I do not celebrate

[Destroit]

I'll celebrate any day that's a paid holiday for me. In fact, I get two paid holidays for Thanksgiving next week.

However, I do not celebrate Mardi Gras anymore now that I’m back in Michigan. I gave up living on a parade route New Orleans and getting tons of free beads every year for freakin’ paczkis. I’m a Polack and grew up in Hamtramck, and I still hate those nasty fried donuts filled with drippy jelly. The ones with prune filling are appalling.

!!!! Don't like Paczkis?!?!?!

I used to go every year down to Hamtramck and wait in line in the freezing cold with the indigenous and rowdy (people get aggrevated when paczkis are involved) natives of the city just for glorious wonderful jelly filled fried goodness. I will agree with you that the prune paczkis are a disgrace to all delicious fried dough everywhere. My friend Rachel and I got one two years ago Fat Tuesday and it was gross.

With that said, it's easy to assume that my favorite holiday is Fat Tuesday, and I'm not lying. It usually consists of paczkis in the morning, buffet at lunch, and steak + head in the evening.

My runner ups are Labor Day, because I'm horribly lazy and it rules, and Halloween because people finally stop looking at me weird, even if it's only for one day.

[TitsMcGee]

!!!! Don't like Paczkis?!?!?!

I used to go every year down to Hamtramck and wait in line in the freezing cold with the indigenous and rowdy (people get aggrevated when paczkis are involved) natives of the city just for glorious wonderful jelly filled fried goodness. I will agree with you that the prune paczkis are a disgrace to all delicious fried dough everywhere. My friend Rachel and I got one two years ago Fat Tuesday and it was gross.

With that said, it's easy to assume that my favorite holiday is Fat Tuesday, and I'm not lying. It usually consists of paczkis in the morning, buffet at lunch, and steak + head in the evening.

My runner ups are Labor Day, because I'm horribly lazy and it rules, and Halloween because people finally stop looking at me weird, even if it's only for one day.

I would just like to say that paczkis with jelly in are not paczkis, they are jelly dounuts. At least in my mind. The paczkis I make are plain but still taste oh so good.

[Destroit]

I would just like to say that paczkis with jelly in are not paczkis, they are jelly dounuts. At least in my mind. The paczkis I make are plain but still taste oh so good.

It's all good, any form of fried dough (and fried anything) is usually welcome into my life. Either is acceptable...so long as it doesn't have prune filling.

[TitsMcGee]

It's all good, any form of fried dough (and fried anything) is usually welcome into my life. Either is acceptable...so long as it doesn't have prune filling.

prunes =

Maybe I'll make you some paczkis next time I come down.

[Oh_My_Goth]

THIS is why I celebrate. The rest of you are looking at it the WRONG way. Make it about something OTHER than the almighty dollar.

[TitsMcGee]

THIS is why I celebrate. The rest of you are looking at it the WRONG way. Make it about something OTHER than the almighty dollar.

Amen sister

[Rev.Reverence]

prunes =

Maybe I'll make you some paczkis next time I come down.

...PRUNES =

[Guest greyhalo]

...PRUNES =

Polish people have a strange love of prunes for some reason. I don't mind prunes on their own, but prune filling in paczkis and perogies is just gross. They also put prunes in czernina, another disgusting concontion that my family loves. It's soup made with duck's blood. My maternal grandpa used to make it when I was a kid. He'd buy a live duck, behead it in the basement, and drain the blood for the soup. My crazy uncle used to chase me around with the duck's head to scare me when I was like 5 or 6 years old. And people wonder why I don't eat meat...

[n0Mad]

I agree with the Rev's assessment of prunes. The only Paczkis I eat are the custard filled ones, because I don't really like jelly. Yes, I know that those aren't real Paczkis either, they're just super caloric Bavarian Creams, but yummy.

[Hellion]

I do not celebrate any holidays that are associated with large greedy corporations,or political rhetoric.

X-mas its being with family and friends,not getting gifts and stuff

Thanksgiving its being thankful for what you have, F&^% the Plymouth rock bs.

and yes V-day and Sweetest Day do not exist to me at all or ever.

[TitsMcGee]

Polish people have a strange love of prunes for some reason. I don't mind prunes on their own, but prune filling in paczkis and perogies is just gross. They also put prunes in czernina, another disgusting concontion that my family loves. It's soup made with duck's blood. My maternal grandpa used to make it when I was a kid. He'd buy a live duck, behead it in the basement, and drain the blood for the soup. My crazy uncle used to chase me around with the duck's head to scare me when I was like 5 or 6 years old. And people wonder why I don't eat meat...

Czernina is freaking awesome. I could live off that stuff. Most people only put enough blood to fill a baby jar, which is only for the coloring. I hate how people always tripp out about the blood. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

[Guest greyhalo]

Czernina is freaking awesome. I could live off that stuff. Most people only put enough blood to fill a baby jar, which is only for the coloring. I hate how people always tripp out about the blood. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

I've tried it several times. I just don't like the sweet-sour flavor of it. My aunts LOVE it. We have a big Polish feast every year for X-mas, and they have to get their fill of czernina.

[Scales]

I don't really celebrate anything. I'm involved in any holiday for other people, including my birthday. I don't have anything against holidays, but I find it mentally unhealthy to condition oneself to be happiest during set thematic times.

[Brenda Starrr]

Amen sister

See, I used to work in retail, and the greed pissed me off immensely. EVERYONE wanted something for nothing, especially in the cosmetic department. Despite that, I don't hate the holidays. I love Christmas because Jeff and I have Orphan Christmas, where our friends who don't have family here (like me) bring a dessert, wine, or side dish and we make the main course. We have a lot of fun, and I kick EVERYONE'S ass in Totally 80's Trivial Pursuit.

New Year's Eve/Day isn't about drinking. It's about newness. It's about going into that next year in hopes that things will be better. I don't do resolutions. I just keep hoping that things will improve for those who have a hard time.

Valentine's Day isn't about cheesy cards, chocolate, and lingerie (ok, maybe the chocolates). It's just like any other da for Jeff and I because we're HAPPY.

St. Patty's Day....well, I got married that weekend, so it will always be sentimental to me.

Easter....Come ON!! Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs!!!

Mother's Day....DUH

Memorial Day...Double DUH

Father's Day....this one will suck this year, because I won't have MY Dad. And, it will kill me. Just like this Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. I'm already suffering a great deal of sadness, and cry at the drop of a hat.

July 4th....DUH

Labor Day. Again.....DUH

Halloween....EVERY day should be Halloween.

Thanksgiving....I just like to eat. And I have an awful lot to be thankful for.

But, it's all about the friends and family. I don't buy into the bullshit that you have to spend money to celebrate these holidays. I just want to be surrounded by those I care about, and those who care for me.

I just wish that my Dad was here for all of it.

Just quit looking at it like the majority of you are. It doesn't have to be like that. Be thankful EVERY DAY for EVERY PERSON that you have whom you love and loves you back.

[Rev.Reverence]

Polish people have a strange love of prunes for some reason. I don't mind prunes on their own, but prune filling in paczkis and perogies is just gross. They also put prunes in czernina, another disgusting concontion that my family loves. It's soup made with duck's blood. My maternal grandpa used to make it when I was a kid. He'd buy a live duck, behead it in the basement, and drain the blood for the soup. My crazy uncle used to chase me around with the duck's head to scare me when I was like 5 or 6 years old. And people wonder why I don't eat meat...

I meant they make you poop...very useful now & again..

..with a growing frequency directly proportionate to how OLD one has become...

I love the czernina...LOOVVVE IT! I got a job at a Polish deli doin' dishes when I was 15...I would eat it almost every day I worked...

[Rev.Reverence]

See, I used to work in retail, and the greed pissed me off immensely. EVERYONE wanted something for nothing, especially in the cosmetic department. Despite that, I don't hate the holidays. I love Christmas because Jeff and I have Orphan Christmas, where our friends who don't have family here (like me) bring a dessert, wine, or side dish and we make the main course. We have a lot of fun, and I kick EVERYONE'S ass in Totally 80's Trivial Pursuit.

New Year's Eve/Day isn't about drinking. It's about newness. It's about going into that next year in hopes that things will be better. I don't do resolutions. I just keep hoping that things will improve for those who have a hard time.

Valentine's Day isn't about cheesy cards, chocolate, and lingerie (ok, maybe the chocolates). It's just like any other da for Jeff and I because we're HAPPY.

St. Patty's Day....well, I got married that weekend, so it will always be sentimental to me.

Easter....Come ON!! Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs!!!

Mother's Day....DUH

Memorial Day...Double DUH

Father's Day....this one will suck this year, because I won't have MY Dad. And, it will kill me. Just like this Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. I'm already suffering a great deal of sadness, and cry at the drop of a hat.

July 4th....DUH

Labor Day. Again.....DUH

Halloween....EVERY day should be Halloween.

Thanksgiving....I just like to eat. And I have an awful lot to be thankful for.

But, it's all about the friends and family. I don't buy into the bullshit that you have to spend money to celebrate these holidays. I just want to be surrounded by those I care about, and those who care for me.

I just wish that my Dad was here for all of it.

Just quit looking at it like the majority of you are. It doesn't have to be like that. Be thankful EVERY DAY for EVERY PERSON that you have whom you love and loves you back.

I AM SO HAPPY WE HAVE A BRENDA NOW...

[Brenda Starrr]

I AM SO HAPPY WE HAVE A BRENDA NOW...

Thanks, Rev. It's so nice to hear (or read) that.

[TitsMcGee]

I've tried it several times. I just don't like the sweet-sour flavor of it. My aunts LOVE it. We have a big Polish feast every year for X-mas, and they have to get their fill of czernina.

We make it a few times a year, it's very good on cold winter days.

[TitsMcGee]

A quote about the holidays I found, that seems rather fitting.

"In the old days, it was not called the holiday season; the Christians called it Christmas and went to church; the Jews called it Hanukkah and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say Merry Christmas! or Happy Hanukkah! or (to the atheists) Look out for the wall!"

[Brenda Starrr]

Nowadays, people just say Happy Holidays because they're trying to be PC. I'm sorry. Say it as YOU believe it to be. Don't just say Happy Holidays because you fear the repercussions of the other person who might not believe what you do. Say what's in your heart.

And DON'T feed into the financial portion of it.

Dolla dolla bill y'all.

[JaneDead]

i have but do not often celebrate: valentine's day, sweetest day, 4th of july, easter and thanksgiving. i will go to dinner at a family member's house for easter and thanksgiving but have been known to just skip out on them both completely. not a fan of either for various reasons. valentine's day and sweetest day are both "sweet" but i don't really care much about them. i'd rather do something "sweet" on a whim not because it is on the calendar to do so and 4th of july... i have gone to bbqs and watched fireworks but i don't really care if i don't get to do either. i think this year i didn't do either but now i can't even remember?? things like labor day and memorial day don't mean anything to me either.

[TygerLili]

I don't celebrate Easter. Sweetest day is lame. I hate Thanksgiving, but I usually celebrate it because it's easier than arguing with my family about why I'm not going coming home. This year I am working on Thanksgiving, though, so they have to deal with it.

I don't really care for Halloween. I usually end up doing something on Halloween because my friends and or significant others have wanted to in the past.

[taysteewonderbunny]

The holidays I don't know about.