Happy Easter

First and foremost I'd like to say a big Happy Easter to everyone, I hope you're having a great day! I'm not an overly religious person, therefore Easter to me is simply the time of year when it's okie to eat large amounts of chocolate until you make yourself physically sick. This is somewhat wasted on me as I'm not a massive chocolate fan (call the food police, a women who isn't that into chocolate!) It has got me thinking how many silly holidays have been created by the advertising agencies throughout the world...non smoking day, St Patricks Day, April fools day (the one day of the year where women can't be more original to think of telling someone their pregnant, then laughing and saying ''APRIL FOOLS''...grow up and think of something better)...the list can go on. These holiday's are simply an excuse for people to drink more alcohol and feel okie about doing so...it's 3pm in the afternoon, it's Easter, open the wine!  It proves my point about marketing, people associating Easter with a 'Bunny' and 'Chocolate' rather than the religious aspect of it, I wonder if I start calling April 14th 'SEX DAY' and advertise it throughout the world for long enough, will this be made into a national holiday? Where people aren't allowed to leave the house and simply spend the day making love with their partners, or if they're single....it can have the subtitle of 'VIBRATOR DAY'...you got to broaden your market! The only marketing holiday I actually like is Valentines Day, as the inner romantic in me loves the idea of people throughout the world falling in love and opening their hearts to people, new relationships starting, millions of babies being concieved due to lack of condoms due to being 'in the heat of the romantic moment', again, lots of chocolates being bought to show your loved one how you feel. But again, there is a bad side to even this holiday which is, singletons throughout the world become bitter spinsters and reside to the fact that if they are women, they will be single forever and have only the company of their 16 cats in a one bedroomed flat to survive for. And if you're a man and single on Valentines Day, then you simply play your Xbox/playstation/whatever the new game is and reside to praying on said single girls in clubs and hoping they are feeling lonely and depressed enough for you to 'comfort' them and get them drunk enough to bring home, again, creating another genre of babies which shall go under the category ''was concieved on a marketed holiday, due to mummy feeling alone and bitter and daddy feeling horny and having alcohol''. I dislike how people are programmed to feel a certain way at certain times of the year, but I'll save the rest of my rant for another blog. Be merry, eat chocolate galore and remember, it's never too early for wine!