What will you be doing and eating to ring in the New Year?
Does your family have any special recipes for food or drinks that you'll be having?
What other festivities are you planning?
Me? This year I'm going to make Black Eyed Peas for New Years Eve. It's a Southern tradition 'round here. I found a great site that has the recipe and the history on this tasty dish. http://www.southernplate.com/2009/12/black-eyed-peas-for-new-years-day-and-why.html
I also might go to downtown Mobile and watch the Moon Pie drop if it's not too cold.
What are you planning?
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My wife and I usually spend the time together at home. Once our daughter goes to bed, we will put on a movie or two that we both enjoy, and do our best to stay awake late enough to see the ball drop. She will drink her Captain and Cokes, and I will stick with beer until around 10 - then it is time to bust out the cabernet sauvignon Clos du Val, usualy aged four years or more.
In the morning, as on every holiday, we have cinnimon buns. Not store bought in a can - my own specail recipe. New Year's Day finds us at my sister's house, and hour away.
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And a Happy New Year to You!!!!! I do live along the original Oregon Trail (you can even still see wagon ruts in it) I will be able to see every college kids fireworks as I live a two minute walk from I.S.U campus. Maybe next year I will try some black eyed peas....never have had them.
Pocatello! So you live along the original Oregon Trail. Will there be any fireworks that you can see from the roof? Happy New Year B!
Happy New Year to all!
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This year we'll be going to a party at a good friend's house, who is hoping to start a yearly tradition with her party. There's going to be a potluck dinner - we're going to be in charge of appetizers, so I'll be doing spicy tortilla rolls, little pimiento cheese sandwiches, and maybe crab puffs. Others are doing salads, pastas, main dishes and desserts. Then there'll be hot tubbing, dancing and drinking, and champagne at midnight :) Should be a lovely time!
New Years Day usually finds me starting a new journal; I'm starting two this year, one with letters to the child we're adopting, to be written throughout the adoption process for them to have when they're older... kind of like a baby book, but since we haven't known her for her first couple of years, slightly different, and another which will be a blog. I'm not finished with the art journal I started halfway through last year when I finished my last, so won't be starting a new one of those. I don't tend to make resolutions, but it is a great way to start fresh with a new journal or new writing or art project.
I'm also going to start a project 52. The last two years I've tried to do a project 365, which is taking a photo for each day of the year, but both times I've gotten burned out before completion. One per week makes more sense for me, and still gives me a chance to work on my hobby of photography.
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My plan for the New Years Eve celebration will include 3 other people, a bunch of Lilac Blossom take out Chinese food (best in my city), a pitcher or two of iced green tea, and the DVD box set of LOST Season 4.
LOST Season 4 is 604 minutes or around 10 hours long so if we begin the epic viewing session around 12 noon on December 31st than we should be finishing up around the time the 2011 is beginning and that leaves a sufficient time space buffer for extra trips to the store, more Chinese food, and the 3 or 4 Shih Tzu walks that will be inevitable during that time period.
Good food, good people, good doggie, good times :)
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That sounds great Sheriff Wig (that's my 'Sawyer nickname' for you)
I'm currently working on season 5 and getting more and more Lost as we speak. I have nicknamed the show Polar Bear Island since season 1. I still can't over how nonchalant everyone was about having to kill a polar bear that was living on an island near the equator. Go figure!
I'm completely jealous of your Chinese food. One thing about the South is that Asian food is substandard and overly greasy. There's one healthy Thai place, and they don't deliver. Happy New Year Wig Man!
We will probably stay up after the kids go to bed and watch Dick Clark's New Years Eve. It will be a nice quiet night at home with the family.
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In case I'm not online tomorrow, I wanted to wish you all great holidays!
To me, its just another party night like others...but its a great opportunity to spend quality time with our families and loved ones; so I hope that you are all near the ones that mean the most to you!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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That stuffed cabbage looks great! I usually get my dose of cabbage in all the cole slaw they make down here. I think I'll pull up a recipe for Sarma and practice making it for next New Years. Thanks @falcon18