No Slowing Down, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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It's Thankful day and the end of the year is seeing no slowdown in the amount of things for which to be thankful.

Last Saturday was supposed to be Lee's 6th birthday party, but Red-headed Alec had to put it off.  Instead they came and saw me and I'm thankful I was able to visit with them both and give Lee his birthday gift and give both of them Christmas gifts.  The little guy is his daddy made over!

Ms. JAI's middle son visited with her for Thanksgiving, and we're both thankful for that.  I'm also thankful she let me come over Monday even though it was the anniversary of her youngest son's death.  

I got the guest bed changed and the bathrooms and kitchen cleaned and mopped, and while I was there the impossible happened, her youngest daughter called!  This is the first time in months.

She also told me one of her granddaughters is not only actually speaking to her again, but has promised she and her husband are coming on Christmas Day and they are bringing and cooking the whole dinner!

Ms. D's daughter was visiting from San Antonio when i went this week and we were thankful to finally meet and talk a bit and do a couple of projects for Ms. D.  Although she calls her mother every day and can even track her location on her Apple watch, Steph is glad to know i'm just a few doors down and she has my number so she can call and ask me to run by and check on her mom any time.

Ms.G was preparing for another trip in the camper, i'm thankful the shelter work went quickly and we were able to get a lot done.

Her cat, Angel, is not cooperating in the whole process.  The trip had to be postponed because Angel came down with a urinary tract infection.  I'm thankful Ms. G didn't leave exactly when planned so she was able to get Angel to the vet quickly.

i'm also thankful her plan now, if Angel is better, is to leave Sunday.

Ms. SE sent me a text Wednesday night telling me she'd forgotten to let me know she was in the hospital for neck surgery!  I'm thankful she texted, thankful her mom was with her and was able to bring her home Thursday, and thankful Sweetie and i were able to alter our usual cleaning plan to get her bedroom, bathroom, and the whole back hallway of the house and rooms off of it done before she got there.  She was able to go straight to her room and rest and not worry about us at all as we cleaned the front of the house.

Between Thursday night and Friday morning we had quite a bit of rain, we're thankful because it was much needed.  I'm thankful it stopped before i had to leave for prayer group.

In the middle of the afternoon i got a text from Little Girl asking if i was home.  I was and she came by, the first time i've seen her in a couple of months.  It was lovely to catch up and we've figured out which day we're going to meet up at Grandma and Grandpas right before Christmas.

The shelter was buzzing Friday evening with people looking to adopt, people taking cats home, and people coming in "just to look."  We're thankful for plenty of volunteers and when the place is busy, it's just fun.

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Today is:

Bartender Appreciation Day -- with a guide to help you show your appreciation to the Heroes Behind the Bar 

Chichibu Yomatsuri -- Chichibu shrine, Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan (one of Japan's most impressive night parties; through tomorrow) 

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery -- UN

National Day -- Laos; United Arab Emirates (trad.)

National Fritters Day

National Mutt Day -- US (because mixed breeds need an extra chance) 

Oshiroi Matsuri -- Fukuoka, Japan (Face Paint Festival, to ask for good harvest next year)

Safety Razor Day -- the first disposable razor blades were patented by King Gillette this day in 1901

SKYWARN Recognition Day -- National Weather Service, NOAA, and Amateur Radio Operators, working together to report dangerous weather conditions

Special Education Day -- US (anniversary of the first US special education law in 1975)

St. Bibiana's Day (Patron of epileptics, mentally ill people, single laywomen, torture victims; against epilepsy, hangovers, headaches, insanity, mental illness; and, appropriately considering the aforementioned list, Los Angeles, CA)

Walter Plinge Day -- UK (the British equivalent to George Spelvin, a name used to disguise the fact that an actor is playing more than one part in a production, but Walter was based on a real pub owner who was generous to actors)

Birthdays Today:

Britney Spears, 1981

Nelly Furtado, 1978

Monica Seles, 1973

Lucy Liu, 1968

Randy Gardner, 1958

Dennis Christopher, 1955

Dan Butler, 1954

Stone Phillips, 1954

Cathy Lee Crosby, 1948

T. Coraghessan Boyle, 1948

Gianni Versace, 1946

William Wegman, 1943

Julie Harris, 1925

Maria Callas, 1923

Randolph Hearst, 1915

Charles Ringling, 1863

Georges Seurat, 1859

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Naked Gun(Film), 1988

"Mystery of Edwin Drood"(Musical), 1985

"Imus in the Morning"(Radio), 1961

Dancing Lady(Film), 1933 (first appearance of Fred Astaire)

"The Adventures of Charlie Chan"(Radio), 1932

Model A Ford, 1927 (first sold on this date, for $385)

"Sie Versunkene Glocke/The Sunken Bell"(Hauptmann play), 1896

"Samson et Dalila/Samson and Delilah"(Saint-Saens opera, Op. 47), 1877

"La Favorite/The Favorite"(Donizetti opera), 1840

Today in History:

The University of Leipzig opens, 1409

Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what became the United States, 1763

Napoleon defeats the Russians and Austrians at Austerlitz, 1805

The first Savings bank in the US opens, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, 1816

US President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine", 1823

US President James K. Polk declares it is the "Manifest Destiny" of the US to expand into the West, 1845

Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the US, in NYC, 1867

King Camp Gillette patents the safety razor, 1901

Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 2, 1908

Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A, 1927

A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, 1942

Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan, 1947

The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution, 1956

Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates, 1971

Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state, 1988

A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932, 1990

The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive, 1999

NASA announces finding an arsenic based life form on Earth, 2010

Taxi service company Uber expands its presence in Latin America by partnering with Carlos Slim's cell phone company America Movil to place the Uber app on mobile phones throughout Mexico, 2014

A trade war truce is agreed upon between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 meeting in Argentina, 2018

The UK authorizes the use of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the first Western country to approve a Covid vaccine, 2020