However and wherever you celebrated, if you celebrated, was it all you hoped for? Did you have the nagging idea that it should have been something more? Or maybe you've vowed that next year it's going to be something way more amazing. Perhaps the opposite is true. Maybe next year you want things a whole lot simpler without the chaotic headache of the big night. Well, I've done all of the above (okay, I confess that I think NYE is far from 'a night like any other'). Admittedly, like many all over the world, I set expectations pretty high. We often think THIS YEAR is going to be amazing!!!! Better than any before. Because THIS YEAR I have an awesome date. Or THIS YEAR I'm celebrating with an awesome group of friends and NOT going out to battle the crowd at the bar. THIS YEAR is a year of new beginnings and I'm different and I am going to be happier and do more great things and that makes all the difference. Whichever THIS YEAR applies for you, you get the gist. Well ... THIS YEAR was like many others, I had a great time, I had way too many expectations, I overspent, I underslept. I missed some friends that weren't around, longing for those good times and fetes gone by, yet felt relieved some of the drama from prior parties wasn't revisited. I toasted to new and exciting people; some I will see again and others that will likely never cross my mind again.