Galentines Day!

By Carley Carmean

I LOVE minor holidays. I love color schemes, specific snacks, and specialty candies. Any reason to take a random Tuesday and make it special.

Valentine’s Day, in my opinion, is like a greasy pizza slice, so bad and cheesy that you can’t help but crave it.

February 13th is known nationally as Galentine’s day. The day saved for over-decorating, spending too much time getting ready, and only eating theme foods with all your favorite gal pals. Galentines Day is like taking that perfect heartburn-inducing pizza slice and dipping it in ranch. Perfection. While the 14th is saved for sophisticated gifts, candlelit dinners, and the clinking of wine glasses, the 13th is all about fun.

Galentines was formally brought into the light in 2010 after season 2 episode 16 of “Parks and Recreation” aired on television. In the episode character, Leslie Knope talks about the holiday saying, “Every Feb 13 my lady friends and I leave our husbands and boyfriends at home, and we just come and kick it…. ladies celebrating ladies”. After the episode, the slang term picked up more and more traction and the following year was trending on Twitter as millions of people celebrated the holidaythus making it a well-known term.

Good on Paper – Netflix- Streaming now Stand-up comedian Iliza Schlesinger wrote and starred in Good on Paper, a rom-com inspired by her own personal experiences. Schlesinger plays Andrea Singer, a stand-up comic who starts dating the perfect guy but she begins to suspect that he’s too good to be true.

Personally, I like to take the day and wear as much pink and red as possible, sit around watching Hallmark-level cringy romance movies, and stuff my face in themed Little Debbie cakes while my sisters do the same. I find the whole thing incredibly endearing. Any day that offers me the time and space to love the incredible woman in my life is worth celebrating.

Happy Galentine’s and Valentine’s Day to all the inspiring women around me, may your February be as full of love as you are.

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