The "Stay Home on New Year's Eve" Club

sabotai · 12-31-2006, 08:26 PM

No plans for tonight so I'll be hanging out at home. I got Ghostbusters on (Comedy Central) as I get ready to play some FOF.

Anyone else just hanging out at home, or am I the only loser?

st.cronin · 12-31-2006, 08:27 PM

me too

Ben E Lou · 12-31-2006, 08:28 PM

The last time I came home after dark on New Years' Eve, it was when SWMBO and I went to dinner, and then to see "As Good As It Gets," in the theater. I'm fairly sure it was the early show, too.

Going to check what year that was now...

Atocep · 12-31-2006, 08:29 PM

I'm home, watching my son. Wife recently took a job in Washington and we'll be moving up there in 2 weeks. In the meantime I'm here playing housedad until the movers get here.

Ben E Lou · 12-31-2006, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by SkyDog

The last time I came home after dark on New Years' Eve, it was when SWMBO and I went to dinner, and then to see "As Good As It Gets," in the theater. I'm fairly sure it was the early show, too.

Going to check what year that was now...

'97.

terpkristin · 12-31-2006, 08:33 PM

Cold from hell is still here (drove me to urgent care this morning) so I passed on the party to stay home and get better.

/tk

Raiders Army · 12-31-2006, 08:34 PM

We're sitting at home and my daughter has a friend to stay the night. I'll be reading The Blind Side to ring in the New Year. Going to pick up pizza right now.

GoldenEagle · 12-31-2006, 08:36 PM

I do not have any plans for the evening. I do not feel like going and battling the crowds or drunks in downtown so I think I will just watch a movie or play around on the new Xbox Live.

amdaily · 12-31-2006, 08:37 PM

Watching Rome on DVD. There is a bottle of vodka here, but now that I realize how pathetic my life is, I'm to depressed to even get drunk.

sabotai · 12-31-2006, 08:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SkyDog

The last time I left the house after dark on New Years' Eve, it was when SWMBO went to dinner, and then to see "As Good As It Gets," in the theater. Going to check what year that was now...

I remember seeing that in the theater with a few people I haven't seen in 8-9 years.

I've only "been out" on New Year's Eve a few times (a few other times, the party was where I already was, ie. the girlfriend's house). Last year, I went to a really "white trash" party in Pitman (for you NJ people who know the town I'm talking about...). I've never been a big "go our on New Year's Eve" person.

sabotai · 12-31-2006, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by amdaily

Watching Rome on DVD. There is a bottle of vodka here, but now that I realize how pathetic my life is, I'm to depressed to even get drunk.

That doesn't sound like the amdaily we all know and love.

I watched Rome (got the DVDs a little while back) and loved it.

JonInMiddleGA · 12-31-2006, 08:42 PM

Went & had chain restaurant Italian for early dinner, back home safe & sound nice & early.

st.cronin · 12-31-2006, 08:43 PM

I'm actually stranded in Santa Fe. The big blizzard that came through a day or so ago dropped three feet of snow on my house, and we have no power or phone. So I'm hanging out at the hotel I work, waiting for my girlfriend to call me to pick her up at the clinic she works at. We'll probably bring in the new year with a bang.

Lathum · 12-31-2006, 08:43 PM

We just ordered pizza, I'm flipping between the blah blah blah bowl and the packers game ( I threw a few bucks on both to make it interesting) The miss is in her PJ's already and jusy cracked a bottle of wine, I am sipping a beer, playing FOF and content as all hell. The woman is reading people and laying on the couch.

We asked each other if we are losers and wondered if we should walk to the bar down the road. We decided we aren't into celebrating with a bunch of drunk strangers and would rather enjoy each others company.

Lathum · 12-31-2006, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Went & had chain restaurant Italian for early dinner, back home safe & sound nice & early.

exactly why I don't go out tonight, to many idiots

Coder · 12-31-2006, 08:47 PM

So I just got home from a nice new years party with a bunch of friends.. nothing intense, just good food, nice wine some champagne to celebrate the new year.. while I realize this is not what this thread is about, I'm technically home before midnight your guys' time.. so eh.. I'm celebrating new year's at home

Ragone · 12-31-2006, 08:48 PM

Yep, i'm hanging at home.. People now a days can't have a good time without being completely trashed and puking in a trash can

bbor · 12-31-2006, 08:49 PM

Dinner....now FM'ing....a little less exciting than last year when we were at the casino for new years.

Cheers guys....

sabotai · 12-31-2006, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

exactly why I don't go out tonight, to many idiots

Part of the reason I'm home too. I could have headed to my friend's house who is just staying home as well, but he lives in Manayunk (Philadelphia), very close to where all of the bars are. Like I need to drive through that clusterfuck twice tonight.

Lathum · 12-31-2006, 08:52 PM

dola-
I didn't mean JIMG was an idiot, I was saying he was smart.

Ben E Lou · 12-31-2006, 08:53 PM

Heh, actually I returned home a little after dark last year on New Years' Eve. Anyone remember this?

Eaglesfan27 · 12-31-2006, 09:05 PM

We're having a couple over for drinks and to watch a movie starting at 9:00 and then we'll watch the ball at midnight.

Easy Mac · 12-31-2006, 09:07 PM

watching the first season of Dexter

Easy Mac · 12-31-2006, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eaglesfan27

We're having a couple over for drinks and to watch a movie starting at 9:00 and then we'll watch the ball at midnight.

kinky

DaddyTorgo · 12-31-2006, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Went & had chain restaurant Italian for early dinner, back home safe & sound nice & early.

DID YOU GO TO OLIVE GARDEN!?!?!

Cringer · 12-31-2006, 09:20 PM

Does staying at home and getting intoxicated and then lighting off fireworks still qualify me for this club?

amdaily · 12-31-2006, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Cringer

Does staying at home and getting intoxicated and then lighting off fireworks still qualify me for this club?

Are you doing it alone?

Celeval · 12-31-2006, 09:25 PM

Hanging out with the wife, playing games, watching tv.

thealmighty · 12-31-2006, 09:26 PM

Haven't gone out on New Year's Eve since around the time Shorty was born.

Flasch186 · 12-31-2006, 09:26 PM

room for some more? Me and Ash are staying in w/ guitar hero 2

JonInMiddleGA · 12-31-2006, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

DID YOU GO TO OLIVE GARDEN!?!?!

Heh. No, Johnny Corino's actually. It's closer & usually a lot less crowded.

(I actually left out the name in hopes of not offending any of the OG contingent here)

Raiders Army · 12-31-2006, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Heh. No, Johnny Corino's actually. It's closer & usually a lot less crowded.

(I actually left out the name in hopes of not offending any of the OG contingent here)

Strange. The Johnny Carinos all around us went bankrupt a few months ago. How they went bankrupt I have no idea other than mismanagement or stealing from the till. They always seemed busy.

http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin...28/story3.html

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The leader of a bankrupt Johnny Carino's franchisee committed suicide last month, complicating a messy $30 million reorganization effort in Austin.

Mark Day, who headed the Sandia Food Group of businesses that controlled 13 Carino's restaurants in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, killed himself July 19, just weeks before his restaurant empire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Aug. 4.

The franchisee's parent company, Fired Up Inc., is based in Austin. The franchisee's bankruptcy doesn't affect Johnny Carino's 76 corporate-owned stores or the other 80-plus operated by other franchisees.

Of the 13 restaurants pulled into bankruptcy court, three are in El Paso. The others are in New Mexico and Arizona.

Day's death left Sandia Food Group's managers and lawyers scrambling to reorganize the restaurant group without its leader, while still getting the bills paid.

"He was the primary driving force behind the promotion" of Sandia's restaurants, says Austin bankruptcy lawyer Patty Tomasco with Brown McCarroll LLP, who is handling the bankruptcy. "I would think he was the figurehead."

Without Day leading the company through the bankruptcy, she says, "you do have a bit of a headless horseman problem," Tomasco says.

She says she and Sandia's business partners spent days trying to untangle the farmers-knot of companies responsible for its operations and get their approval before filing for bankruptcy.

The bankruptcy filings reflect that complexity, with a mother lode of bankruptcy petitions for the 19 different entities that made up Sandia Food Group.

But, because "it's almost impossible" to distinguish their debts from one another, Tomasco says, she expects the bankruptcy court will consolidate them into one case.

"It's a triage effort," she says. "You have to take the most serious needs and deal with those, and that's what we've done."

First off, that means making sure Sandia's 900 employees get paid.

So Tomasco recently filed an opening salvo of motions to get the court to let the group crack open its bank accounts for payday, despite the reality that it owes massive amounts of money to the Internal Revenue Service, the state of Texas, and Fired Up.

BYU 14 · 12-31-2006, 09:34 PM

This will be our first year at home in years....

My wife had a splitting Headache all day yesterday. Got so bad that we ended up going to the Hospital about 1 o'clock in the Morning. Come to find out she has viral meningitis, so she will be laid up for a few days, taking Steroids and painkillers while the virus runs it's course.

So it will be an evening of watching the Twilight Zone Marathon and her getting pampered and I have to say, that minus her being sick, this is actually preferable to our original plans for me (Celebrating at a new Club that opened close to us)

Also VERY grateful it was nothing more serious as they were worried about an anuerysm when we got to the Hospital.

Cringer · 12-31-2006, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by amdaily

Are you doing it alone?

Not really. The wife and kid are here. But they don't drink enough to get intoxicated. (I am limiting my 7 year old daughters beer tonight)

Cork · 12-31-2006, 09:39 PM

The kids are in bed, the wife is upstairs reading, and I am enjoying the Packers game.

-Cork

Easy Mac · 12-31-2006, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Cork

The kids are in bed, the wife is upstairs reading, and I am enjoying the Packers game.

-Cork

enjoying it like John Madden is enjoying it?

Cringer · 12-31-2006, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Easy Mac

enjoying it like John Madden is enjoying it?

I don't get it.

Fonzie · 12-31-2006, 09:51 PM

I honestly cannot remember the last time I went out for New Year's Eve. That kind of recreation hasn't appealed to me in quite some time.

Cringer · 12-31-2006, 09:54 PM

Getting drunk on some random night is much better. Plus I have no friends.

Oilers9911 · 12-31-2006, 09:55 PM

I'm a gold member of the club. I find New Years to be highly overrated.

Cork · 12-31-2006, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

enjoying it like John Madden is enjoying it?

Explain please.

-Cork

st.cronin · 12-31-2006, 10:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cork

Explain please.

-Cork

I think he means that Brett Favre gives John Madden an erection, and it's not a metaphor.

Greyroofoo · 12-31-2006, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

DID YOU GO TO OLIVE GARDEN!?!?!

I feel like I ate at Olive Garden.

Cringer · 12-31-2006, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Greyroofoo

I feel like I ate at Olive Garden.

Is food bad there? I had never eaten there until this tour I went on for the new job and ended up eating there a few times. All we would ever get is the Soup and Salad, which seemed fine to me. Hard to mess those up though.

Lorena · 12-31-2006, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by st.cronin

I think he means that Brett Favre gives John Madden an erection, and it's not a metaphor.

I'm sure Madden got a massive one when Favre said he'd join him in the booth.

Cringer · 12-31-2006, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Dodgerchick

I'm sure Madden got a massive one when Favre said he'd join him in the booth.

I would get a massive one if Favre said he would join me somewhere, too. So just keep your little comments to yourself.

amdaily · 12-31-2006, 10:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cringer

Getting drunk on some random night is much better. Plus I have no friends.

If you stopped in the drunk thread more, I would be your friend!

Nothing like a Wednesday drunken stupor

Cringer · 12-31-2006, 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amdaily

If you stopped in the drunk thread more, I would be your friend!

Nothing like a Wednesday drunken stupor

Well, I stopped getting drunk, for the most part, when I was 19. I rediscovered it with the new job and being on tour with a group of guys who I found worthy of naming a couple of them friends. Now, I would have posted every time I was drunk or atleast buzzed while on tour, but I didn't always have internet. It depended on what hotel we were staying in and if their wireless was crap or not. I will try next tour.

wade moore · 12-31-2006, 10:56 PM

Our New Years tradition has become my fiance waking me up while sleeping going "someone's trying to break into the house!".. I wake up, look out the window, see the flashing lights and tell her it's just fireworks and go back to sleep.

Buccaneer · 12-31-2006, 11:03 PM

Been playing Gothic 3 and answering lots of questions.

12-31-2006, 08:27 PM	#2
st.cronin General Manager Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Mexico	me too __________________ co-commish: bb-bbcf.net knives out

12-31-2006, 08:28 PM	#3
Ben E Lou Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC	The last time I came home after dark on New Years' Eve, it was when SWMBO and I went to dinner, and then to see "As Good As It Gets," in the theater. I'm fairly sure it was the early show, too. Going to check what year that was now... __________________ The media don't understand the kinds of problems and pressures 54 million come wit'! Last edited by Ben E Lou : 12-31-2006 at 08:38 PM.

12-31-2006, 08:33 PM	#6
terpkristin Grizzled Veteran Join Date: May 2003 Location: Ashburn, VA	Cold from hell is still here (drove me to urgent care this morning) so I passed on the party to stay home and get better. /tk __________________ GO TERPS! https://www.flickr.com/photos/terpkristin https://twitter.com/terpkristin

12-31-2006, 08:36 PM	#8
GoldenEagle Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Little Rock, AR	I do not have any plans for the evening. I do not feel like going and battling the crowds or drunks in downtown so I think I will just watch a movie or play around on the new Xbox Live. __________________ Xbox 360 Gamer Tag: GoldenEagle014

12-31-2006, 08:42 PM	#12
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	Went & had chain restaurant Italian for early dinner, back home safe & sound nice & early. __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

12-31-2006, 08:29 PM	#4
Atocep Coordinator Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Puyallup, WA	I'm home, watching my son. Wife recently took a job in Washington and we'll be moving up there in 2 weeks. In the meantime I'm here playing housedad until the movers get here.

12-31-2006, 08:34 PM	#7
Raiders Army Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Black Hole	We're sitting at home and my daughter has a friend to stay the night. I'll be reading The Blind Side to ring in the New Year. Going to pick up pizza right now.

12-31-2006, 08:37 PM	#9
amdaily College Prospect Join Date: Nov 2003	Watching Rome on DVD. There is a bottle of vodka here, but now that I realize how pathetic my life is, I'm to depressed to even get drunk.

12-31-2006, 08:43 PM	#13
st.cronin General Manager Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Mexico	I'm actually stranded in Santa Fe. The big blizzard that came through a day or so ago dropped three feet of snow on my house, and we have no power or phone. So I'm hanging out at the hotel I work, waiting for my girlfriend to call me to pick her up at the clinic she works at. We'll probably bring in the new year with a bang. __________________ co-commish: bb-bbcf.net knives out

12-31-2006, 08:43 PM	#14
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	We just ordered pizza, I'm flipping between the blah blah blah bowl and the packers game ( I threw a few bucks on both to make it interesting) The miss is in her PJ's already and jusy cracked a bottle of wine, I am sipping a beer, playing FOF and content as all hell. The woman is reading people and laying on the couch. We asked each other if we are losers and wondered if we should walk to the bar down the road. We decided we aren't into celebrating with a bunch of drunk strangers and would rather enjoy each others company.

12-31-2006, 08:47 PM	#16
Coder College Prospect Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Gothenburg, Sweden	So I just got home from a nice new years party with a bunch of friends.. nothing intense, just good food, nice wine some champagne to celebrate the new year.. while I realize this is not what this thread is about, I'm technically home before midnight your guys' time.. so eh.. I'm celebrating new year's at home __________________ IFL - Vermont Mountaineers ~ I am an idiot, walking a tight rope of fortunate things ~

12-31-2006, 08:48 PM	#17
Ragone Pro Rookie Join Date: May 2002 Location: Kansas City, Mo	Yep, i'm hanging at home.. People now a days can't have a good time without being completely trashed and puking in a trash can

12-31-2006, 08:49 PM	#18
bbor Pro Starter Join Date: May 2001 Location: toronto	Dinner....now FM'ing....a little less exciting than last year when we were at the casino for new years. Cheers guys.... __________________ Pumpy Tudors Now that I've cracked and made that admission, I wonder if I'm only a couple of steps away from wanting to tongue-kiss Jaromir Jagr and give Bobby Clarke a blowjob.

12-31-2006, 08:52 PM	#20
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	dola- I didn't mean JIMG was an idiot, I was saying he was smart.

12-31-2006, 08:53 PM	#21
Ben E Lou Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC	Heh, actually I returned home a little after dark last year on New Years' Eve. Anyone remember this? __________________ The media don't understand the kinds of problems and pressures 54 million come wit'!

12-31-2006, 09:05 PM	#22
Eaglesfan27 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: New Jersey	We're having a couple over for drinks and to watch a movie starting at 9:00 and then we'll watch the ball at midnight. __________________ Retired GM of the eNFL 2007 Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles (19-0 record.) GM of the WOOF 2006 Doggie Bowl Champion Atlantic City Gamblers. GM of the IHOF 2019 and 2022 IHOF Bowl Champion Asheville Axemen.

12-31-2006, 09:07 PM	#23
Easy Mac Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Here	watching the first season of Dexter

12-31-2006, 09:20 PM	#26
Cringer Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Edinburg,TX	Does staying at home and getting intoxicated and then lighting off fireworks still qualify me for this club? __________________ You Stole Fizzy Lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and steralized, so you get NOTHING! You lose!

12-31-2006, 09:25 PM	#28
Celeval Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Cary, NC, USA	Hanging out with the wife, playing games, watching tv.

12-31-2006, 09:26 PM	#29
thealmighty Pro Starter Join Date: May 2003 Location: heaven	Haven't gone out on New Year's Eve since around the time Shorty was born. __________________ Check out The Unofficial FOFC Movie Guide Here

12-31-2006, 09:26 PM	#30
Flasch186 Coordinator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Jacksonville, FL	room for some more? Me and Ash are staying in w/ guitar hero 2 __________________ Jacksonville-florida-homes-for-sale Putting a New Spin on Real Estate! ----------------------------------------------------------- Commissioner of the USFL USFL

12-31-2006, 09:34 PM	#33
BYU 14 Coordinator Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The scorched Desert	This will be our first year at home in years.... My wife had a splitting Headache all day yesterday. Got so bad that we ended up going to the Hospital about 1 o'clock in the Morning. Come to find out she has viral meningitis, so she will be laid up for a few days, taking Steroids and painkillers while the virus runs it's course. So it will be an evening of watching the Twilight Zone Marathon and her getting pampered and I have to say, that minus her being sick, this is actually preferable to our original plans for me (Celebrating at a new Club that opened close to us) Also VERY grateful it was nothing more serious as they were worried about an anuerysm when we got to the Hospital.

12-31-2006, 09:39 PM	#35
Cork H.S. Freshman Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wisconsin	The kids are in bed, the wife is upstairs reading, and I am enjoying the Packers game. -Cork

12-31-2006, 09:51 PM	#38
Fonzie Pro Rookie Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Illinois	I honestly cannot remember the last time I went out for New Year's Eve. That kind of recreation hasn't appealed to me in quite some time. Last edited by Fonzie : 12-31-2006 at 09:52 PM.

12-31-2006, 09:54 PM	#39
Cringer Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Edinburg,TX	Getting drunk on some random night is much better. Plus I have no friends. __________________ You Stole Fizzy Lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and steralized, so you get NOTHING! You lose!

12-31-2006, 09:55 PM	#40
Oilers9911 College Benchwarmer Join Date: Jan 2006	I'm a gold member of the club. I find New Years to be highly overrated.

12-31-2006, 11:03 PM	#50
Buccaneer Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Colorado	Been playing Gothic 3 and answering lots of questions.

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