Partying like it's 2010!

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We're at the last day of 2010, and everyone always asks, what are you plans for New Year's Eve? This year, we'll be sitting at home, watching the ball drop on television, and possibly falling asleep. Even as a kid, I never got the thrill of New Year's Eve. For me, the better holiday was New Year's Day. Parades, football, lots of football finger food.

When I worked at the restaurant during high school, New Year's Eve was total chaos. It was a popular place in Dallas for New Year's Eve, and we'd run a special menu and people would wait for 2.5 to 3 hours in order to eat. There was a big bar and dance floor downstairs (it was Baby Doe's Matchless Mine if any of you have ever eaten there), and you had to walk down this long rock tunnel (like a mine shaft) to get up from the bar. As a hostess, my job was to go find people in the bar. We lost many a good, honorable customers in that bar, disappearing forever on New Year's Eve, much like socks in a dryer. Sometimes people would walk up five and six hours later, a little bleary-eyed perhaps, and ask if there table was ready yet. We did our best, but after those years, New Year's Eve was never a big hoo-haw to me.

I think I like the new beginnings, instead the sadness of the ending, so I'll be concentrating on tomorrow today. I don't make resolutions, but I usually eat a little better in January, hit the gym a little more, write a little longer and hug my family a little more.

So, here's the question for today (and your last chance to put in comments for tomorrow's Kindle giveaway!):

Big plans for tonight, or do you sit at home in your PJ's? Are you resolution-maker? Tomorrow, what's on the agenda?