Happy New Year!!
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No plans. Maybe some scotch just before we turn in. Will we make it to the ball drop? Who knows!
(Lived in NY City for 40 years but have never done the NYE Times Square thing. Actually, locals try to avoid Times Square all year long.)
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Saw Queer starring Daniel Craig this afternoon. Expected several sex explicit
scenes after reading the reviews.
Nope. I was surprising seeing a popular movie star doing those non-explicit scenes.
Drugs, including alcohol were constant, not sex. Burroughs wrote Junkie, not a sex book.
The movie was well done, not surprised the reviews were positive. Daniel Craig is due the recognition he is getting for his acting. tv
We stopped at a Flower Child for a light dinner and we are home watching the celebrations on TV. May stay until 10; there are clothes in the drier. -
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@RealPlayer We did the ball drop one year; we were at a theater seeing Smokey Robinson. They sent us outside for the ball drop, then we all came back for the end of the show! Back in the 80âs. We lived in Queens at the time.
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Happy New Year from Las Vegas.
https://bsky.app/profile/dhfeldman.bsky.social/post/3leo5iwjklk2m
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Another firework this morning in front of the Trump Hotel in Vegas this morning.
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Happy new year!
We went to bed before 11pm and I was up around 5:30 as usual
My mother is staying with us. Yesterday we had ânew yearâs eve noodles.â Then this morning, we watched the Japanese new yearâs song contest (which is a 4 hour show!) while alternating between putting away the Christmas tree ornaments and doing Japanese games. Itâs been a lovely day so far. Dinner will be ravioli with meatballs.
And just a little bit ago, the sun came out.
Itâs been a lovely day.
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@AdagioM I didn't know you ever lived in Queens!
I went to see the ball drop one year. We got there at 10:30 pm and got no closer than the mid-50s on 7th Avenue, no way we could see the ball and we were herded into the block like cattle and you couldn't leave because you wouldn't be allowed back in. It was 14 degrees F, we were freezing and after half an hour of realizing just how awful the experience was, went home and watched it on TV!
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@Bernard yikes, that sounds awful! I never understood the appeal of attending a public event like that, where people are packed in like sardines, and had I ever attempted to attend, I would have done what you did â go home!
BTW Mr SK always says he can never understand the appeal of a ball drop. For one thing, according to him, it seems like a âbad luckâ way to start the new year, with a large object falling down, rather than something that goes up.
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@AdagioM said in Happy New Year!!:
Iâm sipping my afternoon prosecco while Iâm puttering around in the kitchen. Just made Smitten Kitchenâs olive oil brownies, havenât tasted them yet.
Edit: the brownies are fantastic. More deeply chocolatey than the usual Smitten Kitchen Favorite Brownies (butter based). Still warm, couldnât wait to sample!
OMG the brownies are fabulous. I only had extra virgin olive oil, so not quite the mild flavor olive oil the recipe calls for, but they are still sooooo delicious.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie AumĂ´nier
