This year, I resolved to write my resolutions in time for New Year’s so I won’t have to fill space with things like this…
In order to help you through the coming year with a minimum of social and familial discomfort, I’ve written this short guide to appropriate and inappropriate feelings for each of the holidays. I have determined these proper emotions through careful observation and scientific experimentation over the past 30 years. In short, my pain is your gain.
What can you add to this list?
Holiday
Appropriate Feelings
Inappropriate Feelings
New Years
Resolute, Wistful, Celebratory
Bored, Relieved
Valentine’s Day
Romantic, Adventurous
Jealous, Lonely, Fat
Earth Day
Harmonious, Empowered
Greedy, Unperturbed
April Fool’s Day
Baffled
Predatory
Passover
Guilty, Redeemed
Exhausted, Visibly drunk
Easter
Sinful, Saved
Unimpressed, Sticky fingered
Mother’s Day
Infinitely unworthy, Loved
Burdened
(Insert Country Here) Day
Proud, Patriotic
Jingoistic, Chosen (Granted, it’s a hard line to draw)
Memorial Day
Contrite, Sorrowful, Liberated, Humble
Lazy, Blessed
Ramadan
Cleansed, Pious
Full
Halloween
Liberated (not like Memorial Day, be careful!), Disguised, Amused
“Watch your step as you exit the train, and if you’re late, just remember that life is a lot like being on this train: we may not be there yet, but we’re getting there.”
“According to Golf Digest, from 1996 to 2007, Woods made $769,440,709. Golf Digest predicts that, by 2010, Woods will become the world’s first athlete to pass one billion dollars in earnings.”
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