I'm not really a fan of new year's eve per se, but it's a good excuse to fill the house with friends and feed them on a night when they don't need to go in to work the next day, and therefore don't have to rush away to get up.
It's also REALLY good motivation to clean the entire house. ;-)
In other news, I've run out of shelf space again. I need to either purge the books again, stop buying books, or find someplace to put more bookshelves. What to do...