Your Happy New Year

In Pasadena, California, the New Year starts with the Lady Queen of Roses and her Rose Princesses presiding over the Rose Bowl Parade and Rose Bowl Game®. This tradition is televised worldwide every year.

Southern tradition on New Years regards eating black eyed peas. This tradition dates back to General Sherman’s infamous “March to the Sea” during the American Civil War. Sherman’s forces killed livestock and burned crops that would sustain Confederate soldiers, though they believed the peas, thought of as “feed stock” for horses and other animals could be left untouched.


Those who survived the death and destruction of Union forces sustained themselves on the peas, “luckily” escaping hunger and death. From then on, they ate the peas for good luck in the coming years.




Drinking traditions for New Years Eve and New Years Day include but are not limited to: Having a round of beers, Having a round of shots, Mixing shots and drinks, Mixing shots and drinks with New Years Resolutions. Toasting with Champagne or Sparkling Wine on New Years Day.


Also toasting with wine (for fertility) on New Years Day. Also a New Years tradition is drinking all New Years Eve and into unconsciousness on New Years Day.

Sexual New Years Eve and New Years Day Traditions include but are not limited to: Sex Positions for role reversal, Sex with a married woman (not her husband), sex with non-married women (taboo), sex between older women and younger men.



(Reference Russian Customs, Taboos of the Church of England and the Kama Sutra). There are no traditions (or taboos) for sex between women. (Practice is common or considered impossible in some cultures)

The “kiss at midnight,” has no known start point, but was most likely started by one person and passed onto another. Similarly, many traditions that you may celebrate at New Year’s are passed on from person to person.

But even though it is only a viral creation method, like “Auld Lang Syne” you’ll never know when your created tradition might make it into the anals or annals of history.


So, however you choose to observe tradition, eat, drink or create tradition from the heart of happiness and the hope of horniness….Happy New Year.


RJ