Happy “I Don’t Respect My Pets Personal Space Day” (officially known as National Love Your Pet Day).  Or perhaps I should call it “My Pets Won’t Cooperate When I Want to Take Selfies With Them Day.”  Of course every day is Love Your Pet Day. We love them in all their adorableness and weirdness, every…

I think we occasionally had to do tug of wars in elementary school. I don’t think I liked it.  I don’t clearly remember because it would have been a long time ago, and if it did happen, it didn’t happen with the frequency or terror of volleyball (which also lasted through high school). Maybe I…

It’s National Drink Wine Day.  Or, to use one of Chad’s favorite comic chestnuts, for me, it’s a day that ends with a “y”.  Yes, I do like drinking wine. I also know that drinking less wine, and less alcohol of any kind, is a good idea for me, and I am working on that.…

Scene: Chad and I sitting at the bar at a local drinking establishment, late Saturday afternoon Me: Yeah, I want to blog when I get home…but I can’t really celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Day. Chad: Because “f*#k these people?” Me: No, because who am I going to be kind to? I don’t really see…

I like almonds. It’s National Almond Day. I bought some almonds at Cub today and ate them. Yay! Sometimes celebrations are simple.  Sometimes an arbitrary self-assigned blog post topic doesn’t give one much to work with.  The most interesting aspect of my attempt to write about almonds is how little I have to say. Almonds…

I really realized that there are differences between Wisconsin and Minnesota when I learned that deep fried cheese curds are a “special” state fair food in Minnesota.  Don’t get me wrong–I think deep fried cheese curds are special in the sense that they’re amazing, but growing up in Wisconsin, they were a common source of…

I broke my blog streak* yesterday and did not blog about any holiday.  I didn’t blog because I was too busy “celebrating” a holiday–unfortunately, that holiday was Desperation Day**.  Why was I so desperate? I lost my cell phone–which was bad enough–but this was the SECOND time that I had lost my phone in two…

I was so successful in cleaning up old files off my work computer today, that I got a “warning” email from the system alerting me that I had deleted a large number of files.  Yes! I am the Queen of Computer Decluttering and I win National Clean Out Your Computer Day (February 12)! It’s more…

I don’t think of myself as a terribly sciency person, but I literally have a Masters degree in Science, so I can celebrate that on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science.  It’s a Master of Arts degree in Library and Information Science, but the word “science” is there.  Despite it being my…

Happy Flannel Day from me and my sherpa-lined flannel shacket! I’ve had this shacket for almost exactly 3 months (delivered by Amazon on Nov. 9) and it has brought me immense comfort and coziness.  However, I didn’t even know it was a “shacket” until I heard the term come up at a neighborhood bingo outing…