Ma> New Year?  Isn't that last fall? (Jewish New Year)  Or is it coming up
 Ma> in Feb. or March sometime? (Chinese New Year)  I always preferred
 Ma> these New Year's celebrations as they use Lunar calendars and I am a
 Ma> bit of a lunatic myself. (GRIN)
 
  You forgot Samhain...
 
 Ma> Have a happy, healthy New Year's yourself.  Sober New Year's eves -
 Ma> now that's an experience only an alcoholic or their family truly seems
 Ma> to  be able to appreciate.
 
  Very true. In most places a sober New Year's would be an oxymoron...:)
 Ma> The funniest New Year's eve "celebration" I ever partook of was when a
 Ma> friend decided to join my Church - she got baptized on New Year's eve 
 Ma> and asked me to speak.  I brought up my sobriety and AA and said if 
 Ma> anyone doens't believe in miracles, let me tell you that my being here
 Ma> SOBER and speaking about faith in a Power greater than myself on New 
 Ma> year's eve is a miracle.  I also told them that if anyone had told me 
 Ma> ten years before that was where I'd be I'd have told them they were 
 Ma> full of something stinky and yucky.   THEN at the end of the baptism, 
 Ma> during the closing prayer, all of a sudden we all heard this sythetic 
 Ma> version of Jingle Bells.  You know like the musical greeting cards? 
 Ma> well that's what it sounded like.  So I ended up holding my breathe
 Ma> and then coughing violently so as not to laugh my head off until the
 Ma> prayer was done.  It turned out that one of the young missionary elders
 Ma> (there's an oxymoron for you)  had been given a tie that played Jingle
 Ma> Bells and when he bowed his head, he had bowed a little too low 
 Ma> (falling asleep maybe?  And when I had SPOKEN! The nerve!  G R I N !)
 Ma> and set it off, but couldn't get it to stop.  It was hysterical, but 
 Ma> maybe you had to be there.  (So much for reverence in that service, 
 Ma> believe me!)
 
 That sounded like it was a very funny experience...We need laughter.
 Ma> Anyway, that's the most unusual and funniest New Year's I had in 
 Ma> sobriety.  Maybe it will inspire others on here to share there 
 Ma> experiences with humorous episodes on sober holidays.
 I had many sober holidays that were spent at AA New Year's Eve Partys.
 Nothing funny but just a very good feeling that my husband and all our
 friends could have such a good time dancing and enjoying a party sober..
 Marie
... There is serenity in Chaos, seek the eye of the hurricane.
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