posted January 27, 2007 12:27 PM         

Return carts to the supermarket month?? Yeesh, more likely leave them at the outside rack since it’s too cold and blustery to take them all the way back to the store!!
Hurray – a day just for my Chinese astro sign! (Feb 1st) – what to do, what to do…..
I’d better start planning now for Feb 16th….. and where would be a good spot for Feb 28th….. :-D

February is . . . . National Blah Buster Month, National Embroidery Month, National Grapefruit Month, National Snack Food Month, National Weddings Month, Responsible Pet Owner Month, Return Carts to the Supermarket Month, Creative Romance Month, International Twit Award Month, Canned Food Month

Holidays are listed in chronological order. Remember this site is dedicated to bizarre American holidays…..

February 1 is . . . . . Serpent Day
February 2 is . . . . . Purification Day
February 3 is . . . . . Cordova Ice Worm Day
February 4 is . . . . . Create A Vacuum Day
February 5 is . . . . . Disaster Day
February 6 is . . . . . Lame Duck Day
February 7 is . . . . . Charles Dickens Day
February 8 is . . . . . Kite Flying Day
February 9 is . . . . . Toothache Day
February 10 is . . . . Umbrella Day
February 11 is . . . . White Tee-Shirt Day and Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day
February 12 is . . . . National Plum Pudding Day
February 13 is . . . . Get A Different Name Day and Dream Your Sweet Day
February 14 is . . . . Ferris Wheel Day and National Heart to Heart Day
February 15 is . . . . National Gum Drop Day
February 16 is . . . . Do A Grouch A Favor Day
February 17 is . . . . Champion Crab Races Day
February 18 is . . . . National Battery Day
February 19 is . . . . National Chocolate Mint Day
February 20 is . . . . Hoodie Hoo Day
February 21 is . . . . Card Reading Day
February 22 is . . . . Be Humble Day
February 23 is . . . . International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day
February 24 is . . . . National Tortilla Chip Day
February 25 is . . . . Pistol Patent Day (Samuel Colt)
February 26 is . . . . National Pistachio Day
February 27 is . . . . International Polar Bear Day
February 28 is . . . . Public Sleeping Day
February 29 is . . . . National Surf and Turf Day

(Hoodie Hoo Day: This holiday is celebrated in an interesting way. At high noon everyone yells "Hoodie-Hoo!" to chase away winter and make way for spring.)

Note: Alaskans truly have a peculiar sense of humor (the Cordova Ice Worm Festival)….. eh, what am I saying – this weekend is the Winter Carnival here Then again, weirdness could be a natural reaction to having odd fauna like this in the environs:

"The first ice worm species were discovered in 1887 in Alaska, on the Muir Glacier. These glacier ice worms can be found on glaciers in Alaska, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. They have not been found in other glaciated regins of the world. The name "solifugus" is Latin for "sun-avoiding", as ice worms retreat underneath the ice before dawn. Enzymes in ice worms have very low optimal temperatures, and can be denatured at even a few degrees above 0°C. When ice worms are exposed to temperatures as high as 5°C, their membranes melt and the worm itself liquifies. Ice worms are several centimeters long, and can be black, blue, or white in color. The ice worms come to the surface of the glaciers in the evening and morning. On Suiattle glacier in the North Cascades population counts indicated over 2 billion ice worms on that glacier alone.
It is not known how ice worms tunnel through the ice. Some scientists believe they travel through microscopic fissures in ice sheets, while others believe they secrete some chemical which can melt ice by lowering its freezing point, like an antifreeze. They feed on snow algae."

With global warming, I feel for the poor little ice worms – I can just hear their teeny voices crying “I’m melting! I’m melting!”

posted January 29, 2007 08:43 AM         

Have you seen what some stores are doing with their carts? Some sort of detector on the front wheels locks them up when you reach the perimeter of the store parking lot. If you're not aware of this, you'll walk into the cart and bruise a shin. I learned this from experience.

I'll let all the homeless people in my labor hall know the 28th is their day. It'll give them a good excuse to give the cops.

I thought March was the official month for kite flying??

posted February 05, 2007 01:41 PM         

I knew I should have put something over my wet hair this morning before I went out into the windy subzero temps.....

posted February 13, 2007 06:33 PM         

I am not really sure what to do. How do I get a different name? Do I need to get married or just go to the court house??

I do I just dream about a sweet day or are we talking about dreaming about myself being sweet..................

posted February 13, 2007 08:14 PM         

For sophisticated palettes:

posted February 13, 2007 08:30 PM         

LOL, BM! I was very confused as to what to do today as well.. I wondered if I should dream myself dressed in a Tootsie Roll costume or something like that. It's going to be a night of confusing, weird dreams.

But, no worries, tomorrow's: