New Year?  Isn't that last fall? (Jewish New Year)  Or is it coming up 
in Feb. or March sometime? (Chinese New Year)  I always preferred these
New Year's celebrations as they use Lunar calendars and I am a bit of a
lunatic myself. (GRIN)
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Have a happy, healthy New Year's yourself.  Sober New Year's eves - now
that's an experience only an alcoholic or their family truly seems to 
be able to appreciate.
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The funniest New Year's eve "celebration" I ever partook of was when a 
friend decided to join my Church - she got baptized on New Year's eve 
and asked me to speak.  I brought up my sobriety and AA and said if 
anyone doens't believe in miracles, let me tell you that my being here 
SOBER and speaking about faith in a Power greater than myself on New 
year's eve is a miracle.  I also told them that if anyone had told me 
ten years before that was where I'd be I'd have told them they were 
full of something stinky and yucky.   THEN at the end of the baptism, 
during the closing prayer, all of a sudden we all heard this sythetic 
version of Jingle Bells.  You know like the musical greeting cards? 
well that's what it sounded like.  So I ended up holding my breathe and
then coughing violently so as not to laugh my head off until the prayer
was done.  It turned out that one of the young missionary elders 
(there's an oxymoron for you)  had been given a tie that played Jingle 
Bells and when he bowed his head, he had bowed a little too low 
(falling asleep maybe?  And when I had SPOKEN! The nerve!  G R I N !)
and set it off, but couldn't get it to stop.  It was hysterical, but 
maybe you had to be there.  (So much for reverence in that service, 
believe me!)
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Anyway, that's the most unusual and funniest New Year's I had in 
sobriety.  Maybe it will inspire others on here to share there 
experiences with humorous episodes on sober holidays.
--- TriToss (tm) Professional 10.0 - #66
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