What did you do for New Year's Eve?

Nothing, yet

So far (it is early a.m. of New Year's Eve as I write this) I will probably stay home and possibly go to bed before midnight. I will have eggnog and/or wine and probably watch some news on TV. I will also probably listen to music or a music video for a while, whilst playing on my computer. I would rather just watch the revelers on TV than be out there in the middle of a rowdy, inebriated crowd on a cold and possibly rainy night.

It kind of still hasn't happened, but although I did make plans, I don't want to go through with them. I just want to stay at home and continue with my normal do-nothing-whole-day routine. The reason is that I finally got my sleeping pattern back to normal (meaning, I don't go to bed at 6 am and wake at 1pm) and I don't want to do anytyhing to put it in hazard.

nothing yet but will be going out to dinner and drinking with some friends hopefully!!!

Nothing as of yet. This should have been created to qualify Jan. 1st so you would have some answers. As is, it's not even 10:30 a.m. where I'm at. Around here celebrations don't happen until evening time.

We are at home. Mireille just made sushi and we have beer, vodka, Red Bull, Bacardi Breezers, champagne, French cheese, paté, filet américain....

Let 2005 begin!

Well, it hasn't happened yet, but we're scheduled to babysit & take those kids to our friends house. I'm making cookies as I write this.

Are you going to mix vodka and Red Bull?

Most likely everything that's not on this list...Packing up my apartment and working. Then perhaps, after work, I'll partake in some semi-drunken festivities at a friends house.

filet américain....

...is that like a cheeseburger royale ???

What would the USA equivalent be if you know? I'm guessing it's a cut of steak?

Yes, for Mireille. I just drink Heineken and Duvel (Belgian beer).

Do you drink vodka/Red Bull?

No, it's not a steak or anything. It is meat, but I don't know the American equivalent.

shopped....went to moms...came home...got on the computer...pretty average..

i get back to you on that. someone please remind me.

I never tried Red Bull. It's kind of expensive here and not very popular with the 'common' people. They serve it in clubs to which I don't go since I'm not yet of legal age. However, you can't get it in PEI because all pop in cans is illegal.
There is another drink here, it's called Rev. It's kind of similar to Red Bull and vodka, because it's alcohol but it has caffeine in it and it's supposed to be an energizing drink.

Yes, that's what it is. An energizing drink. It's too sweet for me, but Mireille loves it. Especially with vodka.

Why is pop in cans illegal?

You would have gotten better responses if you had created this so that it qualified on New Year's Day and then we would have been in a better position to share what we did with you. As is the evening isn't over yet and who knows what will happen?

As far as I understand, this company has a monopoly over PEI. You can only get pop in glass bottles. I know it tastes better, but I don't feel as safe tucking my glass bottle into my bag like I would do with a plastic bottle.

Watched tv and surfed the net. I dont go out. Road blocks everywhere, especially along the Iowa-Missouri state line and the Illinois-Missouri state line.and Iowa-Illinois state line. At Gulfport Illinois clubs and bars a lot of people go there because of the live entertainment, and strip joints so the cops will be waiting for those people when they come out of the parking lots.

Very well then

Perhaps what we call a fillet minon...a roundish cut of beef, with the out circle wrapped in bacon?

No...
This is what it looks like: http://www.fleurieus.nl/fotos/030430/33T90002.jpg

You don't eat it for dinner, but at night, watching a movie or something. Like French cheese you eat it with a glass of wine.

I was at my boyfriend's house with him and his family.

ahhh, ok

Stayed home, watched TV, watched the fireworks (in our new apartment, we got a great view of the downtown fireworks from our balconies!), ate pork and sauerkraut at midnight.

Stayed home. I had driven home from LA, so I was tired and had a nasty headache. My SO and I watched "So I Married an Axe-Murderer." I went to bed a little before midnight, although I was still (barely) awake at midnight, reading.

Is there some special significance to pork and sauerkraut at midnight?

Made a vegetable lasagna for tea to teach my mum how. Stayed at home and watched Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with my mother and younger brother (with my father snoring in the corner). Watched some news. Had a shower. Watched the silence in London then Big Ben striking strike and brief firework display (the big 10 minute display had been cancelled) on the TV. Sat in bed and watched episodes 5 - 8 of Alias season 2

Not much. Usually one of my friends will have a party. I haven't had to plan anything for New Year's for 15 years, perhaps. My girlfriend is in town right now, and I was hoping that we could go to a party together or something. Unfortunately, there was no party and both of us have colds, so we didn't even get together. I probably had my most boring and uneventful New Year's Eve of my entire life. I mucked around on the computer for a while, went to bed early and read a book.

I went to my boyfriend's party. It was so much fun. His friends think I'm "wild". Clearly they didn't know me when I was single.

I don't know what the significance is, but it seems to be very common for people to eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's. I think the sauerkraut is for prosperity, don't remember what the pork is for.

Wife was on the phone doging at a mail order place, I was trying to look up something on the internet. Only way I knew it was the new year was by the fireworks people shot off in the neighborhood. We didn't even bother to say Happy New Year to each other. Bah humbug II.

Never heard of eating anything special for New Year's. We had frozen mushroom and spinach pizza.

went to a wedding., came home and hung out with family and did our christmas with them and drank white russians.

Watched the Countdown on CNN.

You crazy Canadians. Glass bottles are a fad now, and the cost is about $1 more for a 6-pack, and you get less. Interesting how that works

Sorry...

I wanted to get it to edit it one more time, last night, but my OLD computer was just too #&@*(#$&@#&$-ing F*#&*#*&ed Up to get online.

I've never heard of that before. The only New Year's tradition I know about it kissing someone at midnight. I wonder what kinds of other traditions there are.

I used to think it was just a family thing, but quite a few people I know do the pork and sauerkraut thing. Pizza sounds good! (Don't care for spinach myself, though).

The kissing thing is a tradition too, although we didn't do it this year, since I stayed home with my mom, sister, and cat! There is probably some way to look up New Year traditions online.

Sounds like you should have asked Santa Claus for a new computer.

Watched a neighbors fireworks and learned rules for LOR Risk.

I'm sure there is! I'm just lazy!

Decided it was bed time when the sun started coming up.

> Sounds like you should have asked Santa Claus for a new computer.

Oh, I did... I did...

and he delivered!!!

me too

went out to dinner and then went home, watched some movies and had a wild trip

I guess they're heavier and harder to transport because they're fragile.

probably so, hence why there's a contract up there...more profit

Shot off fireworks, watched TV, bought a car, worked that day so was in bed by 8

I fell asleep watching Arrested Development. I woke up eleven minutes after midnight. To celebrate I rolled over.

My new years was uneventful I stayed home. Away from trouble, It was a nice change of pace.

I was cutting studio prints apart from each other as the new year came in. neighbors were shooting fireworks, so i looked out the window.

Were you a bad boy? Did he give you coal instead?

Played pool and ate hor d'oeuvres at a friend's house, sort of a mini party with a few close friends. That's about it.

Babysat for some friends as i was 6 months pregnant and didn't want to go out.