Christmas is winding down and New Years is just around the corner. I’ve written before about my great loathing of this “holiday”, but I’ll say it again. I hate New Years Eve. I hate seeing another year gone, I hate the possibility that the next year might be a year from hell, I just simply hate it. I want to look forward to the future, but I’m an overly cautious person so I always think of what can go wrong. I need to resolve to change that. This year I’m really going to try to enjoy it. We’re staying home this year, so we’ll do some intimate romantic thing at home.

Anyway, this year I think I’ll cook some fancy little meal at home. It’s our alone year, so I’m happy about that! Every other year we go to his family’s for New Years. I love them dearly, but I hatred of New Year’s Eve makes it not so much fun for me. I think that we will probably rent movies, play games and just enjoy each other’s company. The longer I am married, the less I worry about making every holiday and occasion perfect. I don’t contrive a play by play of how the even will turn out. I think about what will make it special and however it turns out, it turns out! I think people spend too much time worrying about the outcome and not enough time on the task at hand.

For example, if you are planning a romantic evening, I don’t think about everything that’s going to happen. I don’t think “We’re going to go to dinner and engage in gastronomic delights, witty conversation and gaze at one another. Then we’re going to go home and he’s going to make love to me like never before with Bach’s Air on the G String playing in the background. We going to collapse in each other arms and he’s going to hold me all night.” No, what really happens is you go to dinner, have a nice time but are too full for a sexathon, fall asleep with your sweats on and make up for it that next day. If you think too much about about the soap opera in your mind, you’re going to be sorely disappointed. Life isn’t perfect, you just have to be perfectly happy working on your life.

Does anyone else out there have any fun couples or family suggestions for New Years Eve?

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