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Entries Tagged as 'Because it's Friday'

Something New for Thanksgiving

November 16th, 2007 · No Comments

This is my 40th grown-up Thanksgiving.  (It’s 42 if you count 1982 and 1997.)  For the first 30 years, this has been “my” holiday.  Officially, it’s my holiday every other year since our family alternates Thanksgiving and Christmas each year with the “off” years referred to as “in-law” years.  But there are always a few […]

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Categories: Because it's Friday · Musings, rants, and whines

Evaluate Your Life Day

October 19th, 2007 · No Comments

According to Thomas and Ruth Roy at Wellcat Holidays & Herbs, October 19 is Evaluate Your Life Day. I don’t know why it’s today; but it’s their holiday, copyrighted and everything, so they can have it when they want to. Neat.
And according to Emeril (so it must be true), we each eat 130 […]

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Categories: Because it's Friday · Staying After

Ask a Stupid Question Day

September 28th, 2007 · No Comments

According to Holiday Insights and the Atlanta Journal Constitution, today is Ask a Stupid Question Day.  Okay, I’ll go first.  Why?
ROT Warning!  That would be Really Off Topic.  Don’t you just love it when someone just says it’s a holiday and, thanks to the Internet, it is?  Holiday Insights says that teachers started this day […]

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Categories: Because it's Friday · Tips from an Accidental Cook