New Year's Eve is Almost Here!

Hi All,

New Year's Eve is approaching quickly.  What better time to plan a party than now?  So...how do you create a great New Year's Eve celebration for you and your friends and family?  Read on and learn how to create the party of all parties this year!

WikiHow - How to Throw a New Year's Eve Party

Real Simple - How to Throw the Easiest New Year's Eve Party Ever

UK Mirror - New Year's Eve Party Ideas - Decorate, Eat, Drink and Games

MoneyTalksNews - 10 Tips For Throwing a Great, Cheap New Year's Eve Party

Pinterest - New Year's Eve Party Ideas (with lots of pictures)

Money Crashers - 11 Fun New Year's Eve Party Ideas for Food, Games and Decorations

Penny Hoarder - Step-by-Step Guide to Throwing a Rockin' New Year's Eve Party on the Cheap

Food Network - How to Throw a Family Friendly New Year's Eve Party

HGTV - Host a Sparkling New Year's Eve Party

Delish.com -  29 Crazy Delish Cocktails to Make With Champagne


So there you have it - a start to help you make this New Year's Eve a night you won't soon forget!

Regards,
Stu

The Party's Over....

Hi All,

The end of the year is well nigh upon us.  With just about 61 hours left in 2015 its time to start thinking about New Year's Eve, champagne, parties and resolutions.

For a great summary of the year in computer searching, click on this link from Google Trends - its called A Year in Search 2015. 

For things to do on Long Island for New Year's Eve 2015 click on this link: Long Island.com 2015 New Year's Eve Entertainment Guide and  MommyPoppins - New Year's Eve 2015 Celebrations on Long Island For Kids and Families. 

What's a New Year's Eve celebration without champagne? Indeed, click here for some information about buying champagne and the types of champagne for your drinking pleasure.
Wikipedia - Champagne
Wine.com - Champagne
New York Times article on Champagne
Basic Wine Knowledge - Champagne

Finally, what's a New Year's eve without resolutions and thoughts of changing ones' life in the upcoming year. Click on the next few links to learn all about New Years Eve resolutions.
Time Magazine - How to Keep Your New Years Eve Resolutions
Health - Top 10 Healthiest New Years Eve Resolutions
Bembu - 100 New Years Resolutions - ambitious!
About.com Travel - Top Ten New Years Resolutions
Gaiam Life - 10 Tips To Help Keep Your New Years Resolutions

Enjoy the links - happy new year and enjoy the festivities!

Regards,
Stu

New Year's Resolutions

Hi All,

Happy New Year!  It is the first full work-day of the year 2015!  And let the blogging begin!

One of the traditional things that folks do on New Year's Eve is make resolutions. Resolutions like, 'I'm going to exercise more', or 'I'm going to eat less', or 'I want to study harder' or 'I'm going to read more books this year', or 'I'm going to save money' are the norm.

Here are a few websites that talk about these traditional resolutions - but there are also a few links at the end of the post that will help you take these resolutions from thouught into practice!

Some interesting New Year's Resolutions sites include:
Stars Reveal New Year's Resolutions, Hopes for 2015
5 New Year's Resolutions to Help You Retire
The Surprising Reasons Why We Make New Year's Resolutions
Top New Year's Resolutions For 2015 - From the TopTens.com
Top 10 Best New Year's Resolutions 2015 
19 Perfect Resolutions For Lazy Slobs

and....

from APA.org comes this entry titled, 'Making Your New Year's Resolution Stick'
17 Ways To Make a New Year's Resolution You'll Actually Keep - from Time Magazine
Stop Making Selfish New Year's Resolutions

Enjoy the links - and happy new year!

Regards,
Stu

New Year's Eve 2015

Hi All,

The end of the year is coming!  And that means New Year's Eve celebrations are everywhere - so start celebrating!  This blog post will be a veritable, 'all things New Years' Eve' post...

Hosting a New Years' Eve party is a time-honored way to celebrate the new year...click on these three links to learn more on how to host that party!  And have fun - and stay sane - doing it.

Ehow has an interesting article titled 'Hosting a New Years Eve Party.'  AOL - yes, AOL - has an article called, 'Host Handbook: New Year's Eve Party'.

Well, very few New Year's Eve parties have no Champagne....yum.  Click on these few links to learn a bit about picking the right Champagne for NYE (New Year's Eve).

IntoWine is a fun website that discusses wine and accompanying drinks...the linked article talks about New Year's Eve Champagne Recommendations and Ideas.  Click on this link for some videos on how to choose sparkling wines....

Click on this link to learn even more about how to choose the best Champagne for your NYE party.

Readers can click on this link to learn about how to pair food with various types of Champagne - link from Food and Wine.com.  And readers can click on this link - from Delish - to learn about Champagne cocktails.

If you aren't having a party at your house, click on these links to find out where the great NYE parties are on Long Island. About.com has an article titled, 'New Year's Eve on Long Island'.  Short, sweet and to the point!  Go About.com/Travel!  Not to be outdone, Newsday has an entry as well for things to do on Long Island on NYE.  Click this link to read the article.

Finally, the Long Island Press has an entry as well - click here for the article 'Long Island New Year's Eve 2014'.

Okay...one last link...click here to go to Balldrop - which celebrates New Years Eve 2015 in New York/Times Square!  

Enjoy the links - and here's to a happy and healthy new year!  Happy 2015!

Regards,
Stu

New Years' Eve 2014!!!

Hi All,

Well, its that time of year again.  Another year has gone by and we're at the end of December...Its New Years' Eve time.  So get ready for the parties, the Champagne; and get ready for the countdown, and the ball dropping in Times Square...and of course the actual New Year!

So, without further ado...here are a bunch of things that you can on New Years' Eve on Long Island...

If you are into posh parties and elegance, you might want to visit the Garden City Hotel...click here for the link.  For 'just' $175 you ge an open premium bar, live DJ, a 'hangover breakfast bar' and more.

For another gorgeous venue, try out Villa Lombardi's New Year's Eve Candelight Ball in Holbrook.
What's included at Villa Lombardi's you ask?  For $135 you get Live DJ Entertainment, a live simulcast from Times Square New York City,  a premium  five hour open bar, champagne and a really, really excellent menu with options galore for dinner.  Click here for the menu.

Other places that are offering New Year's Eve events include Maxwell's in Islip, Gurney's Inn in Montauk and others.  Click here for a list that will link you to some other fun New Years' Eve parties.

So...how can you pick a Champagne for New Year's Eve that you'll like?  Click on this link from Kitchen Daily which explains 'How to Pick the Perfect Champagne?'   For an alternative take on how how to pick a great Champagne for New Year's Eve, click on this link from the Huffington Post for the article entitled, 'A Guide to Champagne and Sparkling Wine: Choosing a Bottle for New Year's Eve'.

Finally, if you are hosting a New Year's Eve party, click on the following links - the suggestions might make the party even more fun - and take the stress out from hosting the shindig.

From the  Albuquerque Journal comes this blog entry entitled, 'Have a Family-Friendly New Year's Eve Party'.   From the ever popular HGTV website comes this entry entitled 'Hosting a Sparkling New Year's Eve Party'.  Finally, click on this last link - from Money Crashers.com - entitled '11 Fun New Year's Eve Party Ideas For Food, Games & Decorations'.

So there you have it...how to host a great New Year's Eve party, how to pick the Champagne, and how to have fun at the party!  What more do you need for a great New Year's Eve/

Enjoy the links - and of course, Happy New Year!

Regards,
Stu

Ways to Spend New Year's Eve

Hi All,

Welcome to the last blog post for 2011. 2012 is just about 32 hours away so I need to get started on this post...

So, how do you spend your New Year's Eve? Well, that's the topic for today's post.

The first entry comes to you care of About.com - from their Long Island, New York section. Click on this link to visit the page where the information comes from.

Some ideas they mention include the Garden City Hotel's New Year's Even Dinner at Rein and Gurney's Inn Annual New Year's Eve Party.

From a website called Activerain.com come these suggestions: Lily Flanagan's Annual New Year's Even Extravagana or New Year's Eve 2012 at the Long Island Huntington Hilton.

From a website called Opentable.com (where you an make restaurant reservations online instantly - and get confirmations of the reservation) comes suggestions from dozens of restaurants in New York City, in Nassau and Suffolk counties'. The site lets you make the reservation in real time and get a confirmation. Information about the restaurant is included - as well as the type of cuisine (American, Cuban, French, Italian, etc...) the restaurant serves.

For a more local perspective, click on this link from the FarmingdalePatch site. This link goes to the patch link for the search 'New Year's Eve'. Some suggestions that appear include Caracara Mexican Grill, Melting Pot, Library Cafe, New Year's Eve Party at Croxley Ales, and an event at the Farmingdale Knights of Columbus.

By the way, did you notice how all the links on the Farmingdale Patch page are local venues? That's because of the local nature of the FarmingdalePatch site - a good site to visit for local information any time of the year!!!

Finally, click on this link for local taxi services (Farmingdale, Massapequa, Bethpage and Plainedge) that you can call in the even that you've had so much to drink that you can't drive.

So, with that all said - have a happy and safe New Year's Eve. And have a great 2012!

Enjoy the links!

Stu

Choosing a Champagne For New Year's Eve

Hi All,

Welcome to the last blog entry of the year. With that simple introduction out of the way, I'd like to talk about champagne and buying champagne for the New Year's Eve celebrations' that are about to occur in the next 2 days or so.

Before you go out to buy champagne it makes sense to learn a bit about this wonderfully bubbly beverage. So...you might do well to click on this link that discusses the various types of champagne. Readers can also find other interesting bits of champagne information on this site. For example, there are lists of champagne appetizers, champagne desserts, champagne toasts and a special link to 'Why we clink glasses?' Neat stuff!

When readers are buying their champagne what should they look for? Indeed, a great question and you can click here for an article on 'How to Buy Good (Inexpensive) Champagne'. Click here for another champagne buying guide...

Before actually serving the champy you have to open it. Click on this link to find out how to open a bottle of the bubbly!

So once you have that bottle of bubbly on the counter (and it is open) how should you serve it? Again, excellent question and you click on this link to find out to serve champy!

Now that you've got the champagne out on the counter, you are probably hungry and need some food. Click here for some ideas of what foods to pair with champagne. Yum - I'm hungry already!

Again, click here for another link on what food to eat with champagne - this link is from HGTV though.

Finally, champagne is darn special. So you might want to give a toast when you drink the beverage. Click here for a link which has champagne toasts in various foreign languages!

Happy New Year!
Stu

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