It’s always the first three quarters of the year entirely where I just do not care for its holidays. They’re all boring and forgettable to me. Which is why I love the last quarter of the year where Halloween, X-Mas and X-Mas Part II reside.
New Year’s Day - Wooo…just watching a ball drop and people just drinking or going to NY just to kiss on camera.
Valentine’s Day - Awesome…just to be reminded how single some of us are so all of the mush of couples being shoved in our faces.
St. Patrick’s Day - Just another excuse to go out drinking to most, not as if drinkers turn every other day into drinking.
Easter - Nobody can agree as to the true meaning of this holiday. It’s just seen as yet another excuse to consume candy and go on dinners, kinda what Halloween and Thanksgiving both became more about. Non-religious people think it’s bunny related, religious people believe it belongs to Jesus and whatever. Conflicted holiday, can’t care.
4th of July - America’s Birthday, yeah I’ve not have had a single solitary reason to celebrate America’s birthday at all given the reputation it has gathered as of late and for a while. This is the period of the month where people annoy everyone with their big shopping sprees on fireworks.
I don’t celebrate any of them.
Thanks to ADHD and the lack of social safety nets in the US, we’ve just always been too poor. I have not taken a vacation as an adult. My wife and I buy something special we want for birthday and Chrismas - we don’t waste money guessing what the other might want and regret that waste of money. Better to get ourselves something we know we want, as that’s about the only time.
I usually cook Thanksgiving dinner, but we’ve pulled way back. This year I’m getting a turkey breast to heat and slice, cooking fresh carrots, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and the wife wants baked potatoes, so I’ll do that instead of mashed (my pref). I used to do about twice the number of dishes. Oh, and a roux gravy that I’m doing still, gotta have good gravy.
For Christmas, we’ve gotten into the habit of having her make what my mother made for Christmas eve - quick Sally Lunn and hot chocolate. It’s carb-heavy, but the Sally Lunn is really tasty.