holidays: Halloween Is Over - Time To Talk Turkey - 10/31/09 04:26 PM
So Halloween has come and gone for another year.  We get an extra hour of sleep (or whatever) tonight.  Tomorrow some of us will be late, or is it early for Church, an appointment or event.  Spring ahead - fall back.  Why is it always so confusing? 
Tomorrow's chores include changing all the clocks back an hour.  Monday the stores will move any leftover Halloween inventory out and go crazy preparing for Christmas sales.  The flyers will arrive in the mail and in the newspapers from grocery stores offering  sales on turkey.  Fresh, frozen, stuffed, unstuffed, oiled, buttered, greased, organic, corn fed, … (44 comments)

holidays: It's National Proposal Day - Have You Popped the Question Yet? - 03/20/09 02:40 PM
I heard on the radio today that it was National Proposal Day.  Huh?  I knew it was the first day of Spring, also known as Vernal Equinox but have I been missing something all these years?
I didn't know there was a particular day of the year that men ( or women) were supposed to pop the question to their loved one.  So I plugged it into Google and I get a lovely calendar with occasions for every day of the year practically.
Did you know that today March 20 is also Great American Meatout?  National Agriculture Day?  Snowman Burning Day?  … (10 comments)