What Did You Do New Year's Eve?

[paula1961]

Glad to know you still have your "buds" Lynsey!! lol!

Well..I didn't do anything really exciting either. I have had two of my gkids since noon Friday. We made homemade spaghetti and meatballs...it was so good. My gkids said they were the best meatballs that they had ever eaten They are 10 and 8...I just wander how many that they have actually tried??lol! Anyways we have had a pretty good time except for last night, Morgan got an earache around 9 or 10 pm and I was up with her until 6:30 this morning She was in so much pain!! But here it is 11:25 am and she is still sound asleep..I wouldn't wake her up for anything.
We did stay up on New Years Eve and watch the ball drop but that was pretty much the jist of it!! Happy New Year GF's!! Sounds like we all chose to just stay home and be safe this year!!

Great buy on the tv Shada!!

[Blueyes]

Mike and I usually get dressed up and go out to dinner with my brother and sil. Jim and Teresa. But Mike is still at the ranch hunting so we went without him It is the 1st time in 37 years that we haven't spent New Years Eve together! I did stay up until midnight, but I was in bed talking/texting with my kids and reading

[Marilyn]

We stayed home. We did have Karen & Carlton, Garrett & Melissa and Carlton's mom and nephew over. We had hot tamales, chili, chips and dips and played chicken foot dominoes. We all pooped out about 10:30 and Carlton's mom and nephew went home. The rest of us just sat around for a while. Carlton decided to go see a friend real quick who owed him some money, and took the guy joy riding in his car to show him what it could do. Carlton has a '99 Pontiac Formula (TransAm) that he's supped up, and that's what they traveled here in from California, against everyone's better judgment but his. Well, he had it up at 6800 RPM's and blew the transmission. A flywheel flew off and knocked the starter off the engine and cut the transmission line and created a fire ball that burned up all the wiring on the engine and blew a hole in the right fender. We got a call that he needed help at 15 minutes till midnight, so our New Year's rang in towing his car to our house. Karen was very upset. They were supposed to leave the next day to drive back to Cali, so we spent the wee hours of New Years online finding them plane tickets to fly home Sunday morning. We got up at 2 a.m. to drive them to Austin to catch the only flight available to Palm Springs that day.

Karen's stomach was upset, but we thought it was all the stress. Little did we know she was 2 months pregnant.

What a New Years!!! One to remember for sure!!!

[gja1000]

Whew! That WAS a memorable New Years' Eve. Don't you just know it - boys will be boys! I hope he can get his car fixed!

[Marilyn]

Originally Posted by gja1000

Whew! That WAS a memorable New Years' Eve. Don't you just know it - boys will be boys! I hope he can get his car fixed!

Gayle, the damage was so extensive, that it's not worth fixing. He has a friend who needs to drive a trailer from here to San Diego to pick up a car, so he's going to get him to take his car to California for him and he's going to "part-it-out". In other words, he's going to sell parts from it to maximize his return. It's worth more in parts now than as a whole car.

Before the blow out, he was already planning to part-it-out when they returned to Cali. He has also picked up an abandoned truck for free that he is filing for a title for that he can trade with a buddy for a blazer that is worth considerably more that he was going to sell. With the income from the two vehicles, his plan was to buy a used Corvette, but....now that they are expecting, he says no more "toys". He's going to bank the money from his car adventures. He figures he may be able to get his Vet when he's in his 40's. Boys will indeed be boys!!!