What did we do this NYE? The same thing we do every New Year’s Eve! Put on our pajamas, ordered a pizza, rented a silly movie, played Wii games, ate ice cream (sometimes grasshopper shakes), watched the ball drop, and toasted at midnight!
Ted and his sister Kate started this tradition back when Kate was still in college and Ted was still in high school (so, like 18 2 years ago, right?). She was an RA at UW Milwaukee and had to stay in the dorms to monitor any residents who were staying during holiday break. Ted came to stay with her for a few days, and on New Year’s Eve they got whacked with a doozy of a blizzard so cold and windy and snowy that the small group of college kids staying in the dorms over the holidays had to take shifts every 30 minutes to keep a door to the outside world shoveled out from the rapidly accumulating snow drifts. Clearly, people weren’t going anywhere that particular NYE, and college kids gotta eat. So they ordered pizza, and stayed in for the night, and watched movies. And so a long-standing tradition was born. And every New Year’s Eve we have been lucky enough to spend with Kate and family, we all pile in the car to pick up a pizza and rent a movie before going home to change into our pjs, make grasshoppers, and play video games. And even when we can’t spend the holidays together, Ted and I have carried on the tradition ourselves.
{those are pomegranate seeds and black edible glitter in with that bubbly, in case you were wondering – which is about as fancy as we get when the windchill is -10}
In the past two NYE’s we’ve spent in Rochester, we’ve added a new tradition to the mix as well. We attend the 7:30 p.m. performance of Geva Comedy Improv’s New Year’s Eve Spectacular show before going home to cozy up for the night, and that’s been great fun as well – a highly recommended NYE activity if you’re in the Rochester area. And you know, one year we would actually like to make it out to party with friends in NYC on NYE, or go out and do something wild and fancy…maybe next year? Maybe the year after that? We’ll see. But for now, I’m pretty happy ringing in the New Year with some comedy and friends earlier in the evening, and then heading on home to cozily cuddle up in the arms of the guy I love.
As for my 2014 resolutions, my only resolution this year is to “Seek Goodness.” Healthy lifestyle goodness, adventurous goodness, artistic goodness, compassionate goodness, goodness in my relationships, and goodness anywhere and everywhere I go, and in anything and everything that I do. Seek and ye shall find, right? So, goodness, I’m seeking you everywhere this year!
Happy 2014, friends!
