my girlfriend at dinner was like “so i have some calendar opinions” and several hours of conversation later we have decided we need to make a kings cake TOMORROW

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our revised plan is to try starting the year on the sundown before 364 days before the first sunday in january

which is tomorrow night

@Lady i guess this is a logical outcome of me being like “i feel like several of our observances hit a weekish late”, but also you can see why i was initially like “what if december just had an extra week”

@Lady Feels like I'd expect you to be all about ISO 8601 week numbering instead, somehow.

@aschmitz we were constrained by wanting to do our New Years traditions at the beginning of the intercalary period and our Epiphany traditions at the end, meaning 01 January definitely could not be the first day of the year

@Lady @aschmitz also by wanting to have an intercalary period in the first place, and a forty day month, and most of our holidays to fall on friday/saturday/sunday, and doing sundown day starts, and….

@Satsuma @Lady Well those definitely are some calendar opinions. Hopefully it's an enjoyable calendar to follow, have fun!

@aschmitz @Lady the sundown thing is probably my fault & so’s the placement of the intercalary, but its existence and the month length were all M

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