I hate New Year's Eve. It is cold, boring, and pointless.
New Year's Eve should be promptly banned and replaced by a new national holiday called "Beach Day", tacked on to the celebration of July 4th. Feel free to name it whatever you like, particularly if you are located in Oklahoma where they lack a good supply of beaches.
New Year's Eve is a Roman Pagan holiday celebrating Janus, the god of doors. No, I am not making this up and it has nothing to do with Jim Morrison. The holiday was celebrated on the first day of January, and it was a time to contemplate the events of the year passed and what you planned to do with the year ahead. A door has an entrance and an exit....who cares. You get the point.
New Year's Eve was a sucky holiday for the Romans, too. I used to think the Pagans knew how to party. Now I know better.
Perhaps I am off base, but 2,500 years is long enough to find out if something works. It doesn't. The only people who like New Year's Eve are Hollywood script writers with serious plot problems. Nora Ephron likes that stupid holiday, and insists on putting it into her insipid "plots". Ban them all.
Beach day is a guilt free holiday. You are not expected to spend it with friends or family. Feel free to spend it in a coke orgy if you like. It is YOUR day, afterall.
Some people will bleat that they like New Year's Eve. I will concede no points in their favor, as you can get drunk and have sex with strangers on any given tuesday. Wouldn't you rather do that in nice weather, though?