does anybody else here want a day?

[hfojvt]

I have said it before, but I will say it again. Single people are event deprived. Look at what a married person gets to celebrate
their birthday
spouse's birthday
kids birthdays
Valentines day
mother's/father's day
anniversaries:
a) of when you met/first date
b) marriage

Single people have:
their birthday

We do get to hear, and hear, and hear about everyone else's days and are expected to provide letters, cards and/or gifts for everyone else's days (and n&n's birthdays, graduations and marriages) and we get to celebrate "rub salt in your wound day" (Valentine's day) in our own way.

So I propose that we establish a UCL day for all the unmarried, childless losers out there. It might need a better name though, to spare the feelings of those who cannot laugh at their predicament - maybe "dateless day" or "fifth wheel day". A "pet owners day" would include me, but I am trying to have a day which does not include people who have SOs.

Who is with me on this, or do I have to celebrate this alone as well?

end of rant

On a celebratory note, 45 years ago today, my mother gave birth to her first child - a daughter, and it was mother's day then as well. Exactly ten years later, she gave birth to her fifth and last child - another daughter. So it's a double happy birthday and a triple mother's day for those three (man, I bet my middle sister feels left out).

[HEyHEY]

1. Hey man, every day is singles day

[hfojvt]

3. only for desirable females

Where are my cards? My flowers? My gifts? Are the other six billion people on the planet wondering what to get me for my special day. I will make it easy - I will take cash.

You are just too young. Every day is kid's day, and you're still a kid.

[MuseRider]

2. I have a twofer today.

My 23rd anniversary and Mothers day.

I will help you celebrate your chosen days just let us know what you decide on. I spent a few "rub salt in your wound" days and I remember not being terribly happy about it either.

[Maine-ah]

4. Hey! I'm married.

but we don't get to celebrate mothers/fathers day or kids b-days.

just our birthdays, and our anniversary. :P

[hfojvt]

5. obviously you could be included in an UCL day

at least you have one out of the three.
but you are still ahead of me on celebrations.
Also, you forgot Poland.
I mean V-Day.

[uppityperson]

6. You can come celebrate my birthday

Or else celebrte Monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday.

[hfojvt]

7. This is supposed to be about me

and people like me. My married friends and relatives send me cards, letters, presents because it is my day, my turn. Married people have to hear on the radio and TV "this Friday is UCL day, have you gotten presents for the UCLs in your life?
Someone can post a thread - "happy UCL day", and another thread "DU UCLs what do you REALLY want for UCL day?"
I think UCL day needs to be on a Wednesday. After all "Wednesday's child is full of woe".
This is for all the lonely people.

[uppityperson]

9. June 14- official hfojvt Day!

August 6-Singles Day!
October 21-Childless Day!
Or the alltogether combo- second Wednesday in April-UCL Day!

By the way, happy UCL Day late this yr. I'll try to be on time next yr, but I'm just so busy with everything else important in my life :crazy:

[hfojvt]

10. April is the cruelest month

and a holiday wasteland in these days of no Easter.
Not just about me though, since I already have a birthday which I celebrate by reading Job chapter 3, and which I share with Reba McIntire and Edmund Muskie among others.
It is for all the lonely people.
My idea is not getting alot of traction, nobody wants to admit it applies to them too. Maybe I would get more support at FReeperville.
I appreciate your support, although somehow I feel you are being uppity about it. Not sure where I got that idea, but it persists.

[Ekirh]

8. I don't need a day....

But my Dog demands observance of an Shar Pei Appreciation day!

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. So get married

and solve all these problems. :)

[tjwmason]

12. Become Queen

Then you get 2 birthdays - a real one (as in the day on which you were born) plus an official one as well.

I'm part way there and have got as far as being a queen - just not the whole hog. I think that I'd look damn good in the full state robes too.

[hfojvt]

13. excuse me, Kings do not get this as well?

or are you just thinking this way because you have no king now, just the husband to the queen?
Yes, it is about time for England to have an Irish/German/Scotch king, isn't it?

[tjwmason]

16. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure

But I would be 99% certain that they do.

I know that it was started under Queen Victoria (as were many of our supposedly old traditions), and so I would imagine that the various Edwards and Georges following her kept it. I can't comment directly as I wasn't around until half way through Her Majesty's reign.

[LynneSin]

14. They did a great episode of this on Sex and the City

Season 6 - a Woman's Right to Shoes. Carrie is belittled at a baby shower when the mother forces everyone to take off their shoes before entering her home and someone steals Carrie's Manolo Blaniks.

Ok, so some of you aren't SATC fans, but the episode was great in the fact that us single folks are constantly giving out gifts to married folks and yet outside of commonly shared days (ie birthday & christmas), us single folks are pretty much shamed for choosing to stay single and for many of us, childless.

[Sugar Smack]

15. HEY, DARLIN'!

You and I have Mardi Gras, St Pattie's Day, Halloween, and Festivus!

And a plate of jack, a side of diddly covered with squat, and a big glass of nothin' else.

Bon appetit, and kisses to you.

:*

[purr]

17. Some single people can do the same

I had 2 kids out of wedlock, celebrated almost 5 anniversaries with their father when I was still with him.

Now I'm married its still the same ol same ol imo. I dont feel like I'm 24, I feel like I'm over 40. (No offense to those over 40) but I dont feel relatively young.

You still can have fun while single :) Sometimes I wish I was still!

[xmas74]

18. When I was childless I celebrated Valentine's Day

and my birthday. Now that I have a child all I ever get to celebrate is her birthday. There are no other holidays (though she did color on a piece of paper just for me yesterday).