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    adultosaur married anna on the astral planeKelly Faircloth
    12/29/14 10:15am

    my friend invited me out for NYE and i am like, already v antisocial in general- NYE is like...my idea of hell. it's cold. i am OBLIGATED to look cute. going anywhere, especially home, is an impossible shitshow.

    my dad said this year he wants us all to stay in and get chinese and just chill. at first i was like RUDE I COULD HAVE PLANS and then i was like...no this sounds good tho i am on board.

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      Chronoadultosaur married anna on the astral plane
      12/29/14 10:18am

      Staying in and catching the yearly Twilight Zone Marathon have always been my plans for New Years

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      Lady Hazel of Wassernameadultosaur married anna on the astral plane
      12/29/14 10:26am

      That is what I do basically every single year, either with family or just my cats, and it is the shit. I went out on NYE for a few years, but my antisocial, anxious self hated every goddamn second of it. I much prefer to sit around in pajamas, watch a movie or two, eat all the Chinese pizza my little heart desires, and fall asleep whenever I feel like it.

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    ThePriceisWrongKelly Faircloth
    12/29/14 10:29am

    I'm just going to post this on every NYE post today.

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      Lady Hazel of WassernameThePriceisWrong
      12/29/14 10:34am

      I've seen this so many times and it never gets old. Completely accurate, and contains just about every reason I have despised NYE for many, many years.

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      DuchessCrazyLindaThePriceisWrong
      12/29/14 10:58am

      That is a truly magnificent piece of art.

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    frickinehKelly Faircloth
    12/29/14 10:20am

    I haven't even made it to midnight the last couple of years. I gave up on NYE a few years back, because it was just one shitshow after another. There was the year my date got shitfaced, took off his shirt in the bar (and it wasn't intimidating aaaanyone), barfed on my shoes, then disappeared and never did remember how he got home. That was the same night I had to trek all over the damn city in heels and my date's cousin tried to suck my toes afterward, and a close friend and I had a permanent falling out. Or the year my friends and I were looking for parking and got in a hit and run with someone who was almost definitely drunk, and didn't even make it to the bar we paid excessive amounts to get into.

    My sweatpants have never tried to charge me $100 for cover, and my electric blanket never leaves me stranded at a bar, damnit.

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      Jackie_Jormp_Jompfrickineh
      12/29/14 11:15am

      Internet soulmate, I've found you! In my single years, I always felt like I "had" to go out, but it was never enjoyable. There always seemed to be so much pressure to have fun and/or to kiss someone at midnight. Or, I'd just get really drunk and make a fool out of myself.

      For the past few years, my husband and I have just gone over to a friend's and left shortly after midnight, but this year we're just staying in. I'm in my last trimester of pregnancy, and I can hardly make it to 9 most nights. I'm so fucking exhausted, always! I know I won't be able to make it to midnight, and my husband seemed disappointed when I told him that. I gave him my permission to wake me up shortly before midnight so that we can ring in the new year together, so I think that's a fair compromise.

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      frickinehJackie_Jormp_Jomp
      12/29/14 11:19am

      My husband doesn't care about NYE, either, thank god. He'll probably be awake, but only because WoW. Me and the dogs will be snuggled up in bed by 10.

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    Potatoe666Kelly Faircloth
    12/29/14 10:16am

    ok guys. shall I:

    (a) stay at home at new years eve and get really depressed but be able to move around in awful clothes, eat a lot and get drunk or

    (b) go to a party with friends at my home town (despite never being in new years eve mood, ever) or

    (c) travel for 24 hours to Berlin with two friends and celebrate there AND ruin myself financially?

    Any help - serious and non-serious - appreciated.

    Forever your potatoe

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      Lady Hazel of WassernamePotatoe666
      12/29/14 10:30am

      I vote option A, but minus the depression and plus binge-watching your favorite comedy with a bottle of wine.

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      kiisseliPotatoe666
      12/29/14 11:44am

      I am in a really reckless kind of mood so I'm feeling C....it sounds like an adventure, in any case, but the 'financial ruin' is probably a bad call. If A means depression, maybe do B? Or like, a middle point by bringing good snacks to the home town party. You'll be a hero to all the other guests, which always adds a touch of satisfaction while getting blitzed.

      Oooh, ooh, re: easy hero snacks....my dude's cousin brought over this dip a couple of nights ago, 'buffalo wing dip'. It had a cream cheese layer on the bottom, then shredded chicken, wing sauce and a few nubs of blue cheese. In the oven til it's warm + nacho chips = maybe the best drunk food I've ever had. Do that, if you're not a vegetarian?

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    kiisseliKelly Faircloth
    12/29/14 10:36am

    This is as good a place as any to ask: so I also kind of hate New Years, but my dude and I just got an invite to someone's 'fancy' NYE house party and he wants to go. 'Fancy' is in quotes here because we're a bunch of big city art/grad students. Anyways I don't really own anything good anymore, and I have a super long torso so trying to have alcohol-fun in some cute little dress WITHOUT flashing people is pretty difficult. With those considerations....are these pants an amazing/terrible idea?

    SEQUIN PANTS IMAGE

    I have a good loose grey tunic tee and black ankle boots to style them with. I've 85% convinced myself, I just want at least one person who isn't my fashion-blind dude to cosign.

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      we just keep drivingkiisseli
      12/29/14 10:44am

      I am going to say Yes! But only within the small window of a NYE "fancy" art student party.

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      Dunemikiisseli
      12/29/14 10:53am

      I think they're really cute. And I think when everyone is wearing the exact same pouffy cocktail dress and heels, it looks boring.

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    DuchessCrazyLindaKelly Faircloth
    12/29/14 10:07am

    I hate New Years Eve, but I feel compelled to go out. I can't explain it. I should just try to get over it and stay in with The Twilight Zone marathon.

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      purplewhateversDuchessCrazyLinda
      12/29/14 10:11am

      An ex-boyfriend of mine was like this as well, and would usually always get mad at me for not having made plans for us. He'd never actually make any plans himself, just get pissed off at me for "wasting" another New Year's. What's with this?

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      hellbetty666DuchessCrazyLinda
      12/29/14 10:17am

      I was like this for many years. If you fancy a night in, tell yourself you're going to do it for one year only. Perhaps invite a couple of mates around, crack open a bottle of sparkling white and pretend it's a party. This way you'll get to experience it.

      However, I should warn you, if you do this, I doubt you'll ever go out again NYE.

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    Violet BaudelaireKelly Faircloth
    12/29/14 10:10am

    I'm getting a "This video is private" error... I'm in the US and everything!

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      Kelly FairclothViolet Baudelaire
      12/29/14 10:14am

      Should work now!

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      Violet BaudelaireKelly Faircloth
      12/29/14 10:15am

      Yay! Thank you. Now I can stop working myself and watch it!

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    SchemeHatcheryKelly Faircloth
    12/29/14 10:28am

    NYE was only fun when Christmas wasn't an exhausting marathon of adult obligation.

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      friendlyfeministharpyKelly Faircloth
      12/29/14 10:19am

      My boss just asked me to cover for her on New Years Day. Even though it's the worst, I'm bummed.

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        XofKelly Faircloth
        12/29/14 10:35am

        Going out is total BS. I like to stay in drink whiskey and play U2's "New Years Day" at extreme decibel levels while staring at myself in a mirror. I will play the song over and over until I enter a fugue state truly believing that I am having the best possible new years ever. I did the same thing for Christmas but listening to Paul McCartney's "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime".

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          lurkystarsXof
          12/29/14 11:36am

          I do something similar on Christmas, but my song of choice is Prince's "Another Lonely Christmas." I love the U2 idea, but again, Prince wins out with "1999," even if it is passe'. I like to get hammered and super-depressed in order to feel like it can only get better.

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