New Year's Eve/New Year's Day Rituals

[MorganGrayson]

How many of you have traditions or rituals that you perform as the old year exits and the new one enters?

My husband and I are not "party people," so we never go out. Our main tradition is the "kiss at midnight." We have a nice New Year's Eve dinner and champagne...what kind of champagne depends on which one of us wins the "discussion." I like my champagne a little higher up the bubble chain than he cares about.

New Year's Day was effectively planned for us by my mother-in-law. The woman has a superstition for every occasion. For New Year's Day, you have to eat pork...so that you'll live "high off the hog" all year. (If you eat chicken on New Year's Day, you'll be "scratching for a living" all year.) So...we always have pork. (She asks every year.)

I don't make this stuff up. I couldn't.

How many of you make New Year's Resolutions? I always do, and the first one is always "let's see if I can not forget anyone's birthday or anniversary this year."

I'm a calendar freak. I copy over all the relevant dats on all the new calendars. With that many calendars you'd think it would be impossible for me to miss a birthday, etc. You'd be wrong.

I absolutely hate, loathe and despise the song "Auld Lang Syne."

We always watch somebody's dropping ball or fireworks on television.