The Cookout

[Sapphire]

Everyone I know has plans for New Year's Eve and Day but me haha

I will probably just end up hanging with my family. Not really into drinking or partying anymore. I outgrew that in my early twenties. I know my lil bro (still lives with our parents) is having a few friends over and they are getting take out. I will probably just hang over there and play some games with them. My friends are either out of town or going to some party.

What do you got going on for this weekend? Anything planned?

 

[Georgiacarolina]

Nothing! I plan on starting the New Year with a sufficient amount of beauty rest.😏

 

[RCNAL]

I got jack schitt going on. Nursing a flu. But even if I weren't, I wouldn't be doing anything. Sad in some ways.

 

[Sapphire]

I got jack schitt going on. Nursing a flu. But even if I weren't, I wouldn't be doing anything. Sad in some ways.

Sad how? Like not going anything isn't a bad thing. Most people just go out and get drunk out their damn minds and then start the new year hung over and a mess.

 

[Deleted member 231]

Probably about 3 years ago, I decided to stop recognizing January 1st as the New Year and start thinking of it as March 21st and "celebrating" it then.....I just try and stay out the streets on Dec. 31st cuz you know folks don't know how to act

 

[Sapphire]

Probably about 3 years ago, I decided to stop recognizing January 1st as the New Year and start thinking of it as March 21st and "celebrating" it then.....I just try and stay out the streets on Dec. 31st cuz you know folks don't know how to act

So you celebrate the changing season? I mean to me it would make way more sense for the year to shift over with Spring, not in early Winter lol

 

[Deleted member 231]

Yea basically. When I kept hearing it explained that way, it made everything make mores sense. I'm never in a social mood round this time of year. IT gets dark early. Everything is dead or dying outside. I read the equinox was a celebration of the crop season as well.

 

[Jay]

Yea basically. When I kept hearing it explained that way, it made everything make mores sense. I'm never in a social mood round this time of year. IT gets dark early. Everything is dead or dying outside. I read the equinox was a celebration of the crop season as well.

How do you do that in real life? Do you basically just honor it in your personal life or do you and your family all agree?

 

[Deleted member 231]

Its just something personal that I make note of. I was already not going out for NYE for the past 5 years so there were no real adjustments to make. But I treat it like Thanksgiving., I won't knock people who celebrate it, but it ain't for me. I enjoy being in bed by 8 and going to sleep before midnight

 

[Deleted member 1946]

I stayed at home this weekend.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

Its just something personal that I make note of. I was already not going out for NYE for the past 5 years so there were no real adjustments to make. But I treat it like Thanksgiving., I won't knock people who celebrate it, but it ain't for me. I enjoy being in bed by 8 and going to sleep before midnight

I did stay up to see the New Year come in. I agree with you about the first parts of your post because I love letting people have freedom to do whatever they want as long as it is not infringing on other people's rights. I don't like going out as much because there is usually somebody fighting or shooting or arguing or begging. I can't deal with it.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

Yea basically. When I kept hearing it explained that way, it made everything make mores sense. I'm never in a social mood round this time of year. IT gets dark early. Everything is dead or dying outside. I read the equinox was a celebration of the crop season as well.

The real new year is when spring starts which is the 3rd week of March. I always found fault with the new year starting when things are dead outside.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

How do you do that in real life? Do you basically just honor it in your personal life or do you and your family all agree?

I told my family this, but they never even considered the idea of why the new year starts at a strange time.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

Probably about 3 years ago, I decided to stop recognizing January 1st as the New Year and start thinking of it as March 21st and "celebrating" it then.....I just try and stay out the streets on Dec. 31st cuz you know folks don't know how to act

I do it the third week in March as well. On the 21st. I will say "Happy New Year" to be cordial.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

So you celebrate the changing season? I mean to me it would make way more sense for the year to shift over with Spring, not in early Winter lol

Same way I think

 

[Deleted member 1946]

Nothing! I plan on starting the New Year with a sufficient amount of beauty rest.😏

I'm sure you got that sleep. Did you hear a lot of fireworks where you live at? They were going off like crazy around midnight where i live at.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

I got jack schitt going on. Nursing a flu. But even if I weren't, I wouldn't be doing anything. Sad in some ways.

What are you taking for it?

 

[Deleted member 1946]

Sad how? Like not going anything isn't a bad thing. Most people just go out and get drunk out their damn minds and then start the new year hung over and a mess.

I know another woman on Facebook was talking about how she was sad that she was sick during this time of year because she can't spend it with her family due to them keeping their distance from her. They don't trust that mask either because they said they didn't want to catch anything.

 

[Sapphire]

I know another woman on Facebook was talking about how she was sad that she was sick during this time of year because she can't spend it with her family due to them keeping their distance from her. They don't trust that mask either because they said they didn't want to catch anything.

That would suck for sure. I know people are still acting weird since 2020. A lot of people that would otherwise not give a damn suddenly became germaphobes. Strange times we living in.

 

[Sapphire]

Yea basically. When I kept hearing it explained that way, it made everything make mores sense. I'm never in a social mood round this time of year. IT gets dark early. Everything is dead or dying outside. I read the equinox was a celebration of the crop season as well.

I would love to change things up like this. Like it just don't make sense to celebrate a new year while everything is dark, cold, and dead/hibernating. I am pretty sure it used to happen in the spring a long time ago but they changed the time it happens... I just don't remember why.

 

[Sapphire]

Seems to be about right. Did a quick search and came across this:

The Vernal Equinox: the Spring New Year - Dave's Garden

Happy New Year! According to many of our ancestors and some cultures today, the new year begins on the Vernal Equinox, the first day of spring.

davesgarden.com

I have to wonder what we celebrate today will be changed to be something else in the future. Seems like things are always getting moved around.