Ladies' Day!!!
aka...Giorno della Donna in Italia.....So yeah......you know all those random days we have in America, like Grandparents' Day, Secretaries' Day, Friendship Day, and all the other random weird days nobody cares about? Well, in Italy, they actually have a purpose!
Long, long, time ago (...I can still remember how that music used to make me smile.....*American Pie flashback*) there were a buncha ladies working in a factory. There was some sort of calamity, I'm guessing a fire or something, but they all ended up dead. And from then on, March 8th has been ladies' day, when all the ladies get yellow puffy flowers (I think called mimosas....weird) from all the men in their lives, and then umm....they go to eat and then dancing! No clue how that has anything to do with factory women dying, but yeah.....
Because we are sooooo Italian, we slightly incorporated that into our team night......we went to a chinese restaurant, and then Audra suggested that the guys toast us cuz we are supposed to be appreciated, and they failed miserably! Yeah.....us girls had to toast ourselves......it was depressing.....hopefully by next March 8th, they can think of good ways to toast the women they know!
After pondering this whole Ladies' day subject, I found out that Korea (I think?) has a Girls day and a Boys day in the beginning of march too....I wonder what they are for? Hopefully they have a purpose....seems like all the other cultures in the world have purposes for doing stuff, America likes to do stuff just cuz....
And on another note, I would like to let the world know that I am so highly amused by SNL Celebrity Jeopardy....Katy has like 5 clips of them on her computer and I partake of them every time I am on it......its pretty great :)
that's all I got for now.....I have some more Kat's out stories coming soon
:)
posted by Kat @ 5:31 PM
3 Comments:
well, yes you did try to reedeem yourself with the cafe offer, but being insulted on our own day in the form of attempted toasts is pretty sad if you ask me....
and you do know how to spread the Tim love around....you're becoming a pro, so we'll see how that gift works out :)
hahah. it's girls' day on march 3, and boys' day on march 5, in japan. girls' day is called "hinamatsuri" (the festival of the girl) and it actually orig. in china with a custom of using a doll to "store" bad stuff and luck that a little girl had, and then sending the doll away along a river...so anyways for a month or so from feb to march, japanese families put out girls' day dolls in hopes that their daughters will be health and happy. there's a superstition i think that says that if you take the dolls down early, your little girl will be an old maid. most dolls get to stand with a prince doll, but other dolls have like food and castles and such (a la barbie's crazy acquisition of stuff).
i meant may 5 for boys' day. you so screwed me up hahahah.
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