Have a safe and fun night out – see you on the other side of 2011
Before I head to New Year’s Eve adventures here in Boystown I wanted to thank everyone for being a part of things here on HB in 2010. You were collectively the best part of a brutal year.
Tonight, if you are headed out on adventures of your own, please drink responsibly and plan ahead. If you know you can’t say no when the free shots and champagne start flowing, give a bar manager your car keys so there is no chance in Hell you can drive home.
There is no shame in cabbing it and admitting you lost control and are now too buzzed to drive.
I don’t want to turn this into an after school special, but I have lost friends to drunk drivers, so on a night like tonight, just please remember how your actions can impact yourselves and others.
Have fun. Be excellent to all you meet tonight. Live to see tomorrow. You are loved and needed in the fight come 2011.
Use the best trick in my book if you know you will be pressured to drink a lot tonight: order a Guinness in a bottle. It’s opaque. No one can see how much is in it. If you want to have just one, you can totally pretend it is still full all night and no one can tell. It is a great way to stay sober without seeming like a wet blanket.
Look out for those around you tonight. If you see someone driving erratically, call 911 and report it. Better safe than sorry…you might save a life.
Let’s all do our part to start the New Year right, and alive, with all our limbs, and nothing we regret tomorrow.
I get to spend the New Year with an awesome guy I love, some really great friends, and all the many characters in Boystown that make me smile…or cringe, as the case may be. The decorations are all gold and gaudy. There’s glitter everywhere. I’ve seen Chers representing almost every Cher look and decade, save “serious actress” and “infomercial sellout”.
Wouldn’t have it any other way.
See you in 2011!
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I'm going to have a mug of hot chocolate, and head to bed to read a book! It's 2011 SOMEWHERE out over the Atlantic, heading towards the East Coast in just over 2 hours, and I hope to be asleep by then. HAPPY NEW YEAR, Kevin and all the Hillbuzz crowd!
Happy New Year, HillBuzz! Be safe and have fun!
misstickly,
Have you heard about Tim Adams,
Senior elections clerk for
Honolulu?
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag…
Few more hours until midnight and its just a quiet night at home. Happy New Year Kev and all the Hillbuzzers!
Blessed 2011! boyz!!
May it be full of wonder, joy, and courage!!!
Happy New Years to you and yours from a long time lurker. Love your blog!
The best is yet to come!
Happy New Year to Kevin, Justin and Everyone here.
Quiet night at home here – boring but warm and safe.
From Alaska, wishing everyone a great New Year.
Happy and blessed New Year, Kevin and Justin! Yep – we always stay home – can enjoy a nice glass of wine (or 2) and not worry about the drivin' thing!
Out at the local bar doing a VIP party with friends (and yet coming to this site… lull in the action before dancing starts). Being that I don't like the taste of alcohol, I am always designated driver rocking the Diet Coke. I like to think of myslef as "the person who remembers what all the drunk people did, and carried a camera for proof."
At home safe and warm, eating chocolate and chips!
Happy New Year HillBuzzers – 2011 will be the year we take our country back!
God Bless all in uniform and their families and friends.
I am already on the other side!!! ROFL… see you all when you catch up to 2011
Happy New Year! Ready for another "closely guarded Obama secret?"
"Obama to ring in 2011 with family talent show"
"resident Barack Obama will ring in 2011 with friendly competition at his family's annual New Year's Eve talent show.
The White House is keeping Obama's talent a closely guarded secret. Several friends and family members will join the Obamas at their rented oceanfront home in Kailua…"
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/11272…
Happy New Year everyone. May you all have a blessed New Year!
We're one of the last places on earth to see 2010 out. Ringing in the new year with fireworks and preteen boys (my kid and his buddies — didn't want anyone to get the wrong idea). Yikes!!
Blessings on you all. Happy, healthy, wonderful 2011!
No wrong ideas.
We know you are not Beth Christie.
Hope all of you have a very Happy New Year & a safe one. I stayed inside away from the masses playing w/ my new toy – I got an iPad! Watched Megyn Kelly & Bill Hemmer ring in the new year on Fox. Hope my Buzz family here had a good time. We must remember to stay in the saddle in 2011 as the ride to revolution has only just begun. ONWARD TEA PARTY PATRIOTS!
Happy New Year to HillBuzz and everyone here.
Have a great time – and stay safe!!
2010 was really the pits, but I've got the feeling that 2011 is going to be a LOT better.
Happy New Year 2011 to all Hillbuzzers
from
Amazonia
Watching movies with Mom and Dad; hubby in NY shoveling and taking care of the cats. We saw "Wasabi" with the formidable Jean Reno (LOVE HIM! Macho Man extraordinaire) and maybe Lost in Austen or Bon Bon el Perro (dog lovers please see this-won a bunch of awards, a foredign film delightful.) Happy 2011 to all of you great bloggers here and Kevin, Justin, –
Have you ever seen " The Professional" with Reno? FABULOUS movie…..kinda dark but a classic to me.
P.S. Clicked over for a moment to ABC's New Year's Rockin Eve & they had Dick Clark on. I mean I know he created the show and all, but seriously? Anyone else uncomfortable watching him besides me? I just think it's time for them to retire him. Does that sound cruel? Sorry if it does, but jeez!
And here I thought it was just me. Yeah, they need to give that poor guy a rest and be done with it.
Happy New Year one and all!!
Tim in AL
Hey Kevin and Hillbuzz boyz — Drove down to Chicago today, (12/31)and took my college-age daughter to see "Wicked" at the Cadillac Palace theater. It was FANTASTIC. Took her for dinner first at Petterino's — great food, great service. It was a wonderful night in which my daughter and I bonded, and we went to see a show that she has wanted to see for over a year now.
Just wanted to tell you that, because I had read that you loved that show, and also because I traveled to your city to see it.
Have a great New Year! 2011 will be better than 2010, because we will make it so!
Mom in Wisconsin
Next time you come to Chicago, let me know. It would have been fun to meet you!
Happy New Year, Everyone.
Take a look at this clip of Michelle Bachman and compare her speaking ability to Barky's. Could he do this without a fleet of teleprompters???
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/michele-bachm…
Happy New Year to all HillBuzzers!!
Semper Fi'
DM
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Semper Fi'
DM
Happy New Year to Kevin and the gang at Buzzquarters, and to everyone whose comments make this one of my favorite places to hang out online.
Happy New Year, Kevin, Justin, and all the HillBuzz peeps. Keep up the good fight, we're with you all the way.