5 posts tagged “holidays”
This year we spent a wonderful Thanksgiving in State College with Dave's family. Its always an adventure and we enjoyed a weekend of endless eating, board games, and fun. In particular Dave's brother-in-law and I teamed up for a heated game of Pictionary during which it was revealed that have even more in common than we thought - it must be something about our personality types that attract that family. We were discussing this when Dave's Mom said that she had always known Dave would end up with me. In fact, at his high school graduation party when he was very much in love with a good friend of mine, she had pointed me out to everyone in his family saying "Thats the girl. Thats the girl Dave is going to marry."
Nearly 10 years later, she was completely, 100% right - as all Moms always are.
I just got the best Valentine's email ever. It was from Dave's 13 year old cousin and was comprised of four sentences and seven exclamation points. My favorite exclamation points were the ones that followed her name. I love getting emails from her.
Also in the spirit of Valentine's Day, I'd like to share with some of my favorite romantic songs. Only because I don't know that everyone who hears them thinks they're as romantic as I do - they're definitely not what mainstream media would consider to be romantic music, but I don't care. In no particular order:
"Just The Girl" by The Click Five. Best lyric: "She laughs at my dreams, but I dream about her laughter."
"Evaporated" by Ben Folds Five. Best lyric: "I have faith that there's a soul somewhere thats leading me around, I wonder if she knows which way is down."
"Just The Way You Are" by Billy Joel. Best lyric: "I said I love you, and thats forever, and I promise this from the heart: I could not love you any better, I love you just the way you are."
"A Lifetime" by Better Than Ezra. Best lyric: "And you move like water, yeah I could drown in you."
"Crush" by Gavin DeGraw. Best lyric: "I've got a crush. I suppose that I could hold it in, but you excite my every cell."
"Easier" by Glen Phillips. This whole song is amazing, and its hard to choose just one line, but I tried. Best lyric: "I want to get almost too familiar, but still notice the way that you walk."
"Is This Right" by Toby Lightman. Best lyric: "Just one look at you I know everything's gonna be all right, and so I'm ready this time."
"Amazin' " by Josh Kelley. Best lyric: "Cause I'm dancing around in your world of play. I'm takin my time to make sure you stay. I would give my life to make it okay."
"She's Always A Woman" by Billy Joel. Best lyric: "Oh, and she never gives out and she never gives in , she just changes her mind."
"Kate" by Ben Folds Five. Best lyric: "Everyday she wears the same thing, I think she smokes pot. She's everything I want, she's everything I'm not."
"Crash and Burn" by Savage Garden. Best lyric: "If you need to crash, then crash and burn you're not alone."
Okay, okay I know there's two Billy Joel songs and two Ben Folds Five songs (almost three Ben Folds Five songs. I chose "Kate" over "Magic") but they are probably my top two favorite musicians of all time so you're just going to have to deal with it! Plus, this list is ridiculously short. But its a good sample of my favorites.
Happy Valentine's Day!
What are some of your favorite holiday traditions?
Submitted by sami711.
My absolute favorite Christmas tradition is what my family does on Christmas Eve. One year my step-mom had been planning such a huge Christmas dinner that when Christmas Eve came around she had no plans on what to feed us. So my Dad quick came up with the idea to have a fire and roast hot dogs thinking it would not only entertain my brother and I, but also feed us. It was a little of the "We bought you an amazing gift, and your favorite part is the box" syndrome. All we talked about that year was how we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows for Christmas Eve, and of course the next year we HAD to have it. It became our family's little Christmas Eve tradition, along with teasing my step-mom about the fact that her favorite way to eat her hot dog is to completely burn it and then bury it in every single condiment and coleslaw. And me asking every 30 seconds "Daddy, is my hot dog done yet?" I can't wait to pass this tradition on to my kids, even if its not the most traditional of traditions.
I love Halloween. Its one of the greatest holiday's ever. You get candy and you don't have to spend any money on buying people things. Last year for Halloween we bought candy on the off-chance that we might actually get trick or treaters. We figured this was pretty unlikely given that we live in an apartment complex and all the way in the back of said complex with a giant wall as our main neighbor.
We ate all of our Halloween candy before Halloween.
So when Halloween came lo and behold - we had trick or treaters. Of course. I was devasted, how could I be the mean lady on the street with NO CANDY? I was frantically thinking of other things to give out. Apples? Granola Bars? I decided it would be worse to be the lady who gives out healthy foods than the lady that gives out no candy. Every time someone knocked on our door I collapsed into a frantic state of self-deprecation. "How could we have no candy on Halloween? I'm the worst human being on the planet! I deserve to be shot at dawn!" There's no way to turn off the front porch light, so instead we made the entire apartment dark and huddled upstairs watching TV on its lowest brightness setting hoping people would not knock on our door. For some reason this didn't work, and MD started to get pretty pissed off about it. I'm pretty sure he was thinking the whole time, "If those damn people would figure out we have no candy and stop knocking I'd finally get my girlfriend to shut the hell up and I wouldn't have to keep pulling her out of hysterical and irrational fits of tears about not having candy."
This year, I have six bags of candy that have sat (mostly) unopened for the last two weeks. If those little motherfuckers don't show up tonight for their goddamn candy I'm going to knock on every door in our complex and throw it at them.
My Mom likes to tell the story of my first fireworks display. I apparently was very scared and started crying "The sky's cracking up! The sky's cracking up!"
Probably the most unique display I've ever seen was from the Disney cruise ship a couple of years ago. There's just something neat about being in the middle of the ocean and seeing fireworks. With Goofy. Everything in life is better with Goofy.
I love the fourth of July - it always means its getting close to my birthday! I hope you have a good one!
