How are you guys bringing in the new year?

This year we decided to invite some friends and their kids over.  We usually spend it alone here at home.

Curious how you (and your family) are going to bring in 2019.

I’m staying home. We have some doctor appointments in the morning, a few things to do around the house then I’m making dinner and probably watching movies until the Honeymooners marathon starts.

Heading to my old bass player's house, which has become a bit of a tradition, although this year will be somewhat subdued as we lost one friend to cancer and another to some seriously poor life choices. 

I'll be flying a planeload of passengers from SFO to BOS taking off at 2330. Sigh. Hopefully they rock the E36 M3 out of the flight.

Me and my twins will watch the ball drop. My wife is working an extra overnight too make up for my injured ass being off work.

If i were you I would get the kids to bed early and ride the 11:45 to poundtown

The midnight celebration means I can now go to bed.   I’m not a night owl.  

Patrick said:

If i were you I would get the kids to bed early and ride the 11:45 to poundtown

 

I think I'm the pilot on that flight. Hahaha

I'm pretty boring, I'm usually asleep by the time midnight rolls around.

stuart in mn said:

I'm pretty boring, I'm usually asleep by the time midnight rolls around.

That's how I brought in 2017, Asleep on the couch. It's also how my wife brought in 2018. We're usually pretty boring.

Watching Die Hard via video chat with my wife who is 300+ miles away at the moment. We're aiming to drop Hans Gruber off Nakatomi Plaza at the stroke of midnight. I plan on drinking beer and eating frozen taquitos.

stuart in mn said:

I'm pretty boring, I'm usually asleep by the time midnight rolls around.

This has been our tradition for the past oh say fifteen years or so. But the wife has made friends and they invited us over for beer pong and Shanghai rummy. I'm not particularly looking forward to it and predict I'll be looking for a bed by ten o'clock.

We generally either go to a concert or stay in. We will be staying in this year-or, at most, have 1-2 couples over or go over to one of their houses. I’ll be in bed by 12:30 either way. 

slefain said:

Watching Die Hard via video chat with my wife who is 300+ miles away at the moment. We're aiming to drop Hans Gruber off Nakatomi Plaza at the stroke of midnight. I plan on drinking beer and eating frozen taquitos.

Protip: The taquitos will be better if you heat them up.  

working.  well if I just got done working tonight when I'm technically suspended I might as well work NYE which I haven't given a ' Hootenanny ' about since I was a teen.  meh.  too late for a ' bah humbug '?  

This new year partying with family and close friends. Happy new year in advance.

Probably stay in and play video games with the wife. Since the next day is my birthday we do the fun stuff then lol

Haven't decided yet. My drinking buddy/musician friend has a gig tonight at a new years bash thing in Bowling Green. Trying to decide between going to that or staying home and having a few quiet drinks. Leaning towards the latter because there is less work and idiots involved. 

We are doing the usual New Years Eve oyster roast. This should be the 25th year. Just a handful of friends hanging out and eating food. For some reason it winds up earlier than it used to. There is a good chance I'll be in bed before midnight.

I'll fix a fancy dinner (usually crab cakes, but we had those for Christmas Eve so tonight it'll be venison steaks).  After we put the kids to bed, wife and I sit down and watch some movie and go over our finances for the past year.  We keep a spreadsheet tracking the past 4 or 5 years since we started doing this, and see where we are compared to 12/31 of last year in terms of debt, savings, and assets.  

Then we watch the ball drop, kiss, have some Prosecco (champagne is overrated), and go to bed around 12:21AM.

Tomorrow I'm going to load up all the scrap metal to do a recycling run later this week.  I bet there's 2 tons of scrap metal, so that'll be some good money in exchange for the yard being cleaned up (some).

And we'll have Brats and Kraut and greens for dinner.  

In reply to volvoclearinghouse :

Reminded me to go put the venison in to marinate.  Done. :-)

Today I'm working on the 9" in the garage.  Boys headed down the street to Grandma's and Grandpa's house for dinner and NYE shenanigans.  My wife and I will probably have a quiet dinner at home this year.  Everybody's back to school and work on the 2nd.

We usually get Chinese food and may or may not make midnight, we hardly ever go out (some call it amateur night).

Wish we had a Thai restaurant nearby, Chinese is salty.  Instead cooking butternut squash ravioli in a cream sauce with Italian sausage and brazed butternut cubes on top with a nice bottle of wine.  Bing watching Angie Tribeca.

Happy New Year!

Dan

We are having friends over.  All the kids hang out and play games, us old people usually stay in the kitchen and talk.  Then we watch the ball drop and go to bed.

slefain said:

Watching Die Hard via video chat with my wife who is 300+ miles away at the moment. We're aiming to drop Hans Gruber off Nakatomi Plaza at the stroke of midnight. I plan on drinking beer and eating frozen taquitos.

WINNING!!!