Craziness as the ball falls

[Zerobanshee]

Hey! I just want to wish everyone a Happy New Years to start with.
But, back to the main topic at hand.
What did you do to celebrate New Years? How did you spend those last few seconds? Did you get obliterated? Did you watch the ball drop with family?

As for me, I was on duty last night, so I was stuck on base. Being good buddies, my friends stayed and chilled with me. When 2011 Arrived, we all ran down the hallways, screaming and carrying on.
Afterwards, all four (four) of us got on chatroulette, and began to mess with people haha. At first it was fun, but then it got even more interesting when we got in contact with a group of drunk girls.
We were just chatting, goofing off, being dumbasses, when one of the girls commented that I looked really cute. One of them kept going at it, and finally asked me for my number. So I gave it to her, and we started to text haha. It was funny as hell, and was a good time. They actually live close by, so I might try to visit them sometime.

So how did you spend New Years?

[Rocky]

I'll try to do the best I can with remembering how it went out, but keep in mind that some of this stuff comes from my friend's perspectives especially later on, so yeah.

5pm: picked up my date and went to a wedding. It was a traditional catholic one and I'm pretty sure most of the wedding party was drunk as a skunk at the ceremony, bride included.

7pm: had a delicious fancy meal at the reception, did a little dancing, had a few glasses of wine and martinis (open bar... )

9pm: brought my date back to my house, got changed, met up with some friends and played some PnA and Connections.

10pm: headed downtown to the bars! There was this one bar in particular where I got smashed at, it had a $20 cover charge but inside, you could get anything FO FREE! (minus patron) so I was having SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS JAGERBOMBS wild turkey (lolwut) and JAGERBOMBS for a long time.

12:30am: after the ~2hr shitshow there, went to another bar to meet up with some people. According to sources, I somehow got a free bottle of champaign, had about two shots worth of tequila poured down my mouth by the bartender, and I helped some girl zip up her coat so she fell in love with me and followed me around like a puppy for awhile.

1:30am: got seperated from everyone except my bestie Mitchell, we found his older sister, she commanded me to grind up on her (her husband was cool with it) until closing time.

2am: somehow got 8 people in a durango and drove home with Mitch's sister/husband/their friends. We lost one back on the way somehow lol, but he made it home later on

3am: wrestled the husband in the living room, ate some pizza, had my sexuality questioned by husband, ended up becoming besties with everyone, passed out and had crazy strange realistic dreams.

Noon: woke up in a jerking foot motion, accidently kicked a dog lol. Watched some bowl games and had some excellent skillet/pancakes


anywho, friend's 21st soon, gotta get ready for day 2!

[loaf]

3pm: Picked up stuff.

3:45PM: started using said stuff

*continue to use stuff*
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1am: arrive at party

3:30am: leave party arrive home

3:45am: use more stuff with other people

*continue*

6am: sleep.

[Tallulah]

Rocky knows how to have a good time.

I couldn't do much because of my leg, so it was literally spent in front of the TV with a bottle of Buck's Fizz, which wasn't that great.

I hopefully get this cast off on the 19th, and am not due back at work until the 8th February at the earliest.

[Zerobanshee]

Damn Rocky haha. That sounds like fun dude. Some crazy night! Haha
And Tallulah, hope the cast gets off soon man. Sucks to hear.

[Pete]

I went to a party with my girl... at her childhood best friends place... who keeps claiming to this day that he's going to marry her. I thought it was going to be absolutely awkward, but turns out everyone ****ing loved me there, even kids who didn't like me based on the sole principle that I was going out with their friend, and they didn't know me.

8pm: Get my drinking tradition of 2 buck doubles from BK Lounge.

8:30: arrive at party.

8:31: crack beer and mingle and bs with people.

9:30: start to play Kings with people

10: random girls show up and start talking to me, with no negative reaction from my gf. Realize she might just be something special.

10:30: Flip cup. I don't want to brag, but I kiiiind of came out of retirement. I usually suck at flip cup, seeing as I'm a beer pong man, but I think out of 5 or so games, and I only missed 3 cups on the first try, out of 10. Even when playing with full cups of beer.

11:30: Pong. Very ADD game, since the kid I was playing against kept leaving to smoke, so the game never finished.

12: Watched the ball drop, had much champagne, and then had to start to sober up.

12:05 Drama with my gf's best friend. Not with me, but with her and the host. Stooooopid.

From this point until about 2:45, I just pounded water like nobodys business, since I was driving. Dropped one of my girl's friends off, then spent the night at her place. Probably still not good to drive.

[Clint]

I went to a party at Steve McQueen's house, or at least I though I did, until I remembered today that Steve died in 1980. So where the hell was I? I also dressed up for this party, because I thought it was Halloween. I went as a sea turtle!

10pm: Got to Steve's house and immediately had to pee. I think I may have an inflammation in my bladder.

10:45: Got done peeing and joined the party. I danced with former President Nixon.

10:46: Realized that I pissed in my pants. Apparently I wasn't done peeing after all.

6am: Had a nightmare and woke up screaming inside of a run down bungalow somewhere in the Dominican Republic with no memory of the past seven hours.

6:01: Decided to see a doctor to check for possible onset dementia.

[Sasquatch]

Wow. Hmmmm. Let's see if I can remember all of this correctly. I'll have to estimate the times.

New Year's Eve

6:00 am -- Mission prep begins.
7:00 am -- Battlespace needs us to do something that will take at least a full hour before we roll, but they don't tell us the day before, they tell us immediately before we roll. Schmucks.
9:00 am -- Mission begins.
1:00 pm -- We get a tip to look at a "155" that has been found by local nationals and "confirmed" by scouts nearby. (155mm artillery shell -- basically, a giant bullet filled with explosives, shot out of a huge gun, that comes down and blows up where you want it to. Some of these little bastards like to wire them up and hide them so they blow us up, or blow up other local nationals.) Cool. Looks like I'll get to uncover, confirm, identify, and Blow In Place today.
2:00 pm -- "155" found and interrogated. It's not an artillery round, it's a pipe. A pipe they buried the day or two before to use for irrigation. And not only did we notice it when we passed it the other day, but also, it was put in by local nationals supplied by the same unit that "confirmed" it. Schmucks.
5:00 pm -- return from mission. Eat chow.
7:00 pm -- gather for Platoon meeting.
8:00 pm -- begin Platoon meeting, because the two guys in charge of the PLT didn't know that it had been moved up an hour. Schmucks.
9:00 pm -- I "celebrate" by drinking a Beck's NA beer.
10:00 pm -- my ass is in bed.
...
4:00 am -- wake up.
5:00 am -- mission prep begins.

The good thing was that I didn't have a hangover to work around. And I suppose, looking forward to next year.

[Unknown Entity]

I don't remember much. I was supposed to be seeing dad for lunch, but I was too angry with him so went home with my mum.

6pm: Got home with mum, the shopping, and the dinner. I'd bought us a bag of chips each with a vegetable spring roll. We ate and watched some old film called The Holiday Bus or something on TV.

6:30pm: My brother got home with dad. I pretended to be sleeping on the sofa, and hid the half drunk cider from his view. Mum took me next door and made me a brandy because I was angry he'd come back with my brother.

At some point now, I'd brought my laptop to the livingroom and just chatted with Vicky and stuff.

8pm/9pm: Dad had left after I softened up and forgave him (like a sucker... he'll piss me off again soon). Maybe I was drunk. I dunno. Closer to 9pm or passed it, I had my forth drink of the evening, so I was feeling a little tipsy - more so than I would have liked.

9pm: We put on Shutter Island. I'd never watched the film before. In a tipsy rant, I told everyone how it was most likely going to end, and fell asleep on the sofa. I didn't pass out - just feeling tipsy in a warm room on a comfortable sofa gives you a lovely, sleepy feeling.

10:45pm/11pm: Shutter Island had gone off. I woke up in time to watch the last fifteen or so minutes, and did a big "I told you so!" and "I got it right, AND I'd slept through the whole thang!" moment. I then told everyone I was tired and was going to go to bed.

11pm+: I got back to my room, and felt sober quickly, and then my tiredness just went. I started debating what to do for the next hour before midnight. I eventually came up with something... so I started playing games. Borderlands, mainly.

11:45pm: Got bored of Borderlands and turned the PS3 off...

12am: Mum called through the toilet door to wish me a Happy New Year. I went into the New Year having a pee.

12am-4am: Played games. Again.

[OceanEyes28]

Well, I'd say my new year's eve went pretty well. First of all, I had an amaaaaazing dress. It's in the PYP thread.

Around 9:15PM, I stopped by a party my parents and their friends were at on my way to my own gathering. The dress was obsessed over, and then I was handed a guitar and asked to play something. So I played the most recent one I've written and it went over well. My mom was there, recovering from her surgery (Jennifer drove haha). She was sitting on a couch in sunglasses, on pain meds, shaking a tambourine. <3 her.

At 9:50PM, I left for a party at a friend's house. We had some drinks, had some laughs, counted down from :20 at midnight. I did not have a new years kiss, but I did kiss a few friends on the cheek. And lots of new years hugs.

Haha the favorite quote of the night was from this girl who had already been drinking a LOT. A couple guys were talking about new years kisses and she jumped in and said, "Do you have a new years kiss? Because I'm a SLUT." Gooood god. It got repeated over and over again.

And then around 1AM, we moved to a house 2 streets down. Once there, this guy who has known me no more than a month started asking about me. At one point, he said, "I don't know anything about you! Who are you?" and I was all, "Well we've met each other maybe 3 times, so don't worry about it."

Around 4AM, he said, "Don't pay any attention to what I'm about to say, you're hanging out with me for a while." And then told everyone to start clearing out. So I put on my jacket and scarf, grabbed my purse and waved goodbye. He made some face indicating mock incredulity, but I just smiled and left. It was 4AM and I was sober. BYE.

Another guy touched my ass while I was walking to my car... I said something like "Goddamnit, self control!" I mean, I know him, we get along, so it was funnier more than it was creepy... Still a bit of creep factor, though.

When I got home, a friend texted me to see if I got home safe, I told him yes, and then he went on to say that 4AM guy had been asking about me. "What was he asking?" "Just about you in general. It took a lot to answer him." Oh my.

Today I've been eating black eyed peas (with ham bone) and mac and cheese (shells, butter, nutmeg, gouda, milk, bit of that cheese powder) all day. Not bad.

[Taco-Calamitous]

Did you get obliterated?

Yes. I bought a bottle of Southern Comfort: 100 Proof and a 2 litre of Dr. Pepper and made "the Dirty South." Went over to a friend's place at about 6, and started pretty much immediately. I was already a little typsy at like 8:30, and thought maybe I should slow down... but I didn't, haha. I just kept going. Think I drank most of that bottle of SoCo by myself. Watched people play Street Fighter 4, then decided I should play. And I actually won once! That doesn't happen. Then at some point, for some reason, I decided I needed to get on MSN, but I couldn't figure out what my password was, and I wasn't even sure if I was spelling my e-mail address correctly. I managed to sign on here though, and I started to make what would've undoubtedly been a really retarded thread here in GC, but it looks like I never got around to hitting the enter button, thank goodness. Also, one friend showed up and was trying to get me to call some other friends to get them to come over, because he thought I'd have a better chance of convincing them than he did, apparently. I could barely dial though. Whoever I called didn't answer their phones.

I must've passed out some time before midnight in that computer room, because I don't remember saying "Happy New Year!" at all, which disappoints me. I woke up up there on the floor with a blanket over me, at about 3:45 AM. Most people had gone or were leaving by then. I went downstairs and crashed on my friend's couch.

Found out that a couple people were kinda offended by me getting so drunk, and that they want there to be a sit down with me to talk about it, although the friend who told me this said he personally was not offended, and the other people I saw today didn't seem offended by it, either. So *shrug* Must not have done or said anything too terrible, just ridiculous. Apparently I couldn't finish a sentence either. I'd start talking, then trail off into mumbling, then finish off with "...DAMN IT!" I feel kinda bad that I got that drunk because it wasn't really my intentions to get that far, but at the same time, I think it's a little ridiculous that because of one incident, I apparently need a talking to now, according to a couple people. It's not like I'm out of control and do this every weekend, or something. Oh well. Anyhoo...

Wuv, Yer Mom

[Robbo]

I basically stayed in the same bar from around 6pm just with the Family and a few of my friends were in the bar and one particularly drunk Mother & Son who had a nice argument and got Arrested..Ah Fun.

Yet the night went on and the bar got really full i got given 3 pints by my dad's friends in like 10 minutes because the bar was that full and people were being loud to be heard so the people trying to order other drinks could'nt be heard so in the end they just screamed " Fu**ing hell, Give us 2 pints of lager then" it was kinda stupid that three different people did that and they wanted Whiskey or Yates's. I wakled home sober so meh it was a good night but it could've been a whole lot better.

[Kaiden]

Thankfully I don't think I'm hung over anymore. My night started off at my parents’ house. They only live across town, maybe 10 minutes and I had a bunch of extended family coming over. Not to mention the free booze and food. I drank a bunch of beer, did shots with some cousins. Wrestled with my younger cousins (3-5 years old), took more shots. I watched the ball drop with Family and my rents friends. Left for the bar at 1 am since all but 2 cousins were going to bed, bars stay open till 4 am around me. Got to a pack bar, ran into some old friends. Found a booth and drank beer and shots for like an hour. Then I started to mingle, I think... at this point it gets fuzzy, actually it was a total brown out. I know I wasn’t sleeping but I have no idea what happened. Next thing I know I am at a 24 hour donut shop ordering a sub that they don’t make. I watch my cousin who is 36 try to hit on girls younger than me (I'm 25). They told him he seemed old and creepy, when I chimed in and ask how old they thought he was. They said 50, it might have been because I was drunk but that was the funniest thing in the world to me at the time. I kept laughing and saying 50 to my cousin for the whole walk home. I don’t know the time at this point but it was light outside when we got to my parents’ house.

That morning might have been a prelude to hell. I woke up, to a 3 year old really wanting to play. She tried shoving me apparently but when that didn't work she decided to scream as loud as she could in my ear. I got maybe an hour or two of sleep I was really hung over and had to play with 4 little kids till they went home. I will never make the mistake of sleeping at my parents again. Maybe 3-4 the next day I finally got to my own bed and passed out at like 6 in the afternoon till the next day. I haven't had a drink since and I think I might take a break for the rest of the month.

[Josh_R]

Figured I would go ahead, and post what I was into during this.

As the ball dropped I had already downed a bottle of vodka, crushed like 9 beers, and was dancing my ass off. At first at was a nice little party, then it was off to Louisville for some serious shit. I didn't know it dropped til someone told me. Honestly i'm just glad that I woke up in my bed, and not a haggard ass field.

[Mugetsu]

I played Call of duty with some buddies all through the bells. First time in years ive been sober and actually remember 12 hitting!