Everything But The Kitchen Cinco

Seis de Mayo!

Only missed by one.  Good job, Jeremy!

Holidays are weird.  

So, there are important days for people to celebrate based on historic cultural occurrences, and that's fine.  Sure, we may fudge the numbers around to make things work a little more smoothly (there is a school of thought that Christmas should be celebrated in the Spring, and other variations such as that), but most holidays are centered around stuff.

There are also the more made-up holidays which are more of an excuse to sell greeting cards, candies, random novelty crap, and alcohol than normal.  Even though these holidays are still grounded in perfectly reasonable histories, they've been corrupted so much by society that we don't even bother to know what it is we're celebrating so much as the fact that it's time to celebrate.  Cinco de Mayo is one of those holidays, alongside St. Patrick's Day, and the New Orleans version of Mardi Gras.  Many people consider their birthdays to be a form of holiday as well, and that's fine for them.

What's strange is that recently (or maybe this has always been the case, but I've noticed it more recently...maybe it's me), certain holidays of this ilk have spread out from their measly one day affair, and turned into weeks, months, even seasons worth of holiday.  I've already seen 4th of July stuff in stores because it's the "Fourth of July Season."  I'm not making that up.  It's may, and we're in July's season.  I don't get it.  I also see people on Facebook, who I should have de-friended long ago for this sort of nonsense, referring to their "Birthday Month" and talk about what they're doing to celebrate their "Birthday Week" and expect all of their friends to pay as much attention to them as they do.  I don't.  

So today's Sametime Status celebrates the Week of The Day Of The Battle of Pueblo, since we're in the Cinco de Mayo Season.  See...you didn't even know that Cinco de Mayo was the Battle of Pueblo, did you?  That's actually why it's a holiday.