Recent questions tagged new years

Description : Why did the ancients invent calendars?

Last Answer : So they would know when the rivers would flood.

Description : The first one hundred days of 2017 what greater percent will there be of fluff questions over real, substantive ones?

Last Answer : How many questions are you planning to as HC? That will give us a starting point to base our percentages on.

Description : Care to share what is your 2017 New Years Resolution?

Last Answer : Same as every year. Just try to be a better, wiser person. Ha. It’s a long road with many potholes.

Description : How do you feel about New Year's Eve?

Last Answer : Looks like nyquill and movies for the evening. Aside from ringing in this new year with a head cold it generally marks the end of holiday laziness and time to get back to business.

Description : Would you like to share your resolutions for 2016?

Last Answer : Finish getting my dental implants and getting my ears pierced. Again.

Description : If you could be in the body of someone else this whole 2016, who would you pick and what would you do?

Last Answer : Donald Trump, so that when he became president I would take back everything he said and change his policy.

Description : Will you make a New Year's resolution, 2015?

Last Answer : answer:No. I don't see the point in waiting for January 1st to make positive changes in my life. Most people don't stick to their resolutions anyway. Which explains why the gym is always packed ... Imagine that! My plan is to continue doing what I'm doing and make changes as they become necessary.

Description : How's the new year been for you so far?

Last Answer : answer:Thank you – and to you. I let go of a big piece of my past on January 1st and I felt I did it in a healthy way for me so I am proud of myself. Am working through another big chunk of stuff but feeling more powerful much of the time.

Description : Do any of you make "private" resolutions (that you'd like to share on Fluther)...?

Last Answer : To get settled in a new apartment, and to retake my English 30 diploma exam again hoping to get 70%

Description : Strictly and honestly speaking, why all the excitement about a new year?

Last Answer : A break to keep score and to start over. Like tax day many child tax credits are on who was living with you on December.

Description : Anyone decided on a New Years Resolution yet?

Last Answer : answer:I will read all the books I’ve downloaded. Chance of keeping the resolution: maybe 50%. I will try to find the way to download all the comics I want to read next year. Chance of keeping the resolution: 30% (because there are some comics very hard to come by)

Description : What are you going to do for New Years Eve?

Last Answer : Staying home. Calling mom.

Description : What do you expect for the new upcoming year, namely 2013?

Last Answer : answer:I expect to achieve the heights of Grad School Greatness-being ABD (I used to think it was some fancy Latin phrase, but it does indeed stand for All But Dissertation). I'll never take a ... next year. What about you @Highbrow? What are you looking forward to in your work this coming year?

Description : Anyone still making goals or New Year's Resolutions?

Last Answer : Any day can be the first day of a new year. So, no, it isn’t too late; in fact, you are perfectly in time!

Description : Seriously....What do you feel on what's called New Year's day?

Last Answer : answer:We’re going to visit friends and their brand-spanking-new baby in the morning, then it’s off to my in-laws house for lunch in the afternoon. What do I “feel”? Seriously?! ... Nothing much different than any other day.

Description : How did you do on your 2011 new year resolutions?

Last Answer : Never did this.

Description : Did you know that it's the Jewish New Year?

Last Answer : Shana Tova to you, too, @zensky. May your new year be happy and prosperous.

Description : What has made this year (2010) memorable for you?

Last Answer : This was the year when I seemed to turn the corner on my health problems. My BP has fallen to the point where the doctor has taken me off blood pressure meds. My diabetes is under control to the point ... to spend more years with my beloved Vicky than anyone expected. God has been good to me! : ))

Description : Will you be having a baby in the New Year of 2010?

Last Answer : Nope, and I have no plans to ever have one.

Description : Why do we wait until New Years to make resolutions?

Last Answer : Actually, I make resolutions all year long, which is why I rarely make formal resolutions at New Years. However, for a lot of people New Years represents a new beginning, where previous failures are wiped away, and you have a chance to start over.

Description : Why do some of us choose to Fluther rather than party on New Years?

Last Answer : I’m here cause my family is boring and my stupid cousins annoy the fuck out of me. Bitter? A bit. And it’s berly 10pm here.

Description : Do you have a quaint New Year's Eve or New Year's Day tradition?

Last Answer : Yes,New Year’s Eve,I sing show tunes from the chandelier….New Year’s day,I’m praying for a lighting strike upon my head :)

Description : Are you making resolutions for the New Decade?

Last Answer : I would like to find myself married before 2020. I realize it’s not exactly a resolution, but I want it to happen before then. It’s not that big of an order, I’ll be 24 in 2020.

Description : Do you usually have a quiet New Year's, or are you out and about celebrating?

Last Answer : Oh, I’m an old fuddy duddy. I like to stay home, maybe have some wine, prop my feet up and relax. There may or may not be a nap involved.

Description : Anybody planning anything special -- this New Year's Eve is also a Blue Moon day?

Last Answer : Perhaps I’ll celebrate with one. A Blue Moon, that is.

Description : How did your resolutions from New Year's 2009 go?

Last Answer : If you don’t make them, you can’t break them.

Description : Is there a unique, fun, or cool kind of calendar that you get each year?

Last Answer : The New Yorker Desk Calendar (Cartoons!)

Description : Can you tell me traditions you practice or are familiar with for New Years Eve?

Last Answer : New Years Eve is the one holiday my family doesn’t really do anything for. We just watch TV a little later than usual and try to remember to watch the ball drop. Then on New Years Day we watch college football.

Description : What is the cutoff date for wishing people a happy new year?

Last Answer : I think it is still early enough in the year to be wishing people a good year. I don't think wishing people a happy new year is the same as wishing people a merry Christmas, for example. Christmas is one ... Don't let it bother you so much. It will fizzle out soon. Until then, have a good new year.

Description : 2009 slogans?

Last Answer : It’s Obama tyme… goodness,, cut me off please :)

Description : When and why did a kiss at the stroke of New Year's become such a tradition?

Last Answer : Heehee, I does not have a random someone. I was wondering that too, thanks to the thread we were on a few minutes ago. You beat me to it! :’( Lurve for Herpes. Haha.

Description : She wants to go out tonight,but i can't stand all the hassle and queuing for a drink and smiling at people i hate,she wont go out if i dont go with her,would you go out?

Last Answer : Think as you like but behave as you must… You’ll be fine, you just need to play the part.

Description : What's your New Year's Resolution for 2009?

Last Answer : I don’t do resolutions. Hopefully, I can get this boy situation sorted out though. He’s complicating things left and right.

Description : What do you think the outcome would be if i asked my closest friends and family to pick new year's resolutions for me?

Last Answer : Only if you are prepared for the truth.

Description : What is your New Year's resolution?

Last Answer : To actually concentrate on being sucessful at 1 thing. Stop being all over the place.

Description : What will you do this New Year's Eve?

Last Answer : we (wife and I) usually have a nice dinner out somewhere and stay away from the big parties at clubs/bars. I doubt I'll stay awake long enough to see the ball drop on TV this year it's ... sleep through it. although, my friends in the eastern timezone will probably call at 11pm cst to wake me up.

Description : Is anyone keeping to their New Year's resolutions?

Last Answer : I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions. They never work. But, I do like the idea that Tom Peters had. Using inspirational quotes, rather than mission statements. My quote for this year is: Make it (what I already have) Work.