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Happy New Year everyone! Hope you had/have a glorious night either relaxing or partying.We went next door for a drink at 7pm, which escalated unexpectedly to still drinking at 3am and now feeling sorry for ourselves at 2pm. So much for a quiet night!
Haha, hope you have a relaxing day, Rusalka! Sounds like you had a fun night. Happy New Year! It is still 2016 here! It is about 10:40pm. We just came back yesterday from visiting family out of state for the Christmas holiday and decided to have a quiet new year. My husband and I are in our jammies, hanging out on the couch, watching tv and drinking hot chocolate, just the two of us with our cat and dog.
Happy New Year!! It will be 2016 here for 5 more hours :)
Heh it was. It was just sitting around chatting, but well needed. The "problem" was that I made homemade limoncello, and we mixed it with bubbles and white wine. I was putting out the empties before, and thought, "oh 4 bottles of wine over 8 hours isn't much! Why do we feel so rubbish?"And then I saw the remaining limoncello. About a bottle of vodka was consumed with the wine. Dangerously deceptive!
Ah well. A day of lounging around is not a bad thing.
An hour to go here before 2017 boots 2016 out the door. Woot! I have a feeling 2017 is going to be a wild one.
Happy (almost) New Year everyone. Twenty minutes to go .......
It's 10.30am here now. I'm feeling okay, didn't drink much but going to bed late always makes me feel rubbish the day after.I thought I'd be in bed half an hour after midnight, but when we went out to see the fireworks the neighbours also came out and asked if we wanted to come over for some bubbles. So we went and there were also 2 other people from our street whom we never met, and we stayed until 2.30am. We were the first ones to leave and the others were all 65+ people ;-)
Happy New Year! It is 1:36am here and I am laying in bed, ready to turn off the light. Zzzzzz
Not one for resolutions but for this year I'd really like to put a huge dent in my backlog and avoid book sales. Book sales are good but I feel they are dictating my reading. I'd like to get to a point of owning only about 5 unread books so I can truly read what I want when I want. I probably can't actually get through the backlog in 1 year. Only put a small dent in it last year. But last year I pretty much read any books I bought when I bought them so I didn't add to the backlog either.
Happy New Year to you all!! We spend NYE nights with the kids playing games and just having some time together. I prefer a quiet night these days! I hope we all have an incredible reading year with lots of good things happening to us all. :)
Peggy wrote: "We were the first ones to leave and the others were all 65+ people ;-) "That is so funny, Peggy!
I didn't drink too much, but went to bed late, and get up before 7. It seems my kids' resolution is again to get up early, even if it is weekend and New Year's Day. o.O
Travis of NNY wrote: "Not one for resolutions but for this year I'd really like to put a huge dent in my backlog and avoid book sales. Book sales are good but I feel they are dictating my reading. I'd like to get to a p..."I need to desperately work on my owned books too. I am finding more recently that the list of books on my kindle is actually far more appealing than the ones i could buy on amazon at the moment. I've been struggling to find books i want to buy (except a recent flurry). That's a good thing.
Happy new year again. I know i said it already in the last thread but seeing as we have a nice shiny spangly new one, I'll say it again.
That sounds delicious, Rusalka! Good luck with your resolution, Travis. Avoiding the sales may be tough.
Happy New Year everyone. It was a quiet night. Our usual routine for New Year's Eve is various horderves (hubby-made), champagne, and the Twilight Zone marathon until the ball dropping in Time Square, then back to TZ. This has been going on for years. I think it started about 25 years ago when the kids lived at home. And there are some I don't remember ever seeing. Like the one that's on now. We're such an adventurous couple.
Today it's all football, with maybe a Hitchcock movie thrown in. I'm in the running for a cash prize in the football pool, so I'm hoping for a good start to the year.
I only made it to 10pm here! Happy New Year again :) We spent our New Years at home with our pup! Blake was all nice and snuggled on my lap :)
Travis of NNY wrote: "Not one for resolutions but for this year I'd really like to put a huge dent in my backlog and avoid book sales. Book sales are good but I feel they are dictating my reading. I'd like to get to a p..."I need to do that as well. I've already picked up two new books from Kindle daily sales. One of those books ended up being a whispersync deal. I'm not making a good start, am I?
So I logged on this morning with great plans of organizing my 2017 reads/threads/plans, only to be thwarted by Goodreads unstable site. There are multiple errors that are making this a rather tedious exercise. It's now 12:00 p.m. and I'm still in my jammies. I had planned on taking down my Christmas tree today, but I'm reluctant to because I am so enjoying the lights on it. Good grief!
Oh, my grandson turns 18 today! He's officially an adult now. I'm rather shocked and yet very proud to have an adult grandchild.
Happy New Year, all. My backlog is seriously out of control. My husband and I check the Kindle Daily Deals every day. It is so easy to justify spending $1.99 for a book that I would like to read. And we sometimes pick up great deals in used book stores. And anything my husband buys is available to me, too. So recently I went through my library and made a list of books I own but haven't read. I now have a list of 33 books, and I seriously doubt that it is complete. Too many books, too little time.
Congrats with your grandson Janice!I also have problems with the website, and a little with the app too.
Oh, and tradition here is to leave it until the 6th (no idea what that day is in english, i'll look it up), so I suggest you enjoy the lights a bit longer and take it down friday or saturday, like me!
Yep GR clearly can't keep up with us all setting our yearly challenges. It's been annoying the hell out of me today.
Happy birthday to your grandson, Janice!! We took our tree down the day after Christmas. Mostly because the amount of fur that had collected around it was crazy haha!
The joys of having wood flooring and a dog that sheds :) I wouldn't trade it for the world though ❤
Thanks, Peggy. He's a wonderful young man.Apparently Goodreads staff are working on a solution.
Congrats and happy birthday to your grandson, Janice. Yes, GR has been frustrating today.
GR has been irritating me today too. It must still be in festive holiday mode!
I also had problems with GR today, but now is working well again. I had the same thought as Sarah. Probably 2017 Reading Challenge are to blame.
Yeah I went to bed last night as GR kept on dying. Which is a good thing, as I need to change my sleep patterns from 4am to 1pm by tomorrow back to up at 8am. Urgh. I so do not want to go back to work.I'm with you Travis. My reasoning though is I have far too many unread books, and not enough shelves.
Christmas decorations "should" stay up until the 6th Jan, which is the 12th Day of Christmas, and Epiphany. But I have taken down one of my two strings of tinsel already. The book wreath is still on my door, to which one of my old housemates turned up the other day for dinner and remarked loudly on the doorstep before opening the door "I like their balls!!" much to ours and our neighbours amusement.
Happy birthday to your grandson Janice! It's a bit of an accomplishment when they get to adulthood.
January 7 is Christmas for Orthodox Christians in 2017 (Gregorian January 7= December 25 in the Julian Calendar)
We went to dinner in Waikiki at Dukes. Ended up sitting next to an a capella band called Straight No Chaser! They were awesome and we got a photo with them :) Super nice guys! Google and check out their stuff! They are pretty awesome :)
Our Christmas stuff all got put away on the 28th
Happy new year to all... looking forward to a good reading year here with friends old and new : )I'm listening to Strait No Chaser right now. They're fun. Thanks, Stephanie.
Happy birthday to your grandson, Janice!
So much for enjoying the lights on my Christmas tree. When I looked up last night, the top half of the tree was dark. I tried fiddling with them but nothing makes sense. Something is telling me it's time to take down Christmas. I bought a new string of lights on sale, all ready for next year.
Half of our boat lights stopped working a few days before new year. We changed the batteries on them and they've been working since. I'm guessing yours aren't battery ones though Janice. I guess we'll need to take them down at some point. I kind of like them though. It's all supposedly back to work today. I unfortunately have not. Whilst I've been getting better, I'm still not 100%. Walking and physical activity still making my chest hurt. I have antibiotics left for today but I might have to go back to the doctors tomorrow. Could really do without being ill now.
My new year hasn't started out as awesome as planned. I had a migraine New Year's Eve through yesterday and then my clothes dryer decided that it doesn't like drying clothes anymore. Fortunately, the migraine has passed and I have a little time today to catch up on some reading. And apparently I won't need to stop to switch laundry loads while I'm at it.
Sarah - Sorry your illness is lingering. I'm sure you're chest muscles will be sore for a while. Hopefully, you get a good report from the doctor and will good as new soon.
Sarah wrote: "Half of our boat lights stopped working a few days before new year. We changed the batteries on them and they've been working since. I'm guessing yours aren't battery ones though Janice. I guess we..."My situation may be that there is a burnt out bulb. But when I put the tree up, I noticed that one bulb was dark but it didn't affect the whole string. When the top half went out, I pulled a bulb out from the bottom and the whole tree went dark. I replaced it with a bulb from the top and the bottom re-lit except for that bulb. Bizarre. I figure an expense of $15.00 was far better than spending hours trying to figure out what was going on.
I love the little fairy lights. If I had a boat like yours, I'd probably put them up and leave them up year round.
Kristie wrote: "My new year hasn't started out as awesome as planned. I had a migraine New Year's Eve through yesterday and then my clothes dryer decided that it doesn't like drying clothes anymore. Fortunately, t..."Yikes! I'm glad to hear the migraine cleared.
Sarah wrote: "Half of our boat lights stopped working a few days before new year. We changed the batteries on them and they've been working since. I'm guessing yours aren't battery ones though Janice. I guess we..."I would definitely go back to the doctor, Sarah. You may need another course of antibiotics. When I was younger I used to suffer from chest infections several times a year and often found that I needed two courses of antibiotics to fully clear them up. Also, as Kristie says, you will find that your chest will be sore for a while afterwards because of all the coughing, wheezing, etc.
Kristie wrote: "My new year hasn't started out as awesome as planned. I had a migraine New Year's Eve through yesterday and then my clothes dryer decided that it doesn't like drying clothes anymore. Fortunately, t..."Glad to hear your migraine is better, Kristie. They are never a good way to start off a brand new year!
Hope everyone's feeling better!Clothes dryers, we had one at home when I was a kid and only were allowed to use it when it had rained for weeks on end (rarely), or your jeans were still damp and you needed them so you put them in for like 10 mins max. Do houses and apartments just not have washing lines?
Re: Christmas. This was just in the Guardian this morning. "Don’t be fooled, Christmas isn’t over yet – so keep on celebrating"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
It explains the 12 days of Christmas/Epiphany thing more. And I like the general argument. We had a joke going around here that it was 3 days until Christmas, and only 4 until Hot Cross Buns were back in the shops. Everyone went ballistic when it turned out the major supermarket chains ACTUALLY had Hot Cross Buns for sale on Boxing Day. I mean, Easter isn't until mid April this year!!!
We had a clothes line (US version) when I was a kid, but we mostly used it for sheets and occasional clothes, weather permitting. We mostly used the dryer. We also had a clothes line when we went camping for towels, swimsuits and any other clothing that got wet. I haven't had one since I was a kid. We have indoor drying racks for any delicate items that can't go into the dryer, but use the dryer for most things. I think most homes in the areas I have lived don't have clothes lines any more, though I still see them occasionally.
That's an interesting article, Rusalka. I like the idea of a twelfth night celebration. I think a lot of people are all partied out by then unfortunately. Maybe a cute little family tradition could be started though. :)I think the stores go a little crazy with getting holiday decorations, treats, etc out earlier and earlier for the holidays every year. I refuse to prepare for a holiday until the one prior is completed. Let's give everyone time to enjoy the uniqueness of each holiday!
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