How about Arbor Day?

I'm the biggest, most romantic sap on the planet and even I treat Valentine's sort of like another day. I think it's because I AM the biggest most romantic sap on the planet and I like celebrating little things at unexpected times.

Like when I was so sick last week, Lewis bringing me home piña colada cake and coconut sesame ice cream because he knew it would make me feel better. That's romance enough for me.

The best thing about V-day though? All the discount chocolate today. Although I'm holding out for Easter and the Cadbury Creme Eggs.

Arbor Day, I am also neutral on. Heh. I do like Flag Day, though, because that's a good friend's birthday.

Also bear in mind that I also hate Christmas as a holiday. I'm not crazy about New Years and Halloween either. So, you know, I've got all sorts of cranky going on all year round.

Holidays I do like: Thanksgiving, Cinco de Mayo, and 4th of July.

I'm sitting with Nora. I hate the over commercialization of the holidays. For example, a store around the corner had Valentine decorations up on December 27th. Let's get New Years out the door first people! Granted, it was a condom store, but still!

(Although, I could care less about Cinco de Mayo)

I think it's because I AM the biggest most romantic sap on the planet and I like celebrating little things at unexpected times.

Like when I was so sick last week, Lewis bringing me home piña colada cake and coconut sesame ice cream because he knew it would make me feel better. That's romance enough for me.

I totally agree. Sometimes I'll be, I don't know, putting groceries away or cooking or something, and Tom will come up to me and give me the awesomest, sexiest kiss out of the blue. I love that! A few weeks ago, we spontaneously decided to go out for dinner at a nice romantic restaurant, and it made me so happy because it was so unexpected.

We have our own traditions as well that we've created. For example, last leap day (in 2008) I sent Tom an arrangement of flowers at work thanking him for saying yes to my proposal the previous leap day in 2004.

Whatever works, I say!

I used to be pretty enthused about all holidays. Loved to decorate the house and cook special stuff. In recent years I have become more hum bug about all of them and haven't had the ambition to make a big deal.

I've decided I've missed the fuss and will revert back again. I'm planning a bit of fun for my birthday and will be sure to do St. Paty's day up right with corned beef and green cupcakes.

Whatever works, I say!

Indeed.

Oh, right. St. Patrick's Day is also on The List of holidays I dislike. Although I do love me some Irish Soda Bread. In Boston it's so amateur night. Lots of drunkenness. See also: New Year's Eve and Halloween (specific to Salem MA). Speaking of nummy baked goods, the best holiday tradition we have around Xmas is making the fruitcake, which we do usually on Thanksgiving weekend, and then we eat it starting on Xmas Eve or Day.

o_a, Cinco de Mayo is on my list of faves because it is also our kissaversary, and I lured Tom out on a pretext of Cinco de Mayo beer drinking.

Local holiday I've always loved: Patriot's Day! Random day off work, marathon, and the start of spring. (it's in mid-April)

I mean, I don't mean to shit on anyone's Valentine's Day, but I just find the concept so fucking lame. Like weddings, I guess I just see it as the marketing of love or love=money spent and I find it immensely distasteful.

If you are an outlier, I'm lyng out with you.

My life as a florist, weddng officiant, couples counselor and event planner has SOW-ered me on Valentine's Day. The commercialization of love and the socially sanctioned disdain this 'holiday' engendered just sets my teeth to grinding.

When I was a florist, I dubbed 15Feb as NAG Day. National Agita and Guilt Day. If 'love was in the air' the previous day, the 15th reaked of dissapointment, disgust and disolution. Blegh.

It just strikes me as so sad that people (who don't enjoy the day-more power to them) so desperately hang their hopes on being appreciated on their partner's performance on a day manufactured by commercial interests.

My best experiences of VDay were at my stepmother's hand, oddly enough. She started giving me little gifts in my teens. It was nice because we didn't really get on that well and, at least on that day, she seemed to want to reach out. So, that was nice.

eta: d is close to s on the keyboard but doesn't have the same effect.

Local holiday I've always loved: Patriot's Day! Random day off work, marathon, and the start of spring. (it's in mid-April)

And the legal drinking outside! Is that still a thing? I still miss Patriot's Day and I haven't lived in Boston for 19 years. oh my god I'm old! yikes

One of my favorite childhood holidays was Deer Season Day. November 15 is the start of deer season (regular firearm) in Michigan. My home town was very, very into it. There were a lot of hunters, and a number of people who made their money from city folk who'd come up north for deer hunting and need guides and forest access. Dad shared a hunting cabin with some friends, and, as he drank far less than they did, he'd always come home with poker winnings that he'd share around. There'd be sales and "deer widow" restaurant specials that Mom would take me to. A lot of students, especially the boys and especially after we hit the teens, would take hunting day off with their dads' blessing, so the teachers would usually plan a slacker day with movies in class or extra-credit work for those who bothered to show up.