Daily Whine & Shine - Thursday, January 8, 2009

Daily Whine & Shine - Thursday, January 8, 2009

by Marilyn Mackenzie

Whether you agree with the concept or not, everyone needs to be able to vent from time to time.  That's especially true if you're one of the many who suffere from an invisible illness.  We have whines and rants about pains, medical professionals and prescriptions, just to name a few.  Perhaps our families listen; perhaps they don't.  Even if they do, they get tired of our complaining, even if they claim to understand our struggles.  Or if they don't get tired of our "negative energy" we think they do or will. 

Do you need to rant about something?  Tell us about it. 

Do you have somie celebration or victory you need to share?  This is the place. 

What's happening in your world today?  Are you grumpy about somiething?  Or so angry you could spit?  Tell it here.  Here at the Daily Whine & Shine, it's acceptable to rant, vent, complain, stomp your feet, throw a tantrum, and shout, "Oh shuckie darn!"

Wait!  Don't go away!  Do you have some good news to share?  Great.  This is the place for that as well.  If you're celebrating, dancing, and yelling, "Yippee Skippy!" please share.  Sometimes knowing about someone else's happiness gives us a bit of hope
for ourselves.

Whether you're shouting, "Oh shuckie darn!" or yelling, "Yippee skippy!" - this is the place to be.  Pulll up a rocking chair, and let's talk about it.

Now...let's celebrate!

January Monthly Celebrations:

Celebration of Life Month

Financial Wellness Month

National Get Organized Month

International Creativity Month

International Wayfinding Month

National Be On-Purpose Month

National Clean Up Your Computer Month

National Lose Weight and Feel Great Month

National Mentoring Month

National Poverty in America Awareness Month.

Some weekly celebrations in January:

Women's Self Empowerment Week (5-11)

Hunt For Happiness Week (18-24)

No Name Calling Week (21-25)

National Take Back Your Time Week (26-30)

Some daily observances in January:

January 8 is National English

Toffee Day and Show & Tell at

Work Day.

January 9 is Imagine What It's

Like To Be God Day

January 10 - National Cut Your Energy Cost Day, Positively Penguins Day

January 11 - National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day

January 12 - Clean Off Your Desk Day, Organize Your Home Day

January 13 - Make Your Dream Come True Day, Blame Someone Else Day

January 14 - National Dress Up Your Pet Day

January 15 - Hat Day

January 15 & 16 - Women in Blue Jeans Days

January 16 - Nothing Day, Religious Freedom Day

January 17 - Customer Service Day, Kid Inventors' Day

Food for thought:

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. - C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity