New Years Eve - my experience!

So. For those of you that know me, you know that I am not a "party" type of person.. I'll go, if I know everyone or if for some reason I feel that I HAVE to be there...

well... I'm not sure why I agreed, but I told the ladies at my womens group that I would go to their New Years Eve party... it was going to be with our leaders husbands mens group as well. Almost as soon as I said I'd go, I started asking myself WHY I had agreed to go... there were going to be people there that I didn't know! I'm scared of new people! (okay, SCARED is a strong word... and doesn't really apply, but still...) Am I unsociable? Not really... but I am shy and uncomfortable (at first) around new people. And when I'm uncomfortable I tend to say things that are either inappropriate (foot in mouth!) or embarassing! LOL And knowing that I do this makes me even more nervous around new people!!

So anyways... the night of the party comes along and I leave early so that I can get some dinner before the party. (because I also have a very active imagination and I can envision myself dribbling food on myself, or ending up with food in my teeth and nobody telling me... or being nervous and talking with my mouth full of food LOL all things that don't happen normally, but I didn't want to take any chances!)

The party is at the home of a group member, which is about 30 minutes from my house... and during the entire drive I'm having a conversation with myself in my head. (yeah, I'm talking to myself! you got a problem with that?! *grin*) Mainly asking myself what was I thinking by agreeing to go to this party... and trying to convince myself that it was going to be fun... and also trying to find a reason why I suddenly couldn't attend... ah, inner conflict is so much fun! NOT!

I made it to Chipotle, and got my food and sat down and began eating... then my cell phone rang. It was one of my best friends calling to see if my offer to allow her to join me at this party was still out there... boy did I jump on that!! YES YES YES! Please join me!

She met me at the restaurant shortly after I finished eating and then followed me to the house... fortunately, the party was smaller than I was anticipating and I knew almost everyone! Apparently most of the group members had other places they wanted to be that night and didn't come... hooray for me!

While they waited for others to arrive (you know, the ones who DIDN'T arrive) somebody put in a DVD of the TV show "The Office" for us to watch. What a funny show! The men (3 of them) went outside to shoot darts, the women stayed inside and chatted and watched the DVD. It was nice and mellow... just the kind of party I like! We didn't stay until midnight because I promised my daughter that I'd be home to watch the ball drop with her.

When I got home my dad and my little silly head were waiting for me... they had some bottle rockets to shoot off and wanted me to be out there with them. My dad would set them off and my daughter and I would watch it go up and then listen for where it landed. Then we'd get out our flashlights and try to find the stick... sometimes we did, and sometimes we didn't. (usually we didn't though!)

My daughter was so excited that I was letting her stay up until midnight... she even agreed to take a nap earlier in the day, so that she'd be allowed to! Amazing.

At midnight we watched the ball drop, toasted New Years with some Applejuice and ginger ale mixed together... (ick) and then we started the "winding down" process!! She was in bed by around 1:15 or so (a.m.!!) And out before I made it out of her room!! (and then she was UP at her normal time... so we were both grouchy and tired today!)

So how was YOUR New Years Eve?