There didn't seem to be a new year's topic yet, so here it is! Happy late new year guys and gals!

the only fireworks image i could find is one i know i've already posted on this board somewhere.

It's never too late! I hope you're all having a good one so far and not turning into a snowman - the past couple of days have been downright frigid here.

Shoot, I should have made a topic instead of just tossing a shout in the shoutbox. Happy 2014.

Bibby: It's gotten cold enough in this house (nevermind outside temperatures) to nearly bust open my canned sodas. They sure got icey, at least.

2014. Things gone so fast. :')

bibby and miles, how cold is it where you live right now?

in southern indiana, it got to be in the negatives on the fahrenheit scale on monday. my car door froze shut.

^Typical cold midwest winter. I remember the good ol -30F (you can make snow using hot water) in South Dakota/Wyoming border (Spearfish, SD) I lived last year.

I don't know if I already mentioned this, but we now have Mountain Dew in Europeland. And like you said, it's really good. I might be addicted. Might be. A little bit. A lot. I'm addicted.

Cool. Take loads more care of your teeth than you already were if you're drinking lots of those. I no longer have any. (I kid you not; they're really all gone.)

It's not quite that cold around this here part of eastern North Carolina for the majority of the day (days themselves have been bouncing between 30 and 60), though it's gotten down to 4 at night and there have been difficulties in opening doors.

On January 7, we had a high of 39 F. (4 C.) and low of 22 F. (-5 C.). I know most of you have seen much colder days than that, but the unusually cold temperatures, coupled with strong wind, resulted in some of the coldest Jacksonville temperatures - and wind chills - in my lifetime. This morning the temperature is hovering in the low 50's F. (11 C.) with light rain - dank but tolerable. It's supposed to be nice again starting tomorrow.

One of my classmates in the fall term was a certified Mountain Dew addict - I never saw her without a can of that stuff, except one day when she was really wild and grabbed a Dr. Pepper instead.