What is "The Holiday Month"?

The Holiday Month is an attempt to celebrate a calendar years worth of holidays during the month of January, 2012.

When the holiday takes place on a specific day (i.e. St. Patrick's Day always takes place on March 17th), then it will be celebrated on January 17th. When a holiday takes place on a rotating day (i.e. Thanksgiving takes place on the fourth Thursday of November), then it will be celebrated on the corresponding day in January.

Concessions had to be made for holidays corresponding with religious calendars . These holidays, such as Easter and Purim, will be celebrated on the dates that they are taking place in 2012. Mardi Gras, the celebration that marks the beginning of the season of Lent, is being celebrated on the Tuesday before Easter, as this would then represent the beginning and end of that religious celebration.

The holidays celebrated during this month are in NO WAY all of the holidays celebrated throughout the year. Every effort was made to create a list that would cover major religious beliefs, as well as fun and interesting holidays that everyone might not celebrate.

Happy Holidays!

Saturday, January 14, 2012

January 14th - Valentine's Day




Day two of my three day greeting card holiday stretch brings us to Valentine’s Day.  Valentine’s Day is named for St. Valentine, who was martyred in 269 AD.  The day was first associated with romantic love, however, by Geoffrey Chaucer of The Canterbury Tales fame.

Held every year on February 14th, it’s also the date in which seven mob associates were massacred in Chicago.  I’ve always felt that was more interesting to celebrate, so I encourage you to watch The Untouchables to put yourself in the gangland mood and commemorate today.

I remember Valentine’s Day in elementary school.  If you wanted to give out valentines to people, you had to make sure that you had enough for everyone in your class.  I liked that.  I liked how people didn’t get forgotten or singled out, and I wish that policy was still in place when we reached high school and even adulthood.

Now, I could be all cynical about today and say it’s just a way to give inattentive boyfriends and husbands a chance to make up for a year’s worth of bad behavior and poor decisions.  How it’s just a ploy to give Whitman and other candy makers a reason to put out candy in a heart shaped box.  How it’s a gimmick for FTD and 1-800-Flowers to sell dying flowers at marked up prices.

But I’m not going to do that.

Instead, I’m going to write a love letter.




Dear Princess Leia in Slave Girl Outfit,

When you first came on the screen in Return of the Jedi, it was pretty amazing.  I never knew that you, Princess Leia, had it in you.  To this day, I can’t keep my lightsaber retracted whenever I see you.  Jabba the Hutt clearly had great taste and an eye for fashion, and my only complaint is that you had to show up in the movie with the Ewoks.  They’re beneath you.

Why you haven’t ever written back to me, I’ll never know.  Some might say it’s because you’re a celebrity.  Others might say it’s because you’re from a galaxy far, far away.  Still others might say it’s because you’re fictional.  I’m not going to listen to these naysayers.  Instead, I will keep holding that torch for you, and I’ll keep hoping that eventually, my Force will be with you.

I know,
Lars
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