Ten New Year's Eves

2006-2007:
My first sober New Year's Eve--I spent it at my parent's house, feeling sorry for myself that I wasn't "partying," raising a toast with airborne and going to bed way too early.

2005-2006:
I brought the New Year in with NDN, partying down in Buenos Aires! We ate dinner with his friend Gerardo's family, hit a few parties, stayed up all night and jumped in a cab headed for the coast in the morning.

2004-2005:
Liu was in town visiting. We spent the evening at Cheers, getting absolutely wasted with BigSis, AGrub, English and the usual Cheers crowd. (FightingMensch was flirting with Liu and threatened to "fight" Bro-in-Law and AGrub.) The next morning, I woke up at 6:00 AM in my overcoat on the floor of my bathroom. I had to say goodbye to Liu fast and jump into a cab headed for the airport for a family vacation to Puerto Rico (on which Hammer came along!).

2003-2004:
I threw a party at my place. Liu was here visiting. My high school aged step-cousin came to the party. The evening ended with English making out with JBC's friend and toppling over a platter of cheese. My sister recommended that we all eat M&Ms and pretzels in one bite (sweet and salty!)

2000-2003: All of these years were spent at parties thrown by BigSis and Bro-in-Law in their old apartment on 56th and Broadway. From the roof of their building, there was a direct view of the ball-drop in Times Square.

'02-'03:
Everyone tried to get to the roof in time for midnight, but the elevators were slow and full (as the rest of the building had the same idea). Most of the party decided to run up the 15 flights of stairs, but I was wasted (as usual) and stubbornly insisted on waiting for the elevator. They were all dead tired and panting when they made it to the top, but I made it there on time too, and all in one piece!

'01-'02:
My former boss, IronChef came to the party. I was still dating B that year and we were living on the Upper West Side. We were in the process of moving from an apartment on the 3rd floor of our building to the 15th floor, and for some reason had access to both apartments that night. My friend HW and her abusive boyfriend stayed over in the spare apartment. The next morning we all had brunch and HW started downing screwdrivers.

'00-'01:
This was my first New Year's as a college grad. BigSis and Bro-in-Law were throwing their first party. Liu was in town visiting, and Anxious and Buke (her boyfriend at the time) came to the party. Buke was flirting with Liu the entire time.

1999-2000:
This was perhaps the craziest party night of them all. Liu and I were seniors in college and decided to welcome the new millennium in style. We started with jello-shots and cocaine in her dorm room. Her brother and his friend Chris were in town visiting. They poured themselves big bottles of jack and coke for the road and we all headed downtown, on the fringe of the crowds at Times Square and then to a club on 14th Street. All of us got insanely fucked up, as ecstasy was added to the mix (and so was our slightly crazy friend "E-the-R". In fact, I think that was the night E-the-R grabbed my arm violently and called me a whore. He was nuts.) My hair was dyed black then and I had purple contact lenses. Strange... Anyway, the night turned into an orgy of sorts. We were all fucked up beyond belief. I called B at midnight from a payphone near the coat-check in the club and he proposed to me on the phone. (It was the first year we were dating). I accepted, but he took it back the next day. Anyway, a lot more could be said about that night, but I'll leave it at that...

1998-1999:
This New Year's came at the height of my personal insanity. It was the month I was arrested. BigSis, Bro-in-Law and a bunch of their friends joined me for a party at AIR7's place. I wrote all about that incredibly fucked up night already. You can read about it here.

1997-1998:
This was my sophomore year of college. I went to see The Barber of Seville at the Met with my friend BahBoy. I remember I had a ton of blue glitter on my eyes. It was bitterly cold out. Afterwards we met up with my friend Nicole and her roommate who were students at NYU. We made our way down to Times Square after the crowds had cleared, and ate overpriced, lousy food at Howard Johnson's.

So... that's the last ten. This year I'm going to Pixie's anniversary watch and then afterwards to a party on the Upper East Side. I hope it's fun!

Happy New Year everyone!!!!

love,
h