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It's 2009 here in Sweden (and in Germany, Michael, Mellie, Barbara and others), so - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Ann
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Happy New Year to all! It's just this instant gone midnight here and - just as I was telling Homer that we seemed to have gotten away with it re fireworks - they're off! :rolleyes: LabRat 
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
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Happy New Year, everyone!  Tricia 
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Happy New Year, everyone. All the best wishes for this new year. Saskia
I tawt I taw a puddy cat!
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Whoohoo, happy new year! Still 5 hours here till the big moonpie drops (chuckle).  JD
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Happy New Year, everyone!
It's never too dark to be cool.
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And slightly belated Happy New Year from me. Oh, and here's a wonderful little astronomical film APOD posted yesterday. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081231.html Well worth watching.
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Happy new year! I'm a little embarrassed to say that I didn't see the new year come in - I was in bed at 10:30 pm. Either I'm getting too old or this baby is sapping all my energy. Probably both!
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Happy New Year everyone! Hope it's a good one
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Happy New Year, everyone! May 2009 be a 'super' one for all you wonderful folcs.  Mona P.S. Labby, I dislike fireworks, too and unfortunately some kept me up for a little ehile last night as well.
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Happy 2009, everyone! May this year be the best you've ever had!
Our Golden Retriever/Labrador/some kind of mastiff (we think) doesn't like the bang-bangs either. He woke up my wife last night at about midnight and needed comfort. It's almost funny to see a panicked 100 lb. dog with his ears back in fear, until he's so scared that he pees on your bed because the kids down the street didn't keep their firecrackers down the street.
I like fireworks when they're handled by professionals in a public display. I don't like them when they're handled by little kids or immature adults who think it's funny to blow up rosebushes because they live in a state where fireworks are banned completely but they're visiting a relative who lives in a state which has no regulations on them other than "don't start any fires or put anyone else's eye out."
Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.
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Well, glad to say our fireworks only lasted about 20 minutes and then we were back into blessed silence. Perhaps the chill night put them off. I wish Homer would accept comfort when sounds scare him. But we've learned you really just have to ignore him - he lies on the floor with his ears rotating back and forth like radar and shaking from head to foot - because he's picked up on certain phrases like "It's nothing to worry about." or "Everything's fine, don't worry." and that makes him worse, seems to bolster his conviction that things are about to cave in around him. Occasionally, he'll crawl up on the sofa next to me and shake, but only on the strict condition that I pretend he's not there. :rolleyes: LabRat
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
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A VERY Belated Happy New Year to everyone!!
I would have liked to have gone to bed at a decent hour but unfortunately was stuck at a party having to ring in the new year. And yes there were fireworks... by all of our immature husbands who thought throwing blackcats at each other was amusing. They'd also toss smoke bombs in the vicinity of all us wives standing innocently at the side. It was a long night. :rolleyes:
Regarding dogs and fireworks, we also have a big lab who is such a doofus. One would think he'd be a shivering mess with fireworks based on some of the things that scare him. But once he's asleep, he is OUT. He slept through Hurricane Ike so fireworks don't phase him. LOL
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always
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Occasionally, he'll crawl up on the sofa next to me and shake, but only on the strict condition that I pretend he's not there.  He didn't dig up anything before I left him to go to a party, thankfully. He just wandered around non-stop until he decided it was safe to nap. I swear he thinks the sky is falling 24/7.  JD
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Happy New Year everyone! I didn't stay up to greet 2009. I went to bed sometime around 10:30 as well. I had to be well rested for my 5km run the next day. "Resolution Run" it is called. I hurt my left hip flexor  I didn't get to train or have much rest, so my time was horrid. I was trying to loose some weight and once I signed up for this race in November I started to pack on the weight! HA. So much for an incentive to loose. Actually I was so burnt out from work and didn't care. Silly me. May everyone have a wonderful year!!!
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