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to not give two little pins about New Years.....

38 replies

JosieRosie · 28/12/2011 13:01

...and be considering going to bed at 11pm? Grin

I can't stand the enforced jollity so never go out, but actually feel like I don't want anything to do with celebrating the passing of this year. I'm looking forward to Xmas being over and getting back to normal and would rather just get on with things rather than looking back. It's been quite a shitty year.

AIBU? Will you be whooping it up come midnight on NYE? Smile

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HairyNigel · 28/12/2011 13:06

I'm not to fussed about it either, it's just a new day. DP loves it though do we have a babysitter and are going to a house party.

troisgarcons · 28/12/2011 13:07

Prefer New Year to Christmas - but that must be the Scot in me.

Ambi · 28/12/2011 13:09

Agree OP except we're having a few friends round this year. Not fussed about it but glad of the bank holiday.

StealthPolarBear · 28/12/2011 13:09

It's been a shitty year so I'm looking forward to celebrating it ending and hopefully a better one for us all in 2012.
That said "celebrating" involves DH and I watching a film (last couple of years have been SATC, this year is the Inbetweeners film), drinking champagne or a couple of cocktails and then going to bed at about half past midnight.

MissMogwi · 28/12/2011 13:11

I'm a right misery, I hate New Year. I can't stand the enforced 'fun'. People think it's because I am a sad lonely spinster, (which I am of course) but I've always hated it.

I will be watching telly and mumsnetting, the DC can stay up a bit later and I'll do a little buffet for us. That will be enough fun for me Grin

idlevice · 28/12/2011 13:13

YANBU, I can't be doing with it either - last year we turned down the chance to watch the Sydney harbour fireworks from a penthouse flat in the city cos just not interested. Only time I slightly enjoyed it was late teens when it was an excuse to get a kiss off people I secretly fancied, incl my mates' boyfriends I recall!

ReshapeWhileDashingThroTheSnow · 28/12/2011 13:17

JosieRosie, I am SO with you on this one! And I also like the phrase 'two little pins'. Grin

I have never been arsed about NYE or any of that. I love Christmas, birthdays and other holidays, but I just hate the enforced Whooping that goes with NYE. As a child, we used to drive into London to eat at a swank Chinese restaurant on New Year's Day (there are no Chinese restaurants in Surrey, apparently) and it was always bloody miserable. All of us feeling post-Christmassy and fed up.

I have probably been to bed before midnight more often than I've bothered to stay up and see the new year in. If that makes me a grumpy old cow, then so be it.

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JosieRosie · 28/12/2011 13:22

'feeling post-Christmassy and fed up'

That's exactly it, Reshape! Fed up to the back teeth of the whole flaming thing. Right, that's it - I'm going to cook a nice dinner, have a glass or two of wine, watch a bit of Hootenanny and go to bed at a reasonable hour. Then go out for a nice long run the next morning and act like it's just any other day. Maybe you are a grumpy old cow Reshape, I know I am and I'm not remotely bothered! Grin

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StealthPolarBear · 28/12/2011 13:23

MissM that sounds fantastic. And OP I agree - I will not be drinking enough to feel rough the next day, and will be perfectly happy with that. I too will go out for a run!

NinkyNonker · 28/12/2011 13:28

I've always found it an anti climax tbh, though when younger it was am excuse to see friends at an otherwise family time of year.

May actually go out this year for a quiet drink with old friends before probably going to bed about 10...am pregnant and dd will be awake before 7 whatever we do!

OrmIrian · 28/12/2011 13:31

Nope. Quite agree.

What exactly are we all celebrating? I guess some people look at 1st Jan as a clean slate, I see it as the bottom of a hill that has to be climbed all over again. Which makes me sound a real bucket of misery - I am not really, I just hate the beginning of the year. Once autumn and christmas (which I usually love) is over I would happily hibernate until march.

OrmIrian · 28/12/2011 13:32

Best NY eve for me was when I was expecting DS1 - we had a meal together at home, went to local for a drink and then came home to watch everyone else's fireworks from our bedroom window.

We will be going out to a friend's house and will enjoy the party but we;ll have the DC with us so will be home by 11pm.

ReshapeWhileDashingThroTheSnow · 28/12/2011 13:37

I'd much rather celebrate the beginning of the new year when it feels like a beginning - i.e. spring. In Iran, they've celebrated New Year in early spring for millennia (think it's a Zoroastrian thing) with lots of 'beginning of the agricultural year' iconography and food. Makes sense to me.

Bloody Romans and their stupid calendars.

OrmIrian · 28/12/2011 13:39

Yes reshape. When things start to happen in the natural world not in the dead cold depths of winter.

ElizabethDarcy · 28/12/2011 13:41

NYE means nothing to us. We usually just head off to bed after some vino and cheese crackers at 9pm. This year we will take a thermos of coffee and head out to a lovely viewpoint over the Thames to watch the fireworks. That's a lot for us! haha

Bunbaker · 28/12/2011 13:42

"I'm a right misery, I hate New Year. I can't stand the enforced 'fun'."

Same here. I always feel that everyone else is having fun and I'm not. We don't usually bother, but try to stay up and watch Jools Holland. Last year OH went to bed at about 10pm. We were staying at MIL's house and there was nowhere else for me to go so I sat in the kitchen reading a magazine (DD was asleep in the front room, OH asleep in the guest bedroom and MIL asleep in hers). I am never spendin new year at MIL's again!

This year, however, we have some friends coming round so that will make a nice change.

Motherofhobbit · 28/12/2011 13:50

Not a fan of New Year either. If you go out everything is overpriced and there's always some awful man who tries to slobber all over you at midnight.
I've always felt the best way to celebrate the new year is with a good night's sleep so you're all fresh and ready to go on New Years Day Grin

OrmIrian · 28/12/2011 13:51

Now Jools Holland is one of the reasons I hate NYE! Grin

mrsjay · 28/12/2011 13:51

Dh is on call this year so im not that fussed no plans will stay up for the bells im scottish its the law you have to stya up for the bells Xmas Grin but will be in bed by 12 30 ,

MinnieBar · 28/12/2011 13:55

I'm always in bed by 11pm on NYE (loads of fun, me).

And then I always get woken up by the bloomin church bells and fireworks going off at midnight, followed by the wait to see if the DCs wake up also.

Over-priced over-hyped and not actually fun IMHO

BleurghUna · 28/12/2011 13:56

YANBU. I hate all those New Year's Eve parties that I never get invited to

MissMogwi · 28/12/2011 13:59

I have just remembered I got Dr Zhivago on DVD for Xmas, so I will be watching that now. Really, it's non stop excitement chez Mogwi.

As I live on a main road I will also be listening to many, many pissed up arguments from those out having fun. Good times.

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JosieRosie · 28/12/2011 13:59

OrmIrian, Jools is one of the few things I don't mind about NY! Why do you hate him so??? Smile

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Molehillmountain · 28/12/2011 13:59

As long as you're not a professional and deliberate misery about it like my dad and don't go on and on about it with people who enjoy celebrating then off to bed with your cocoa and my blessing! Dad makes such a thing about how pointless it is that I get a bit frustrated by him.

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JosieRosie · 28/12/2011 14:00

Mogwi, it's fun being a sad git so long as you can laugh at yourself Grin - take it from one who knows!

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