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Your Favorite Holiday?
« on: March 21, 2007, 02:00:18 am »
I was reading R's thread and was inspired by my answer to start a thread about holidays.

My favorite holiday is the Wombie Thanksgiving, when me and kellichou were 16 and got to stay home in Denver rather than go to Wyoming to spend Thanksgiving with my mom's white trash family. Note: we are wombies cuz we're identical twins and therefore womb-mates, and it has nothing to do with wombat from this board, who is known as womby or wombles.

I have a great picture of me (I had a shaven head at the time, and I think I was wearing a Schwa shirt) holding the baked turkey breast that we got. Kelli, do you remember what we did? Did we smoke a bowl on the back porch or garage and then have Thanksgiving dinner? We peeled potatoes together just as we have done every Thanksgiving since we were old enough to hold a knife. Man, I really miss going home and spending Thanksgiving with Kelli and my family. Sadface. This is what pisses me off about my boss not letting me leave the island more than once a fuckin' year.

Thanksgiving is one of my most cherished times of year, because Kelli and I have our birthday around then (Nov. 27th, same day as Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee, suckas), and Thanksgiving is just a great holiday anyway.

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Re: Your Favorite Holiday?
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2007, 02:18:57 am »
This is self-absorbed, but...my birthday. On my birthday, I get to dictate the terms and expectations. Whereas with other holidays, there are always obligations and disappointments and stress.
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Re: Your Favorite Holiday?
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2007, 02:49:37 am »
Superbowl Sunday.

In the old days I used to love hunting for easter eggs.
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Re: Your Favorite Holiday?
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2007, 02:54:10 am »
I like the Fourth of July.  Not that I'm like "America Kick Ass!" or anything, but I like baseball games, picnics, and fireworks.
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Re: Your Favorite Holiday?
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2007, 02:58:48 am »
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I like the Fourth of July.  Not that I'm like "America Kick Ass!" or anything, but I like baseball games, picnics, and fireworks.

Yeah, that's my kinda holiday too. I like all those things (plus there's booze!) and it's not too high-pressure, and also I'm kinda jingoistic.
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Re: Your Favorite Holiday?
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2007, 03:17:39 am »
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Re: Your Favorite Holiday?
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2007, 03:40:53 am »
Superbowl Sunday, followed directly by Hallowe'en.

Can you believe my wife didn't think Superbowl Sunday was a holiday? Now who's being naive?
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Re: Your Favorite Holiday?
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2007, 03:54:33 am »
I have to go with birthdays, myself, although this may start to change now that I'm hitting the years when getting older is no longer joyous.

I realize it's only a para-holiday, but I've also always loved Christmas Eve. When I was a kid, I'd spend the whole day keyed up in anticipation, and we opened presents from remote family on Christmas Eve Night, which meant that the entire day was a holiday -- as opposed to Christmas, which was always an anticlimax after the gifts were open. Christmas Eve is delicious.
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Re: Your Favorite Holiday?
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2007, 05:20:32 am »
Christmas.

Christmas is the only holiday where basically everything completely stops for a few days and people just go and hang out with their families. Yes, all the meals and dealing with asshole relations is arduous but... I deeply appreciate everything stopping for a coupla days.

Everything should stop for a coupla days every month or two. We'd be a saner people.
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Re: Your Favorite Holiday?
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2007, 05:22:11 am »
I love Christmas. It's normally the only time of the year that I get to see my mom's whole side of the family-- 2 aunts, grandparents, 2 uncles, 2 cousins who are kids, and 1 (soon to be 2!) who are tiny and wonderful babies. Everyone comes to our house, and we all pack in. My brother sleeps in my room, one aunt and uncle sleep in his room, one aunt and uncle sleep in my sister's room... luckily the cousins/sister are still young enough that they really dig sleeping on couches in the den together for a few days. This year, due to the magic of wireless internet, my brother and I played Age of Empires II until 3 or 4 AM every day leading up to The Big Event.


I just realized, I haven't seen my aunts and uncles on the other side for... I want to say over a year. It's been a long time.We haven't gone up to Boston as much ever since my grandmother died-- we used to go up there every thanksgiving.
That side of the family has way more stupid drama, though. Or at least, they're not as good at hiding it.

at the same time, I end up getting really wigged out about finding presents for people. And until this year, I always ended up in "do I really need to get Aunt Sharon a present? If I get her something, I can't afford to get my brother anything good..." conundrums. This year, for once I had money saved up.
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Re: Your Favorite Holiday?
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2007, 08:47:14 am »
I have to go with Christmas too, not just the days themselves but the way everything slows down towards them (so i guess I'd include all the solstice based holidays), you actually feel like the world is taking a holiday. Considering how much people work these days it feels rare to have a 'holiday' that the majority of people actually take off (saying this as someone who worked through last christmas day).
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Re: Your Favorite Holiday?
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2007, 12:16:46 pm »
Come on, Halloween!  Candy.  And ghosts and monsters. And one of the last authentic folk traditions we have left in this country - something that happens all on its own from the grassroots - no one can tell the kids to Trick or Treat on the nearest Monday instead or something, because no one is in charge. And one of the last vestiges of trust we have in our neighbors - taking candy from strangers.  And, candy!

It's glorious.
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Re: Your Favorite Holiday?
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2007, 01:58:46 pm »
I'm with you, Wombles - love Halowe'en! Dressing up, going to parties, indulging . . .

 I'm Scrooge on Xmas. We don't celebrate it, actually. No tree, no lights, no nothing.
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Re: Your Favorite Holiday?
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2007, 04:02:32 pm »
I'm sort of anti-holiday.  I much prefer to show and share my love when it feels right, and I don't really like being arbitrarily force to spend time with people I don't care for just because of the date and my biological links to the day.  I've had some beautiful Christmasses, but I've had some devastating ones too.  I really, really wanted to skip last Christmass due to circumstances.  I have some really awful memories of being pretend-happy which were just so painful.  I do enjoy celebrating though - you know:  milestones, events, etc.  I just hate the "let's all pretend we get along" stuff.
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Re: Your Favorite Holiday?
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2007, 04:11:43 pm »
Quote from: Nabubrush drinks (a lot) on March 21, 2007, 03:40:53 am
Can you believe my wife didn't think Superbowl Sunday was a holiday? Now who's being naive?

I celebrate Super Bowl Sunday as my alternate birthday.  I was born the day of Super Bowl IV.  Therefore this year I turned XXXVII.
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