... And Good Riddance

[filkertom]

It's nearly a wrap on 2009, and, without getting into details, I think we can all agree it wasn't exactly what we hoped for. Here's hoping 2010 is at the least a bit easier for us all to get through.

There is a splendid party tonight, put on every year by dear friends I don't see enough of. There is Anne's invitation to come out and watch silly videos and then go tomorrow to see Sherlock Holmes. I will likely indulge in neither, as I'm getting a cold -- nothing dire, just a couple days of mildly sore throat and now stopped-up sinuses. Murfle. Fortunately, I have orange juice and roasted garlic soup and chips and salsa and Robitussin.

I no longer bother with New Year's Resolutions. They're so easy to break, and then you feel as if you've failed, and you get depressed and don't get back to 'em. I have a couple of goals: Herbert West and Girl Genius. And about a dozen more songs for Sounds Familiar. And the revised Big Book of Stupid Filk Tricks. Those would be really nice.

What are you doing tonight, if anything? And what goals do you have for the new year, if any?

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[ororo]

Taking my sweetie out for dinner close by so we don't run into any drunks on the road. No resolutions, though. I don't need a time of year to decide to improve myself, it's an ongoing process.

Happy New Year to you, and do go see Sherlock Holmes when you're feeling up to it, it's a lot of fun.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

I'm staying home with Callie and resting, along with some packing for our trip to see friends in Oregon tomorrow. I'll probably watch the ball drop on TV 'cause, well, I do that.

Goals for the new year: actually DO more of the stuff my doctor keeps telling me to do to get my health in better order. Finish the &(^$#!! divorce. Find source of income. Make Callie happy.

[lizziecrowe.livejournal.com]

Helping run a drug-free consciousness-expanding event here in Chicago! Going to be tons of fun with people I love.

[faithwallis.livejournal.com]

Our usual NYE Party - pretty laid back, non-alcohol, lotsa-food, sewing/crafts/games/bad movies.

No goals yet, but I'll think about it.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon. It sounds like you've got all the right supplies on hand to tackle the symptoms, so I hope that sucker goes down with a whimper and waves the white flag.

The audiobook of The Wee Free Men is due to be delivered today, yay!, so I can finish the book I was reading when my eyesight stopped cooperating. It was really bugging me, not being able to finish that book! *g* So that's my New Year's Eve plan.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

My only plan for today (besides laundry) is to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Guinness by having one.

[birder2.livejournal.com]

There's barn dance in a small town about 60 miles from here that I and a bunch of other dancers from around here plan to attend. Family oriented, attendees range from 6 months to 80 years old, general fun.

[hms42]

Relaxing at home tonight. (My sister and her husband are hopefully coming over to watch the ball drop on TV. (Once live (from a hotel room @ Times Sq) is enough.)

[trav13369.livejournal.com]

Becky and I will be having a quiet evening here. Roommates are gone.

Also, resolutions....keeping the one from this year, to go "there" more often.

And, to continue not doing something that, when I revealed that I do it (and I know I shouldn't), I apparently angered someone I respect and admire greatly. As of this past Monday, it has not been done.

Thank you, and I wish you and yours a great '10!

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Going to a friend's house (Christy's, actually). I will have mochi (they just came out of the oven), black eyed peas and myself in tow for what should be a fun evening.
Tomorrow I will be home, not doing anything in particular, and meeting a guy I met online for coffee. So much for starting the year off on a good note, although who knows :P
Goals, hmm. Less stress would be good.

I hope you feel better soon! *hugs*

[angel-vixen.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of baking one's mochi, if in fact that's what's meant by "just came out of the oven" (were they simply there to set?), but would be interested to know more.

AngelVixen :-)

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Yep, baked. These are regular mochi, made with rice flour, not the pounded rice version (often filled with red bean paste or some such), that seems to be what people think of first.

For a slightly blurry (sorry) pic, see here: http://img.movoda.net/4it7p5x8.jpg

(They are delicious! There are tons of recipes online, but I would be more than happy to send you some.)

[angel-vixen.livejournal.com]

Himself and I love mochi, but we only have recipes for the latter kind. By all means, please enlighten me!

AngelVixen :-)

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

I will send you (via message) some I like! The reason I started baking them is because of a Japanese bakery in San Francisco that makes fantastic mochi, but my favorite thing there is their Hawaiian mochi. I started trying to recreate that. While I haven't succeeded I feel like I am getting closer :)

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

A Guid New Year tae ye, good Sir!

Lang may yer lum reek!

[emiofbrie.livejournal.com]

Tak and I will likely do the fannish karaoke like we've been doing for the last few years :)

[eleri.livejournal.com]

Visiting the Mousie tonight, mebby over to a friends house.

Goal for 10? Recover from 09.

[lariss.livejournal.com]

Absolutely screw the last 10 years. With a splintery broomstick. And I say this on a personal, not national, level.


with the sole exception of the birth of my child, nothing that I consider truly "positive" has happened this decade. The whole decade.

My theory is that things got to get at least a little better.



Or the world will end in 2012.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

Edit: removed my original post. I mis-read what Tom asked for (plans for New Years Eve) and I instead posted plans for 2010 in general. I can chalk this up to my last (I hope) screw-up of 2009.

Staying home today, casting on Dementia Radio, and doing an online New Years Eve party in the station's channel.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Ummmm... actually, ol' son, I did ask for both. :)

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

The same thing I've done the last few years: spend an evening with friends, food and fun. I'm supplying the bratwurst.

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

2009 was a very good year...FOR ME TO POOP ON!

*ahem* Don't let the door hit ya on the way out.

As for plans tonight the wife, munchkin, and I are headed to my mother-in-law's for dinner then back home to spend a quiet evening watching the ball drop and this year close with the finality of a large steel door making a fateful bonging noise never to return.

[j-e-richards.livejournal.com]

Curry pot pie in the oven, college basketball on TV and the new bio of the Queen Mum...life is good. 2009 was SOOOO much better than 2008, so we're cool. But very cranky at people who don't know how to count..it ain't the end of decade...!!!!

Best of music, love, and friendship in the coming year..
Elaine

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

*earperk* Girl Genius stuff next year? Oh boy oh boy oh boy!

2009 can't end fast enough for me. Hell, this whole damn decade can't end fast enough. Between barely graduating college a year late, being screwed over by one temp job after another, and now being unemployed, the only good thing that has come of this decade is my partner.

[saganth.livejournal.com]

I think I agree with you just about 100%. I've been in almost exactly the same boat!

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Well I start a new job on Monday. I feel numb about it. A little nervous, a little excited; just that "a little". I feel I should be feeling more, but I'm not. Could be seasonal depression. Could be the whole "loose job, look for job, get new job" is getting routine and lost its ability to really affect me.

Tonight I'm attending a NYE/birthday party for a friend. I don't see these friends very often anymore. We sort of drifted apart. Which reminds me, I should make the dip for the party soon.

I plan on continuing my new years resolution of reviewing an average of 1 new restaurant a month. It should be easy to do since the new job is far enough away to introduce me to new places. I don't plan on doing much more beyond that.

Hope you get better Tom.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

Tonight, I'm borrowing videos from the library.

For the year, I'm going to start giving bus tickets to one of the places that helps the homeless, put a little more cash into Kiva, and finish building my "two years of not having a job" emergency fund. (I suck rocks through a bendy straw when it comes to job hunting. Not going to be caught out again.)

On the not-really-a-resolution side, I'm going to try out this OVFF thing people keep talking about.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

Watching Burn Notice marathon and having chicken wings for dinner. As for the New Year? My goal is to lose weight, though this is made especially difficult when two of the meds I'm on cause weight gain.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Do what I did about 20 years ago, Tom -- I made a resolution to never make another New Year's Resolution, and I've kept it faithfully ever since.

Thai food with my sis and her son, a few Marx Bros films, a little Napa Valley bubbly. Works for me. And the reanimated cadaver of Dick Clark brains in the New brains Year braaaaaainssssss....

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

No plans, no resolutions. I know what I'd like out of the coming year, but I figure I'll jinx myself if I verbalize or write it down.

Feel better, and since I won't likely get a chance to say it on time, I'll say it early: happy birthday, Tom.

[stormlight811.livejournal.com]

Spending this evening with my parents and brother; first New Year's Eve we have spent together in many, many years, and all living in the same house, again. My brother has a brand-new and fully functional kidney, my father is no longer in the job which was keeping him away and ruining his health, and I am no longer in the job or marriage which were draining my life essences in a very Dark Crystal-esque fashion. My new husband is spending New Year's Eve in Iraq, in a remote and tiny patrol base, but thanks to the wonders of technology, I am able to actually speak with him on a regular basis.

My "resolution" is to rebuild my post-divorce collection of board games and card games, and attend GenCon just for the fun of it! ::grin::

It's been a very, very difficult year, but many problems have been fixed. Happy New Year! And hugs!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Jayzus H. Crisco. Shows how much I've been hearing -- hadn't heard anything about the divorce, or the new marriage. Many, many hugs, and here's to your husband comes home safely.

[stormlight811.livejournal.com]

Heh -- from what I've heard of what people are "saying," be glad you haven't heard of my divorce. Apparently there's a big, uninformed, judgmental party going on at my expense. It is not particularly entertaining unless one takes pleasure in vicious gossip.

So, life moves forward and hopefully becomes better. My husband Brian has been told that their unit is expected to be the last combat battalion to be sent to Iraq. Hurrah! Thank you much for the good wishes for my husband, and thank you especially for the hugs!!

[saganth.livejournal.com]

I'm recovering big time from the break-up with my ex - almost all my books are still in storage in a friend's basement in Ithaca as there was no place to put them when I made an emergency move to my new gf's place in Buffalo, after escaping 18 months of abuse from my ex. I got a box of crystal shards here, maybe there's one for each of us in it...?

May both our new year's be happier and more prosperous. And I hope your spouse comes home safe and sound.

"Prophecy cause all this trouble!"

[stormlight811.livejournal.com]

You! I know you!! Hello!

Sorry your situation went south, and very glad that you were able to get out! I understand having one's important things safe, but scattered. Separation from books -- ooh ouch!

I'll help you look through that box of crystal shards...maybe there are some we can use. Hugs!

What was I doing?

[urban-terrorist.livejournal.com]

Writing an article explaining why it isn't safe to use Microsoft Windows on the internet. Got it finished about 11:00 at which time I joined the festivities.

[saganth.livejournal.com]

My girlfriend kliklikitty and I spent last night with friends over at our place. We had munchies and pizza, and played Apples to Apples, Pirateer, Robot-opoly (my own invention), and Quiddler, and toasted at mignight with sparkling white grape juice. Not the most exciting New Year's Eve (that would have been 2 years ago, spending it with ashnistrike in Chicago and about 13 geeks and alternative-types, playing Apples to Apples and almost laughing the house down!), but this was very good all the same. Originally kliklikitty didn't want to bother with any plans on New Year's Eve, not sure why either, but I think I've got her into the idea of at least doing *something* fun for the night.

[kdemonn.livejournal.com]

'lo, Tom. What are my plans for the new year? One is to start commenting on various blogs where I'd previously only lurked.

There. That was easy.