Can you recount your last 13 New Year's Eves?

I have pretty much blocked out most of my adulthood... but I think I am probably about 70% correct. If anyone can fill in the blanks, that would be grand. (Please dont feel insulted if I was actually with you and don't remember. If Rich got insulted every time that occurred, I'd be divorced by now.) I should really keep a journal. And I miss being an alcoholic.


1994-1995 I believe… with Dicky and his friends at a party at some bar. Started and ended up sleeping at his friend Joe’s apartment downtown. Don't remember much of the evening.

1995-1996 - NO CLUE. I might be mixing up the previous year with this one.

1996-1997 I think it was this year that I went to a party… a friend of my friend Jacqui’s… I brought my psycho roommate Eliza.. who ended up hitting on one of Jacqui’s friend’s boyfriends all night. I got so drunk I threw up out a cab window on the way back to the apartment. Eliza locked me out by mistake and I had to sleep at first, in the hall, and then at my neighbor’s.

1997-1998 At my friend Jenn’s apartment for a house party… (I think this was New Year's Eve..) with Jacqui, her sister, my oddball friend Sean, and an odd red streak in my hair that I decided looked festive until I looked back at the pictures…

1998-1999 Having just had reconstructive ankle surgery, I believe I was couped up in a cast on some very strong meds… My mom was taking care of me and she left to go party it up with my dad and I was alone until some friends came to visit before heading out to their own celebrations. I remember Dana had a party and she called me quite drunk at midnight. I passed out very early.

1999-2000 On a chartered boat on the waters of the Caribbean in St. John… sick as can be but feeling good from some special brownies with a little too much, um.. spice… with Jen Dryer and about 8 to ten other people. At midnight, many of them stripped (including someone who was nine months pregnant) and jumped into the waters. Very cool millenium New Years, from what I remember.

2000-2001 London, two weeks after my father died, drinking my sorrows away to the point of massive regurgitating into a box and getting thrown out of a London club with Jeremy W and his friends, as well as Hazeywoo, Meghan, Ross and Dave, Chris and Ann, etc.. (Well, I was the only one thrown out, but they were there with me.)

2001-2002 Mom very sick and in the hospital, Rich working up in Rochester, and me sitting home in NJ feeling very very sad…

2002-2003 – Rich and I having a sweet New Years for two… we cooked a nice dinner (some seafood pasta dish with scallops, shrimp, etc), drank some wine, and snuggled on the couch

2003-2004 – At my friend Eileen’s house… after bowling. Lots of kids running around, with Marga and Jason, a couple we met in a dive shop here… Jason got sick and I spent a good portion of the night driving him home – 20 minutes away

2004-2005 – WHY THE HECK CAN I NOT REMEMBER WHAT I DID???

2005-2006 – Rich was working. Lord knows what I did. Not sure I left the house.

2006-2007 – At our neighbor’s house with our other neighbors… the six of us ate some appetizers and hung out and drank wine. We were home by 12:30. I felt very adult.