New Year's Day

The New Year really got here fast, I cannot believe 2010 has already gone by. I hope this will be a better year for the economy.

May 2011 see your dreams fullfilled and lead you down the path your meant to travel.

I gotta try the drunk and molested in public thing in Times Square someday...

we do not make a huge deal of New Year's day. we stay at home watch tv. we are pretty quiet people not much for parties. guess the good thing is to know we made it through another year. good or bad. We hope to stay in pretty good health, employed, and maybe not so expensive this year. we had to take out a loan to pay off stuff we needed to get done and pay off a bill we wanted to go away. we have no resolutions to make. Hope all of you have a Happy new year and a good year to follow.

Some years I'll just stay home and watch movies. I still get plastered so its all good.

NYE gets a lot of flak for being over-hyped. I don't see it that way. It's an excuse to get together with old friends; to set out some resolutions and goals for the new year; and to close out a chapter of your life with a bang. Whether that bang involves a club and an open bar where it's hard to get a drink or some egg nog and a fireplace is up to you. But you shouldn't let this holiday sneak past you without a little reflection and lot of celebration.

Most of the traditions for me have been tied to the night before News Years Day - the high holiday if you will. But the last time I spent the day nursing self-inflicted head wounds from the night before was January 1, 2000. This used to be a bit of a tradition, primarily in the 1980's I suppose. But self-indulgence at that level seems like less of a right passage as we get older. Since then the day generally feels like a new beginning, a day to reflect on the warmth of the previous week of family and friends and the events of the year past, plus a bit of a clean slate for the coming 12 months. We don't mark it with a big dinner or celebration in my family, although we used to. I'm just glad that these days I most often feel good enough on New Years Day to look a drink in the eye and toast to the year ahead.

On New Years Eve I normally stay home, or on occasion attend a house party if invited. I find the self indulgent "look at me" kind of boozing some people do on New Years Eve more pathetic than amusing. If you're going to drink, drink year round, ye pikers. New Years Day I normally rise early, make a luxurious breakfast and enjoy it while contemplating the day and the year ahead. The rest of the day is devoted to a long walk if it isn't raining, some reading, and maybe a few phone calls to distant friends.

For me, it's all about sleeping in, after being up a bit later than usual, the night before.

Oh my aching brain! Could someone turn the sound down on reality please! While your up, could you help me find that finger I blew off last night?

May this year be better than last one for everyone! Peace, Love and Prosperity to all! :)

Happy New Year and all the best in 2010!

my lil sister's b-day

I hope everyone here at RIA has a great new year.

Today is March 25. Historically before 1752, the English considered this day the first day of the new year. March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation, was New Years Day. I did not know this until I was in Windsdor Castle about twenty years ago, and looking at the grave of King Charles I who was beheaded by the Puritans in January, 1649. The gravestone for year of his death reads "1648," and I asked the tour guide what was the difference. She didn't know and it puzzled me for years until I finally found out about the English starting the year on March 25. When the English went from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar, the decree stated that September 2, 1752, should be followed by September 14, 1752, a loss of 11 days, and that the year 1752 would end December 31 instead of the traditional March 24, a loss to the year of nearly 3 months. So the death of King Charles in the Gregorian Calendar was January, 1649, but in England at the time, 1648 did not end until March 24 so ... Read more

Haha, the day when many people start their New Year's Resolutions . . . most of which are also broken before the day is out! (Well, actually, it seems that most New Year's Resolutions are broken before the end of the month, but still, you get my point).

The biggie of them all is Hogmanay in Scotland. I've still never been and would like to be a first footer as I've got dark hair! I worked in the Alps once in a chalet filled with Scots people and if that's anything to go by...whew! Anywhere else, even when you're having fun, it still seems like a bit of an anti-climax once the last firework has fizzled.

Whoopee it's the New Year! There be another one after that, and another one after that. Time to make those resolutions I'll never stick too.

another year of pure hell

Other than making a few New Year's Resolutions and getting the day off, and perhaps maybe a cookout, I don't understand what the big deal is.

I usually avoided New Years like the plague: Drunk drivers, people making too much noise, basically time for all the freaks to come out at night... My opinion changed since 01-01-01. That new years was the real change of the millineum, AND wedding day! My blushing bride and I spent the days leading up to newyears by dumping the kids at the soon to be in/outlaws. then we drove from Sacto Ca to Las Vegas NV starting out in some of the worst tulie fog imaginable (the trick is to get behind a big rig- fifty feet back you could barely see the taillights). We stopped in Pahrump NV (NO! I didn't have a bachelor party at the Chicken Ranch- one of my classmates is an accomplisned seamstress, and she made my wife her wedding dress.)on the way into Vegas- We now know how to beat holiday traffic on I-15! We met quite an assortment of characters in the county clerk's office when we got our license (people from scandanavian countries, some biker types with their gothic babes... a little bit of every... Read more

This is the most over rated holiday. There's really nothing to celebrate here. So, its a new year. Who cares? So many people get drunk and end up getting into accidents or killed. Too much excitement over nothing.

New Years can be a special time of year. I spent this New Years with the man that I love, so that made it really special and we stayed up till 5/6am New Years Day talking about anything and everything. We stayed in bed till the afternoon and then I cooked us a roast dinner after I had gotten over my hangover. We watched TV and just enjoyed eachothers company. Magic.

Okay, I can see why some people would really like this holiday. Lord knows I've had bad years and couldn't wait to start a new one. However, this comes just a week after the biggest one of them all--Christmas. Do we really need to make a big deal out of another one so soon?

PARTY!

If you don't like college football, not much to celebrate.

It opens up a new chapter of history, but really not much is altered. It is a bit disappointing after the anticipation of New Year's Eve.

My new years was cool we went to cambridge and checked in an the amerihost inn.As I entered the hotel thoright one of the side keycard doorson Nwe Years' Eve, I noticed it was really neat looking inside like all hotels are, kinda looks the cross between a buisness and a house, basically like all hotels are. As son as we got there, Me and my mom decided to get somehting form K-Mart accross the street. So we got our stuff that we needed from K-Mart and we got some food from the Burger King that was across form K-Mart. So as we headed back, one of the hotel people said "hi" to me and mom and we said "hi" back. We felt kinda wierd because we lived just 30 miles away form where we lived and we was staying at A hotel! Ok enought jibber, let's get to the parts that matter shall we?! Then we decided to go to the pool. It was cool getting to swim in a nice heated pool in the middle of the winter when it was 30 degrees outside. the pool was a little to tiny and too warm but it was still refreshi... Read more

Usually, a day of recovery. Nice to have an extra day off. I always try to play "New Year's Day" by U2 every New Year's Day. A little reminder, "Nothing changes on New Year's Day."

Nothing at all happens on this day? What is fun?

I think how you rate New Year's Day probably depends on where you are in life. If you are still in the party years, it is probably more a necessary recovery period than a true holiday. Generally, we don’t do much other than eat some of the traditional foods legnded to bring health, luck, happiness, and of course money. Not that we actually believe that, it’s just a little fun thing and an excuse to eat some good ol fattenin foods. For those of us in our thoughtful introspective years, it can be a profound day of reviewing the year past and preparing the mind to begin a new year.