Went out to the store earlier and noticed Valentines Day stuff is already

I don't get angry when I see older couples together. When they look obviously content, I get envious. But yanno what? I feel truly sorry when I see or hear about men whose wives have died because I think they have a harder time adjusting after the death of their wives.
 

I am too busy feeling sorry for myself to feel sorry about men I don't know. Selfish of me I know...
 
LOL, I know what you mean! Not selfish at all, though, Vivjen.

CeeCee, my DH? He could do just about everything that I could (except the canning maybe), but he'd have been all at sea without me. I guess the Universe figured if one of us was going, it would be kinder for it to be him.
 
Valentine was being put on shelves before the Christmas decorations were taken down. It is already on the clearence shelves and ST. Patty stuff is being put on shelves in its place.
 
Why are some people referring to Valentine's Day and St Patrick's Day as 'holidays'?
Does anyone get a day off work ?

I don't 'celebrate' either one but occasionally I reflect on the lives of the men after whom they are named.
I don't need merchandise for that.
 
holiday = "holy day"

February 14 is the feast day of St. Valentine
March 17 is the feast day of St. Patrick

They aren't holidays in the sense that offices shut down and banks close, but holy days celebrated in the Catholic Church. And "holy days" celebrated by card, gift and floral merchants in their never-ending quest for the Almighty Dollar!
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
holiday = "holy day"

February 14 is the feast day of St. Valentine
March 17 is the feast day of St. Patrick

They aren't holidays in the sense that offices shut down and banks close, but holy days celebrated in the Catholic Church. And "holy days" celebrated by card, gift and floral merchants in their never-ending quest for the Almighty Dollar!
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St Pat's Day used to be a big one in most of the Catholic schools over here but the one I taught in celebrated St Josephs's Day on March 19, so Patrick went unnoticed.

In the early days of Sydney there used to be St Patrick's Day parades/marches by the local catholics but sectarian disharmony was huge because Sydney Protestantism owed a lot to many Northern Irish immigrants. The protestants took the occasion to organise hockey matches, and thus armed with wooden weapons, would provoke brawls. For the sake of public order the marches were banned.

These days, St Patrick's Day as a popular celebration, is just another booze fest, decked out in green. It's not a holiday in any sense except for those who go to mass.
 
CeeCee, haven't you heard? On St. Patrick's Day in this country everybody is Irish! I used to have a friend who was a bartender, and he called St. Patrick's Day "amateur night" in the bar (along with New Year's Eve, July 4 and Hallowe'en). LOL
 
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