Daily Whine & Shine - Tuesday, March 31, 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!!!
Coming in April:
Alcohol Awareness Month
Autism Awareness Month
Holocaust Month
Holy Humor Month
Informed Women Month
International Daffynitions Month
International Guitar Month
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month (Oh come on!)
Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful Month
National Anxiety Month
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National Garden Month
National Humor Month
National Parkinson's Awareness Month
National Pecan Month
National Poetry Month
National Sexual Assault Awareness Month
National Prevention of Animal Cruelty Month
National Welding Month
Soy Foods Month
Stress Awareness Month
Uh-Huh Month
Some Weekly Observances:
First week in April is:
Laugh at Work Week
Golden Rule Week
National Reading a Road Map Week
National Straw Hat Week
Egg Salad Week
Library Week
The Lenten Season is 3/2-4/18
Daily observances:
March 31 is Bunsen Burner Day, National
"She's Funny That Way" Day, National
Clams on the Half-Shell Day
April 1 is April Fool's Day, National Sleep
Day, One Cent Day and Sorry Charlie
Day (Note: Different sites say different things about this day. One says it's to honor Charlie the Tuna. Another says it's a day for anyone who has lost in love and lived to tell about it.)
April 2 - International Children's Book day, Reconcilation Day, National Peanut Butter Day (I'm so glad my favorite food has a day of its own! Some sites say this is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day.)
April 3 - American Circus Day, National Find-A-Rainbow Day, Tweed Day (go ahead and wear it!), National Don't Go to Work Unless It's Fun Day
April 4 - Hug a Newsman Day (Make sure he/she knows why!), Walk Around Things Day
April 5 - Accelerate ACL Awareness Among Young Women Day, National Road Map Day, Go For Broke Day
Food for thought:
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. - Thomas Jefferson
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering ... And the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. - Thomas Jefferson
All that is needed for the triumph of evil is for enough good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
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Comments: 15
Helping you reach your gather goals!
I have a major Gather Complaint right now and I ranted on it earlier so if you missed the rant here is a summation of it.
I get upset when people get attacked for standing up for friends on Gather. A person should not have to defend themself for who they are friends with or why they stand up for that person. His comment was immediately deleted before anyone else could read it, I know how to do that really well to about 20 people, but this person was one of their own, and probably one of the people I respect the most that I totally disagree with on most issues in the political spectrum, but I respect his opinion, respect that he doesn't put others down.
But his post was flagged as harassment, I personally took it up with Gather, based on the precedent they set with members who have trolled and harassed me.
So its set me in kind of a bad mood to start my day that I'm already tired and cranky to begin with.
End of Rant
I reserve the right to come back later and rant about something else, or even 'shine' about something.
Mooch
Rebecca, I'm glad you got a good dorm choice, even thought they "forgot" you were coming back. :)
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