my lil sister's b-day

Happy New Year to all my friends and family as well as those who stumble upon my postings. 2008 will present new challenges and opportunities for all of us. I pray that each of you will have a blessed year.

I hope everyone here at RIA has a great new year.

Today is March 25. Historically before 1752, the English considered this day the first day of the new year. March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation, was New Years Day.

I did not know this until I was in Windsdor Castle about twenty years ago, and looking at the grave of King Charles I who was beheaded by the Puritans in January, 1649. The gravestone for year of his death reads "1648," and I asked the tour guide what was the difference. She didn't know and it puzzled me for years until I finally found out about the English starting the year on March 25.

When the English went from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar, the decree stated that September 2, 1752, should be followed by September 14, 1752, a loss of 11 days, and that the year 1752 would end December 31 instead of the traditional March 24, a loss to the year of nearly 3 months.

So the death of King Charles in the Gregorian Calendar was January, 1649, but in England at the time, 1648 did not end until March 24 so the records show 1648 as Charles' death.

This is always a good trivia question: "What happened in England between September 2 and September 14, 1752?" The answer is "Nothing" since those dates do not exist.

Haha, the day when many people start their New Year's Resolutions . . . most of which are also broken before the day is out! (Well, actually, it seems that most New Year's Resolutions are broken before the end of the month, but still, you get my point).

The biggie of them all is Hogmanay in Scotland. I've still never been and would like to be a first footer as I've got dark hair! I worked in the Alps once in a chalet filled with Scots people and if that's anything to go by...whew! Anywhere else, even when you're having fun, it still seems like a bit of an anti-climax once the last firework has fizzled.

Whoopee it's the New Year! There be another one after that, and another one after that. Time to make those resolutions I'll never stick too.

another year of pure hell

Other than making a few New Year's Resolutions and getting the day off, and perhaps maybe a cookout, I don't understand what the big deal is.

I usually avoided New Years like the plague: Drunk drivers, people making too much noise, basically time for all the freaks to come out at night... My opinion changed since 01-01-01. That new years was the real change of the millineum, AND wedding day! My blushing bride and I spent the days leading up to newyears by dumping the kids at the soon to be in/outlaws. then we drove from Sacto Ca to Las Vegas NV starting out in some of the worst tulie fog imaginable (the trick is to get behind a big rig- fifty feet back you could barely see the taillights). We stopped in Pahrump NV (NO! I didn't have a bachelor party at the Chicken Ranch- one of my classmates is an accomplisned seamstress, and she made my wife her wedding dress.)on the way into Vegas- We now know how to beat holiday traffic on I-15! We met quite an assortment of characters in the county clerk's office when we got our license (people from scandanavian countries, some biker types with their gothic babes... a little bit of everything...) We got our S&R show tickets and made final preparations. At Siegfried & Roys new years show, we had lots of fun- at the end Siegfried was doing the meet and greet around the edge of the stage and he told my bride that "Its going to be a great year" My brazen bride replied" Yes it is-I'm getting married this morning after the party!" Sigfried almost fell off the stage! LOL! We did things a bit backwards by having an impropteau 'reception' at Sigfried & Roy's private new years party BEFORE we did the deed at 4 am! The wedding was great as well because we were waiting at the chapel in Las Vegas with our friends in their show finery and had people up on their computers at 4 am watching the chapels webcam too... we were afraid we were gonna have some 'splaining to do because the chapel was running a bit slow- after 300+ weddings that day- and at that time it was another biker and his bride (black tee shirt and matching black nail polish!) We didnt get hitched untill 5:30 that morning. There were still people driving up and down the strip and yelling encouragement as we were taking pictures afterwards in the predawn light! There were some other little adventures and excitement that went on behind the scenes but that is not for general consumption! Oh, why did we do it new years day instead of new years eve? Tax Purposes!

This is the most over rated holiday. There's really nothing to celebrate here. So, its a new year. Who cares? So many people get drunk and end up getting into accidents or killed. Too much excitement over nothing.

New Years can be a special time of year. I spent this New Years with the man that I love, so that made it really special and we stayed up till 5/6am New Years Day talking about anything and everything. We stayed in bed till the afternoon and then I cooked us a roast dinner after I had gotten over my hangover. We watched TV and just enjoyed eachothers company. Magic.

Okay, I can see why some people would really like this holiday. Lord knows I've had bad years and couldn't wait to start a new one. However, this comes just a week after the biggest one of them all--Christmas. Do we really need to make a big deal out of another one so soon?

PARTY!

If you don't like college football, not much to celebrate.

It opens up a new chapter of history, but really not much is altered. It is a bit disappointing after the anticipation of New Year's Eve.

My new years was cool we went to cambridge and checked in an the amerihost inn.As I entered the hotel thoright one of the side keycard doorson Nwe Years' Eve, I noticed it was really neat looking inside like all hotels are, kinda looks the cross between a buisness and a house, basically like all hotels are. As son as we got there, Me and my mom decided to get somehting form K-Mart accross the street. So we got our stuff that we needed from K-Mart and we got some food from the Burger King that was across form K-Mart. So as we headed back, one of the hotel people said "hi" to me and mom and we said "hi" back. We felt kinda wierd because we lived just 30 miles away form where we lived and we was staying at A hotel! Ok enought jibber, let's get to the parts that matter shall we?! Then we decided to go to the pool. It was cool getting to swim in a nice heated pool in the middle of the winter when it was 30 degrees outside. the pool was a little to tiny and too warm but it was still refreshing. next I tried to hot tub out and it was just liek any other hot tub in a hotel, no real stories about it. Then as the evning rooled on me and my little brother were in the hallway and he was driving around his remote controlled PT Cruiser and people really admired it. We was really hyper that night! then when I got into the got tub again I was in it for half an hour! I got really sick and I got really dizzy. Then they threw a little new years party! That was nice of them! No other hotels in cambridge, ohio ( where we stayed at) had nothing going on for New years! Heck, no other hotels were wanting us to stay at them for new years, they had really wierd excuses for us not to stay! Nice of AmeriHost! Well they noticed me waling kinda funny and they knew I stayed in the hot tub too long and the manager asked If I was ok and I said "yes" and she laughed with me about it! They are pretty nice there. Then we got back to the room and we ordered "scary movie" and it was really funny! Then about midnight we turned on the MTV countdown and we went into the new year with MTV! Yay! Then at about 3 AM my brother ordered the movie " bring it on" and I really liked it. It was the only cheerleading movie I have ever liked. well enought about the movies, I could not go to sleep until like 5 AM and I had to wake up at about 8. In the forst morning of the new year, I got up and ate some of thier good Contenental Breakfast and I ate with mom and dad and talked, then they went back into the room and me and my little brother got our 5th cups of coffee. I accedentally spilled soem on my new khakis and I was mad and the same manager lady asked Is I was ok and I said yes. she looked concerned. then we got ready to go and we left about 10 AM I didn't want to leave all ready. Itr was a very nice night that I'll never forget. Overall my only complaint was the pool! I had a very nice time that new years 2000-2001! Then we went to my aunt helen's and it was really cool.

Usually, a day of recovery. Nice to have an extra day off. I always try to play "New Year's Day" by U2 every New Year's Day. A little reminder, "Nothing changes on New Year's Day."

Nothing at all happens on this day? What is fun?

I think how you rate New Year's Day probably depends on where you are in life. If you are still in the party years, it is probably more a necessary recovery period than a true holiday. Generally, we don’t do much other than eat some of the traditional foods legnded to bring health, luck, happiness, and of course money. Not that we actually believe that, it’s just a little fun thing and an excuse to eat some good ol fattenin foods. For those of us in our thoughtful introspective years, it can be a profound day of reviewing the year past and preparing the mind to begin a new year.