International Women´s Day
I have two things to report today.
One, today is the day of the woman everywhere but in the U.S. where, um, no one cares about women? Not sure about that one. Would have to double check. Anyway, I´m sure the U.S. pretends to celebrate it, but no one really cares. Here in Chile you´re supposed to get flowers or something, except no one has given me flowers and this little celebration of the woman is starting to feel a lot like Valentine´s Day. Suspiciously so.
Yadda yadda. So, here in Chile we (see what I did there?) celebrate women, kids, parents and grandparents, all of whom get a day except the kids who get a whole week. Does that seem fair? I mean, don´t they already have Christmas and Easter and Halloween? We Americans (see what I did there?) sure know how to ignore everyone equally. Except for mothers and fathers and all those holidays I already said the kids have, and probably the women and, damn, secretaries. Nevermind.
Happy International Women´s Day!
In a second bit of news, you´ll all be happy to know that I have decided I will never get married in a church (not catholic or any other kind). I used to say that if I felt so inclined I would get baptized and do the whole first cummunion thing just so that I could marry in a church and then never go church again, which seems totally sacriligous or something, but as it turns out, I don´t think the damnation is worth it. It tell you what changed my mind. This past Sunday I went to mass for the first time in, oh, let´s say, 8 years. Possibly more....
Hmmm, come to think of it, that´s about all the explanation I need. And, of course, this is all counting on the fact that someday I will actually be, um, getting married. Well, look at that. Aaaaaaaand....scene.
Loves,
E
One, today is the day of the woman everywhere but in the U.S. where, um, no one cares about women? Not sure about that one. Would have to double check. Anyway, I´m sure the U.S. pretends to celebrate it, but no one really cares. Here in Chile you´re supposed to get flowers or something, except no one has given me flowers and this little celebration of the woman is starting to feel a lot like Valentine´s Day. Suspiciously so.
Yadda yadda. So, here in Chile we (see what I did there?) celebrate women, kids, parents and grandparents, all of whom get a day except the kids who get a whole week. Does that seem fair? I mean, don´t they already have Christmas and Easter and Halloween? We Americans (see what I did there?) sure know how to ignore everyone equally. Except for mothers and fathers and all those holidays I already said the kids have, and probably the women and, damn, secretaries. Nevermind.
Happy International Women´s Day!
In a second bit of news, you´ll all be happy to know that I have decided I will never get married in a church (not catholic or any other kind). I used to say that if I felt so inclined I would get baptized and do the whole first cummunion thing just so that I could marry in a church and then never go church again, which seems totally sacriligous or something, but as it turns out, I don´t think the damnation is worth it. It tell you what changed my mind. This past Sunday I went to mass for the first time in, oh, let´s say, 8 years. Possibly more....
Hmmm, come to think of it, that´s about all the explanation I need. And, of course, this is all counting on the fact that someday I will actually be, um, getting married. Well, look at that. Aaaaaaaand....scene.
Loves,
E
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