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So much has happened since i sat down to write the list out last week i can hardly believe it's only been a week.
We'll start with rEcess. I'd called and ordered our meal and told them i would pick everything up at 4pm Friday.
A few minutes before 4 i arrived and asked about our order. They'd written it down for Saturday!
I was most thankful they were able to get the order ready anyway, then my Sweetie and Brother-in-Law were able to be the cookie brigade and bring me the desserts i'd forgotten -- it isn't rEcess without dessert!
Once i was at the church and trying to get our supplies from the closet, i made the unpleasant discovery the closet door is now kept locked. I called Mr. J, Becca's dad, and he had me find one key in the janitor closet to open the outer office, then find a key in the office closet to open his office, then look in the big key box for the master key, which i did but the master didn't work (they didn't go to my favorite locksmith who guarantees his work when they made the copies).
I was most thankful to find the sexton was still in the building and he opened the closet after i put all the keys back. We were thankful for our rEcess supplies and i'm thankful they are going to get us a key, too, and go to a different locksmith to do it!
We're thankful the first rEcess of the season was a success and included rescuing a baby anole which had gotten in the building.
Saturday was very special, #2 Son and Daughter-in-Law brought out little Annie to NOLA so they could have her first birthday party with her great-grandparents.
We were thankful for swimming, i'm thankful #2 Son didn't break his neck jumping off the roof into the pool (if you're in a one story house and hear what sounds like footsteps upstairs, son is on the roof again), BBQ, melon cake and gifts and a fun celebration for everyone, although the guest of honor was too young to realize what was really going on.
By Sunday afternoon, i was most thankful for a short nap. Since it was the baby's actual birthday, her parents invited me out to supper with them, we were thankful for a lovely dinner and her first birthday sopapilla.
Monday was a normal work day with Carl and Ms. S, then because it's the second Monday, i have a ladies' group meeting. I was thankful to catch a ride with a friend and even more thankful i didn't fall asleep on the way home.
Dr. Bowtie had ordered more blood tests so i went in Tuesday morning, then went to my other ladies' meeting, the one which is usually the first week but got put off because of Labor Day. I was thankful the blood work came back good and the meeting went very well.
Then i got to spend the afternoon with my little Annie, the best part.
I managed a 4 job Wednesday, including Kevin and Lenny's with my Sweetie, and then Bible study that night, i'm thankful it all worked out although i don't want to make a habit of it.
After getting through Ms. V's house on Thursday, i was thankful to get to go home and get some feets up time as i needed it.
Friday we had prayer group and i was thankful to get two errands run in spite of the horrible traffic and get to babysit our little Annie on time.
My Sweetie called to make sure we had a reservation for the car and the nice gentleman who'd promised it was taken care of two weeks ago hadn't done it, so i was thankful my Sweetie was able to reserve one at that moment and pick up in the afternoon was very quick.
As for Friday night at the shelter, it was unreal how many extra volunteers we had. Getting the work done is extra fun when many hands make light work and we are all 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:
Defy Superstition Day -- go walk under that ladder!
Dia de los Ninos Heroes -- Mexico
Eleven Days of Global Unity -- Day 3, Environment (sponsored by We, the World)
Epulum Iovis and Lectisternia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival for Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva)
Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day -- Quincy, WA, US (a fun and tasty way to celebrate and learn how food gets from the farm to your table; through Sunday)
Festival of Lighting the Fires of Neith -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Fortune Cookie Day -- you might need one after that ladder stunt
Great Procession of Tournai -- Tournai, Belgium (religious procession held since 1092, in thanksgiving for deliverance from the plague; through tomorrow)
Independence Day -- Venda (recognized within South Africa only)
International Chocolate Day -- as declared by the National Confectioners Association
International Drive Your Studebaker Day -- an official event of the Studebaker Drivers Club Inc. (and i wish i could!)
National Celiac Awareness Day -- US
National Hug Your Boss Day (some claim this began in the UK, others say it was started by TipTopJob.com and is to be celebrated everywhere, but no matter what nation you live in, be careful with this holiday! website here)
National Peanut Day
Positive Thinking Day -- think positively that nothing bad will happen because of that ladder!
Roald Dahl Day -- it's his birth anniversary
Runic Half Month Ken begins (illumination)
Snack-A-Pickle Time
St. John Chrysostom's Day (Patron of education, epileptics, lecturers, orators, preachers; Constantinople)
Birthdays Today:
Ben Savage, 1980
Fiona Apple, 1977
Stella McCartney, 1977
Tavis Smiley, 1964
Jean Smart, 1959
Nell Carter, 1948
Jacqueline Bisset, 1944
Peter Cetera, 1944
Bela Karolyi, 1942
David Clayton-Thomas, 1941
Fred Silverman, 1937
Richard Kiel, 1939
Judith "Miss Manners" Martin, 1938
Robert Indiana, 1928
Mel Torme, 1925
Yma Sumac, 1922
Roald Dahl, 1916
Bill Monroe, 1911
Claudette Colbert, 1903
Sherwood Anderson, 1876
John J. Pershing, 1860
Milton Hershey, 1857
Walter Reed, 1851
Clara Schumann, 1819
Cesare Borgia, 1475
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Law & Order"(TV), 1990
Divine Madness(Documentary/Comedy), 1980
"Soap"(TV), 1977
"The Muppet Show"(TV)1976
"The Rockford Files"(TV)1974
"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?"(TV)1969
"Yesterday"(Beatles' single release), 1965
"Canticum Sacrum ad Honorem Sancti Marci Nominis/Canticle to Honor the Name of Saint Mark"(Stravinsky orchestral piece), 1956
Today in History:
The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September, BC509
Building begins on Hadrian's Wall, 122
St. Francis of Assisi receives stigmata, 1224
Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David, 1503
Henry Hudson reached the river that would later be named after him, 1609
NYC becomes the first capital of the US, 1788
US Government takes out its first loan from NYC banks, 1789
Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec, 1847
Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage incredibly survives a 3-foot-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions, 1848
Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film, 1898
Lusitania completes her maiden voyage, arriving in NYC, 1907
The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 57.8*C (136.04*F), 1922
Elizabeth McCombs is the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament, 1933
Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China, 1943
IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305, 1956
Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane, based on barometric pressure, in the Western Hemisphere, 1988*
Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu, 1989
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted, 2007
Hurricane Ike makes landfall, damaging Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding area, 2007
Jan van Eyck is credited as the painter of 'The three mary's at the tomb' a painting from the 1430's held in a Rotterdam museum, 2012
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the Rohingya refugee crisis is now "catastrophic" as 370,000 are confirmed to have fled Myanmar, 2018
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett makes first official visit to Egypt in a decade for talks with President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in Sharm el-Sheikh, 2021
A rise in overdose deaths from fentanyl laced stimulants mark the "fourth wave" of the overdose crisis in the US, 2023
*Replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005
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