I went to a Catholic high school and there I discovered Holy Days I'd had no clue existed. I'd get to school and find out it was an all school mass kinda day. The holy day would just sort of sneak up on me and BAM it's the Feast Day of Saint Someone or Other.
That's how I want my special holidays to work. I want them to sneak up on people and BAM! It's a holiday.
Like The Feast of the Porkception. To celebrate this holiday, you eat spectacular bacon dishes that other people prepare for you all day long. You're parking the parking garage? someone's waiting with a platter of super crispy bacon. At the first meeting of the day, you get a plate full of bundukies placed in front of you. At lunch, it's bacon quiche. And so on throughout the day.
Or how about The Sacred Day of Stories? No matter where you are or what you're doing, you should always have a book with you. During this holiday (which I feel should occur monthly) everyone stops what they're doing, sits down and reads. It should be a Holy Day of Obligation. Instant peace.
Now, the last holiday is the one I'm the most excited about - The Feast of Our Lady of Sleep. On this day, which should also occur monthly, your alarm automatically shuts itself off and BAM! You get to stay in bed - all day if you want. And your work waits for you while you catch up on all the sleep you've lost trying to fit everything else in.
All right...I'm waiting. When can celebrate the Feast Day of Our Lady of Sleep? And what holidays would you create?
7 comments:
The internet would run better on Porkception day, too. Because everyone knows the internet runs on bacon.
I had no idea what "bundukies" were but google came to my rescue and gave me a lovely recipe for Lithuanian pork and onion buns.
Absolutely perfect holidays. I'm all for more sleep and a day of reading. Just about everything probably would run better on Porkception day.
Google is definitely my friend for "bundukies" - no idea what it was. I can't wait to try them now.
The Feast of Friend Visitation maybe - you get a couple weeks and a couple grand to go visit friends anywhere in the world. :)
The Feast of the Immaculate Bill Absolution!
I also want the Feast of Porkception, please? :)
The Feast of the Miracle of the Clean House; one morning a month I awake to find that miraculously, my house is clean and everything is put away where it belongs.
How 'bout the Feast of Fixers? Someone goes around and fixes all the broken things in your house (or life too perhaps) that you haven't been able to get to and makes them all sparkly-new again.
I like the reading one too, but I'm not sure how having a book with me everywhere I go is any different from any other day. Right now I have a tech book to my right, a Carolyn Hart mystery and Sidney Ayers' latest in my truck, a Jill Churchill in my Suburban, a Maggie Sefton in 2 of my bathrooms, an Amanda Lee and Monica Ferris in another, and a MaryJanice Davidson and Tanya Eby next to my bed. (Is it weird that I know which authors I have stashed were?)
@ Margaret - Bundukies are aMAZing. All of the neighborhood bakeries that used to make them have stopped. I was thrilled to find some recipes to try.
@ Simone - bundukies are the best - you should try them!
@ Chris - This --> The Feast of Friend Visitation! This NEEDS to be a holiday!!! It would be the best one ever - I'd go to MN, first. ;)
@ Jason - Yes! I'm so down with The Feast of the Immaculate Bill Absolution!
@ Donna - OMG - Yes! I would LOVE to have The Miracle of the Clean House every month! Of course, I would think I was dead and in heaven... ;)
@ JC - Sign me up for the Feast of the Fixers! I've got my list ready!
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