No, I'm not wishing you a happy new year. I'm not sure what that really means. Happy Birthday, I understand. It's one day. You can brush off your problems for a day. You can ignore things that normally bother you for one day. But a year? Come on. It's either going to be a good year, or it wont.
Anyway, that's not my point. My point is, if you are going to tell someone "Happy New Year," make sure you say just that. I can't even count how many times I got "Happy New Years"-ed this year. Afterwards I thought to myself, "Are you serious? How many years should I be celebrating right now?" Obviously that confusion comes from New Year's Eve, which is not the plural of year, but rather, possessive, as in "the eve belonging to the New Year." But that doesn't matter. Just because I know where the error comes from doesn't make it more tolerable.
While I'm on the topic, I thought I would let you know, it's only appropriate to tell someone "Happy New Year" after the new year begins. From 12/28 on, I got the crap happy new yeared out of me. And not even with the semi-redeeming "And in case I don't see you" in front of it. Just straight "Happy New Year" like I was living a week in the past or something. And what can I say to them? I refuse to say it back that early, so I would just say "Yep" or "Thanks" in response.
But now it's January 6th, so let me take this time to tell everyone I hope you have a good enough 2010.
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