Reflecting on 2012...getting old.

[enyawd72]

So...I was sitting on the couch watching TV last night with my wife, waiting for the new year to come in.

It was 10:21 P.M. when I looked at the clock. I had a few leftover Christmas cookies. Next thing I know, it's 12:17 A.M.

I missed it. I completely missed the New Year coming in.

That's when it hit me. I looked down at myself, slouching there in my underwear, a pile of Christmas cookie crumbs on my stomach, and wondered what the hell happened to me?!

Is this is what I've become? An overweight 40 year old cookie munching narcoleptic who can't even stay awake watching TV anymore?

[wayne foundation 07]

Comon D, you need to start the year off with a better outlook than that. You don't need to worry untill you do all of the above while still having house guests over .
Don't feel bad, I feel asleep on the couch during South Park and it missed it all too. I woke up and was being used as a pillow by the Mrs. and the cats. I guess if you fall asleep first, you become the pillow around here.
Where they good cookies?

[enyawd72]

Comon D, you need to start the year off with a better outlook than that. You don't need to worry untill you do all of the above while still having house guests over .
Don't feel bad, I feel asleep on the couch during South Park and it missed it all too. I woke up and was being used as a pillow by the Mrs. and the cats. I guess if you fall asleep first, you become the pillow around here.
Where they good cookies?

They were GREAT cookies. I wasn't trying to be a downer...actually I was laughing to myself thinking about it. Still, it wasn't a pretty picture.

[wayne foundation 07]

Now I'm picturing your wife cleaning you off with the Dustbuster

[Figuremod73]

I spent last night playing the Golden Axe on the computer, hearing the sound of the celebration going on in the neighborhood, I just shrugged. I use to spend my new years eve listening to Casey Kasem's top 100. I hate parties, it just isnt safe.

Hope 2013 is a better year.

[VintageMike]

Hasn't quite hit me yet but it's creeping up. I have no problem staying up to watch the ball drop but but also no problem going to right bed after it does. Could also be I don't actually put the New Year's eve show until 11:45. I stay busy or watch would I normally would up until that point.

[johnnystorm]

We spend New year's at home, we watched the Dick Clark special, then the Rockin' eve. Ball dropped, Happy New Year! Then everybody went to bed.
As for the TV show, I had to ask my ten year old who some of the acts were.

[Zemo]

So...I was sitting on the couch watching TV last night with my wife, waiting for the new year to come in.

It was 10:21 P.M. when I looked at the clock. I had a few leftover Christmas cookies. Next thing I know, it's 12:17 A.M.

I missed it. I completely missed the New Year coming in.

That's when it hit me. I looked down at myself, slouching there in my underwear, a pile of Christmas cookie crumbs on my stomach, and wondered what the hell happened to me?!

Is this is what I've become? An overweight 40 year old cookie munching narcoleptic who can't even stay awake watching TV anymore?

That's to funny and just great really. I had to strain to stay up and the shows are terrible now.

[Captain Big Trousers]

New Years Eve is a young man's game.

As a lad, NYE was all about kissing as many women as possible. It's not quite the same when your wife is watching.

I used to live a five minute walk away from the Sydney Harbour Bridge, so I could stroll down to watch the NYE fireworks. These days it's a 50 minute drive, gotta find parking, deal with the crowds, 50 minute drive back home, traffic cops... meh. I'll stay home.

And really, NYE is nothing special after the first ten years or so of NYE revelry. Gets a bit samey.

NYE is also my birthday. I was in bed reading a book at midnight, like a sensible 40-something.


Worst NYE ever: My 21st birthday. Found myself alone in a bar at The Rocks in Sydney (far side of the bridge). Met a gorgeous girl around 11pm. We spent an hour or so chatting. When midnight struck I found myself stuck at the bar buying drinks. Looked across and saw her cuddling some other guy. "Fuggit" I drunkenly thought, and never went back to the table.

Half an hour later the guy comes up to me and says "Didn't you like my sister?"

"Wha?! Your sister?! I thought... Where is she?!"

"She just left. She was upset when you didn't come back".

Gah!

I caught the ferry home alone. Well, alone until a drunken Norwegian threw his arm around me and sang Viking songs loudly in my ear the rest of the way home.

Worst NYE/21st ever.

But ah, to be young again. The original lyrics to " Old Long Syne":


Should Old Acquaintance be forgot,
and never thought upon;
The flames of Love extinguished,
and fully past and gone:
Is thy sweet Heart now grown so cold,
that loving Breast of thine;
That thou canst never once reflect
On Old long syne.

CHORUS:
On Old long syne my Jo,
On Old long syne,
That thou canst never once reflect,
On Old long syne.


Perhaps an old man's NYE should be about remembrance. Yes, next year I shall make an effort to raise a glass for auld lang syne.

Have a happy new year, folks!

[Splitty]

Man, my life is so not normal.
I've spent almost all of my holidiays doing the same thing. TV or music on in the background while I dink around with fun projects.
Did the same thing in my 20s, 30s, and probably will in my 80s if I make it that far.

The few times I've gone out on New Years with peeps have all ended with generous puking.
I'm not sure if that was entirely most desirable of the two.

[JediJaida]

I went to bed at ten o'clock. Woke up when the fireworks went off, then said "meh." and went back to sleep.

Had messed up dreams about Batman and Robin teaming up with MacGyver and going up against the Joker and Murdock.