Even if I did have a boyfriend, I wouldn’t participate in that cheesy tradition (no offense if you do). Sure it’s cute, but do you really want to spend the last few seconds of the year anticipating a kiss that may or may not mean anything at all? What really goes down is this: you countdown to the last 10 seconds of the year and hug whoever is near you when the clock strikes 12. That or you don’t count at all and wait until someone screams, “it’s a new year!” Let’s get real, New Year’s Eve is an awkward holiday, you feel like it’s less of a celebration and more of that checking-to-see-if-grades-have-posted-after-finals feeling, but that uneasy anticipation is for the next 365 days of your life. Also, expectations really don’t align with reality. Here’s what really went down.

1.Spend all morning in bed binge watching your favorite show (or simply lay there contemplating what next year will be like).

2. Take 5 hours getting ready (or wait 5 hours for someone to get ready).

3. See if your mom needs help cooking. She probably doesn’t if you’re usually no help at all.

4. Eat a light snack because you’re most likely fasting for that big dinner.

5.Spend an hour in traffic (and if you’re a passenger, watch drunk people get pulled over on the freeway).

6. Arrive at your destination and sit in a living room until it’s 12 a.m.

Sometimes your place is the destination, so you've probably been sitting for a long while.

7. Kill time playing games with family (or watch “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest”)

And if that isn’t enough to kill time, have a movie marathon.

8. EAT!

You've been waiting for this forever, but don’t get stuffed because you know you’re going to drink in a few. (*wink*)

9. Start your drink on.

And if you don’t drink and allowed yourself to get stuffed, continue your movie marathon. You deserve it.

10. Count down the last few seconds of 2015 (or wait for someone to tell you).

By now, you’ve probably forgotten to even eat 12 grapes and just want to call it a night. But, you’re drunk uncles and aunts won’t stop asking you to dance with them so you’re up til 2 a.m. If this isn’t how your night went, then I’d like to spend New Year’s Eve with you.