special tonight? Are you going to brave the wilds of New York and go to see the ball drop? Well, whatever you do, I hope you have a great 2003!
Take care my friend
Chris
