When I was a teenager, I was very good friends with a large Scots family, and they used to invite me to a truly awesome Hogmany each year. The only New Year's party I've been to since I went to college which was in the same league, was 1999/2000 at a Saxon manor house in the Yorkshire countryside - we saw in the new year standing on a hearth stone dating from 1000 AD.
So, to me, New Year parties are usually a bit hum-drum, except in very rare and special years. I don't have any high expectations, and I'm usually right :-) New Year does have some emotional family connotations, though, so for me the most important thing is to know that I am loved, even if my loved ones can't be with me right that moment.
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Date: 2003-01-02 01:48 am (UTC)When I was a teenager, I was very good friends with a large Scots family, and they used to invite me to a truly awesome Hogmany each year. The only New Year's party I've been to since I went to college which was in the same league, was 1999/2000 at a Saxon manor house in the Yorkshire countryside - we saw in the new year standing on a hearth stone dating from 1000 AD.
So, to me, New Year parties are usually a bit hum-drum, except in very rare and special years. I don't have any high expectations, and I'm usually right :-) New Year does have some emotional family connotations, though, so for me the most important thing is to know that I am loved, even if my loved ones can't be with me right that moment.