If you are going out to a club dancing I WANT to hear about it.
But I also want to hear about what you’re eating, watching or doing even if you’re going to bed at 9pm.
H and I will be home with our dog and we are pup sitting our son/DIL’s dog. So hoping for not too many fireworks to worry the pups.
I’m thinking of making Mexican. Tostadas, fresh salsa, guacamole. Maybe watch When Harry Met Sally (it was on my holiday watch list) or watch some of the new Queer Eye season. Probably in bed 10pm to read!!
We’re just taking jalapeno poppers across the street to our neighbor’s 4-8PM NYE open house. We’ll catch up with all the neighbors we’ve missed during our summer in Maine. Bedtime as usual, not staying up, rarely do.
Big event today is Michigan vs. Alabama. GO BLUE!
(Due to the party across the street, DH decided to do our traditional NYE lamb dinner tomorrow instead of tonight.)
We never have New Years Eve plans, but this year our neighbor invited us to dinner, and like an idiot I said I would bring a Fortune Cake. I say like an idiot because now I am in the painful phase of trying to come up with amusing fortunes. I am attempting to tie them to current events in a nonpolitical way. Wish me luck!
We have plans for a 7 pm dinner at a restaurant we can walk to (just the two of us - did this last year also). We will come back and open some bubbly at midnight and then go to bed. We are late owls, so we are usually up after midnight on a regular night. I think there will also be lots of college football watching today.
Along with their NYE plans, perhaps posters here could supply some relevant fortune cookie messages for you @cinnamon1212. Like: The tide is turning. Buy flood insurance.
We’re at my in-law’s house in VA so we’ll just sit on the couch and watch Anderson Cooper & Andy Cohen on CNN until the ball drop. I love Anderson’s giggle as he drinks more throughout the night. Dry January starts at the stroke of midnight, so I’ll sip some good bourbon until then.
We are hosting a small group of friends for dinner tonight. Lots of food issues to navigate so I’m keeping it simple. Artichoke dip, tomato/mozzarella/pesto bites, charcuterie/cheese platter and puffed pastry “straws” for apps; veggie soup shooter with a cheesy pretzel bread for the amuse; a “winter salad” with pomegranate seeds, apples, walnuts and goat cheese; herbed stuffed Cornish game hens w/roasted potatoes and garlic green beans. Friends are bringing the desserts. We have nice champagne and lots of adult beverages ; ). Should be a fun night!
Since I was in Austin on vacation the past two weeks, today and tomorrow are full work days. We are taping college football games and will watch them at some point. I’m a night owl, so we will probably ring in the new year with a glass of wine. Our son asked if he could stay with us a few days after our return from Texas, so he’ll be with us to celebrate.
Kids with their SO and our two years old GD be here tonight. We meet at 9pm and stay a little past midnight. Food is mostly hot and cold appetizers with dessert served at the first minutes of 2025.
I’ll be joining a friend for a late afternoon showing of the Bob Dylan biopic; then we’ll head to a wonderful local dumpling place.
I’ll be home when the ball drops, but likely not awake.
We go to neighborhood party every year. We’re very lucky to have that one family that loves to host parties and as a result we reciprocate and so do a few others and we wind up having a social neighborhood. The original partiers host NYE and we celebrate Chicago New Years (we live on the west coast) and are home by 11pm. It used to be a wilder night but those days appear to be over!
Our bffs are skiing so will not join us for the traditional steamed dumplings and fixings dinner I usually make. I was hoping to cut down on my food prep efforts by suggesting crab legs, and Mr. got completely on board with that, but apparently everyone else had the same idea so no crab legs to be found anywhere. Oh well. Dumplings it is. We will stay up until Hawaii rings in the new year and then hibernate.
We are going to H’s buddy’s house for New Year’s Eve. The older folks sit around and talk and younger ones go downstairs and play board games and eat tons of desserts. H is making mochi rice with chinese sausage. People stay or leave as long as they choose. The older folks have known each other for decades.
Tomorrow, we have brunch at my brother’s. I already made 6# of yellow potatoes into potato salad. Niece’s new boyfriend will be there again and my S and DIL will meet him (since they were in Maui the other day when many of us met him).
We will be at home, watching Anderson and Andy. I made a prime rib for Christmas using a Downshiftology recipe and her suggestion for leftovers was prime rib tacos! So we’ll be having those and a few dumplings. I rarely make it to midnight - who knows, this year may be an exception.
About to blow open the doors to anyone who celebrates “junk-food New Year’s” like we do. We hardly ever go out for New Year’s (fireworks holidays are not my favorite), and we have adapted a custom from my childhood family. It started one year when they bought one “junky” item requested by each person (5 people). As well as I remember, it was Oreos, shrimp cocktail, Cheetos puffs (maybe cheese and crackers as well). When we kept up the tradition of junk food once I married my husband and had a child, we ended up doing things like chips and queso (queso dip is usually a no-go food in our diet) and shrimp. We’re not going full-on tonight, but we will still go junky! We picked up deli fried chicken, and mac and cheese. Only heating required for tonight–and we’ll sit in front of the TV and pile on some media junk as well!
We will be with 4 other couples at one of their homes, bringing apps, host is ordering from a local place. We’ll play games, lots of conversation. Really looking forward to it.
