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Hope everyone has a safe and fun day, regardless taken or single. Do something nice for yourself, or someone else.

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Valentine's Day Origins: Feast of Saint Valentine

Valentine’s Day Origins: Feast of Saint Valentine

Today is Valentine’s Day and many people, including my husband, like to mock it for being a Hallmark holiday. Despite Hallmark having one of it’s most profitable days around this holiday, they did not invent the holiday. There is a lot of history to Valentine’s Day and not all of it is hearts and roses. What are Hallmark Holidays? Before I dive deep into the dark history of V-day, I’d like to…

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Christmas Carnival starring Tamera Mowry-Housley. Tamera was lovely last year in A Christmas Miracle, so I’m really excited to see her in the lineup again for this year’s holiday movies!

photo from: https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/christmas/countdown-to-christmas-2020-preview/12

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What Really Matters

This time of year has always been hard for me. Even when I had a relationship with my father, I always hated the forced requirement that Father’s Day brought. Buy a card, buy a present, go out to eat, etc. It never felt genuine or earned, so it was always frustrating to feel obligated to celebrate. 

This year is weirder than ever. It’s the first year I’m truly without having to do something for the holiday. I stopped speaking to my father in August of last year, and Alec’s dad is not around right now, so we aren’t able to see him. I think Alec and I are going to try to go to Portland to escape for some socially distanced masked fun, and I’m hoping to have his help doing some projects around the house. But it’s just weird. Like... do I honor Alec for “parenting” my stuffed animal Kirby?! 

Father’s Day is such a Hallmark holiday. It’s such an awkward thing. “Celebrate dad today. Give him a card that says he’s the BBQ king and the owner of the remote.” I mean, I’d probably be less bitter if I had a better relationship with my father, but I don’t understand why they need another day of celebration. 

Like, if you were an awesome fucking dad, I would tell you that on the reg, and I would hug you without hesitation, and just be so happy to be in your presence. I would probably buy you random shit just because, when compelled, and I would have many, many days of great memories where we went mini-golfing or to the beach... and not just on some Sunday in June. 

Father’s Day seems like a dumb holiday to allow children to not feel shitty about not being kind to their parental figures the rest of the year. Or to give lame dads an excuse to get attention that they don’t necessarily deserve. I mean, for single dads who rock all of the socks or awesome dads, it totally makes sense... it’s otherwise a very frustrating and empty holiday for someone who hasn’t had that sort of fathered experience.

I feel like birthdays are truly the one day where everyone should be required to honor someone. Like, if not for this day I wouldn’t exist, so love me and shower me with attention. I’m totes down with that. Wear your tiara, demand ice cream, and cry, if you want to. 

But... for these weird Hallmark holidays. Why not be kind to the people you love every day of the year?! Buy them cards for no reason or a weird little trinket from Dollar Tree just cause. Like, don’t be that person that’s like, “Oh, shit. Father’s Day is next weekend. What do I get for dad?” Be that person that (instead) says, “Dad, I’m so freaking grateful you were and are an active part of my life. Here is the biggest hug I can muster and the best present you could ask for: me. Let’s go get ice cream together, because it’s the small things I remember most.” 

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5 Hallmark Movies To Watch This Year

NEW >> 5 Hallmark Movies To Watch This Year by @rachaeltulipano

One of my very favorite pastimes during the holiday season is to binge-watch movies on the Hallmark channel. The cheesier, the sweeter, and the more romantic, the better. Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas has been a favorite of mine since before I can remember. I’ve always had a hankering for romance movies. Add the holiday season into the mix, and I just can’t get enough!

Each year, Hallmark…

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Dearest reader, if one was not on a deserted island for the past fortnight, one could possible not miss the fact that today is the dreaded St. Valentine’s Day. It is the day in which those so lucky enough to be in love flock to restaurants and bedrooms to celebrate a holiday surrounding the emotion of affection. As a spinster of nine and twenty and indeed a woman whom has truly never experienced a Valentine’s Day, the holiday is therefore a time to which this writer’s heart becomes black and she becomes extraordinarily jealous of everyone around her. To a degree that she wishes she could possibly hiss at all of the hopeless fools; why should they have such a day and not I, this writer does wonder. And truly it is even more of an annoyance that every outlet on the wire or on social media seems to mention the holiday every five seconds! It had even become so positively kitschy as to provide celebratory heart-shaped pizza to the lovesick masses. This spinster finds it all abominably ridiculous and rather insulting, since there is simply no Hallmark holiday that celebrates those whole either have not yet found live, or those whose hearts have been broken or even those whom despise the emotion won’t every fiber of their being. And in truth there is a “Single Awareness Day” on February 15th this author has heard about, but really, it is not a widely celebrated holiday. Nor are there “Happy Singles Day” cards on the market. And truly, we as human beings in the twenty-first century know that a holiday with no card is simply not a holiday at all. No matter the rise of the hashtag. And so, dear reader, if you be single I wish you a glass of wine and a quiet evening. Do join this writer in being cynical towards the rest of the population. Happy Valentine’s! Please do insert an eye roll here.