The re-do New Years Eve
Welcome 2025, let’s hope you’re as funny as SpongeBob said you were.
I started off my 2025 as one usually does, with a re-do New Years Eve. The day of New Years Eve I had big plans. I was excited, even my therapist was surprised by how excited I was to take on the day (compared to the usual let me go back to bed and pretend I don’t exist). I wanted to create a vision board, upload my website, and make a 2024 recap video. Seeing it written down now it does seem like a lot and I love the confidence I have in myself sometimes. Then, I was going to go out with my best friend.
Turns out Best Friend had other plans and blacked out before 10:30PM. She awoke the next day angry that I chose to stay in with her but I really didn’t mind. I love going out but I didn’t know if I wanted to go into 2025 drunk and packed into a club like a bunch of sweaty sardines. I brought my brother along with me and while Best Friend was passed out on the downstairs bathroom floor, we watched the pilot episode of “How I Met Your Mother.” I made us Buldak spicy noodles to which he accompanied the meal with his own version of a grape juice vodka drink. We were so caught up in the noodles and the comedy of the show that we didn’t even realize it was New Years Day until we heard fireworks outside.
Due to this, my best friend insisted on a re-do New Years Eve. So we all put ourselves in the mindset that we were still in 2024 despite everyone else being in 2025. We had plans to go out to a club… before realizing it was closed. Then we decided on a bar… that we found out was closed after having our Uber drop us off. Turns out that not a lot of people go out on New Years Day, who would’ve thought. We ended up cramming ourselves in another friends car (two of us on laps in the backseat) to a bar on the outskirts of the city that was thankfully open. Open… but completely dead inside. Which was fine, there was around 10 of us and we were going to party on our re-do New Years Eve even if there was just the three of us.
The night turned out to be a lot of fun. It was almost as if we rented out the bar to ourselves. There was a Photo Booth, Foosball, Connect Four, and the bartender even lent us a deck of cards to play Golf with on one of the tables. Then at sometime during the night Best Friend started counting down like it was New Years and we all pitched in to celebrate our re-do New Years Eve. Just like Drama students in High School after a big play, we ended our night at Dennys where I was drunk enough to convince our server to give me a Dennys mug with some ground coffee in it.
As much as I love trying to stick to a plan and a set schedule, I know it’s not the end of the world if I can’t. Sometimes it leads to moments like this one that’s full of absolute beautiful spontaneity, and I love that.