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Happy New Year!
My Girl and I have had many New Year traditional celebrations over our 30+ years together. But the one thing that has remained unchanged is our kiss at midnight. There may have been a year or two where I was out stuck out on the road and it was a virtual by phone smooches.
Many of our New Year Eves have been beside the campfire with friends. For several years our neighbors who have moved on in life would make several types of chicken wings and we would feast beside the campfire with adult beverages, music and great food. I never have been a fan of the...
Fireworks
So many low i.q. people with a lighter and sketchy cheaply made flash bangs. Thousands hurt and some killed every 4th of July and New Years Eves. Add some alcohol and a mentally retarded human with fireworks and it is a recipe for disaster. The other disturbing trend is to fire your guns into the air at midnight in celebration. The projectiles do have to come back down ya fucking morons.
So these past several years we may sit by the fire early in the evening then we go inside and then we just chill indoors with the windows closed and the television turned up a little higher than usual to drown out the popping of the festive colored gunpowder projectiles and distant emergency sirens that reach a peak between midnight and 1 am. The poor kitties can still hear them and hide.
My life partner will call her father and sibs to wish them the best in the coming year. I do not have that kind of relationship with my family members. We set an alarm in case we fall asleep before midnight. We will have the various countdown shows on the tv but as woke and gay as they have become I don't really pay much attention to them.
Thanks for not blowing yourselves up Fireside with Ol' KrazzyTrukker on this #weekend-engagement New Year Eve celebration post. And remember to...