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So, what holidays do you celebrate? What do you plan to do to celebrate the holidays? If you are an atheist, do you still do stuff with your family for the holidays?
*Breaks out the latkes (http://www.neiu.edu/~ncaftori/gif/Latkes.jpg) and matzah (http://www.atomfilms.com/contentPlay/shockwave.jsp?id=matzah&preplay=1&ratingBar=off) ball soup.* I love Channukah, even though my family and I are VERY non-religious: The menorah burning brightly on the window sill;warm, savory foods; my little cousins half killing me in their attempt to force me to play dreidel with them..well, not that part. I also have fun when I get to experience other holidays.
I go to an International school, and live in New York, so I've been lucky enough to experience different holiday traditions: a lamb-filled Christmas Eve with my nutsy Italian best friend, Dim Sum for Chinese New Year in Chinatown (believe me, it really helps to go with someone who speaks chinese and is an expert on the food), Three Kings day, Diwali, Ramadan... It is an enlightening cultural exchange!

That being said, it annoys me how overcommercialized the holiday season has become...and I get so annoyed when stores start Christmas displays in mid-Oct. :mad:

My wifes family is christian and celebrate all their holidays. I celebrate the solstices and equinoxes, plus a few other holidays. My birthday is my highest holiday of the year, followed by the birthdays of my loved ones.

I celebrate Thanksgiving, but only because of the food. I can get food for FREE just by getting myself invited to a party! ;)

The holiday that's called Life :D

A bunch of Indian ones, since they do good, free food.

The four Advents, Lucia and Jul/Yule/Christmas. Them just all being pagan in the end, I like them for their "cosiness," and not for their pseudo-religious accoutrements.

Then there's of course Midsummer's Eve, March 8 (International Women's Day), May 1 (International Labour Day), June 6 (national day of Sweden), umm, Easter, but, here, again, just for the candy and the quaint pagan stuff, like eggs.

My birthday is my highest holiday of the year, followed by the birthdays of my loved ones.Ditto. I always take the birthdays of my mother, my boyfriend and myself off work. If my close friends are at home (rather than at university across water or whatever), then the same applies for them too.

Well, for intensive purposes, in this thread I mean holidays other than birthdays/personal ones in general.

Ditto. I always take the birthdays of my mother, my boyfriend and myself off work. If my close friends are at home (rather than at university across water or whatever), then the same applies for them too.
My March birthday always means that I am off for Spring Break when my cumpleaños rolls around. I enjoy it.

Well, for intensive purposes, in this thread I mean holidays other than birthdays/personal ones in general.
Is that how the phrase goes where you're from? "Intensive purposes?" Where I'm from, we say "intents and purposes."

Christmas, Easter... all the Christian ones (being Christian and all lol) and any that get me out of school lol, although they're usually just bank holidays and stuff. Oh and the sorta universal ones like New Years - thats just plain fun :D

Each full moon I get a little hairy and start howling for no apparent reason. Does that count?:D

Each full moon I get a little hairy

Post pix, k, thnx.

If I can find a very courageous photographer your on.

So, what holidays do you celebrate? What do you plan to do to celebrate the holidays? If you are an atheist, do you still do stuff with your family for the holidays?
*Breaks out the latkes (http://www.neiu.edu/~ncaftori/gif/Latkes.jpg) and matzah (http://www.atomfilms.com/contentPlay/shockwave.jsp?id=matzah&preplay=1&ratingBar=off) ball soup.* I love Channukah, even though my family and I are VERY non-religious: The menorah burning brightly on the window sill;warm, savory foods; my little cousins half killing me in their attempt to force me to play dreidel with them..well, not that part. I also have fun when I get to experience other holidays.

The food at Passover is better... there's nothing like slowly simmered first cut brisket...

I celebrate the Solstices and Equinoxes (but not in a crazy way with all those Druids at stonehenge).

Very good point DK.
Though brisket is made at channukah too, and since jews ultimately devolve into this conflict: NO. MY GRANDMA'S BRISKET IS BETTER!

I also celebrate the Day of the Ascension of Firefury, and I don't know why it wasn't on the list. Maybe because only me and Anagonia actually celebrate it. :confused:

Very good point.
Though brisket is made at channukah too., and since jews ultimately devolve into this conflict: NO. MY GRANDMA'S BRISKET IS BETTER!

I'm usually too full of latkes to eat anything else at hannukah.

I've made the brisket for a very old family (the Perlbergs from Far Rockaway) and they have a couple of old guys (in their nineties) who still play racketball together. They still think that my brisket is better than any they've had so far.

That said, any holiday that involves a big family get-together and a good solid meal is a good one (and if your family is too dysfunctional to do this, go out and do what I did - marry into one that is functional and start your own family).

The only TRUE international holiday




St. Patricks Day :D

Well, my grandmother might have the most work of anyone to cook brisket. See, for half the year, she and my grandpa live in the same house in Wisconsin they've had for 50 years, though now they spend winters in Arizona. To buy brisket meat (They're kosher, though I'm not) they drive from their home over3 hrs. to Chicago to buy the meat. Needless to say, they stock up and stash it in their freezer. DELICIOUS!

Christmas
Birthday (that may not count)

Christmas(to celebrate Jesus Christ....not Santa Claus who is a fucking corporate pig) Thanksgiving,Easter, New Years Eve.

Next year Im planing to go to Germany for Oktoberfest.

The only TRUE international holiday




St. Patricks Day :D
Hear hear......and Inernational Talk Like A Pirate Day :D

The only TRUE international holiday




St. Patricks Day :D

Seconded!

A Festivus for the rest of us!

The only TRUE international holiday




St. Patricks Day :D

w00t la feile padraig is the ultimate shiz of holidays.we irish came up with all the great holidays:st.patricks day,halloween.yup,we own

Myrthday

That being said, it annoys me how overcommercialized the holiday season has become...and I get so annoyed when stores start Christmas displays in mid-Oct. :mad:

I celebrate the traditional Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years holidays, and the stores can't put up their Christmas displays soon enough for me! My house has been decorated for Christmas for the past two weeks already!

I celebrate Festivus. It's almost time to put up the aluminum pole!

What you forgot Halloween, what beats a holiday were its permitable to dress up and mentally scar little kids?

Olara']My March birthday always means that I am off for Spring Break when my cumpleaños rolls around. I enjoy it.

*squeals* kwl im also a March baby 25th. when's your b'day?

So, what holidays do you celebrate? What do you plan to do to celebrate the holidays? If you are an atheist, do you still do stuff with your family for the holidays?
*Breaks out the latkes (http://www.neiu.edu/~ncaftori/gif/Latkes.jpg) and matzah (http://www.atomfilms.com/contentPlay/shockwave.jsp?id=matzah&preplay=1&ratingBar=off) ball soup.* I love Channukah, even though my family and I are VERY non-religious: The menorah burning brightly on the window sill;warm, savory foods; my little cousins half killing me in their attempt to force me to play dreidel with them..well, not that part. I also have fun when I get to experience other holidays.
I go to an International school, and live in New York, so I've been lucky enough to experience different holiday traditions: a lamb-filled Christmas Eve with my nutsy Italian best friend, Dim Sum for Chinese New Year in Chinatown (believe me, it really helps to go with someone who speaks chinese and is an expert on the food), Three Kings day, Diwali, Ramadan... It is an enlightening cultural exchange!

That being said, it annoys me how overcommercialized the holiday season has become...and I get so annoyed when stores start Christmas displays in mid-Oct. :mad:

george...fight your father....my fave