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Ms. G and i were texting back and forth about work plans and we'd gotten everything pretty well worked out.
Then she sent me a panic text, "I forgot to reimburse you for the shopping trip you did for me last week!"
You didn't forget, you sent me with your credit card, i texted back. You don't owe me anything, you paid for it all.
A moment later, she came back with, "I was out of town yesterday and i'm tired and brain dead today, sorry."
She has so much going on in her life, it's a wonder she doesn't have more moments like this.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Card.
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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
The azaleas are still going crazy, brightening even the most boring fences.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
My name is Johnny-Stop-It
I've heard my mommy say,
I'm such a little imp
each and every day!
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful for Bigger Girl, whose birthday was yesterday.
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Today is:
Armed Forces Day -- Myanmar
Cherry Blossom (Sakura) Viewing and Celebrations begin -- Japan (the festivities get started around now, and vary by region depending on when the trees bloom in that area over the next 6 weeks)
Commemoration of Sen no Rikyu -- Omotesenke School of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, Japan (remembering the influential master in The Way of Tea)
Corkscrew Day -- M.L. Byrn of New York patented "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" on this date in 1860
National "Joe" Day -- no, it isn't official, but today you can make everyone call you "Joe" if you want, and call them the same; probably started by someone who had no memory for names
National Letting Go of Stuff Day -- see lettinggocafe.com for details
National Spanish Paella Day
Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day -- after all, they do need their own day; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
St. John Damascene's Day (Patron of pharmacists, icon painting, theology students)
St. Rupert of Salzburg's Day (Patron of Salzburg; celebrated on the 24th in the rest of the Church)
World Theatre Day
Anniversaries Today:
Mary Pickford marries Douglas Fairbanks, 1920
Birthdays Today:
Brenda Song, 1988
Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson, 1975
Nathan Fillion, 1971
Mariah Carey, 1970
Quentin Tarantino, 1963
Xuxa, 1963
Maria Schneider, 1952
Austin Pendleton, 1940
Michael York, 1942
David Janssen, 1931
Anthony Lewis, 1927
Mstislav Rostropovich, 1927
Sarah Vaughan, 1924
Harold Nicholas, 1921
Carl Barks, 1901
Gloria Swanson, 1899
Thorne Smith, 1892
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, 1886
Edward Steichen, 1879
Patty Smith Hill, 1868
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, 1845
Nathaniel Currier, 1813
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Starlight Express"(Rock musical), 1984
"Funky Winkerbean"(Comic strip), 1972
"Singin' in the Rain"(Film), 1952
"La Rondine/The Swallow"(Puccini Opera), 1917
"The Colleen Bawn"(Play), 1860
Today in History:
Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt, BC196
Pope Clement V excommunicates the entire population of Venice, 1309
Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida, 1513
The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy, 1613
The dike at Hardinxveld breaks, causing the Alblasserwaard flood, 1709
Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar, 1713
John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster, precursor to the band-aid, 1848
First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans, 1851
M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew), 1860
The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place, 1871
Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars, 1886
The first Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington, D.C., 1912
The first successful blood transfusion takes place in Brussels, 1914
Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, , 1916
Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor, 1931
Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union, 1958
The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage, 1964
The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight. 1970
Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins, 1975
The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212, 1980
The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours, 1981
The US FDA approves Viagra, 1998
HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe, 2004
The UN General Assembly condemns Russia's annexation of Crimea, 2014
Russia's Soyuz TMA-16M launches to deliver three crew members to the international space station to research the long-term effects of micro gravity, 2015
Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi announces the country is now a "space power" after successfully shooting down a satellite from space in a ballistic missile test, 2019
China’s Chang’e-5 lunar explorer mission finds glass beads strewn across the lunar surface contain potentially billions of tons of water, making future lunar colonies more likely to be easily sustainable, 2023
Johnny Stop It does look like an imp. A happy imp.
ReplyDeleteJohnny does look very impish.
ReplyDeletelove that last line (and not the ...slightest...hint of...err italics) lol
ReplyDeleteCute baby picture with a cute poem. Of course the fence looks beautiful with those azaleas and I see a tree with leaves on it. Leaves, what are those things, lol.
ReplyDeleteNice fence. Thanx Mimi.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Happy Birthday to 'Bigger Girl' ~ fun poems ~ beautiful flowers ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Hmm, saying nothing – have I remembered anything???
ReplyDeleteOh I so love Johnny-Stop-It and everything you always share, Dearie!
ReplyDeleteThank you wholeheartedly for welcoming me back to my blog, after one year of absence.
Happy birthday to Bigger Girl and much love to you
Daniela at ~ My little old world ~ (Dany)
Poor woman needs to sit down with a cup of tea and a cookie
ReplyDeleteThe poem and picture made me smile.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Stop It - we love it. When we were wee pups, we thought we were Timber Stop and Misty No:)
ReplyDeleteWhen life gets super busy, the brain has a hard time keeping up. You are so good to be the honest lady you are.
Woos - Misty and Timber
That was a fun story and a super cute poem! Happy Birthday Bigger Girl, such a wonderful thankful. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteHappy Belated Birthday to Bigger girl! Cute poem. XO
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "Ayyy, our Dada says that is not the worst mistake that someone made with texting this week! We are not sure what he's talking about ..."
ReplyDeleteOh my, the poem and picture really made me laugh!
ReplyDeleteSakura viewing starts today, so very apt, as I saw the first two plum flowers today. Photo and verse made me smile. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThose "panic moments" are absolutely no fun. Being overtired is probably the number one catalyst for them. Happy Belated Birthday to Bigger Girl!
ReplyDeleteOur azaleas are now in decline, sadly. Oh, they are always so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteOMG! That baby picture and caption are to die for! I just never know what fun you have cooked up for me when I drop by. Thank you, Mimi.
ReplyDeleteYour short poem with pic is hilarious! Lucky that Mrs G has you on hand!
ReplyDeleteInteresting story on card. The poem was cute.
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