New Year's Day

New Year’s Day generally refers to January 1 in the Gregorian calendar, but also refers to the start ...

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    greatwestern

    Sun Jan 02 2011

    The New Year really got here fast, I cannot believe 2010 has already gone by. I hope this will be a better year for the economy.

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    ayn9b559

    Sat Jan 01 2011

    May 2011 see your dreams fullfilled and lead you down the path your meant to travel.

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    numbah16tdhaha

    Sat Jan 01 2011

    I gotta try the drunk and molested in public thing in Times Square someday...

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    molfan

    Mon Dec 27 2010

    we do not make a huge deal of New Year's day. we stay at home watch tv. we are pretty quiet people not much for parties. guess the good thing is to know we made it through another year. good or bad. We hope to stay in pretty good health, employed, and maybe not so expensive this year. we had to take out a loan to pay off stuff we needed to get done and pay off a bill we wanted to go away. we have no resolutions to make. Hope all of you have a Happy new year and a good year to follow.

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    guy_dc1b

    Mon Dec 27 2010

    Some years I'll just stay home and watch movies. I still get plastered so its all good.

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    sperryc

    Mon Dec 27 2010

    NYE gets a lot of flak for being over-hyped. I don't see it that way. It's an excuse to get together with old friends; to set out some resolutions and goals for the new year; and to close out a chapter of your life with a bang. Whether that bang involves a club and an open bar where it's hard to get a drink or some egg nog and a fireplace is up to you. But you shouldn't let this holiday sneak past you without a little reflection and lot of celebration.

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    frankswildyear_s

    Mon Dec 27 2010

    Most of the traditions for me have been tied to the night before News Years Day - the high holiday if you will. But the last time I spent the day nursing self-inflicted head wounds from the night before was January 1, 2000. This used to be a bit of a tradition, primarily in the 1980's I suppose. But self-indulgence at that level seems like less of a right passage as we get older. Since then the day generally feels like a new beginning, a day to reflect on the warmth of the previous week of family and friends and the events of the year past, plus a bit of a clean slate for the coming 12 months. We don't mark it with a big dinner or celebration in my family, although we used to. I'm just glad that these days I most often feel good enough on New Years Day to look a drink in the eye and toast to the year ahead.

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    irishgit

    Mon Dec 27 2010

    On New Years Eve I normally stay home, or on occasion attend a house party if invited. I find the self indulgent "look at me" kind of boozing some people do on New Years Eve more pathetic than amusing. If you're going to drink, drink year round, ye pikers. New Years Day I normally rise early, make a luxurious breakfast and enjoy it while contemplating the day and the year ahead. The rest of the day is devoted to a long walk if it isn't raining, some reading, and maybe a few phone calls to distant friends.

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    jamie_mcbain

    Sun Jul 04 2010

    For me, it's all about sleeping in, after being up a bit later than usual, the night before.

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    jester002

    Thu Jan 21 2010

    Oh my aching brain! Could someone turn the sound down on reality please! While your up, could you help me find that finger I blew off last night?

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    lastmessenger3

    Fri Jan 01 2010

    May this year be better than last one for everyone! Peace, Love and Prosperity to all! :)

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    randyman

    Fri Jan 01 2010

    Happy New Year and all the best in 2010!

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    myspace_364831941

    Sat May 31 2008

    my lil sister's b-day

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    rocktrain69

    Sun Dec 30 2007

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

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    genghisthehun

    Sun Mar 25 2007

    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 ... Read more

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    kamylienne

    Mon Dec 06 2004

    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).

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    daccory

    Sun Oct 31 2004

    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.

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    tvtator

    Wed Nov 19 2003

    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.

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    help_me

    Sat Jun 21 2003

    another year of pure hell

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    redoedo

    Sun Apr 20 2003

    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.

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    abyssangyl

    Sat Feb 08 2003

    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 every... Read more

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    bigbaby

    Sat Feb 08 2003

    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.

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    teaseress

    Thu Jan 02 2003

    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.

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    lukskywlkr

    Fri Nov 01 2002

    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?

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    bb3fan

    Wed Jul 24 2002

    PARTY!

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    loneusfullhous_efan

    Thu May 02 2002

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

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    ellajedlicka21

    Sun Dec 16 2001

    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.

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    remixedcat

    Tue Dec 04 2001

    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 refreshi... Read more

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    potch1214

    Tue Nov 27 2001

    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."

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    chaotician23

    Thu Oct 11 2001

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

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    snuffy_smith

    Wed Jun 06 2001

    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.