Your families or cultures have anything that y'all do every New Year?

Imma be making collard greens and black eyed peas tonight. Like pretty much every Black family in Baltimore,MD.

For good luck and prosperity.

What y'all doing?

God bless y'all in the '07.

Yeah we like to get drunk!


...and God bless!

I could care less about new years, I'm gonna polish off the rest of these Sam Adams tonight and pass out alone.

This year I'm breaking tradtion by staying in. I may stay home altogether as I spent yesterday getting sick all day from either something bad I ate, a stomach flu, too much drinking the night before or some combination of all of the above. I haven't eaten yet today. I'm scared to.





Or if I feel better later and find I can actually keep food down I may go to a friends. We'll see. I don't want to get anyone else sick.

jerseykrs said:

If you do that again next year, it'll be a tradition.

No traditions. I tend to let it be a quiet evening at home. I can see the Space Needle from my apartment, so I like to watch the fireworks.

usually i go to first avenue for their new year's party, but tonight i'ma probably end up staying home due to the weather (just started snowing really heavy here in mpls) and just surfing the 'net all night.

jerseykrs said:

I'm staying in instead of terrorizing the world like I used to.

Drinking champagne and eatin' cheesecake.

I'm going to my friend's house in San Francisco with my best friend. He askes us to bring a suitcase or some kind of luggage that we travel with. At 12 we're supposed to carry our luggage outside and walk to the corner. This is his tradition. He says this will give us good luck and great travel opportunities in 2007.
It's silly but fun!

M

gemini13 said:

Great combination.

KoolEaze said:

I hope so.

Clean My FUCKING HOUSE!!!

alwayslate said:

U mean besides get FUCKED UP!?

My mother gets a wakeup call every year no matter where I am and we say "Happy New Year!" She then tells me how long she was able to watch whatever program it was that put her to sleep, we laugh...I tell her I love her and that I am drunk....and we hang up....Then I call the next day and we laugh at each other some more.

I'll find some damn black-eyed peas some damn where!!!

alwayslate said:

...And, the house is clean (top to bottom, inside and out), the fridge and the pantry is stocked with freshness. Everything is new. The cars are washed, tuned, and filled with fuel. Bills are paid, money in the bank. Money in our pockets. Family and friends within reach. Personal cleanliness..Ect...

Whatever your state of being is, when the new year rolls in, is whatever your state of being will be all year long.

We believe, for us.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Cute!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Yeah, you guys are getting snow--it's too warm here in Detroit, so we're getting heavy rain right now out of that same system.

Good ol' global warming!

I also eat black eyed peas on New Years day for good luck.
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Stax said:

We do, too. With greens, of course for money.

man...ya'll got me craving some black-eyed peas now.

black-eyed peas (with some sugar sprinkled on 'em) and homemade cornbread

SHANNA said:

You guys are making me all panicky now, I had no black eyed peas, no collard greens, been drinking green tea all night long, puffin on weed, eatin German whole grain bread with feta cheese and Kräuterquark...and my place looks good but it´s still a work in progress...

This superstitious stuff is making me worried now....will I be a broke and lonely mufucka in 2007 because I didn´t have b.e.peas and greens ? What about green tea ? HELP ME !

KoolEaze said:

It's a good thing I'm not superstitious, as I refuse to believe I'm gonna spend the entirety of 2007 sick and alone.

KoolEaze said:

i don't have any black-eyed peas, but i drunk the last half of a bottle of peach oolong tea that i had. hopefully that'll give me some luck in lieu of no green tea.

KoolEaze said:

lol! I don't even believe in superstitions but I'm so used to doing this stuff that I can't imagine New Year Eve without it.

alwayslate said:

yeah, me too. My grandma always made the New Year's BEPs, so now I do also.

KoolEaze said:

...I don't know about you, hun... ...but, I'm going to eat a serving for you and hope it works!!! (I draw the line at chittlin' for ANYBODY, tho!)

Happy New Year!

CarrieMpls said:

I'm sorry you're not feeling well, sugarplum.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

Thanks.
I bought myself some sparkling cranberry juice since I thought I'd be in alone tonight sick. I can't get the damn thing open. So I decided I could try to go over to Darin's for just a little bit, if only to enjoy my cranberry juice. I walk out my door and hear sirens everywhere. I get to the front and there was some kind of fire or something in the apartment building across the street from me. There are 3 fire trucks and many squad cars. All blocking my street. Apparently I'm destined to be in home alone tonight.

There is no way in hell I'm making it to midnight tonight.

My mom is in town and she's had me up since 6 am doing shit. I managed to sneak into the org earlier today, but the rest of the day I've been driving her around town so she could shop--a fate worse than death for me.


I'm so exhausted right now I don't even know where to start. But I did guy a wonderful new pair of Kenneth Cole shoes (last season though ) out of the whole day!


My ass will be in bed before 11

awaiting the birth of my son who should arrive here on the 3rd by C section but cant stop worring about the wife. its driving me crazy. i mean its 0315 hrs and i should be in bed asleep but im wide awake looking at the net. gonna try to go to bed soon.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL