My favorite time of year

Us salvadorans tend to be more on the religious side. Our country is even named after Jesus. So in August , we celebrate our fiestas de agosto after our patron saint El Salvador del Mundo, which literally means the saviour of the world, formerly known as God. 

Like all good christians, during fiestas de agosto we flock to the beach to get wasted. 

I blame the view for going so well with beer.

This weeklong break marks the start of my favorite time of year:

1. Birthday season: 

My birthday's in october and celebration's last for about a month. Also, most of my friends have birthday's starting in September, which means a lot of partying.

2. Christmas time: 

Remember about us being a bunch of christians? Well christmas is especially huge around here, it is after all the birthday of little baby Jesus. But this time of the year is more than just religion. Christmas prep these days starts as early as October (we're not big on Halloween), and I love everything about it. The weather get's chilly and windy, a couple of notches down from our usually scorching 30celsius; I get to decorate the house with ornaments, a lot of crafting and dyi-ng involved; and the best part: parties. You can't help but find perfect excuses for stuffing your belly with food and drinking a little too much, and since everyone's doing it you don't feel guilty about your expanding waistline. Around christmas time, I also get to over-indulge in practicing my favorite sport: shopping. I think this time of year is to blame for about 90% of my New Year's resolutions.

After Christmas dinner you get to have leftovers the next day in your pijamas +1000

3. The start of fall TV:

I hate TV's summer break. All you get stuck with is a bunch reality shows. I don't have anything against reality, Top Chef is great, but the rule tends to be that these kinds of shows are the equivalent of having a supersized Big Mac meal: you enjoy it while you're eating it, but later you feel guiltier than making out with your ex. Even Project Runway sucks these days, not even Tim Gunn can make it work anymore. Don't even get me started on Jersey Shore. I also get withdrawal symptoms from a lack of my usual TV lineup, most of all from not getting my fix of The Greatest Show of Our Time. The only other reason why I love September so much, aside from all the free donuts*, is that it brings with it a brand new fall TV lineup and all of my other usual suspects. This year I'm especially eager to watch  New Girl, Terra Nova, Pan Am and Ringer. I'll be posting reviews on these shows as they premiere!

Amen, and therefore I plea guilty of killing a coulple of books

*I couldn't find anything about this in English, Google has failed me, sorry!