New Year’s Eve
This was the First New Eve where I didn’t seem to have any friends to invite me over to some sort of party or similar event. Not sure how it happened exactly. It saddens me. I went out to the Dogfish Head brewpub. Had a bottle of Pangea which I recommend highly. Toasted in the New Year with a glass of 90 minute. I’m not a fan of champaign so the last few years I always look for a quality brew to toast the new year. I did 90 Minute last year, since I was at Dogfish Head anyway, I went with the 90 minute again.
So I think the toast for this year is,
“To friends forgotten, friends of the past, friends of the present and friends of the future. May we each have each other and find a year of belonging, a year of prosperity and a year of glory.”
To everyone…
Throwing in Neil Gaiman’s traditional New Years wish:
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
I highly recommend inviting yourself over to your friends weeks in advance. That’s what I did and it worked! I told Sue that I would bring the dinner and we had a few discussions about it and decided to turn it into a small gathering. It was fun. Happy New Year! Love - EMK
Sounds like a stellar plan. Mostly this was an issue that I wasn’t aware I had this problem until it was upon me. I had a friend who has been throwing and New Years Eve party for a number of years. I assumed he’d be throwing it again, but no such luck. Last year I ended up bouncing between two events, so I was a bit surprised when it came to New Years Eve and no one I knew seemed to be doing anything.
I’ll have to be more proactive next year I suppose. Good luck with the new year.