One of the (few) good things my mom had to say about my dad is that he was a good tipper. He was reportedly consistently nice to servers. I remember my mom telling a story about a time when a carhop spilled an entire tray of food in his lap at a drive in and…

I’ve been thinking hard about what to write for World Thinking Day. This is another holiday that I had no idea what it was about based on the name. Once again, I chose it as the best of lackluster options…certainly I could come up with something to write about thinking. But then I actually looked…

I know almost nothing about Tarot cards, and have few thoughts or feelings about them. But I thought I was going to have to come up with something to say about Tarot cards, as Card Reading Day seems my best option to blog about today. (The other “top” choices were National Sticky Bun Day and…

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…