New Year’s Eve was the third best day of the year as a kid, right behind Christmas and the last day of school before summer. If your parents were cool like mine, they let you stay up until midnight or later eating pizza and candy and other garbage food getting absolutely sky high on sugar. If your parents weren’t cool, you probably had broccoli for dinner and went to bed at nine, so sorry. My NYE experiences since then have varied drastically, but still have something to do with junk food and staying up late(Come to think of it, there are many nights like that in college, so I guess you could say every night is like NYE.).

I’ve never had the fancy dress up kind of New Year’s but it is a goal one day. I love doing hair and makeup and wearing a dress and heels, so when it’s combined with champagne and a party, I’m in. Unfortunately for my age group, combining drinking with formal wear is almost always a catastrophe, so it’s never really a reality. For the most part, I spend the night watching the ball drop (can we please come up with another name for this), eat sweets, and fall asleep before midnight. But this year is different. Come take a walk through my imagination as I describe what I want out of my New Year’s Eve this year.

I have been a Husky fan since birth, and if you follow college football, you already know what the rest of this article is going to be about. The Dawgs are playing Alabama this New Year’s Eve, and I have been on edge since the PAC-12 championship game. I am really, really excited. I want to wake up on December 31^st with a purple haze in the sky, and toast at midnight to the Dawgs’ win over the Tide. I want the whole Pacific Northwest standing up at kickoff and cheering on our boys until the last second of the game. This game has been anticipated since the beginning of the season, and to think that it is finally here gives me chills. I want Alabama to go to bed on New Year’s Eve sober and welcoming 2017 with their first loss of the season, and I know I’m not the only one. Husky Nation has been patiently waiting for a dominating team such as this, and if you believe like I do, we will be playing for the national championship for the first time in 25 years, and we won’t have to share it this time. Go Dawgs and happy new year.