I think that most everybody has one day out of the year that they really look forward to. I have 2 time during the year that I especially look forward to.
First on my list is
Christmas Eve. This is because every Christmas Eve when I was young, my dad would take my brother and I to the local sporting goods store to hang out. They would have donuts for the patrons, and my dad’s friend who worked there would buy me and my brother a Coke from the vending machine. Afterwards we would go eat lunch at “Coney Island Hotdogs” in downtown Kalamazoo. This place was started up in the late 30’s and still had the original tables, countertops, and grill that they used to make the best coney dogs. Well, the sporting goods store moved, my dad’s friend retired, but we still meet every Christmas Eve (My brother, dad, and I) and have coney dogs at Coney Island. I LOVE that and look forward to it every year.
2nd on my list is Abbott’s Magic Get-Together, always the 1st weekend in August in Colon MI. I get to see great magic, talk with some of the legends in the industry, and revel in the atmosphere of awesome, open, and fun magic. It is quite a trip.
So what day or days durning the year do you look forward to?
My favorite day of the year is Saturday of the first weekend in June. This is becuase it is the day of the Forestville Parade which kicks off the Forestville BBQ. It is great becuae the whole town gets together and you see people that you haven’t talked to in a while. This year I saw a friend of mine who I hadn’t seen since eighth grade. She just moved back to the area and I got to talk to her again. It was Great. Man I love the BBQ. I am already excited about next year. It also has rides and games and stuff too. OOHHH I am getting excited just talking about it.
Sounds like fun. I get the same feeling at Abbott’s Magic Get-Together. I have friends there I never see any other time, except there. It’s like we never were apart for a whole year… we just pick up where we left off.
Well, Halloween for one. When else can you enjoy the costume stuff and not have the mundanes sneer at you?
In August in Leesburg we have ‘Leesburg Court Days’. The center of the city (all four blocks of it) gets closed off to recreate the day each year (during colonial times) that a circuit judge would roll through town. Food vendors, roots music, games for the kids. Heck, last year I fell asleep on the courthouse lawn. Cop just woke me to ask if I was all right, the told the others on duty and they let me nap.
I ask you, could anything be better than living in a small town?
I don’t know if it counts, because it changes every year, but my absolute favorite day is the first day it snows. I love watching the weather when I get up to see if today will be the day. It’s the nicest, I think, if it starts snowing at the same time it becomes twilight. Then I always get bundled up and take a walk to the park. There’s something great about the way the park benches look as they become frosted with snow, and how the flakes fall in the light of the street lamps. I get shivers of delight when I turn around and see my footprints on the park path, slowly being filled in with snow.
I have 2.
The first one is my birthday, because that means I survived another year. I had a rocky start to my life, so I celebrate every year that God lets me live.
The second one is Christmas Eve. It’s just so magical. Call me crazy, but I still believe in Santa. Not the jolly fat guy that delivers presents, but that special magical feeling inside all of us during the holidays. Some people call it the Spirit of the Season, I call it Santa Claus.
I don’t think any other holiday brings smiles to so many faces. Most everyone is facinated by people that look DIFFERENT. Besides, You get to dress goofy and go around begging and threatening.
My favorite part is carving the pumpkin and eating the seeds. I’m old fashioned. Every once in a while, when I really feel the spirit, I’ll get up off the couch, answer the door, and give the kids some candy.
I always like the day after tomorrow. I know tomorrow will be boring, but who knows about the day after that?
And I will certainly love the day the board becomes so fast you can’t keep up with it.
This Saturday is Robert Heinlein’s birthday.
Of course it’s also my birthday.
My Uncle Paul’s birthday.
My cousin Anne Katrine’s birthday.
and my co-worker Gord in the Truck’s birthday.
and my friend Aman’s sister’s birthday.
And an honest-to-goodness Viking drakkar is being unveiled at the local maritime museum, which is far too cool for words.
Christmas Eve, from long family tradition, the most magical day of the year.
My birthday, because although I’m not an attention hog, my birthday is my day. The day I can get all kinds of attention and not be self-conscious. The day that almost everyone makes a point of speaking to me, at home, at work, wherever they know it’s my birthday. I get phonecalls, emails, birthday cards…it’s my own personal little holiday. Some of you might have noticed that when I wish you happy birthday, I usually say Happy YourName Day, because that is your day to be the center of attention. It’s your own little recognition day.
Mine is also the first day of autumn. The dying thing isn’t what does it for me though… I live in Texas, and it’s bloody-fucking-hella hot here. The summer, rather than being a time of fun on the beach and sipping iced tea and whatall is a tortuous, oppressive time to be endured huddled inside with the shades down and watching your bank account dwindle because of all the money spent on electricity for the damn air-conditioning. At least it is for me. This is what happens when decendents of Swiss-Germans move south.
But when that first cold front blows through, in Novemeber or whenever the heck it is, I just want to run naked through the streets shrieking for joy.
