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Oh that's bullshit and you know it. That's a holiday for all of the morons that buy into it. I like my idea WAY better.
He's trying to say that men don't make their girlfriends drive over to their house to kill a spider or put gas in his car. Virtually every guy has dated That Girl, and she will always serve a permanent warning not to do something that stupid again. There will always be stupid holidays and celebrations that are simply pulled out of someone's ass. Just look at Kwanzaa.
That's just having bad taste in women. Somewhere Whoopie Goldberg is twitching because she has sensed someone has disparaged Kwanzaa.
You think that's bad? Just wait until Indian Curry and Rimjob Day catches on. This is how I celebrate Fall days. I open up all my windows, sit on the couch in complete silence, and just read. No lawnmowers, no yacking, no TV. Maybe a bird chirps for ambiance. Those days are rare in the suburbs because people are constantly up in your happy place. As far as holidays go, Christmas Eve/Christmas are badass gluttony times. Get a bottle of good wine for Feast of Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve. Last year we got Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cigale 2009, a nice Cotes du Rhone that might have ruined all other wine for me thus far. Typically we make zuppa di pesci, a sauce of tomatoes and homemade, pungent shrimp stock with whelks (scungilli), shrimp, calamari, mussels, clams, and hot peppers over linguine. After the cannoli, I'll roll myself onto the couch to drink cocktails, caressing a double barrel shotgun in the nude, waiting for Santa to dare show his bloated, high blood pressure red face. Christmas is prime rib marinated in red wine, soy, olive oil, and Worcestershire. With it, a bottle of cheap Martini and Rossi Asti Spumante. God, it's fucking awesome. Like alcoholic apple juice. The leftovers go in my gin cocktails in lieu of seltzer water.
Look I hate to burst your bubble but Steak and Blowjob Day was placed on March 14th specifically because it is one month after Valentine's Day. Women who look upon steak and blowjob day and ask "well, where's our version of it?" are entirely missing the point. Is it a holiday for the morons that buy into it? Well, strictly speaking, every holiday is only for those who buy into it (unless it's a statutory holiday, in which case, it's a long weekend). You don't have to celebrate steak and blowjob day any more than you have to celebrate valentine's day. And hey, if you really want to have muff-dive and margarita day, take it up with your significant other, you can have your own little thing going on. You can make it every Friday if you like.
My favorite holiday used to be Fourth of July, but in recent years, my favorite is Christmas. No, I'm not religious, but I just like the sentiment of the holiday, and the whole goodwill towards man type thing. I know it's hokey, but it's true.
Someone has to have tried it on that white house website too bad they upped the requirment signature before we heard an official response to it.
My husband and I celebrated a day early. I hate when that happens. Christmas is my favorite holiday. Not even for the holiday itself, but my side of the family has a big Christmas party and I get to see family that I don't get to see as often as I'd like to see them. We always have a blast.
I second this; I fucking love Halloween. The only time I dressed up as an adult, I dressed up as a Nazi and wandered around the little main street Halloween festival my town sets up for the kids to go trick-or-treating at. I haven't dressed up since then, but generally I still go by the festival to people watch before I go to the bar.
Anzac Day. In Australia and New Zealand every April 25th is Anzac Day, starts off with a dawn service and then a parade and after that a lot of defence members get blasted at the local Returned Services Leagues Club and hear stories from old the Ex Serviceman. Absolutely amazing day. My favourite tradition is the Boxing Day cricket test in Australia, find myself a seat or a pool and a carton of rum and watch it all day with a few mates.
I love Christmas; I get along with my family well; especially when we're all drunk off scotch and gin. The free stuff and great food doesn't hurt either. There's never much drama (except when my cousin came out and admitted she was pregnant the year before this one) I also love steak but am not the kind of guy to bring up Mar 14 when single outside of snarky rep comments.
Well see I was gonna grow a little pencil mustache, throw on a cheap pair of granny glasses and cruise around in a windowless van inviting unattended children to come see the puppies inside; but I decided going as a Gestapo officer would be less controversial... You know after what happened to those kids they found half naked in a ditch a couple of days before Halloween.
I love 4th of July - I love summertime and fireworks and beer and bonfires. And Christmas. My tree is a goddamn presentation every year, and no one else is allowed to touch it. I very begrudgingly allow my children to place their handmade ornaments on it, only up high, and only if they aren't red. yes. I am that particular.
Nice deflection, but that still doesn't explain why you were carousing around on Halloween DRESSED AS A NAZI. I mean, to those of us who know our Stephen King, you ARE the Devil, but still.
When I have free time I am seriously considering writing a book about dealing with the holidays, including Christmas. And not because I love Christmas. For the most part, holidays are pretty meh for me. Even having a day off of work isn't so hot since none of the jobs I have ever had had actual holiday/vacation pay. I could take a day off tomorrow if I wanted to, but it would be a day of not earning. Not to mention the years of horrible holiday stresses I think I've written about before. All that said, the day before Thanksgiving there's a tradition around here amongst my extended circle of friends to do a friendsgiving the day before Thanksgiving. It began because an ex of mine knew how much I hated holidays with family and so organized a celebration of friends the day before so I could have just one nice "Thanksgiving" dinner. It became a recurring thing, growing in size and scope. So every year I am reminded of how awesome it is to know this huge group of people who have years of history together. It's great. Basically a giant pot luck dinner with tons of great food, people, and little stress.
I think Christmas is my favourite holiday, to the point where I usually have 3 Christmas Dinners a year - once with friends at my house, usually once with friends at their house, and once at home with the family. I really enjoy buying/making presents for people, cooking elaborate meals, drinking mulled wine, and scented candles, so really it's just the ideal holiday for me. I also like Bonfire Night (I'm British yo) because I like fireworks.