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[kane_magus]

I think of all the "major" holidays, Thanksgiving is probably my least favorite. Or maybe tied at the bottom with Christmas, these years.

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[goldpseudo]

I don't know how I'd rank it, honestly. All the major holidays are pretty meh to me beyond "Hey, paid day off work".

Last holiday I really cared about at all was Heritage Day while I was living in Alberta (it's called "Civic Holiday" everywhere else which is about as meaningless as a holiday name could possibly be.) And that less because of the holiday itself, but because Edmonton's Heritage Festival event was always a great way to spend a weekend.

I suppose the fireworks on New Years and Canada Day were cool too. They kinda lose their lustre after a while though.

[kane_magus]

Well, in a half-assed attempt to be marginally fair to Thanksgiving, and I guess also to Christmas, I suppose it's as much or more due to the fact that I'm just an asocial humbug in-person on the best of days (and yesterday wasn't "the best of days") as it is that the holidays themselves suck, and those tend to be the two most "social" holidays.

Thanksgiving this year for my sister and me was "merely" driving about 20 miles to a cafeteria-style restaurant a couple towns away for an hour or two (not counting travel time) with one of our other sisters and her family, rather than going to someone else's house for like a quarter to half or more of an entire day (as the third sister, who normally "does" Thanksgiving at her house, had other plans this year, which didn't bother me a bit). Even just that still felt like too much effort and too many spoons used up, though. In the car on the way home, my sister asked me, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much would I want to do something like that again next year, and I said "maybe around three, if even that much." She didn't appear to disagree, though she was more complaining about the lackluster food (which I personally didn't mind all that much, aside from it being on the borderline of "not warm enough").

If I had to pick a "favorite" holiday, it would probably be Halloween, but even that's mostly just because of online Halloween/horror-ish stuff, e.g. whatever Cinemassacre does during October, Steam Halloween-themed sales, etc., given that I haven't actually participated in any of the typical Halloween in-person social stuff since I was probably eight or nine years old.