Happy New 2010 Year!

[Aquarius]

Thank you, Aquarius, for the link. I adored them but I do not have their songs on my laptop.

Oh, you're so welcome! I've been a huge fan since I was 10--I have all their records on VINYL, if you can believe it!!

[Ludmila]

My parents have also some ABBA's records on VINYL and their player works yet, I think. But I do not know what I should make even with many my tape cassettes. I prefer listening music on the laptop, mobile phone and other electronic devices and I am very seldom powering on tape recorder though I have such cassettes whose the electronic copies are absent in my playlists. Owww, our too quick progress without compatibility, when collected lovely things quickly became junk. But I am glad that we may remember the different nice moments involving those things anyway. More beautiful memories to all in New Year!

[Silverbullet]

Happy New Year from Silverbullet also known elsewhere as Tiger Tom. My favorite animal.

Have a wonderful year full of all the good things that life has to offer.

Let us all agree to meet here next new years eve too.

[enterprikayak]

Still 6 hours left!!!! I'm in the laziest time zone save for hawaii.

Ahhhhh..... *stretches out in lazy time zone*

[Dinah]

Happy New Year, one and all!!

[justTripn]

Thanks Aquarius. I really enjoyed that ABBA song. That blond woman has a beautiful voice.

[Asso]

ABBA. Among my preferred groups.

[Aquarius]

Thanks Aquarius. I really enjoyed that ABBA song. That blond woman has a beautiful voice.

That's Agneta. She's credited Connie Francis as being her biggest influence, and sometimes you can really hear the similarities.

I hope it's not over indulgent, but I have another link to share, The Way Old Friends Do by ABBA. It's not specifically a song for New Years or the holidays, but on the album this song follows "Happy New Year," and it's very appropriate, I think. (You also get to hear Frida's equally beautiful voice here.)

Also, if I had the time for fan vidding, I think it would make a beautiful song for an Enterprise vid.

[Elessar]

Edit:

my bad, your boss isn't completely recovered today, I totally thought this was the "What are you doing?" thread

[enterprikayak]

Okay, Priso got this idea from a friend at work, and so we did it, and it was AWESOME!

For days, Aureilia (age 4) has been so excited about staying up all night to see midnight at New Year's ("and to bang pots and pans outside!!"). I said she could, but was wondering how she would manage it. Well, this friend said a few days ago, "Just roll all your clocks 3 hours forward around lunchtime, and then celebrate New Year's at 9pm with the New York feed on tv."

It went off perfectly. Around 845 pm we started vociferously lauding her for staying up "SO LATE! HOW ARE YOU DOING IT?" and she was all proud of herself: "I don't KNOW! It's so LATE! I'm UP! I'M STILL UP! HOW CAN I DO IT??"

She doesn't notice that the 2 one year olds are still running around no prob at "midnight". I put on the webcast of Times Square, and we watched all the manic new yorkers with their Nivea-sponsored blue hats, banging Nivea noise-sticks. Nivea supports 2010, btw. Just so you know.

And we counted down from 30 and she was so whipped up and excited at the end, with all the lights and 2010's everywhere, and she went out and clanged on a soup tureen.....and she was in bed by 9:20 pm.

[Aquarius]

That's genius!!

[dialee]

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Everyone.

I hope everyone enjoyed ringing in the new year in their own special way. Any new year's resolutions you would like to share?

Mine? Something hopefully very simple which I actually have a chance of keeping, a place for everything and everything in its place. I recently read about Cotton Mather, a famous Puritan theologian who tried to improve a small thing upon entering or leaving a room. Sounds like he knew how to keep his house uncluttered.

[enterprikayak]

the thought of having no clutter and living in a hut on a beach with one change of clothes, a bowl, and a laptop, is sooooo appealing to me.

*surveys livingroom full of new plastic noise-making toys*

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

A very Swedish GOTT NYTT ÅR!

Alas, the Swedish group ABBA didn't sing that, opting instead for English lyrics...

[Ludmila]

Just roll all your clocks 3 hours forward around lunchtime, and then celebrate New Year's at 9pm..and she was in bed by 9:20 pm.

Oww, so marvelous idea. It is regrettable that we have the big, loud, long and beautiful fireworks which are seen from the window. They take place not only in the big and small towns, but I saw them even in the village where I visited my friend and her family two years ago. It was good that for her daughter in her 4 years New Year is identifies by our analog of Santa Claus. The girl was in the bed by 10 p.m. and had her Santa in the lunchtime next day. The husband of my friend has many relatives and the girl was happy to be with her small cousins and Santa. But I always wished to see the fireworks and tried waiting for them which were and in my childish years though not so plenty as now. I think that I was able to wait for them in 5 or 6 years the first time.

Any new year's resolutions you would like to share?

I for some reason have stopped to consider January 1, my birthday, Mondays, Saturdays and the first day of the month as some special days for a long time. They remain for me to be a chance to celebrating and parties. But I acquired the habit to monitor my situation and my relationships practically everyday and I may decide something abrupt in any day of year.
But I do think that New Year's resolutions are very good idea. Only one must have the power to find something optimistic in the case of his failure.