While reading Howie Carr’s blog, I saw a daily poll question on their sidebar.
“Do you still stay up til Midnight on New Year’s Eve?”
Well? Do you?
Myself, if i’m up, I’m up. But I’m not purposely trying to stay awake for it, unless I’m at a New Year’s Eve party.
Eh. Maybe not even then.
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Not a party animal anymore, but with all the fireworks and gunfire going on until the wee hours, who can sleep?
I’m up until midnight and later every night. Always have been a night owl.
I did last year just to walk the Las Vegas Strip unmasked.
The assholes were trying to mandate masks outdoors and I was daring some fuckstick to say something.
Nobody did and half the folks were unmasked anyway.
Rumor is I may have had libations and been inebriated…but I cannot confirm…
I haven’t been able to stay awake until midnight for years. I make up for it by waking up at midnight and staying awake until 2.
Shit sometimes I wake up right before New Years.
What? Three hours past my bedtime!
I always wake up for a few fireworks that people are firing off, but it’s been a few years since I purposely was up till midnight on New Years Eve.
Haven’t cared about New Years since I quit drinking decades ago. Same shot, new year, just gonna screw up writing dates on things for abput a month but other than that, nothing really changes.
Also, they’ve made even the simple “ball drop” ceremony such a miserably woke political statement that they managed to even suck the tiny bit of excitement you could get from watching an artificial clock wind down and just turned it into another damn Democrat soap box 6o push their Communism from, because Democrats HAVE to politicize EVERYTHING, so I’ll just take a pass on having faggots and POCs hate my race and gender at midnight and catch up on my sleep instead, which I can do this year since I left my PERSONAL Democrat-ruined old shithole behind and moved to the country where the only shooting is at deer and coyotes, and hopefully soon to be Democrats as well…
No chance. I gave up on amateur hour almost 25 years ago
I’m up early, like 3am and haven’t seen midnight in many years. Early morning is the best time of day for me. Watching the day come to life is a blessing.
i’m always up until 2 anyway.
BTW, when or where or why did they come up with a ball drop? Anyone know?
I try to watch the New Years at the Needle every year. Mind you with the sound OFF until they start the fireworks. The TV anchors and the crowd interviews are beyond cringe stupid.
Our neighborhood shoots off fireworks and a few gunshots are in the mix. I stay up but Mr Illustr8r usually is asleep on the couch.
2019 – started to suck a bit
2020 – Kamala-level sucking
2021 – sucked the big Biden phallusa
2022 – probably will make 2021 look like a vacation
Nope; at this point if you’ve seen one new year, you’ve seen them all. Nothing new under the sun.
I stayed up last year, not to welcome 2021,but to burn the 2020 calender and perform a Druidic ceremony to purge everything from 2020 from America. I’m thinking I danced a few steps wrong, maybe got some incantations wrong, dammifino, but this year I still plan on staying up and burning the 2021 calendar, but I’m not gonna get fancy with trying to influence the future.
I will continue to offer my support for Brandon.
Let’s Go ,Brandon!!
Not since having kids 35 yrs ago.
I just don’t care anymore. And I work the next day so no I don’t stay up.
I don’t, it’s just another day. I don’t mark days, I get up and do what needs to be done. Rinse and repeat.
Last time was 2000, with Y2K. And the wife hasn’t seen the legendary ball drop since.
No
Fireworks and gun shots will annoy my dog,who then thinks she must annoy me.
So, against my will, I will be awake at Midnight.
Woohoo! Yippee!
It’s been decades since we did anything special for NYE, but we’re usually up past midnight most nights anyway. I’m sure it’ll be the same tomorrow. Ho-hum.
dot for decades.
in ’67 while playing cribbage at Way (spelled Hue)in the NCO tent , and drinking “Boilermakers” at ~ 2100 it was “15-2, 15 -4, this jarhead cant see not more”!
New years had a head as big as a 4by. Dug the biggest trench in Way.
month later when the Bear Cats started bombing i had very many new feiends!
I will be up to let the cat out and in won’t take long only going to be 19 degrees out.
God help us in 2022 he is the only one who can.
Used to when I lived in Minnesota. New Year’s Eve was my Christmas with my buddies. We waited for the ball to drop then we ended the party.
My sisters and I watch a movie and about 9pm, they poop out and I go in my room to read.
Yeah, boring life!
Yes… It’s been a long time since I wasn’t awake at midnight.
I do believe the last I stayed up was 99 into 00; you know the time American taxpayers paid billions to “fix” the Y2K issue. A bullshit problem that scammed us all.
I’m usually wedged in the recliner at midnight. Sometimes awake, sometimes not.
I’m working a 4 – 12 shift so they’d probably like me to be awake. Truth told I’ll be on my way home about then and hope to avoid the amateurs on the road.
Our town has the boot drop at 10 and 12…….mainly because one side of our historic downtown square is mostly bars.
Famblys and ol people…also locals watch it at 10 and skedaddle before…as mentioned above, amateur hour begins.
Being a night owl, I’m always up at midnight. Being a happy bachelor makes it nice on New Year’s Eve, I can fire up a fat stogie, nip some good moonshine & play some Call Of Duty. Yes, I’m 51 & still play video games! Keeps me young!
@MMinWA – I’m another early riser, 4am here. Retired, so it is a personal preference to enjoy morning coffee and usually read for a couple of quiet hours before dawn. My wife decorates at a Hallmark level, so this time of year is especially magical. On cold mornings, I start a fire in the woodburning stove while the coffee is brewing. The two Vizslas come in from making their morning rounds and curl up on day beds in front of the fire. Timers light the indoor decorations at 5am. This year especially, and I have spent a lot of quiet time remembering past Christmases and long-gone family members. Rejuvenating.
I can’t say I ever gave a shit about NYs. Most nights I’m abed by 11:30 unless I’m on the ‘phone with Crackerbaby.
To-night I repaired my Gillette 109 before I drank away my motor skills… I’m pretty happy about that. The 45 year old razor needed some help.
Yeah, it’s still one of the rare days of the year when I stay up late. Tomorrow I’ll be rootin for my good old alma matter, Michigan, in the Orange Bowl!
No. The last time I had a New Year’s Eve party, I got engaged. My wife won’t let me have one anymore.
My plans fell through due to a better event – my niece’s wedding. Otherwise:
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Chronic insomniac here. I’m up ’til midnight every fucking day of the year.
No. I like the morning after better: it’s so quiet.
I get up around 5:30 each day. Coffee, read, pray some mornings (should do every morning). I have not stayed up in at least 35 years.
I’d rather jab a sharp stick in my eyeball.
That and the fact that I wake up at 0500am whether I go to bed at 0900pm or 0400am puts a damper on things for the following day.
I was a gov’t worker who worked the Midnight Shift.
I was never awake at Midnight! Wait. I mean I was always awake at Midnight … sorta …
When you work Midnight, today is always tomorrow.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Praise the Lord, gonna be 28 degrees and pouring down rain here. Hopefully I can sleep through this one since there will be no fireworks to scare my puos.
Or should I have said a low of 28 otherwise it would be pouring snow…
Only reason I’m up at midnight is to pee.
If the cat climbs up in my lap while I’m sitting in the easy chair, I’m going to miss whatever’s going on because I’ll be asleep in 10 minutes.
Who needs melatonin?
Nope. I usually finish my last glass of bubbly about 10 pm and it’s
over as far as I’m concerned.
As far as watching 2 faggies on TV kissing when the ball drops – forget it.
Definitely awake New Year’s Eve at midnight. The moment a year changes to the next may seem uneventful, but every year is very unique. Just feel like I need to be awake to experience the beginning of a new year.
Plus, I’m so thankful to God I get another year. The days are not promised – (The Holy Bible, KJV James 4:13-14.) It’s by His love, mercy, and grace I have a new year.
I’ll watch fireworks on tv and in the neighborhood, change wall calenders and call or text family to celebrate a new year.