What are your new year's plans this year?

[chiliphil1]

Hey everyone, I wanted to start a thread here and have a conversation about what everyone is doing this new year's!

I myself will spend my new years the same way that I have for the past several years, at home with my family and completely sober!

There seems to be a huge amount of temptation out there these days, it seems the norm is to go to some bar and get hammered. I see that most places even use a free glass of champagne at midnight as a lure to get people in.As a younger man (early 20's) I myself fell into this trend and would always drink on new years, using it as some excuse. I have since grown older(late 20's) and wiser (maybe) and have learned what is actually important in this world. My views on things like this have changed greatly and now I look at these "partiers" with a sense of pity, I have been blessed with a wonderful family starting even before I wised up about these things and have been able to see that this is where I want to be.

It is said that what you do on new year's will determine how your year will go, so why would I want to spend it falling down drunk? Now, don't get me wrong I certainly have my errors, my immoral acts, and my faults but I am so thankful that I was able to see life in it's reality and see how foolish it is to throw away portions of it on being intoxicated. I am not preaching and I apologize if it came out that way, I suppose in short I am trying to say that the martial arts have given me purpose and peace in which cannot be achieved by other means.

I thank you all for being on this forum and for being along with me as well as each other on this journey to self betterment that we call martial arts, happy new year!

[Archimoto]

And happy new year to you!

I will spend this new year with my immediate and extended family.

I will most likely have a glass or two of bubbly (responsibly of course!) but will totally go overboard on the desserts!!! It's the last day of my holiday reprieve from my diet. On 1/1 it's back to business as usual!

[Lupin1]

My head instructor gave me a gift of champagne at our last class of the year, so I plan on busting that out.

It's also my boyfriend and I's "official" anniversary (we had been dating a few months before that, but he had this thing where he couldn't "officially" ask me out until we were at a special, romantic dinner or something, so we consider our New Year's Eve dinner to be the official date), so we'll most likely be going for a nice dinner to celebrate that and then spending the rest of the evening relaxing at home and enjoying ringing in the new year together.

I will try to go easy on the desserts, though, as I told myself my Chrismukkah reprieve ended after Christmas Day. Oh well....

[gronis]

I'll go to my dojos new year-training. A bit later me and my wife will join a couple we know for dinner.

[jaypo]

Well, I've been sick for 4 days, so no alcohol for me tonight! However, I will probably grill up some jalapeno deer sausage and spend the evening with my family.

Happy new year to everyone!

[sensei8]

Stay home!!

[Zaine]

I am working until 10pm! I plan to go home and start making the dough for bagels (to "ring" in the new year), maybe have a beer and then crash.

[Patrick]

Thank you for starting this thread, chiliphil1.

Congrats on the anniversary, Devin!

I was sick for New Year's Eve. Felt something coming on the night before and, sure enough, it developed into a sore throat and congestion for a couple of days. Still getting over it, but feeling a lot better.

So, I pretty much rested the whole day, watched the countdown and went back to bed.

Patrick

[gronis]

I broke my right thumb on the new years-class at the dojo. No training for a couple of weeks

[sensei8]

I broke my right thumb on the new years-class at the dojo. No training for a couple of weeks

Ouch...sorry to hear that. It'll only be 2 weeks, but it'll seems like 2 months. Hang in there!!