As a Canadian American I went through the shit to actually naturalize and thus feel entitled to both Thanksgivings - neither is an obscure holiday but I think it’s pretty niche to celebrate both.

“Holiday” and “celebrate” are strong words, but I try to recognize Big Wet Rodent Day every year.

Extendo-day!

It’s not real. It’s just a day I take off after every holiday that makes a 3 day weekend so it becomes a 4 day weekend! Lol

Celebrating the Chinese one’s while in the west is hard. Many of them already have western equivalents so they happen twice. Plus I got to keep track of the lunar calendar. The Buddhist ones are also hard because it differs per tradition.

4/20. I often run into people who think 4/20 celebrations are a joke in the last few years. It might be a joke of a holiday, but the celebrations are still real.

instead of my birthday I punch myself in the balls repeatedly until I vomit to make sure the trauma ends with me