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randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

I'm annoyed that I'm going to be working tonight, but the holiday pay will sort of make up for it. I had a nice bump in my paycheck from the Christmas pay, and this pay will be a full 8 hours @ holiday pay instead of 4 hours.

It's the one holiday a year I really care about. Guess a lot more people requested it off before I did; next year I'm requesting it off as soon as I can (I think June 1st will be when I can request it off).

randomidiot fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Dec 31, 2020

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Applebees Appetizer
Jan 23, 2006

last time I made a big deal about NYE was 1999 after that couldn't care less

Like St.Patricks Day and Cinco De Mayo, just alcohol fueled related "holidays" that give people an excuse to get hosed up imo

trouser chili
Mar 27, 2002

Unnngggggghhhhh

Rhyno posted:

My wife likes family gatherings, we're getting numerous guilt trips over tonight. I was close to sending gently caress OFF through the group chat.

I'm so tired.

Same. And it's like everyone's trying not to impart the guilt they know in their heart you should feel, but like it can't help but bleed across. Families are fun.

And then there are situations like my sister, whom due to cancer lives in near isolation today. I have little concern she would infect me, her risk profile is off the charts and as such she manages her threat vectors very tightly. Similarly I live in near isolation as well, even my children are distance-learning this year. As such I don't mind sharing my bubble with her from time to time, as long as she's comfortable with it. I can see the questioning or perhaps jealously in other family members though. It shouldn't be so hard to explain we don't want to visit solely because members of your household work in the service industries, one as a cashier at a pharmacy!

trouser chili fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Dec 31, 2020

Goober Peas
Jun 30, 2007

Check out my 'Vette, bro


As an adult I've never done traditional NYE good luck things. You better loving believe I'm doing them all this year.

Goober Peas fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Dec 31, 2020

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


I typically spend New Years with my local nerd group, a sci-fi club that spun off a con at one point. For obvious reason we haven't been able to have our monthly meetings, and the con was canceled this year. They're doing a Zoom thing this year, and I'll probably pop in, but for the first time in a few years it'll just be my wife, daughter, and me. We don't normally go out to parties or whatever, anyway. Our circle of friends (and us) aren't big partiers, so no big deal. It's cold and wet out there today, even here in north TX.

freelop
Apr 28, 2013

Where we're going, we won't need fries to see



I managed to finish my clock/bookcase today in time for the end of the year

It's not been a total write off this year

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
That snake can read a digital clock? Wow

Wrar
Sep 9, 2002


Soiled Meat

Rhyno posted:

My wife likes family gatherings, we're getting numerous guilt trips over tonight. I was close to sending gently caress OFF through the group chat.

I'm so tired.

I leverage my job a bit since I do have to go onsite sometimes.

"Need to go onsite a few times a month for job. Can't see people. Sorry."

sharkytm
Oct 9, 2003

Ba

By

Sharkytm doot doo do doot do doo


Fallen Rib

Wrar posted:

I leverage my job a bit since I do have to go onsite sometimes.

"Need to go onsite a few times a month for job. Can't see people. Sorry."

I have the perfect excuse this year: "Sorry, I've got COVID. Like, seriously, still got symptoms"

shy boy from chess club
Jun 11, 2008

It wasnt that bad, after you left I got to help put out the fire!

My favorite NYE is one I spent with my mom on her last one getting drunk on Coronas and playing darts and fooseball. I made her watch Ice Age and she liked it when she usually can't stand cartoons.

We were joking about how lame we were not spending it with friends or at a party but it was pretty great.

bolind
Jun 19, 2005



Pillbug

Rhyno posted:

So for real, I absolutely detest NYE gatherings where people count down to midnight in unison.

Like okay I get it, y'all can count. gently caress off.

Only good part of covid is I don't have to do that poo poo tonight.

What I hate the most about New Years is that on this single night you’re kinda forced to party. So first there’s giant drama about who parties with whom, and then you have to be all party party even if you’ve sat in your rear end for a week already and stuffed yourself silly.

Give me a normal party any other day of the year please.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof
I "celebrated" New Year's with my wife once, 10 years ago.
It was a last minute "I guess we could do something" party. I invited a handful of people that I knew didn't have plans and made a bunch of food like a leg of lamb, a ham, a fuckton of appetizers and other nice things.

Almost 100 people showed up over the course of the evening and it turned into the biggest get drunk shitfest of debauchery. Luckily nothing was trashed, and somehow my bar survived relatively unscathed. Just a few handles of cheaper liquor were demolished. The hammock broke from being overloaded but other than that everything was surprisingly cool. That was the last time I hosted a New Year's "party" though. I remember waking up at 5am to my friend's phone BLARING Pretty Lights as he's unconscious on the floor next to it. My (now) wife was so hungover that she couldn't get out of bed and decided to vomit into a wicker trash can, and I literally couldn't walk through any part of the house without tripping over some passed out drunk.

Everything since has pretty much been champagne straight from the bottle and telemundo on TV. We went out and did a fancy dinner in DC one year but it was expensive, the food was not great, the cocktails were boring (and expensive) and the band was not enough to make up for it.

Mustache Ride
Sep 11, 2001



I was in Dublin last year for New Years and Costa Rica the year before. I think this will be the first NYE celebration I've had at home in 6 or 7 years.

It's usually the best time to use up all my PTO, so I figure why not travel over the holidays.

Was supposed to be in New Zealand this year but that got cancelled (by me) in May.

Applebees Appetizer
Jan 23, 2006

Posting from the beach on the last day of the year, gently caress 2020

Gonna watch the sunset and say thank Christ my family made it through ok. Here’s hoping for 2021 being better in every way!

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
Personally, NYE is more of a "singleness awareness day" than Valentine's Day, so I don't usually look forward to it. At least this year everything's cancelled, so it'll just be a normal evening.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


Raluek posted:

Personally, NYE is more of a "singleness awareness day" than Valentine's Day, so I don't usually look forward to it. At least this year everything's cancelled, so it'll just be a normal evening.

Oof, sorry to hear that. The first part, that is. I (somehow) haven't been single for 22 years, but I still remember it well.

slidebite
Nov 6, 2005

Good egg
:colbert:

We used to get together with another couple every New year's Eve for about the past 10 years. They live out of town but came to our town for the holidays as they have family here so... we didn't see them often.

Dinner at a nice restaurant and then spend the rest of the evening over at either of our houses having some drinks and playing some cards and catching up.

This year will probably be watching some Netflix and wouldn't be surprised if I'm we are in bed well before midnight.

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
This is the 13th NYE I've spent with my wife, my ex and I spent 3 together but before that I was almost always alone for it.

StormDrain
May 22, 2003

Thirteen Letter

slidebite posted:

We used to get together with another couple every New year's Eve for about the past 10 years. They live out of town but came to our town for the holidays as they have family here so... we didn't see them often.

Dinner at a nice restaurant and then spend the rest of the evening over at either of our houses having some drinks and playing some cards and catching up.

This year will probably be watching some Netflix and wouldn't be surprised if I'm we are in bed well before midnight.

I was ready for that to become a swinging story.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
New years Eve 2012 was the last time I drank more than a sip of hard alcohol in a day. I was drinking with the old bachelor thread crew and a group from a video game modding team I used to hang with and started with Dr mcgillicuddy, then ran out and switched to ice 101, which tastes the same once you're drunk enough to not taste the alcohol. And I forgot it was 100 proof not 40 proof about 5 seconds after opening the bottle.

It ended... Poorly. Didn't get out of bed the next day until like 9pm and basically quit drinking.

redgubbinz
May 1, 2007

Raluek posted:

Personally, NYE is more of a "singleness awareness day" than Valentine's Day, so I don't usually look forward to it. At least this year everything's cancelled, so it'll just be a normal evening.

Yep, I've been alone every NYE so far unless you count family, stopped caring years ago.

If you're gonna celebrate another lap around the sun how about a day that isn't always cold and dark. It's a conspiracy by the southern hemisphere, I'm on to you.

StormDrain
May 22, 2003

Thirteen Letter
For what it's worth it's nice to have a day of celebration when the atmosphere is so depressing.

Also I just did that. So I'm fine.

Applebees Appetizer
Jan 23, 2006

redgubbinz posted:

Yep, I've been alone every NYE so far unless you count family, stopped caring years ago.

If you're gonna celebrate another lap around the sun how about a day that isn't always cold and dark. It's a conspiracy by the southern hemisphere, I'm on to you.

Here it's 80 degrees, at the beach resort I used to work at it's going to be a poo poo show at the tiki bar glad I'm not there anymore. My buddies still work there and they've been in the weeds since 11 am I don't envy them at all.

luminalflux
May 27, 2005



We used to do real nice NYE parties with my friends in Stockholm, basically an excuse to get back together since a lot of people go back to their parents for christmas. Since a lot of my circle of friends all worked for the same place we all ended up with the same company christmas present: A bottle of Moet & Chandon, which turns out pooling them is a great idea.

I liked hosting NYE parties because then I didn't have to rely on rushing to the train at some point or expensive taxis to get home, I could just kick people out at 1am and pass out. Best one my friends actually did the dishes so I woke up the next day to a clean kitchen. Last couple years it's just been me and my wife, where we make nice food and watch movies.

cakesmith handyman
Jul 22, 2007

Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

My wife and I only stay up part midnight because there's no point going to bed earlier to listen to 2 hours of local dipshits setting off fireworks that sounds like mortars.

meatpimp
May 15, 2004

Psst -- Wanna buy

:) EVERYWHERE :)
some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

:kheldragar:

Aaaand... 2020 ends with me 5150'ing my 18 year old son. What a loving year. gently caress this year.

2021 will be better.

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Oh no

rdb
Jul 8, 2002
chicken mctesticles?

meatpimp posted:

Aaaand... 2020 ends with me 5150'ing my 18 year old son. What a loving year. gently caress this year.

2021 will be better.

Yikes, hope that works out.

Dagen H
Mar 19, 2009

Hogertrafikomlaggningen
"Oh poo poo" I say, having 5150'd myself on a past Xmas Eve.

Krakkles
May 5, 2003

meatpimp posted:

Aaaand... 2020 ends with me 5150'ing my 18 year old son. What a loving year. gently caress this year.

2021 will be better.
Oh no. I’m sorry, dude.

I hope you and he are ok.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


It's been raining:

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


meatpimp posted:

Aaaand... 2020 ends with me 5150'ing my 18 year old son. What a loving year. gently caress this year.

2021 will be better.

Oh, geeze, man, I’m sorry.

Humphreys posted:

It's been raining:



It’s still raining here in Dallas. Has been all day.

rdb
Jul 8, 2002
chicken mctesticles?

Darchangel posted:


It’s still raining here in Dallas. Has been all day.

I am stuck in big bend thanks to the same system.

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

Requested tonight off, employee app says I'm scheduled anyway. I go in... the overnight lead for my dept asks me WTF I'm doing at work.

"I'm scheduled"

He pulled out a copy of the paper schedule, which shows I have 3 days off (including tonight), tells me to go home. Well poo poo, okay. I'm only scheduled 32 hours going by what he has, but whatever, I have ~2 weeks of paid time off built up, and about 1/3 of it expires soon. I guess whenever they updated the paper schedule, they didn't push it to Workforce.

Kinda wish I'd stayed at work at this point (he did give me the option of staying). SO was drunk as hell when I got back, wanted to jump bones, when I'm not really in the mood. Wanted to watch one of the NYE shows, only to find out I got booted off of my mother's Youtube TV account (we had a falling out a few days ago when she went full on anti-vaxxer over me wanting the COVID vaccine).

meatpimp posted:

Aaaand... 2020 ends with me 5150'ing my 18 year old son. What a loving year. gently caress this year.

Oof.

OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002
holy gently caress I can't believe MF DOOM died two months ago and his family just announced it today :piss::piss: gently caress 2020

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof

meatpimp posted:

Aaaand... 2020 ends with me 5150'ing my 18 year old son. What a loving year. gently caress this year.

2021 will be better.

Well that fuckin blows. Hopefully he gets the help he needs. That's not an easy thing to do, let alone keep doing.

Ferremit
Sep 14, 2007
if I haven't posted about MY LANDCRUISER yet, check my bullbars for kangaroo prints

We had a few friends around- Only bout 8 of us total and decided this year to break out the cocktail bible and just do poo poo expensive and fancy instead of cheap beer and bourbon and cokes like we normally do.

Ended up in the spa at 2am with an Old Fashioned having a riot of a time, until my shoulder started to hurt and the black dog came running back, reminding me that this is the second year in a row now that I've rolled into a new year, in the peak of DIY season for us, with only one functional arm courtesy of my job, so the first year of 2021 has felt a bit like a rewinding of the tape to the start of 2020 for me.


meatpimp posted:

Aaaand... 2020 ends with me 5150'ing my 18 year old son. What a loving year. gently caress this year.

2021 will be better.

We sent my mates daughter to hospital in an Ambulance because she was threatening to off herself a few weeks back- got to spend the night there getting the poo poo scared out of her. Shes got a lot better outlook at getting really stuck into her mental health issues and getting on top of them as a result, but I can tell you that was one of the hardest calls I've ever had to make- Ringing her dad (and one of my coworkers and best friends) and tell him that he needed to find where she was ASAP and make sure she wasn't actively dying.

I hope things work out for you and your family over this.

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Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


2020 can suck an entire cornucopia of dicks.

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