Bigger Girl and an Award and Funnies, a Random and Happy Tuesday Post

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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.  

The other day, at AT&T dealing with Bigger Girl's phone, she said, "You know what I miss about all of this social distancing and shutdown?  I miss going to the zoo.  Mom, let's go break into the zoo!  We're dressed for it!"

She said other funny things, too, which is why i need to start recording our conversations.  She should be a comedian, but she said, "I tried, but I'm not a philosophy major!" referencing my belief that philosophers of old realized they could make more money if they presented their ideas as comedy and became our modern stand-up comedians.

And now for something special, a blog award!  Purrseidon gave me the Real Neat Blog Award.

The ‘rules’ of the Real Neat Blog Award are:

1. Put the award logo on your blog. And here it is!

2. Answer 7 questions asked by the person who nominated you.  Those are below.

3. Thank the people who nominated you, linking to their blogs.  Thank you so much, Purrseidon!

4. Nominate any number of bloggers you like, linking to their blogs; and asking them seven questions.  If you are reading this, you are nominated!  Every blog i read regularly, i like and think is neat, or i wouldn't keep reading.  Your questions are:

     1. What's the main thing that keeps you blogging?

     2. Where did you go on your last vacation, and why?

     3. Where do you want to go on your next vacation, and why?

     4. What is your favorite flower?  or flour? (either one, or both, inquiring minds want to know)

     5. Now that you are spending so much more time at home, did you clean the whole house, or are you one of those who found out that lack of time was not the reason you never cleaned the house?

     6. What are you looking forward to doing again the most once you are allowed?

     7. What's on your To Be Read list, and which book are you looking forward to the most?  If you don't have a To Be Read list, what book would you check out of the library if you could go today?

     If you want the award and don't like my questions, you are welcome to answer Purrseidon's instead, they are below.

5. Let them know you nominated them (by commenting on their blog etc.).  Since anyone reading this is nominated if you want to be, you know.

Now for Purrseidon's questions that she asked:

1. Where do most visits to your blog come from?  To find this out, i had to do something i hadn't done in a very, very long time, i looked at the stats page. Turns out, i get most of my visits from the USA, which is not a surprise.  What is a surprise, is that second is Turkmenistan!  

2. What is your favorite sport?  Is reading a sport?  If not, then probably gymnastics or ice skating/dancing, watching not participating of course.

3. What has been a special moment for you so far in 2020?  Part of why i keep my holiday lists on this blog is because i think we should try to make every day special.  My most recent special moments were on Mother's Day, when i got to spend a bit of time, at a safe distance, with each of my children.

4. What is your favorite quote?  "Create in me a clean heart, O G-d, and renew a right spirit within me."  King David, Psalm 51:10

5. What was your favourite class when still at school?  English literature, followed by history and religious studies.  Science was fun, when i understood it, and i was fine with math up through trig, but anything after that is too much for my wordy brain.

6. Is there anything you wished you’d learned earlier?  Everything!  While i believe we should never stop learning, i always figure i could have used that info ten minutes ago.

7. What musical instrument have you tried to play?  Piano, and while i am technically okay, i just don't have the musician "ear" and "soul" that you need to become accomplished.

That was fun!  And now for the funnies:

U Honk We Drink

Have a fabulous Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Day of Purification of All Things -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Fairy Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Royal Humans Disbanded -- Fairy Calendar (and don't ask how we blew it)

Fibromyalgia Awareness Day  

Hug Your Cat Day -- another date given on many sites, and here's some advice about how to do it safely   

International CFS/ME Awareness Day -- bringing awareness about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis    

International Nurses Day -- birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale

Lag B'Omer -- Judaism (began sunset yesterday, ends sunset today)

Limerick Day -- birth anniversary of Edward Lear

National Nutty Fudge Day

Odometer Day -- actually first called a "roadometer", it measured wagon wheel revolutions, as 360 of them made a mile, and was invented and first used this day by William Clayton, Orson Pratt, and Appleton Milo Harmon, Mormon pioneers traveling to Utah in 1847

Olde May Day (Julian Calendar)

Pilgrimage to Fatima -- Fatima, Portugal (procession, mass, and etc. to commemorate the first appearance of the Virgin of the Rosary to the three shepherd children on this day in 1917)

Rotuma Day -- Rotuma, Fiji

Saint Andrew, the First Called Day -- Georgia

Snellman Day/Day of Finnish Identity -- Finland

St. Diomma of Kildimo's Day (Patron of Kildimo, County Limerick, Ireland)

St. Francis Patrizi's Day (Patron of reconciliations)

St. Pancras' Day (2nd Ice Saint; Patron of children, oaths, treaties; Albano, Italy; Iserlohn, Germany; Pontevico, Italy; Sestino, Italy; against cramps, false witness, headaches, and perjury)

Anniversaries Today:

Mick Jagger marries Bianca De Macias, 1971

Eddie Fisher marries Elizabeth Taylor, 1959 

Coronation of George VI of England, 1937

Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia, 1743

National University of San Marcos is founded in Lima, Peru (oldest in the Americas), 1551

Jagiellonian University is fouded in Krakow, Poland (oldest in Poland), 1364

Richard I (Lionheart) of England marries Berengaria of Navarre, 1191

Birthdays Today:

Emily VanCamp, 1986

Cheryl Burke, 1984

Jason Biggs, 1978

MacKenzie Astin, 1973

Christian Campbell, 1972

Jamie Luner, 1971

Kim Fields, 1969

Tony Hawk, 1968

Stephen Baldwin, 1966

Emilio Estevez, 1962

Ving Rhames, 1961

Kim Greist, 1958

Bruce Boxleitner, 1951

Gabriel Byrne, 1950

Lindsay Crouse, 1948

Steve Winwood, 1948

Millie Perkins, 1938

George Carlin, 1937

Tom Snyder, 1936

Frank Stella, 1936

Burt Bacharach, 1929

Yogi Berra, 1925

Mary Kay Ash, 1918

Katharine Hepburn, 1907

Florence Nightingale, 1820

Edward Lear, 1812

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Pulp Fiction(Film), 1994

"Lena Horne: The Lady And Her Music"(Musical revue), 1981

"Mary Had a Little Lamb"(Paul McCartney & Wings single release), 1972

"The Poisoned Kiss, or The Empress and the Necromancer"(Opera), 1936

The Symphony No. 1 in F minor(Shostakovich Op. 10), 1926

"L'elisir d'amore / The Elixir of Love"(Opera), 1832

Today in History:

Antipope  Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome, 1328

Rao Jodha, a Rajput chief  of to the Rathore clan, founds Jodhpur, India, 1459

Philip Lenzi places the first ice cream advertisement, in the NY Gazette, 1777

Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers; it later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses, 1789

The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15, 1870

US District Court Judge J. Dundy rules, in Standing Bear vs. George Crook, that Native Americans are persons within the meaning of the laws of the United States, 1879

Tunisia  becomes a French protectorate, 1881

In the North-West Rebellion, the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian  government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat, 1885

Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, 1932

Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin, 1941

A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada, 1958

West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations, 1965

The U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces in international waters, 1975

South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years, 1984

Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as 1st woman Conservative rabbi, 1985

Fred Markham of the US becomes the first person to pedal a bike at 65mph unaided by wind, 1986

Ingrid Baeyens becomes the first Belgian woman to ascend Mount Everest, 1992

Russia and chechnya sign a peace agreement after 400 years of conflict, 1997

The Texas, US, legislature is brought to a standstill when 59 Democratic lawmakers go into hiding in a dispute with Republicans over redistricting, 2003

An 8.0 earthquake in southwest China kills more than 69,000 people, 2008

Queen Elizabeth II becomes the second-longest-reigning monarch in British history, 2011 

Pope Francis canonizes the 813 martyrs of Otranto as Saints, 2013

Brazil declares an end to the Zika national emergency as cases decrease, 2017