The last few years the entire Fall Holiday Season has lost its magic for me. No house equals no trick or treaters to laugh at and feed candy to on Halloween. I especially miss the wine drinking on my front porch. (Big nostalgic sigh...) Competition for who gets to hold the Annual Drink Yourself Into Oblivion Fest known as Thanksgiving is a sport in which I do not participate. And Christmas is...well...not very Christmasy.
Not to worry!
April has the best holidays anyway! And much better weather. Not even I gripe about an early spring or too much rain. How can you go wrong with a month that literally begins celebrating foolishness?
Earth Day was the first "artificial" holiday I became aware of and whole heartily supported. Has it become a Hallmark holiday? Are there cards and commemerative ornaments to be purchased? Shame, shame on somebody.
And, thanks to the all knowing Subterranean guru, I learned about National Record Store Day! All hail vinyl! How we miss ye! First best lifetime shopping experience was browsing the bins at Rose Records in Chicago with a boyfriend I knew was going to dump me. No worries. I found the Coltrane.
And thanks to the following website
http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/april.htm
I also discovered that April includes celebrations of poetry and pecans, libraries, road maps, and karaoke. And encouraging days for keeping America beautiful and for sexual assault awareness. Maybe not the kind of holidays where one must overspend on gifts or travel to dinners with people we would rather not see; but I bet the suicide rate doesn't rise during National Walk to Work Day either.
May certainly has some big shoes to fill.
Not to worry!
April has the best holidays anyway! And much better weather. Not even I gripe about an early spring or too much rain. How can you go wrong with a month that literally begins celebrating foolishness?
Earth Day was the first "artificial" holiday I became aware of and whole heartily supported. Has it become a Hallmark holiday? Are there cards and commemerative ornaments to be purchased? Shame, shame on somebody.
And, thanks to the all knowing Subterranean guru, I learned about National Record Store Day! All hail vinyl! How we miss ye! First best lifetime shopping experience was browsing the bins at Rose Records in Chicago with a boyfriend I knew was going to dump me. No worries. I found the Coltrane.
And thanks to the following website
http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/april.htm
I also discovered that April includes celebrations of poetry and pecans, libraries, road maps, and karaoke. And encouraging days for keeping America beautiful and for sexual assault awareness. Maybe not the kind of holidays where one must overspend on gifts or travel to dinners with people we would rather not see; but I bet the suicide rate doesn't rise during National Walk to Work Day either.
May certainly has some big shoes to fill.
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