[happy2bme]

Ok, I just had to look it up on the Internet. Found a website with Bizarre and Unusual holidays. To prep us for April...


1 April Fool's Day

1 International Tatting Day

2 Children's Book Day

2 National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day

2 Reconciliation Day

3 Don't Go to Work Unless it's Fun Day - we know your decision

3 Tweed Day

4 Hug a Newsman Day - or a Fireman/men if your name is Mel

4 National Walk to Work Day - first Friday of month

4 Walk Around Things Day - that would be WALK ABOUT for Shad

4 School Librarian Day

4 Tell a Lie Day

5 Go for Broke Day

6 Plan Your Epitaph Day - a little morbid if you ask me

6 Sorry Charlie Day

7 Caramel Popcorn Day - Most likely created by a popocorn maker, or an Ecard company.

7 No Housework Day - isn't this EVERY day (except for Rennie the crazed cleaning woman )

7 World Health Day

8 All is Ours Day

8 Draw a Picture of a Bird Day

9 Name Yourself Day

9 Winston Churchill Day

10 Golfer's Day

10 National Siblings Day

11 Eight Track Tape Day - do you remember those? (I still have 2 of them and a working 8 track player!)

11 Barbershop Quartet Day

12 Big Wind Day - this day blows me away!

12 Russian Cosmonaut Day

13 Blame Someone Else Day

13 Scrabble Day

14 Ex Spouse Day

14 International Moment of Laughter Day - at some given point when we are all awake, the Worldlies will all have to stand up and laugh at the same moment).

14 Look up at the Sky Day - don't you have anything better to do? (Just keep your mouth closed)

14 National Pecan Day

14 Reach as High as You Can Day

15 Rubber Eraser Day

15 Titanic Remembrance Day - go hang over the bow of a ship with a cute guy

16 National Eggs Benedict Day

16 National Librarian Day

16 National Stress Awareness Day - we have it EVERY day, can only recognize it once a year

17 Blah, Blah, Blah Day - this is when we get the big motivational speeches at work

17 National Cheeseball Day

18 International Juggler's Day - also applies to multi tasking office workers

18 Newspaper Columnists Day

18 Pet Owners Independence Day

19 National Garlic Day

20 Look Alike Day

20 Volunteer Recognition Day

21 Kindergarten Day

21 Patriot's Day - third Monday of the month

22 Girl Scout Leader Day

22 National Jelly Bean Day

23 Lover's Day

23 National Zucchini Bread Day - they hold this at a time when you are not sick of all that zucchini.

23 Take a Chance Day - I have so MANY comments for this

23 World Laboratory Day

12 Astronomy Day - date varies - Wait - shouldn't it be Astronomy NIGHT? Who can see stars during the day?

24 Pig in a Blanket Day

25 East meets West Day (Shad's too)

25 World Penguin Day

26 Executive Admin's Day (Secretary's Day)

26 Hug an Australian Day - Does this count for you Shad or do we have to wait for Hug a Kiwi day?

26 National Pretzel Day

26 Richter Scale Day

27 Babe Ruth Day (or to have a bit of fun, let's do RUTH IS A BABE DAY!!!!)

27 National Prime Rib Day

27 Tell a Story Day

28 Great Poetry Reading Day

28 Kiss Your Mate Day - guys, do not forget this one. Kiss her, then read her some poetry. (Myself I'd rather have cash as you would not believe the ditties my DH will come up with

29 Greenery Day

29 National Shrimp Scampi Day

30 Hairstyle Appreciation Day

30 National Honesty Day (guess this means you can't lie about someone's bad hair day above)

feel free to read and comment - this was fun. Either that or I have gone over the edge...

[Shad]

OMG - they have a hug an Aussie Day?????? OOOOh AAAAH. Sorry you are going to have to wait for the hug the Kiwi day. I'll never make an Aussie as long as my butt points southwards. Dream the impossible dream!

Snags are variously known as: -
Fatbags,
Mystery bags
Bangers
Little boys
Chipolata or (wait for it)
Sausages. Beef or pork, long and skinny, short and fat, take your pick.

I take it that the International Tatting Day is all about lacemaking and not tattooing??? Shades of Miami Ink??

The 14th should be a good day. I do all of those things thinking about the ex. And a specific day for Eggs Benedict. OMG The things I have missed out on all these years. I'm all for a Babe Ruth day. Sounds like a good idea. She could bbq the beer can chicken and we can run in and out to check the doneness of the thing - just like an Ausse bbq - and that way we only have to think about hugging an Aussie, not actually doing it.

Oh and I don't really want to be around on Richter scale day. Could be dangerous.

Okay - a-shopping I will go to get the meat and veg for the next few days or so.

[Shy Moment]

happy
Oh that sounds good can I have the recipe? Those are some crazy days lol. It is a real problem for me. I didn't sleep much last night. Anytime I even think about the darn things I can't sleep. Makes the hubby so darn mad when my son brings that stuff up lol.

Shad
Cats are just spoiled that is all there is to it. You mean you don't find priming a ceiling the most fun thing in the world to do lol.

di
The kids came home from school one day and I was there with my head under the couch, behind the tv all over the place going sniff sniff. They are laughing and asked what on earth I was doing. I said oh my gosh smell that, what is that. Something has died. They are laughing and laughing oh mom the dog has gas again is all. Oh my gosh, what crawled into that dog and died lol.
Annie
Stay away from that person lol.

Ruth
That is just to funny. I remember one time the hubby was out in the garage ( where we use to live the garage wasn't attached ) and it was about 10 pm. I am walking out there with a cup of coffee for him, not a care in the world. I heard a sound, it was an urgent sound. I looked toward the garage. He was whispering as loud as he could STOP STOP STOP, YOU ARE ARE TO STEP ON THE SKUNK. Oh my gosh, it was sleeping on the step I was about to step down on to the drive.

[happy2bme]

Good morning chicks,

Quick howdy for me today. It's supposed to rain which for some reason is making my head achy and my nose sneezy. Wish I could go back to bed. At least tomorrow I can sleep in a bit...

Rennie, I posted the cookie recipe here on site before but can't find it with the search so I will go through my recipes this weekend and post it again for you.

Shad - you are right on with the tatting - it's lace not tatoos. I'm all for taking pens and drawing on each other's arms but no needles for me please

Time to hit the road - told you it would be a quick drive through. Happy Friday and have a good one!

[MELODY525]

HAPPY~ "13 Blame Someone Else Day"...I THINK THEY USE THAT ONE 365 FDAYS A YEAR IN THE OFFICE! I CRACKED UP WITH THIS CALENDAR. WHAT HAPPENED TO ANNIE'S SCURVY DAY I'M WITH THE DH...MRS. BUTTERWORTH ROCKS!! MY CANADIAN EX WAS APPALLED THAT I DIDN'T LIKE THE STUFF HIM AUNT WOULD SEND US. GOOD IDEA ABOUT THE PARKING LOT SAFETY

SHAD~THE POOR KITTY AND YOUR POOR NECK. IS THERE NOT A "SIT WITH A BOOK IN THE SUN" DAY DOWN THERE? NOW THAT IT'S WINTER IS IT SNOW SHOE TIME YET? YOUR DAY FULL OF ACTIVITY MADE ME TIRED ALREADY

RENNIE~ NOW IF YOU HAD STEPPED ON THAT SKINK, YOUR SISTER WOULD HAVE HAD THE LAST LAUGH

RUTH~ I WILL KEEP WEIGHING EVERY DAY THEN....CAUSE I WANT TO BE SLIM AND TRIM JUST LIKE YOU!! WE CAN BE TWINS! LOVE YOUR AVATAR! I AM JUST HAPPY TO SEE GREEN IN OUR GRASS! I AM READY FOR YOUR BBQ BRING IT ON!!!

MICHELLE~ I WOULD LOVE TO TRY THAT IDEA OF A BEDTIME DRINK BUT I'D BE IN THE LOO ALL NIGHT LONG AGO I USED HOT COCOA. AND IT WORKED VERY WELL.

CARLA~ 110 DAYS....LIKE 100 AREN'T ENOUGH ALREADY? WHAT AM I THINKING??? MUST BE A FREUDIAN SLIP....MAYBE I THINK I WILL NEED THE EXTRA 10 DAYS TO POLISH UP MY PERFECTION!! NOW IF THE MEN OUTSIDE WERE CUTE, I'D BE TAKING ALL THE CURTAINS DOWN!! HOPE THE BM WAS SUCCESSFUL AND AN ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE!

ANNIE~ WHAT I WOULDN'T GOVE FOR MONUMENTAL POOPS! I AM SO TIRED OF USING DYNAMITE!! I CAN JUST SEE YOUR CO-WORKERS STANDING AND READING OVER YOUR SHOULDER EVERY DAY NOW TRYING TO FIND WHAT IS CAUSING THE GIGGLES!! WILL KEEP YOUR DD IN MY THOUGHTS.

WHERE HAS CEEJAY GONE? THE SISTER STILL THERE I WONDER? Hmmmmm

WHEN WE GO LOOKING FOR DAY1 WE BETTER LEAVE A TRAIL OF CRUMBS OUT FOR MADCAT AS WELL. SINCE WE LOST MEADOW, TEEL AND LINUS, OUR NUMBERS ARE SHRINKING. I MISS THE OLD DAYS

THE BOSS WILL BE HOME MONDAY. I FOUND IT FUNNY THAT THE WOMAN GIVING ME THE TROUBLE WITH MY EXTRA CHECKS DID NOT CALL ME WHEN THE HEAD HONCHO WAS HERE SO I COULD STRAIGHTEN IT OUT. INSTEAD SHE TOLD ME OF HIS VISIT THE NEXT DAY
I WILL CALL HIM NEXT WEEK MYSELF. WHICH REMINDS ME.....THE EYE DR IS MONDAY AND I AM HAVING A LOT OF TESTS DONE THAT DAY. SO I MORE THAN LIKELY WON'T BE POSTING WHEN I GET HOME. I CAN HARDLY WAIT TO GET THE CHAIR BACK ON THE SKINNY RAMP AND BACK INTO AND OUT OF THE VAN!! I LOVE DRIVING IN REVERSE 5" OFF THE GROUND WITH SUPER DIALATED EYES. SOMETHI9NG TO LOOK FORWARD TO THIS WEEKEND JEN IS TAKING THE SORTED LINENS I DID LAST WEEK UP TO THE SUMMER TRAILER FOR THE KIDS. IT'S ALMOST THAT TIME OF YEAR. WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE? I'M STARTING TO FEEL LIKE HAPPY NOW....ON THE HAMSTER WHEEL OF LIVE!
HAPPY FRIDAY!!! HOPE WE ALL HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!!!!

[diyana]

Happy Friday ladies --

I'm so glad the weekend is just a few hours (okay, well maybe 9 hours) away! I've got much to do around the house and after work and the gym, I just don't feel like doing much cleaning or organizing.

Ruth - your talk of sugaring made me smile as I remembered a very fond memory of when I was a little girl trudging through the snow in the woods in Northern Vermont with my grandfather as we collected the sap and went to the sugaring house to make syrup! As a child I loved a sticky, gooey, sweet bowlful of "sugar on snow". That is SO cool that your doc wants you to run a nutrition class for diabetes! Wow! I'm sure I could learn a lot from you. I'll probably start PMing you with questions, if you don't mind. BTW, how did your PT go?

Carla - I totally agree that we should be able to deduct our pet medical expenses from taxes. And we should be able to claim them as dependents too.

Happy - I hope you feel better soon. Please send the warm weather up this way. You can keep the thunderstorms though. We'll have bad thunderstorms and severe weather soon enough, thanks! Thanks for the suggestion of almonds. Even though they are 4 points for 23 nuts, they are a really good protein source and a "good" fat source. Please, please send me the oatmeal, raisins, maple syrup recipe! That sounds wonderful! I'm so glad your work has quieted down for a couple days. The list of obscure holidays you sent is GREAT. Thanks for looking that up. Mrs. Butterworths is really good syrup...when I don't have the real stuff around. But the stuff McD's and other places pass off as syrup is really gross.

Ellen - Good for you for getting to the gym.

Annie - Thank you for calling me the exercise Goddess. If someone told me 6 months ago that I'd be called an exercise Goddess, I wouldn't have believed them. For nearly all my life (up until the last couple months), I've hated exercising. It was always a chore that I would avoid/put off. But the more I'm reading about Diabetes and how exercise really does wonderful things for blood sugar, and I even notice the results occasionally when I test my blood sugar, the more it motivates me to keep moving and keep sweating! I went to the gym last night and did 40 minutes of cardio. I'm going to go to the gym tonight for 45 minutes of cardio and 30 minutes of weights and abs. I try to exercise 5 days a week, but that doesn't always happen.

Shad - I hope your neck feels better. And all your aches and hard work will be rewarded with a gorgeous kitchen! All your energy and all that you do around the house is such an inspiration! I have so much to get done around the house before my DMIL gets here in 3.5 weeks! I won't "tap into" your energy, since you need it for your kitchen, but I will hold you up as my example of how much can get done!! Glad Sunday's teeth cleaning went well. I hope she gets over her infection soon, so she'll have energy for to nag! Maple cake or maple ice cream sound wonderful! Mmmmmm. When you mentioned the Barrier Reef, it reminded me of how much I want to go to Australia some day and snorkel around the Barrier Reef. Can you snorkel there? or is it just scuba diving? What is bundy (as in "beer and bundy")?

Rennie - Hilarious gassy dog and sleeping skunk stories!! My co-workers were wondering what I was laughing at! That's the only thing I don't like about spring...just when the weather gets nice enough to open the windows, the skunks come around and try to attract mates with their scent! When the weather is warmer, I have to look around the whole yard at night before I put the dogs out at night. I don't have to worry too much about critters when it's 5 or 10 below!

Mel - Right now I way a few times a week, but I'll try and get in the every day habit too. I do recognize that weight can fluctuate from day to day though, so even if I'm up a little, if I'm doing the right stuff...I don't get too discouraged. I use it as motivation to work harder. Starting to take stuff up to the summer trailer? Ahhhh, summer is getting closer, even though it may not even get into the 40s today. Tomorrow I may be going to a baseball game (exhibition game - Opening Day is Monday). The Boys of Summer are back in town! JJ Hardy of the Milwaukee Brewers is such a cutie! Maybe not as cute as your firemen, but pretty darn cute in his own right.

Here's to a fabulous Friday! Just a few more hours 'till the weekend! Hope we all have a great weekend and have fun doing what we want to do!!

A big to the lurkers and big hugs to all of you!

[annie175]

Mel...I used to have to use dynomite for the poops but not anymore. Just popped an immodium too slow the works down. Shuuuu Weeee....literally.

BREAKING NEWS....THEY CAUGHT THE MUGGERS!!!! In a Walmart trying to use Ts credit cards. WaaaWhooo

Have a FABU Friday.

Love and Hugs

[diyana]

Annie - I'm SO glad they caught the muggers! That's wonderful. I'll bet that makes everyone at your work breathe a sigh of relief.

[happy2bme]

Found the recipe - hope you enjoy it.

The Perfect Oatmeal

If you're using REGULAR quick cooking oatmeal - 1/2 cup oats, 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 cup water

If you're using STEEL CUT OATS - 1/2 cup oats, 1 cup milk, 1 cup water

Put the liquids in the pot and bring to a gentle boil. Don't let it come to a fast boil or you'll scald the milk

Add the oatmeal

Turn the heat down low to a simmer

Toss in:

- a heaping tablespoon of crystalized ginger, diced (I'm not a huge ginger fan, so I reduced the amount of this to a half teaspoon the next time I made it).
- tablespoon of vanilla extract
- healthy sprinkling of cinnamon
- small splash of real maple syrup
- a handful of raisins

Simmer this mixture for as long as you'd cook the oatmeal itself - - check the instructions on the box - ie. 5 minutes for quick cooking oats, 30 minutes for steel cut oats. Stir often as this cooks thicker then using just water and you don't want it to stick to the bottom of the pot.

Makes 2, one cup servings.

Since I was making steel cut oats and cooking them for 30 minutes, I added the raisins in 5 minutes before the oatmeal was done. You can toss them in earlier if you like them plumped up.

Once cooked you can add other chopped, fresh fruit to you liking. I tossed in some chopped walnuts one time, chopped pecans another.

[happy2bme]

Annie - I'm glad they caught the muggers too. Hope they "throw the book at 'em" for unneccessary roughness on the co-worker.

We have to get Rennie a spring avatar so the snow will know to go away for your guys up north

Michelle - do you ever see Jolly or did you move to a different part of town? Good going on the gym. You and Shad are exercise MACHINES!!!!
I am still waiting to fall in love with exercise.

Mel - please be careful "driving" with the fuzzy eyes. Would think someone could help you get situated there. Hope the tests come out ok.

I am tired and feeling under the weather today. Good thing it's Friday. Ever want to crawl under your desk for 30 minutes of a power nap? Trouble is, the snoring would give me away! The day won't get over fast enough for me today.

Hello to all the chicks - present and on their way over

[diyana]

Happy - I hope you feel better. A nice relaxing weekend is what you need. I don't see Jolly anymore. I moved north of Milwaukee to West Bend, and she moved way west of Milwaukee to either Dodge or Jefferson County. I haven't heard from her in years. I don't even have her current email address. I have her former work email address and former home email address. If you have her current email address, can you pls PM it to me? I've also searched for her on 3FC, but haven't found any recent posts. I hope she's okay.

I also hope Patty checks in soon. I know she's going through a lot though. I just miss her. She's such a terrific chick.

[ceejay52]

Gone a couple of days and it takes an hour to catch up with you chicks.

My sister hubby and daughter left this morning. I hated to see them go. I'll be going to Missouri in May so that will not be to long. We had an enjoyable visit. My sister and I had a long talk about the past.

Pay check arrived this morning at the door so I need to get out and do some errands. Found a mistake on bank statement which was the banks fault. They credited my account so I'm pleased. This has happened once before.

There is still a bunch of flood waters around in certain area's. Mainly along the ditches and small rivers. It was awesome to look at.

Every one have a good day. I'll be back later to finish reading.

[Shy Moment]

Cee
Sorry the family has left. It can be very hard to be apart from those we love. Do you ever wonder how much money the banks make a year because of their mistakes that people don't pay attention to.

Happy
The girl that made my winter avatar is making me a spring one. Heaven only knows that it will have in it. Come on, this one has a rat in it lol. I sure hope you feel better.

Melody
When my husband told that story to the family she yelled at him and told him to shut up the next time and then told him her skunk story lol.

COOKIES COOKIES COOKIES I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE COOKIES

Annie
So glad to hear it.

Di
I live out in the country. I live about 10 min from the house I grew up in. I have had to live in the city. I had to live in New York city for a short time ( the nice expensive part lol ). I will take the manure and the skunks over the smells of the city any old day of the week. Oh my gosh city's smell and the noise I have no idea how people sleep and all the lights. Oh my gosh it is never dark enough or quiet enough to sleep in the city's.

[annie175]

Have a marvelous weekend ladies.........supposed to 55 and sunny tomorrow, going to pick up trash in the yard that the neighbors let trash cans blow.

Love and Hugs

[Shad]

I've bandaged up my hands and taken the pain killers. Guess I will need to do it again this morning after I feed the cat her antibiotic tablet. I'll be well pleased when those are finished and done with.

Ceejay - so glad that you have had a good visit with the sister and family. It's always hard to see them go. Bet you got to spoil a few of them while they were there. Aren't you going out to California sometime this year as well? Was that family to?

Rennie - I don't think I have ever smelled a skunk, but that's okay, no need to lay one on for my next visit. I'm sure I can let the imagine take flight. Priming the ceiling is a riveting task. So much so that I'm sure my neck and upper back are craving for the next round, which will be today after Body Balance class. Only two more coats and then it is done for this part of the house at least. Only 3 more bits of the original ceiling left now. Yeehaa. I'll get that cr*p painter out of my house yet.

Hey Mel - the birds are back - don't let the grandson hear. It's grey and raining again so they are having a whinge at the weather today. Hope the eye bloke goes okay on Monday.

Happy - thanks for the recipe. I will give it a go. Mine will be instant oats since I never have the time or inclination to watch a bubbling pot. Double, double, toil and trouble, cauldron burn and cauldron bubble. I don't have enough pots left to burn the bottoms of!!!!
Just for the record - and I'm not speaking for any of the others, I DO NOT like going to the gym and getting in my daily sweat. I don't hate it either. It is just something that has to be done during my day. Diet alone won't shift the fat. Exercise alone does not shift my weight - I've lost little since I have been going to the gym. What I have lost there is inches. So I eat well and carefully (most of the time) and exercise 5 days a week and have gone from a size 18 to a size 14 and sometimes a 12. It's hard graft and there are days where I look on it as a burden but I go anyway. I am fine once I get there, but you ought to hear my mind talking to itself all the way there. You'd think a 3 year old was on the loose.
The giant clams on the reef by the way are a beautiful cobalt blue and you are not allowed to catch them and eat them. Catch - well that's the wrong word really since they cement themselves onto the reef.

Michelle - you can do anything on the Great Barrier Reef, but you may have to do it soon, pollution, climate change, agricultural run off is all taking its toll. I went out there on an organised tour and the part of the reef we went to has a glass bottomed boat for those who want to look but not get wet, snorkelling for those who like to look but not all that closely and scuba for those who want to get up close and personal with some of the biggest fish you have ever seen. Then you can go on a helcopter flight over the reef and see the coral and the turtles and rays swimming around. It's magic. I've attached a picture of the reef on a really low tide day - you can't actually pick the sea creatures from the photo, but they were there.
Bundy is Bundaberg rum - a fairly potent spirit made here in Queensland and known to have a kick if over applied (which is frequently the case). I don't like it much - too sweet as it is made from sugar cane.
I too hope Patty checks in soon. I don't have an email for her, but I do have a phone number (somewhere) if anyone wants to ring her and see how she is doing.

Annie - so pleased they caught the mugger. One up to the police force and Walmart. Restores my faith.

Was watching the Biggest Loser (Aus style) last night and in the last couple of episodes they have brought back some of the biggest losers from past years. It is good to see so many of them still looking so damned good. (Especially Mel's Fireman Big Wal) Last nights challenge paired up a past loser with a present contestant and they had to pull a bus (9 tonne) along the road for a set distance. Seems that getting the bus actually rolling is the key not the pulling of the moving bus. Some of them actually ran it up the road. Had to laugh at the first Biggest Loser Winner (Adro Sarnelli) - the present contestants were picking their partner - opposite sex and poor Adro is not a big person any more and not that tall - he got picked last. He whinged because he used to get picked last because he was the fattest kid, now he gets picked last because he is the skinniest kid. And he looks like he has lost about 10 years off his face as well.

Okay better go get ready for body balance class and see if I can fit in a bit of dusting and sweeping before I go. I'm tired of seeing this mess around me!