Boxing Day is only 9 months away
Posted on 03.03.06 10:42PM in complaints, holidays
If you don’t know Stefanie, she’s a family friend who stayed at my house two summers ago and sporadically since. Now, she’s living with us quasi permanently, because she has always wanted to live in Florida.
The other day, she got a couple of desktop calendars for my computer table. They’re the kind where you have to rip off a page for each day to present a new fact or trivia question. In this case, they’re Buccaneers and Major League Baseball themes.
But on to my gripe session. I never really understood these types of calendars: they sit there, reflecting 1/365 of the year while leaving you largely unenlightened about the days and weeks surrounding the single day that sits there and stares you in the face. What if it’s Boxing Day in Canada next Tuesday? How can I even begin to prepare my annual Boxing Day party if I don’t know about it until next Tuesday when I finally remember to rip off the sheets of paper that have been left untouched for a week because I forgot to bother with the whole progression of time? This, my friends, is a veritable mystery.
By the way, you’re all invited to my annual Boxing Day gala on December 26. Tell your friends and BYOB.
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Posted by Ian on 03.06.06 at 22:17:58
bring your own boys?
Posted by Amber on 04.13.06 at 15:03:15
You appear to be talking of Boxing Day as if it is unimportant… I am not Canadian or anything, but it is the same day as my birthday, which is also worthy of celebration.