Folded thought of the day:

Some more New Year's Eve plans from the Folded Few...  
Please keep them coming.  

"I'm planning an 18th century party at home with my family and 
friends. We all dress in 18th century clothing and eat on 
pewter plates.  Hot spiced cider will be our drink of choice.  
Candles are a must and lanterns (18th century of course) will 
light our way to the new year. I want to take a picture of
all of us so we'll remember just what we did on this special 
New Year. A friend of mine is going to play his bagpipes for 
us (and the neighbors). Sounds great, doesn't it?"

-- J. Aird

(Indeed, sounds great.  Love those period parties.  I went 
to a party last year and the theme was 1997.  A wacky time 
indeed -- pulling all those year-old clothes out of the closet... 
wait... I'm still wearing the same clothes I wore in '97, 
heck, '92 for that matter.  Let's be honest, if I was alive 
in the 18th century and managed to keep kicking, you'd know 
it by the clothes I would still have in my closet.  Getting 
me to buy a new shirt is like pulling teeth.)


"I am going camping in the Anza Borrego State Park, in Eastern 
San Diego, CA.  My best friend, her hub and kids also will 
be there.  Sitting around a campfire telling stories of things 
that we have gone through in the years that we have known one 
another.  Toasting what has passed and what is to come in our 
lives.  Stargazing, playing cards, and just a quiet evening 
with great friends." 

-- H. Kinsey

(Friends, the great outdoors and a campfire... can't 
argue with that.)


"As in past years, we will join family and friends at a 'honky-tonk' 
called Hillbilly Heaven, located in Lewis County, in northern New 
York, where we will do a little dancing to country music provided 
so wonderfully by a 5-man band."

-- Jo-Ann

(Yee-haw!)


"I plan to be at a party some friends are giving. They told 
everyone to dress up - use that dress you bought for a wedding, 
or your prom, or whatever.  Dancing will be required - unless 
you have a cast on your leg.  People are welcome to bring sleeping 
bags so they can drink and not have to drive, or in case the Y2K 
bug disables their car - which I doubt, since most of us drive 
older cars anyway.  Getting them started might be a problem if 
it gets as cold as I've known it to get in January in Minneapolis."

-- Jan 

(Excellent remedy for what could be the real Y2K bug -- drunken 
driving.  Please be safe and smart this New Year's Eve, don't 
drink and drive, don't let others drink and drive and if you're 
on the road, don't take anything for granted.)


"For New Year's this year just like last years, I will be making 
radioactive isotopes to deliver to hospitals for nuclear imaging."

-- M. Quint

(If I had a dime for every time someone told me this was how 
they are planning on celebrating the new Millennium...) 


"I don't really know where I will be on the great 'Change Over'; 
I only know that by time New Year's Eve hits, I will be 'flying 
high' in good spirit and warm feelings!  I have saved (scrimped) 
smile, all year long and bought gifts when I could avail myself 
of special discounts, etc.  I've contacted preachers, school 
principals, etc., from small farming, mining, lumbering villages 
throughout W. Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi 
in order to find out about a family in each village who are in 
need of help, or hope, or love.  I bought a 5' X 10" utility 
trailer to tow, and will go down through the states, leaving 
gifts, etc., on the porches when the people are asleep, or 
away, or maybe even sneak up when they are there and make a 
quick get-a-way!!  What a high!! (smile)  I've been able to 
find out in most cases something that they really could use 
or are in need of.  Like a computer, one man needs a new saw, 
one little girl has never had a doll of her own; so I know the 
gifts will be cherished.  By New Year's Eve, I hope to be 
completed with my journey and on my way back."
 
-D. Martin
  
(Okay, you're my hero.)