Word of the Post
Today's word is: February
/Feb"ru*a*ry/ noun
Named for the fifteenth of this month, for the great feast of expiation (probably the next word this month) and purification; said to have been introduced to the Roman calendar by Numa. Commonly mispronounced as /Feb"you*a*ry/. The dictionary I use for these things has a little computer/man voice that pronounces words, and the WRONG one was first! What IS this world coming to? I think we should call it "Secondary".
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Since I told you already about Sibling Day, I will just say Happy Sibling Day to the Siblings in question, and leave the rest of that alone. However, one of the comments posted was that Jared said he knew I didn't like holidays. I wouldn't say that I don't like holidays....
OK, I don't like holidays. Many of them, anyway.
New Year's Eve (and it spills into New Year's Day) used to be a neat thing to me. I was the kid who was so happy to stay up all night and watch TV. Dick Clark never aged; the church group did puzzles, games and pulled taffy; the world was right if only for a minute or two after midnight. Now I am just too tired by the time the ball drops to even enjoy the toast with my friends. I get headaches, I get cranky, and I am a general grouch. I am not having fun, nor am I fun to be around. Maybe I can get that magic back when my niece or my future children grow to have the same wonder about what happens to adults after bedtime.
Valentine's Day had been a matter of much consternation. I hated it in High School, when I seemed to be the only one I knew without a date or an invite to the Sweetheart Dance. I saw teens hanging on each other, and honestly all I remember thinking was, "Eeeww! She is kissing HIM? YUCK!" Never even crossed my mind that I should want not to be lonely. Recent years have given me different views on that... but I still think it silly to support the greeting card industry by paying them to say "I Love You" for me.
I have grown to like Christmas, even though many of the rituals and reasons behind it make my skin crawl. I enjoy knowing that the government has not yet taken away the one day per year when people close their businesses (even the All-Big, All-Evil Wal-Mart closes!) and pay their workers for a day off ~ to recognize JESUS. What an opportunity given to me as a Christian!
I happen to enjoy Cinco de Mayo. It makes for a lovely birthday. That day is the one day a year it is OK for me to want an adult beverage. It is a national holiday in Mexico. It is a boy's kite day (also known as children's day) in Japan because of an emperor who was born on the 5th of May. My best friend and her daughters call me each year, and sing to me. "Happy Cinco de Mayo to you..."
Besides, if you are going to get a year older each time you pass it, shouldn't it be a holiday?
2 comments:
Cinco de Mayo is also our anniversary! ;) 14 years this year! We'll have a drink or two for you as well, o.k.?
Lighten up on the holidays friend! Or do I have to prompt Jared to return to his "reasons to celebrate today" posts? LOL
You are officially on my blogroll - if it has posted yet. ;) I didn't mean to slight you - it was a brain fart.
Niki has got me thinkin' about doing what she said. Don't make me open up that can of holiday cheer every day all year long!
Seriously, if you have a problem with the greeting card industry, why not make your own. Jen did that for me this year, and I usually do that for her. There is more to it than the greeting card industry, my dear friend. And I totally feel the sentiment that is the incarnation of your frustration. I never had a date on St. Valentine’s Day either, until I got married.
The rituals and reasons behind Christmas make your skin crawl?! Have some egg nog (the kind with the bourbon in it) and chill. St. Patrick evangelized Ireland by using pagan traditions to light a fire for Christ against (metaphorically). On a pagan day when no fires were to be lit, he lit one (literally)...on a hill...near a powerful warlord's home turf. Truly, aren't the holidays about celebrating Christ, His life, and His sacrifice? Seriously, can you to find more than just a few nutjobs here or there that think about the pagan rituals originally associated with the day? And if that's not the case, we must yield every day because there are pagan rituals associated with every day on the calendar in some part of the world. It is our chance to reclaim these days for Christ and the True Creator of all days.
I'll try to make sure to remember that I wish you a happy Cinco de Mayo this year. Now it is more than a cheap excuse to get drunk invented by the snack foods and beer industry!
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