I love the 'clean slate' feel about New Year's Day. I like planning things and there's something about the New Year that gets me off me bum and up and doing stuff ...... until about mid Feb. Then I'm back to normal again.
I love New Year. It always marks a time for change. If the previous year has been bad, then you can say goodbye to it forever at the stroke of Midnight and start afresh.
You can do the same thing with any second of any day of any year though. You can simply choose your own moment in which to say...
I always think New Year is a sad time, well for me anyway. I always think of my dad and the people who are not here anymore.
Its also just a painful reminder that, yet again, I'm starting another year as a single person.
I used to go to my sisters New Year party but got fed up of being stuck in a corner on my own surrounded by couples. Even when the clock stuck NewYear no one wished me a Happy New Year. I just got fed up and now I just stay at home, get my children to bed and watch a dvd.
I always think New Year is a sad time, well for me anyway. I always think of my dad and the people who are not here anymore.
Its also just a painful reminder that, yet again, I'm starting another year as a single person.
I used to go to my sisters New Year party but got fed up of being stuck in a corner on my own surrounded by couples. Even when the clock stuck NewYear no one wished me a Happy New Year. I just got fed up and now I just stay at home, get my children to bed and watch a dvd.
How mean! How could people be so unaware? Why are some people so self-involved?
I treat it much like 'christmas' and don't get worked up about it.
Tomorrow I shall likely leave work early and meet up with a couple of friends. We shall go in to the evening and maybe through to midnight, but we may break up about 21.00 and head home - whatever........
If I'm at home I may stay up or - if feeling tired - go to bed.
If another 'event' appeared that was convenient (the key is either local or with a space to crash - not giving money to the minicab muggers that night) I might go.
I look forward to four or five weeks time when the days are getting notably longer we are on the cusp of the chance of the odd nice 'spring like' day.
i've managed not to murder my MIL in 2010 so it hasn't been too bad a year!
I'm really excited about 2011 tho - we will get our full house plans submitted and hopefully our foundations in, and i am going to try my best to get a full time permanent job close to home
This year I am, we don't do much on the eve but the last fee weeks have been so sucky and I have been quite poorly, in the last 5 weeks I have been out 5 times! I hope the next year can bring a lot better for us all.
There is something incredibly depressing about the whole thing, or perhaps that just my state of mind, I dunno...
I don't drink and the thought of an evening stuffed with over-inebriated idiots all being happy and jolly fills me with dread. It feels like a whole lot of hype for very little. January just drags on, cold, grey, everyone skint from Christmas and d'ya know what? It carries on into February, then March, and its not until then that the weather improves a tiny bit I start to even feel like its a new year.
Like I say, perhaps its just me, but I really hate New Year - its not so much as fresh beginnings but saying good bye, over and over again
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Yeah, that's the little bastard, just hearing your description makes me want to hang myself :mad:
You can do the same thing with any second of any day of any year though. You can simply choose your own moment in which to say...
Me too. Although I love the cold weather. The colder the better as far as I'm concerned.
Its also just a painful reminder that, yet again, I'm starting another year as a single person.
I used to go to my sisters New Year party but got fed up of being stuck in a corner on my own surrounded by couples. Even when the clock stuck NewYear no one wished me a Happy New Year. I just got fed up and now I just stay at home, get my children to bed and watch a dvd.
Also as a gardener, I look forward to early spring, when the first bulbs start to flower.
Tomorrow I shall likely leave work early and meet up with a couple of friends. We shall go in to the evening and maybe through to midnight, but we may break up about 21.00 and head home - whatever........
If I'm at home I may stay up or - if feeling tired - go to bed.
If another 'event' appeared that was convenient (the key is either local or with a space to crash - not giving money to the minicab muggers that night) I might go.
I look forward to four or five weeks time when the days are getting notably longer we are on the cusp of the chance of the odd nice 'spring like' day.
I'm really excited about 2011 tho - we will get our full house plans submitted and hopefully our foundations in, and i am going to try my best to get a full time permanent job close to home
There is something incredibly depressing about the whole thing, or perhaps that just my state of mind, I dunno...
I don't drink and the thought of an evening stuffed with over-inebriated idiots all being happy and jolly fills me with dread. It feels like a whole lot of hype for very little. January just drags on, cold, grey, everyone skint from Christmas and d'ya know what? It carries on into February, then March, and its not until then that the weather improves a tiny bit I start to even feel like its a new year.
Like I say, perhaps its just me, but I really hate New Year - its not so much as fresh beginnings but saying good bye, over and over again