Whatcha Doin' New Years Eve?

[frigilux]

I'll go first: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I'm not going anywhere, no one's coming over. It'll just be me, the iPod, the TV and a late-night dinner of bbq ribs. It's not that I'm anti-social; I had my new year's eve on Friday. I was in Minneapolis and found out my favorite Minneapolis band, Tapes 'n' Tapes, was playing at First Avenue. So I went with a friend and had a great time. In fact, I was supposed to be in Minneapolis til Monday afternoon, but the threat of a winter storm down in my corner of the state convinced me to point The Mighty Geo homeward and batten down the hatches at Casa del Frigilux.

The wind and freezing rain have already begun. The bare trees are making the wildest sound---sort of like crushing potato chips into a microphone. We're supposed to have upwards of 6 to 8 inches of snow by tomorrow afternoon.

For many years I played at new year's eve gigs and drank and drugged enough for three. Now that I'm straight-edge, I enjoy just having a few people in and making a great meal for them---and letting them get bombed, then driving them home. But even THAT's not happening this year.

So, what are YOU up to tonight? And HAPPY NEW YEAR to all you zany folk at AW. Hope 2007 brings you good health and relative happiness.

 

[tolivac]

Work the mid shift-lets see-holiday pay!night Dif pay!

 

[aquarius1984]

with family and friends at the local non smoking bar for a james bond theme evening. Undecided between 007 himself and oddjob. Cant find a bowler hat for love nor money. Either way my brother in law and myself intend on crawling home. The crazy thing also is im going to colour my usually mucky blonde hair to a darker colour which will be interesting. Did i just say that? LOL Nick

 

[polkanut]

My wife and I are going to one our local ballrooms for their New Year's party. For $45 a couple you get reserved seating, buffet, open bar excluding ice cream drinks, and a live band (polka), and hats and noisemakers at midnight. Doors open @ 7pm, and it goes until 1am. We've done this for the last 7yrs. and have always had a great time. They only sell 250 tickets to keep the crowd a comfortable size.

 

[mattywashboy]

doing nothing, sitting here with a bowl of supermarket brand candy after finishing my umpteenth load of new year laundry, everythings nice and fresh for the new year. Might consider wandering down to the party my parents are at but then again i might just stick on The Sims 2 and play that for a while.

 

[hoover1060]

dinner out with the BF, and then a party at a friend of his house.

GregM is in town too, we're gonna meet up with him downtown sometime tomorrow.

 

[scott55405]

Frigilux, every time I read a post like yours it once again reaffirms that I made the right decision. Ish! Seems like you'd had a fairly pleasant Christmas weatherwise in Minnesota and Illinois, and according to MSN, it's fairly pleasant for the north in Omaha, where a few friends are gathering.

I might go to the 4:30 showing of Dreamgirls, but then I'm coming home and a friend my join me here. Whether he does or not, I will relax, perhaps watch a movie or two, switching later to New Years Rockin Eve because it's what I do, have some pizza and that's about it!

I'm always either at home or someone's house on New Years Eve, and only if that someone is very nearby. A lot of years back there the weather was horrible and even if it wasn't I didn't want to drive. One year I went to a movie with friends then we went to Nye's. That was a lot of fun, but overall going out on New Year's Eve does nothing for me.

 

[scott55405]

Polkanut, that sounds like a lot of fun. Very reasonably priced for what you get and the fun you can have, and it's nice that they limit it so it doesn't get too full inside. Although, the aforementioned Nye's, which is located in Minneapolis, always had a polka band on weekends and a dance floor about the size of my dinette area. It was always jammed to the rafters to where you could barely move, but it was fun.

 

[polkanut]

The buffet has everything from shrimp cocktail, swedish meatballs, assorted desserts, to wildcat w/ cocktail rye squares, ham & scalloped potatoes, chips, pickles, etc.

 

[frigilux]

This winter has been very warm and mild. In fact, the past two weekends we should have had a foot of snow when in fact it rained. Not even freezing rain, just plain old rain. We had two inches of rain Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning, before I got home from Minneapolis.

Today is the first day that even remotely resembles winter. We're now in a heavy snow warning for tonight into tomorrow, so I pulled out the snow blower and fired her up in the driveway for 10 minutes to blow the carbon out of it and make sure the remnants of last winter's gasoline was through its system. It's REALLY coming down out there and the wind is blowing hard. I was wondering if we were ever going to get winter this year.

At any rate, I'll be blowing drifts out of my driveway early tomorrow morning.
It sure beats shoveling.

 

[scott55405]

Absolutely! We had one of those, I think it was from Montgomery Wards. It was red as well. Took my father a long time to break down and buy one (and the winters were much, much worse then) but I know he was really glad once he did.

 

[polkanut]

It's raining fairly steady here right now, temp is 37*F. They're saying the temp will start to drop after 4pm. Should make for some interesting driving to say the least.

 

[exploder3211]

The Mighty GEO and the Mighty Snapper!

LoL

ME? I wanted to go out of town, however all that changed when the Mighty Explorer broke.. LoL... SO i will be home for another new years... Thats ok... I have the sims, prsion tycoon and music and a few dvds and my cad program and who can forget how much i post here at the AW.org ranch!

PS: Try and keep the snow up there.,... YUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

 

[appnut]

Nada, zip, zilch, nothing for me. A typical quiet evening at home. I'll make a pot of chili though!!

 

[frigilux]

Tim-- Your ballroom night sounds great! You two have fun and drive carefully----it might be a slippery drive home.

Scott-- You mean you don't miss the howling winds and frigid temps of Minnesota winters, LOL? I'm either too stupid or too stubborn to move.

Chad-- As a kid, winter was my favorite season. Now that I'm about to turn 48, I'm kinda glad global warming was tempered our normally fierce winters. But it just didn't seem right not to have snow on the ground for Christmas again this year. This was every southern Minnesotan's mantra: "It just doesn't feel like Christmas!" I must have heard that---and uttered it, I confess---a thousand times last week.

 

[exploder3211]

I hate snow...

I'd much rather be on the beach or someplace where it;s at leats 50 degrees

 

[DADoES]

Right now a load of dishes is running, and a load of jeans is waiting to go in the F&P, and I've got the Celebrity pulled out ready to go. I'm planning to bake a seasoned pork loin and do a batch of stir fry asparagus veggie mix. A friend made mention yesterday of coming this way to watch a movie, which seems at the moment as if that won't happen. I've got tons of movies need watching so I'm sure I'll do that. Need to check on the grandmother as well. I have to be at work tonight, one or both locations (one of them *must* be attended at or slightly before midnight), which has been the usual pattern for many years. Also work tomorrow. No wild partying here!

 

[scott55405]

Frig, no I don't miss it at all! After people here obligatorily ask me if people really live there, it's oft been my sentiment that Minneapolis would be the perfect city if it were located in Southern California, and I say they would enjoy a visit if they plan it at the right time of year (later spring or early fall, for my part).

Minneapolis and Minnesota are nice places, but for me the trade-offs are simply not worth it. I find the folks who live there most successfully are those that really embrace the variety of weather and change of seasons. I was almost always inside because it was either too hot, too cold, or doing something where I didn't want to drive or be out, and it was more and more the older I got.

I was tired of the clothes, I was tired of scraping my car, and tired of having my life and plans constantly dictated by the whims of weather, and I was becoming a little old lady before my time. The folks who are happy there forge on with their lives regardless of all that, and I just didn't have the motivation.

The same-ness here, which I know is hard on some folks that aren't used to it, really suits me. It rains once in a while, but mostly it's sunny and 70, and I can just go about my business and do what I want and need to do and not think about it.

 

[oxydolfan1]

Painting a radiator cover. Pure Brilliant White.