New Year’s Day
written by: Eric Shelman
Celebrating New
Year’s and our life’s beginnings
festively, fun-filled
Wishing and hoping
for a better future, year
goal-setting, achieved
Being entertained
watching ball, dropped, counting down
by the hours, minutes, seconds
celebrating it
singing, dancing, listening
to live music, being played
Newly noteworthy notions
Energetically, enduring entertainments
Wonderfully warm welcomes
Yearning yearly yellings
Earnestly endeavoring enjoyments
Anticipating another annual
Recognizing reflections resolutions
Successfully, special spirits
Delightfully drinking, dancing, desiring
Abundant, authentic, attire
Yet another, yet again
Abundant, annual, another, Auld Lang Syne
anticipation, artistry, atmosphere, attire,
authentic, awe, awesome
Best, ball, balloons, bright, bubbly, baby
backward, bands, banquets, barricades
beads, beginnings, behavior, bells
boisterous, bold, black eyed peas, brand
new
Celebratory, commemorative, calendar
champagne, cheers, clock, confetti
countdown, cacophony, catering
celebrate, clamor, convivial, creative
creativity, crowds, culmination
culture, customs, conversations
Delightful, drinking, dancing, Day
December, desires, demonstrations
Enjoyable, exciting, eating, eve, evening
extravaganza
Fantastic, festive, fresh, fun, future,
fun-filled, Father Time, firecrackers,
fireworks, first, flutes
Grand, great, gathering, games, gown
goblet, grapes
Happiest, happy, healthy, heartfelt
hungover, hats, holiday, horns, hourglass
Inspiring, inspirational, invite, invitation, in
the new
Joyful, joyous, January
Kiss, kinships
Last, laughter, litter, liquor, loitering, loud
luminance, legumes, Lunar New Year
Magical, memorable, merry, music
midnight, mob, magic, momentum, mass
New, night-time, newborn, nonsense, New
Year’s, New Year’s Eve, noisemakers
necklaces
Optimistic, outgoing, old, observance
observation, opportunity, outrageous
ovation, oysters, out with the old
Past, present, promising, prosperous
parade, party, phenomenon, popular
pretentious, priorities, percussion, pork,
party favors
Quality, quantity, quests, questions
Reborn, renewed, resolutions, recognition
reflection, resourcefulness, responsive
reveler, ridiculous, riot, ritual, Rose Bowl
parade, Roses, Rosh Hashanah, ring in
the new year, rice pudding with a hidden
almond inside
Safe, social, sweet, special, sparkling
sequins, shakers, sharing, shrimp, sirens
souvenirs, special, spirit, stilt walkers
streamers, streetcars, success
successful sumptuous, surprises
Thrilling, time, toasts, tuxedos, traditional
tantalize, teamwork, tenacious, tolerant
tourists, traditions, trinkets, Twelfth Night
Times Square, twelve o’clock
Unique, ultimate, unanimous, unfolding, united, unity, Uptown
Vows, validations, vigilant, vigorous, visible
Wishful, wonderful, worldwide, watching
waving, welcoming, willingness, winning
wisdom, wishes, world, worthy
Xenial, xylophones
Yearly, yearning, yelling, yet again, yet
another
Zest
New Year’s Day, is here today let us ring
bells, watch ball-dropping, music, play,
listen
shaking shakers, throwing confetti, sing
toasting, drinking, eating, dancing, glisten
blowing kazoos, blowouts, whistles, loudly
conversing, thinking, wishful thinking, best
optimistically hoping proudly
prolific, most achieved, years, pardoned
zest
eating black-eyed peas for a good luck
charm
hailing, praising, new beginnings, reborn
feasting, and consuming gourmet food
smarm
lighting fireworks, firecrackers, adorn
being validated, appreciated
dated, fated, created, elated
Singing, dancing, toasting, drinking
playing instruments, cooking, eating
sharing, shaking, enjoying, thinking
meeting, greeting, and fleeting
New Year
optimism
memorable moments
traditional, ritualistic
renewed
Fun
drinking
magical
traditional
awesome atmosphere artistry, best
Bold
parade
confetti
phenomenal
awe
Civilizations celebrated
each new year for last four millenia
today, most New Year’s related
festivities begin On December 31
continuing onto early hours January 1st
Common traditions include attending parties, eating special New Year’s foods,
making resolutions for the new year
watching fireworks, firecrackers displays.
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