Last year, JG and I hosted a New Year’s Eve/Penn State bowl game extravaganza with our friends with tons of food, hours of games, and very little sleep. I had grand delusions of being the hostess with the mostest again, but a pesky combination of Working The Whole Time and Reality caught up to me and convinced me that maybe making 2 gallons of chili and staying up half the night wouldn’t be the best decision. I raised my hands in surrender, so we’re having a little two-person party at our house instead.
When envisioning the raucous goings-on at the RA-JG household tonight, keep in mind the following elements of what I considered an eventful weekend:
- Finished a book while JG collected star bits with Mario.
- Cut out pieces of corrugated cardboard for winding up Christmas lights and avoiding entanglement next year. I even cut slits for sliding in the ends with plugs and made sure that they would stack neatly into our storage boxes.
- Efficiently deconstructed Christmas decorations and proved the usefulness of my cardboard spools.
- Ate jambalaya while Penn State beat Texas A&M.
- Laughed at the majority of Juno, but cried at the end.
Since a flashy weekend at our house consists of reading, video games, putzing around the house, and eating, it will come as no surprise that our New Year’s Eve activities will include bacchanalian activities such as:
- Dentist appointments!
- Grocery shopping!
- Mussels and fries!
- Sparkling cider!
- Peanut butter brownies!*
- The entire second season of The Office!**
I tell you, we are wild and crazy guys. While other folks are slinking into glittery tops and revving up their champagne consumption, JG and I will settle down into the sedative folds of our couch to see if we can even stay up until midnight. If we manage to do so — kudos to us. If we don’t — well, it won’t surprise anyone.
See you in 2008!
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* Audrey, I promise that the recipe is coming this week.
** If we don’t fall asleep prematurely.
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We’ll be having a similar evening tonight, and I am greatly looking forward to it. Also, peanut butter brownies sound like heaven. Mmm.
I was disappointed to bail out on hosting, but I know that a low-key night is best. And the brownies don’t hurt, you know?
Happy New Year! We are going to a party tonight, but seeing as how it’s only 10:45am and I’m already wishing I had time to take a nap today, I’m skeptical of how awake I’m going to be come midnight. Your evening sounds incredibly appealing.
I liked hosting last year because I could just hang out in my pj’s and crash whenever I wanted to. At a party, I’d have to look respectable and drive home or something. Hope you have fun!
Mine is even lamer than yours, because I am out in the boonies with my parents, who are watching old black and white movies. I am reading a book and my husband is working. We are soooooooo cosmopolitan.
JG and I agree that you win. But it still sounds nice (minus the working — what in the world, Andrew?)!
3 years ago I resolved to try more recipes. This was pre-blog, but I kept myself on track by emailing a recipe to my close friends at the beginning of each month. I still totally do it! Even if I don’t find a “keeper” I’ll email an old recipe. Plus it inspires my friends to share their recipes with me and then I have to hunt less for new recipes (although I still do, because I think it’s fun)
As for NYE, we were in bed at 12:05. And watching The Office sounds like a great way to spend any night!
Hmm, a recipe swap…that’s a good idea! We stayed up until midnight just for tradition; we couldn’t even exchange a proper kiss because JG had/has a cold, and it’s not like the new year ever FEELS different, right? At least we get the day off from work.
That sounds eerily like my average weekend with AS. Blissful. We went to a “special” party on NYE, propped ourselves upright until midnight and then practically ran back to our hotel room to fall asleep by 12:20. That is my kind of night!
Seeing the midnight hour has no inherent thrill, and it’s not like the world changes at the stroke of the new year, so I commend you on staying up that late.
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