I looked at Jay this morning and said, “Can you believe it’s been EIGHT YEARS since Y2K?”
(Remember Y2K? When people thought the world was going to end and had giant stockpiles of food and money and everyone was in a PANIC? And then nothing happened and we all had a good laugh and ate our stockpiles of food and spent all our extra money?)
Then there was eight years before that when the 2000′s seemed SOOOO far away and we said things like, “What will we CALL them?” (because you can’t say the 00′s.) And by the way, what do we call them, anyhow? Cause it seems to me that we don’t call them anything.
And now it’s New Year’s eve and almost 2000-EIGHT and my 30th birthday is looming…
Jay and I are planning on a ROCKIN’ SOLID-GOLD SATURDAY NIGHT (except it’s not Saturday) where we’ll party like it’s 1999 or at least like we’re NOT 99. Which means we’ll stay up past the witching hour playing cards and being silly. Which isn’t such a bad way to ring in the New Year, after all.
It seems to me that New Year’s eve is often overrated, over-hyped, and over-promoted. I hate to admit it but I’ve never been to a totally hot and awesome New Year’s eve party and I never shared a fantastical New Year’s eve kiss that knocked my socks off and changed my life. I think those things are about as realistic as Y2K.
But at long last, in all my infinite wisdom brought on by ALMOST 30 YEARS of life on this planet, I have lowered my expectations for New Year’s eve and instead am planning to have a good, if rather boring seeming, time.
Because let’s be honest. Fireworks have all the NOISE and CROWDS and STINK.
Parties have all the NOISE and CROWDS and STINK.
I’d rather hang out in my warm, quiet house and cozy soft pj’s, snuggling on the couch with my good-smelling husband and eating popcorn and candy. I prefer a sleepy New Year, where I get to sneak in to my sleeping boy’s bedroom to give him a New Year’s kiss just before I wash my face and go to bed.
Then tomorrow if it doesn’t rain we’ll walk down to the coffee shop on our way to the playground and enjoy the first day of 2008. My life may be simple, but it’s good.
Cheers to you, Cheers to me, Have a Happy New Year’s Eve!
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xo Jen
December 31, 2007 at 8:43 pm
As you can see, I’m celebrating NYE with my laptop.
Woo.
Hoo.
Happy Twenty-oh-eight!
December 31, 2007 at 9:43 pm
I’ve never been to a super-exciting NYE party or gotten a sock-knocking kiss at midnight either..*sigh*
December 31, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Dog willing, I’ll be asleep by 10:30.
Maybe I’ll get a peck before that.
Angie
http://www.AllAdither.com
January 1, 2008 at 1:47 am
OMG. Y2K!!!!!!!!!!!!
In some ways it seems like a million years ago and in other ways it is just like yesterday when I was mocking morons who were building cement bunkers in their back yards.
Nostalgia.
Sigh…
January 1, 2008 at 6:49 am
What a perfect way to ring in the New Year! Have a Happy 2008!
January 1, 2008 at 9:22 am
Happy New Year! Gearing up for 12 Hot Mama posts is all I’ll do this year! ;-)
Oh, and my son is supposed to get out of the army in 2010, and every single time I tell someone that, I’ve blurped out “twenty-oh-ten.”
January 1, 2008 at 10:17 am
We stayed home like old fogies too!
January 1, 2008 at 10:59 am
Unless one is sufficiently wasted Noise and Crowds and Stink are tiresome.
Once one is a parent being sufficiently wasted is nota common occurance!
One more thing- Can you give us a heads up about our “Hot Mama” topic this month? Homegirl ain’t to good on the fly!:)
Love to ya, Hot Mama.
-Alli
http://fussypants.typepad.com
January 1, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Happy New Year!
January 1, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I totally agree that this is the most overrated holiday of them all. It never ever lives up to the hype. That being said, I spent the night on a beach in the Cayman Islands watching fireworks. Guess that pretty much lived up to any hype.
January 1, 2008 at 9:17 pm
as much as i complained about being home for NYE, i really do like it. i’m not a partier anymore, so what’s the point?
btw, we rang in the New Year by watching fireworks at the Space Needle….we get K5 for our NBC network on our satellite!
January 3, 2008 at 11:20 am
Happy New Year to you!
January 3, 2008 at 6:16 pm
It’s funny, I was just thinking about the whole Y2K fiasco yesterday, and how hilarious it was that people were sitting on 500 lbs of canned beans and picked carrots in case the world ended.
I never even worried about it. I figured if there were going to be problems, they’d hit Australia first and then I’d start panicking.