New Year's Eve In A Pandemic: Plans & Solace

I spent 6 hours the day before making posole rojo and served my building/neighbors a rooftop dinner from my slow-cooker!! That goddamned roof has been a sanity-saver and makes it feel almost like the before-times since I never went anywhere anyway.

We wrapped up in blankets to drink wine, froze, took a warm-up break, and came back out for the countdown and screaming. My roommate made a little paper effigy of el año viejo and burned it--a fun tradition I never knew about. We all jumped over it and yelled at 2020.

The posole was well received by people who know better, so I'm taking the win!

I was home by 12:03 p.m. The Lyft vehicle with me in it rounded the corner at midnight.

I'm not at a computer much and feel a bit distanced from ilx lately but thank you all for keeping this place going. Here's to all the real people behind the keyboards, let's have massive faps in 2021.

safer than massive FAPs in 2021, to be sure

Okay fine that was optimistic, it was too depressing to say "in 2022" in the literal "Happy 2021 let's find solace in something" thread.

I like both ideas tbf.

steady

went to a nice little gathering of 4 other people one I'd known since I came to town, an ex of mine , somebody I knew through her and somebody I hadn't met before.
So it was quite nice, an interesting night really, better than staying in again.
Had to walk across town to get there and interesting to see that on a big night be so empty. MOst of the people I saw were around Xi An a Chinese street food place I stopped in along the way. MIssed a bus into town and had to wait ages for another one. THought they might have stopped running early for a while.
Then got on the 2nd bus home in the morning which was really handy.