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Anyone else really, really hate New Year's Eve? Come and join me and feel miserable.

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BeckyBendyLegs · 31/12/2008 10:31

I feel as if I am an alien. I don't like New Year's Eve at all and DH thinks I am miserable. The only other person I know who hates New Year's Eve is my mum! Everyone else seems to really like it. I don't get it. I've never liked it. I hate the feeling of 'you must enjoy' about it and the 'oooh a new year hooray' stuff and I always feel crap on New Year's Day due to too much drink and lack of sleep. We are having some friends over tonight, which is nice but I'd just rather go to bed by myself at 9pm with a good book and a hot chocolate than get dressed up, eat nice food, drink champagne and stay up until 2am being jolly. Does anyone else feel like me? Or am I really just a miserable old cow!

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OneLieIn · 31/12/2008 10:32

truthfully, miserable!

evaangel · 31/12/2008 10:33

I will join in being miserable with you
I have not been well, so I am waiting for the year to end

OrmIrian · 31/12/2008 10:35

I don't like it either becky. It means nothing to me. I don't like the idea of starting the year all over again iyswim. But since I've given up on staying up till midnight it's much nicer. We go to friends with DC in tow, eat and drink and spend time in good company, then bugger off back home at about 10.

Then get kept awake till 2am by fireworks

Best New Year was when I was hugely pregnant with no 1 baby. We had a nice meal, went to the pub and I got given drunken childcare advice by many happy people, went home had 1 glass of champagne and went to bed after watching everyone else' fireworks. And then went out for a meal on New Year Day.

sarah293 · 31/12/2008 10:37

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BlueCowNowIsLowingAndDCAwake · 31/12/2008 10:39

I've always hated it, even when young and single and felt forced to go and enjoy it. Now older and wiser (and even grumpier) and go to bed early, and spend New years day clearing away all Christmas stuff.

But dh and I sometimes have a bottle and toast someone else's timezone! So can go to bed at reasonable hour.

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BeckyBendyLegs · 31/12/2008 10:58

I wish my DH wanted to do the same as me on NY Eve. DH LOVES New Year's Eve though and likes it even more than Christmas. I love Christmas and annoy everyone with my 'oooooh presents!' and 'oooh lets go to church and be Christmassy' enthusiasm. DH has only ever let me once get away with spending New Year's Eve with just the two of us at home. We sat by the log fire and drank champagne and it was the best New Year's Eve ever for me. He doesn't understand that at all as he'd rather share the joy! He would rather cook some extravagant meal for friends and get totally full and totally pissed (what will probably happen tonight - he's out buying strange ingredients as I type). Why? Why? Why? Let me go to bed and wallow in self pity please!

I'm glad I'm not the only one out there! I liked the sound of your heavily pregnant NY Eve OrmIrian. I guess I enjoyed my only pregnant NY Eve as I had a token glass of champagne and woke up fresh as a daisy the next day whereas everyone else was hungover.

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sandcastles · 31/12/2008 11:05

I don't see the huge deal that it is supposed to be...same shit, different year!

I am happy to be here & join you in the hot chocolate...want some of my mini marshmellows?

sandcastles · 31/12/2008 11:08

BlueCowNowIsLowingAndDCAwake, it is 9.38pm here in South Australia!

In 2 hours & 22 minutes you can toast our new year, if you like!

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BeckyBendyLegs · 31/12/2008 11:29

Ooooh I would like some mini marshmellows for my hot chocolate! Thank you sandcastles!

Perhaps the key is to celebrate an Ausie New Year and we can go to bed in 2 1/2 hours time! I wish!

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solidgoldstuffingballs · 31/12/2008 11:33

I think if you are a miserable twat person who doesn;t like New Year then that's up to you, but what you are not entitled to do is insist that your family be as boring restrained as you. you go to bed with your earplugs in and let the rest of the household go out to play.

OrmIrian · 31/12/2008 11:34

Oh I like to party I just don't like to be forced to party till midnight if I don't want to.

DuffyMoon · 31/12/2008 11:37

I got married on New Years Eve deliberately to make it seem a less depressing evening....something else to focus on....it didnt work, still feels very - meh

piscesmoon · 31/12/2008 11:39

I am glad that I am not the only one! I loathe New Year's Eve. I feel that I should be doing something exciting and I never am. I also have a superstitious dread of not seeing it in properly-it is really silly but I can't shake it off. The year that we didn't see in turned out to be the worst of my life.

UnquietDad · 31/12/2008 11:41

I must admit I've never totally bought into the whole idea of the "newness" of a new year. It's just a calendar thing! The whole "resolution/ new start" thing is misleading.

I'm also one of these people who has never been able to look back on a year and say if it was bad or good. All my years seem to have contained pretty much equal measures of good stuff and total shit.

aGalChangedHerName · 31/12/2008 11:42

I have managed to avoid staying up for the last 4 years as i have been bfing or pg and have said i am too tired etc.

Both dd's go to bed early and sleep through now and i am not pg or bfing so he is excited taht i can stay up again and see the Bells in with DH and him and his db.

I will have to force myself to be jolly even though i don't feel like it.

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BeckyBendyLegs · 31/12/2008 11:47

I've never insisted that anyone joins me in being a miserable twat and going to bed early! I'd rather go by myself anyway! But for some reason people seem to want to try to make you convert you and get you to see that New Year's Eve is fun and they get upset if you don't want to join them in staying up late. DH and I had a row one year because I decided on New Year's Eve that I wanted to stay at home with the children and he could go to our friend's house by himself. He just wouldn't let me stay at home by myself. He said 'you know you'll enjoy it when you get there' but I just didn't want to go! He got really cross with me! Why should I do something I don't want to just because someone can't cope with the idea that I might not want to 'do' New Year's Eve?

Happy Wedding Anniversary DuffyMoon!

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MsSparkle · 31/12/2008 11:54

Things my dp hates about new years eve is;

He hates the fact that you have to get to the pub (if your going to a pub) as early as 7pm, otherwise if you go later you don't get a seat and end up standing all night.

Being at the pub that early means by 10pm you have had enough and want to go home. It makes the evening really long.

You spend ages waiting at a packed bar to get a drink.

If you go to someones house party there is always a drunken domestic fight between a couple there which always puts a dampner on the night.

The whole thing is a big anti-climax. Everyone spends all evening waiting for midnight, then when it comes spend 10 mintutes cheering etc then the party dies.

People give up smoking etc for a whole 2 hours then have a fag again.

Everyone makes promises that they are gonna be thinner/happier/nicer/richer in the new year, which lasts a whole day.

Everyone says the same shit every year.

My dp is a grump but does make some good points.

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BeckyBendyLegs · 31/12/2008 11:57

He certainly does!

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zoggs · 31/12/2008 12:06

Spare a thought for me - I'm working a night shift tonight (nurse) so I'll be dishing out bedpans at midnight!

I offered to work so that I don't feel obliged to appear cheerful. It's a very sad time of year for me. Roll on 2009!

DaddyCool · 31/12/2008 12:08

i always have to work. I get the other two days off in between but i've got to be in on new year's eve for system transfers and updates and all that crap.

we also don't do anything on new year's eve and we're all still on the post christmas 'downer'.

cocolepew · 31/12/2008 12:08

I don't like it either. Forced jollity ( I may have made that word up) and I hate people saying "whast are you doing for NYE?"

"Nothing"

""oh but you must!"

No I mustn't. Go away.

I don't like marshmallows but I'll take a squirt of cream on my hot chocolate, thanks.

unavailable · 31/12/2008 12:12

Snap Zoggs - I am working a late shift too (not nursing) and am quitely relieved that it is an acceptable excuse for not participating in enforced jollity.

If I wasnt working, I wouldnt be going anywhere, but this meets with disapproval from family and friends and makes me feel a bit of a saddo.

Its nice to have a (paid) excuse!

unavailable · 31/12/2008 12:13

Coco - yes, jollity is a proper word!

GentleOtter · 31/12/2008 12:15

I refuse to have anything to do with New Year and will be taking a Nitol at 9pm, children permitting.
Ds is having a hoolie up in the top field and dh will probably go to take in the bells but I will be glad to see the back of a truly dreadful year.

aGalChangedHerName · 31/12/2008 12:16

NAO a hoolie?? What is that?

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