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It's Thankful Day and there's plenty, as always, starting with last weekend.
Thanks to the mouse eating the dishwasher line and flooding Grandma and Grandpa's kitchen and more, the negotiations with the insurance over what will and won't be covered are ongoing, but we're thankful Uncle J was able to go ahead and order a new fridge, oven/range, and dishwasher, the latter of which he will temporarily install himself so they won't be without one.
Because of plans for Monday, when i got back from NOLA i went and took care of my Monday afternoon client's house. I was thankful Ms. S allowed me to do it and thankful i was able to still do an extra long work day.
There was only one church service Sunday, Mr. Cal hereby registers his thankfulness for the extra long walk he gets when this happens.
After the service, again because Monday would be otherwise occupied, i went and took care of Carl's place.
I was most thankful to not miss the work, as we had enough of that with the snow the week prior.
Monday morning i was thankful i did as my doctor had instructed and took my blood pressure medication early.
The big day, cataract surgery day, had finally arrived, and i was thankful it would soon be over.
I am thankful for a good doctor who is very experienced, as not only did i feel what was going on, i had a feeling something was wrong. Indeed, the next day he told me it was a very, very tough cataract to get out.
When the bandages came off Tuesday, i'm thankful i was able to see some and i'm thankful it's been a bit better each day.
I was also thankful to get to go be with my little Annie that day, wearing an eye shield just to protect it.
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I'm thankful the pain is less now and the eye shield hides how bruised and awful it looks.
Back to work Wednesday went pretty well, and i'm thankful Ms. G had me only lift the rug edges to clean under them instead of having to roll them up and remove them as i'm not supposed to lift that much.
Ms. V was up early on Thursday, for which i am thankful because it meant i got done a bit early for the day. Also, she was okay with me simply mopping the kitchen instead of getting on hands and knees and scrubbing and i'm thankful because i think it would have been too much, too soon.
While at Ms. V's, i got a call from Ms. JAI. She had an accident, drove her car through her garage wall and into her closet. I'm thankful i was able to call Mr. DE and give him her name and number so she could have a contractor she could trust to take care of this situation.
Sweetie helped me Friday at Ms. GA's place and i was thankful as there was a church ladies' gathering and i was able to go for a while after work.
The shelter had lots of people looking at cats and a couple of adoptions and we were very thankful all the cats which tried to escape their rooms were caught without much trouble and put back where they belonged.
Please write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful, where Clark and his co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting.
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Today is:
Air Force Day -- Nicaragua
Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery -- Mauritius
Be An Encourager Day/Inspire Your Employees to Excellence Day -- begun by ecard companies; send someone an encouraging word today
Candlemas Eve
Cross-Quarter Day of Imbolc/Sughnassad -- various celebrations through the 2nd
Dignity Action Day -- UK (aiming to ensure people who use care services are treated as individuals and are given choice, control, and a sense of purpose in their daily lives)
Federal Territory Day -- Kuala Lumpur, Labuan, and Putrajaya, Malaysia
Festival of the North -- Ketchikan, AK (month long celebration of the arts in Alaska, including a wearable art show, ballet performances, and more)
Freedom Day -- US (anniversary of the approval of the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery)
G.I. Joe Day -- the action hero first went on sale this day in 1964
Heroes' Day -- Rwanda
Hula in The Coola Day -- sponsored by iparty.com; a day to laugh at winter doldrums and escape the cold for a bit -- warm up the house, put on your shorts and have a luau!
Independence Day -- Nauru
Kalends of February -- Ancient Roman Calendar; also
Festival of Helernus (god of vegetables and the underworld)
National Baked Alaska Day
National Storytelling Week -- UK (the Society for Storytelling encourages you to celebrate one of the most ancient art forms; through Feb. 9)
Robinson Crusoe Day -- anniversary of the 1709 rescue of Alexander Selkirk, whose story inspired the novel Robinson Crusoe; a day to be adventurous and self-reliant
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Day -- the Dominion Police and the North-West Mounted Police officially merged on this day in 1920 to form the "Mounties"
Solo Diners' Eat Out Week -- sooner or later, everyone faces the challenge of eating out alone, so go enjoy doing so, celebrating this lifestyle skill; sponsored by SoloDining.com
Spunky Old Broads' Day (also the start of Spunky Old Broads' Month) -- a day for women over 50 to resolve to live a regret free life
St. Brigid's Day (aka St. Bridget or Saint Brighid of Kildare; Patron of babies, blacksmiths, boatmen/mariners/sailors, cattle, chicken farmers, children of unwed parents, dairy workers, fugitives, midwives, nuns, poets, printing presses, scholars, travelers; Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Ivrea, Turin, Italy; Kildare, Ireland; Leinster, Ireland)
formerly celebrated on Feb. 2 as the Imbolc quarter day of the Irish pagan calendar
Tupperware Sculpting Day -- internet generated; take an old, worn piece of Tupperware, melt it, and sculpt something
Working Naked Day -- dedicated to those who work from home without the support system an outside work environment provides
Ya-Ya Matsuri -- Owase, Mie Prefecture, Japan (parades, street festivals, and boys diving into the sea for purification; through the 5th)
Birthdays Today:
Lauren Conrad, 1986
Michael C. Hall, 1971
Pauly Shore, 1970
Lisa Marie Presley, 1968
Pauly Shore, 1968
Sherilyn Fenn, 1965
Brandon Lee, 1965
Princess Stephanie of Monaco, 1965
Bill Mumy, 1954
Rick James, 1948
Bob Jamieson, 1943
Terry Jones, 1942
Sherman Helmsley, 1938
Don Everly, 1937
Garrett Morris, 1937
Boris Yeltsin, 1931
Stuart Whitman, 1929
S.J. Perelman, 1904
Langston Hughes, 1902
Clark Gable, 1901
John Ford, 1894
Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 1882
Hatty Wyatt Caraway, 1878
Victor Herbert, 1859
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Late Night with David Letterman"(TV), 1982
"Rich Man, Poor Man"(TV Miniseries), 1976
"The Secret Storm" (TV), 1954 (first TV soap opera)
"General Electric Theater"(TV), 1953
"You Are There"(TV), 1953
"La Boheme"(Puccini Opera), 1896
"The Corsair"(publication date), 1814
Today in History:
Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Isabella of France and her lover Roger Mortimer, 1327
The Colony of Roanoke Island is established by the landing of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1587
Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe, is rescued from the uninhabited archipelago of Juan Fernandez, 1709
The Ottoman sultan orders the capture of his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII, resulting in the Kalabalik i Bender (Tumult in Bender), 1713
The first US steamboat patent is issued, by Georgia, to Briggs & Longstreet, 1788
The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York, 1796
The American Insurance Company of Philadelphia opens, the first such company managed by blacks, 1810
Volcano Mayon on Luzon, Philippines erupts killing 1,200, 1814
Slavery is abolished in Mauritius, 1835
The first US dental school, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, is incorporated, 1840
Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College, 1856
Morris Raphall of NYC becomes the first rabbi to open the House of Representatives, 1860
Julia Howe publishes the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," 1862
Jefferson Long of Georgia is the first black to make an official speech in the House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates), 1871
The first volume of A New English Dictionary, A to Ant,later called the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, is published, 1888
Thomas Edison completes the world's first movie studio, in West Orange, N.J., 1893
The first auto insurance policy is issued, by The Travelers Insurace Co., 1898
China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet, 1902
The first US federal penitentiary is completed, at Leavenworth, Kansas, 1906
Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar, 1918
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police, 1920
The United States Army launches Explorer 1, 1958
Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, 1960
The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill, 1965
Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces, 1968
Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl, 1978
The Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile, 1979
Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral, 1998
Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard, 2003
Johanna Siguroardottir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland, 2009
Myanmar's first freely elected parliament in 50 years has its opening session in Nay Pyi Taw, 2016
Archaeologists announce that the discovery of thousands of previously undetected structures in Mayan lowland civilization in Guatemala, using Lidar technology, which suggests there was a population of about 10 million, 2018
January 2019 was Australia's hottest month on record according to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology, 2019
Locusts swarm across East Africa, leading Somalia to declare their largest national emergency in 25 years, 2020
Wisdom the Albatross, age 70, becomes the world's oldest known bird to hatch a chick at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, 2021
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, considered the 'Nobel Prize for Engineering,' is awarded to Masato Sagawa for inventing the neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) magnet, 2022
