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Things are looking up this Thankful Day.
Last Saturday worked out well in spite of Grandma's changing the game and wanting some things done at her house in a different order. I'm thankful i'm finding ways to get things done on time anyway.
Mr. Cal had a meet-up with his dog friends on the walk with him and Becca last week, and we know he's thankful for those. I'm thankful for the pictures i get to take of them having fun.
The part for my Sweetie's phone was in, so on Monday he dropped it off to have the new screen installed. I'm thankful it's done and i was there to get his phone out of maintenance mode when it was over, he was baffled.
I actually got to sleep until after 6am on Tuesday! Talk about thankful, it hasn't happened in a long time.
Once i was up, i got to babysit. My little Annie is a joy, even when she's screaming and fighting not to go to sleep.
Ms. G was determined to get certain things done on Wednesday and i'm thankful they were done, and done to her specifications.
It was scheduled to be a long day Thursday and i'm thankful i got to Ms. V and Mr. L's place very, very early. Mr. L, thankfully, got up to eat and i was able to change out his pillowcases, and Ms. V got up early to go work out so i was able to get the sheets and towels from the bedroom and thus got laundry going almost 2 hours earlier than usual!
I'm also thankful i persisted in questioning about Carl and his schedule. He kept insisting he did not have work because of an appointment, but he'd mixed up the days, it was Friday he had off. Because i wouldn't drop it, he found out about the mix-up and still got to work on time.
Ms. V's place, thankfully, was done in time for me to get to Kevin and Lenny's. I'm still thankful they are letting me clean this month and next in exchange for the new battery in the car.
As for Friday, Ms. GA's was done in record time and i not only finally got to the bank, after trying for a couple of weeks, i was able to go to the office and cancel my upcoming eye surgery.
One more talk with our circle leader about it convinced me, i will be getting a different doctor. I'm thankful she was so brutally honest with me and feel as if a weight has been lifted.
Even more, because my Sweetie thinks the doctor who did my first surgery is a fabulous one, i was concerned about telling him his hero might be flawed, although you'd think my first very difficult surgery would have convinced him.
I'm thankful he took it well and agreed with me, another doctor would be better, so things really are looking up for me with my eyes..
As for the cat shelter Friday evening, we had extra volunteers and by the time we all left, the place looked sharp and we are thankful.
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:
Baba Marta Day -- Bulgaria (Grandmother Spring Day, martenitsa are worn until you see a stork or a tree blooming.)
Beer Day -- Iceland (marks the end of the prohibition of beer in 1989)
Be Positive, Do Something Positive Day -- the way to start Optimism Month
Bravo Day/Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day -- Marshall Islands
Chalandra Marz -- Engandine, Switzerland (various cities of this province have the traditional spring event where costumed young people, ringing bells and cracking whips, drive out the demons of winter)
Day to Mourn Victims of Land Mines -- anniversary of the day they were outlawed worldwide in 1999
Dia de las Islas Baleares -- Iberia, Spain
Feast of Tou Tei -- Macau (earth god; celebrated on the second day of the second lunar month, so if i've mixed up the date in Gregorian, i'm sorry, i tried)
First Day of Autumn -- Australia (they go by months, not equinoxes, like the rest of the world used to)
Humorists Are Artists Month begins -- any coincidence this spells HAAM?
Iditarod Sled Dog Race - Last Great Race on Earth® begins -- Anchorage to Nome, AK, US (1,000 miles along the historic Iditarod Trail)
Independence Day -- Bosnia and Herzegovina(1992)
International Association for Women of Color Day -- on the first day of Women's History Month
International Wheelchair Day -- a day when wheelchair users celebrate the positive impact a wheelchair has had in their lives
Martisor -- Romanians and Aromanians, especially in Romania and Moldova (similar tradition to Baba Marta; first days of March are Zilele Babei, Days of the Old Woman, when Old Woman Winter, Baba Dokia, who lives in the mountains, might come back with ferocity.)
National Fruit Compote Day
National Heroes' Day -- Paraguay
National Horse Protection Day -- US; sponsored by the Animal Miracle Foundation http://www.horseprotectionday.com/
National Pig Day -- sponsored by Ellen Stanley and Mary Lynne Rave, who want you to know that pigs are amazing animals that place fourth on the animal intelligence list!
National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day -- different from National Peanut Butter Day, which is January 24
Navii's Day / Vjunitci -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (a Day of the Dead, bringing sacrifices and inviting the ancestors to attend the feast)
New Year's Day -- Ancient Roman Pre-Julian Calendar; related observances
Birthday of Mars Pater (Feriae Marti)
Chalanda Marz -- Kalends of March (now a festival in Egandine, Grisons Canton, Switzerland, in which the children ring bells to ring out the winter)
Matronalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Women's Festival to Juno)
Renewal of the Vestal Fire
Nineteen Day Fast -- Baha'i (begins at sundown)
Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day -- in remembrance of the destruction of Bikini Atoll
Omizutori Matsuri -- Todai-ji Temple, Nara, Japan (Water-Drawing Festival of 1,200 year old Buddhist ceremonies, through the 14th)
Peace Corps Birthday / National Day of Action -- US
Peanut Butter Lovers' Day -- according to some foodie sites
Plan a Solo Vacation Day -- Solo Travel Portal wants you to dream big and plan what you would do if you could get away, solo.
Ramadan -- Islam (began sunset yesterday, through March 31)
ReFIRED, Not Retired Day -- the day to get Fired Up about Life, Part II; you aren't retired, you are reFIRED!
Republic Day -- NE, Switzerland
Samiljeol (March 1st Movement Remembrance Day) -- South Korea
Self-Injury Awareness Day -- International (for information about self-injury, or to get started getting help, go here)
St. David of Wales' Day (Patron of doves; Patron of Wales, where it is called Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant)
Time for a Cuppa -- UK (raising awareness of dementia and raising funds for research; through Mar. 8)
Whuppity Scoorie Day -- Lanark, Scotland (Spring festival, children run around the church and pick up coins thrown for them.)
World Civil Defense Day -- International Civil Defense Organisation
Yap Day -- Micronesia (festival celebrating the heritage of the Yap peoples)
Zhonghe/Longtaitou -- China (Double Second Festival and Blue Dragon Festival, the time to wake the dragons that control the rains; celebrate the 2nd day of the 2nd lunar month the modern way now by cleaning the house, getting a hair cut, and eating popcorn, pancakes, and noodles)
Anniversaries Today:
Johnny Cash marries June Carter, 1968
Yellowstone National Park established, 1872
Nebraska becomes the 37th US State, 1867
Howard University in Washington, D.C., is chartered, 1867
Ohio becomes the 17th US State, 1803
Birthdays Today:
Justin Bieber, 1994
Mark-Paul Gosselaar, 1974
Javier Bardem, 1969
George Eads, 1967
Russell Wong, 1963
Nik Kershaw, 1958
Timothy Daly, 1956
Ron Howard, 1954
Catherine Bach, 1954
Alan Thicke, 1947
Dirk Benedict, 1945
Roger Daltry, 1944
Robert Conrad, 1935
Harry Belafonte, 1927
Pete Rozelle, 1926
Donald "Deke" K. Slayton, 1924
William M. Gaines, 1922
Richard (Purdy) Wilbur, 1921
Ralph Ellison, 1914
Harry Caray, 1914
David Niven, 1910
Glenn Miller, 1904
Watsuji Tetsuro, 1889
Oskar Kokoschka, 1886
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848
Frederic Chopin, 1810
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Sophisticated Ladies"(Musical), 1981
"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"(Musical), 1979
"Believe It or Not"(TV), 1949
"Captain America Comics #1"(Comic book), 1941
"Native Son"(Publication date), 1940
Today in History:
Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women, BC752
Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, BC86
Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus, 1260
The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination, 1457
23 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion, 1562
The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden, 1593
Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu, 1633
Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
"The Spectator" begins publishing, in London, 1711
The first US census is authorized, 1790
Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba, 1815
Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first African-American female to earn a medical degree, 1864
Yellowstone becomes the world's first national park, 1872
E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter, 1873
Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri, 1893
Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity, 1896
Battle of Adwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians, the first defeat of a colonizing European nation by an African colony, 1896
Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from an airplane, 1912
The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union, 1914
The March 1st Movement, demonstrations for independence from Japan, begins in Korea, 1919
Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped, 1932
The Hoover Dam is completed, 1936
US Steel raises workers wages to US$5/day, 1937
Trans-Canada Air Lines (forerunner of Air Canada) begins transcontinental operations (between Vancouver and Montreal), 1939
The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations, 1947
Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa, 1950
The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States, 1954
The Peace Corps is established, 1961
Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe, Chile, 1964
Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface, 1966
Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1992
Yahoo! was incorporated, 1995
The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 miles) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (9.5 tons), 2002
The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague, 2003
English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station, 2006
The tomb of a 700 year old female mummy, discovered by road workers, opened in Taizhou, Jiangsu, China, 2011
Two Guatemalan military officers are convicted of sexual slavery during country's civil war, the first ever prosecution of sexual slavery during an armed conflict, 2016
The discovery of the gene for grey hair (IRF4) is announced by Scientists from University College London in "Nature Communications", 2016
The earliest evidence for figural tattoos (bull and sheep) on two naturally mummified bodies from Egypt’s predynastic period (3351-3017BC) is published in "Journal of Archaeological Science", 2018
Canadian-American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell receives the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize, 2023
