Daily Whine & Shine - Monday, April 6, 2009

Daily Whine & Shine - Monday, April 6, 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!!!  

April is...

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 second week is:

Be Kind to Animals Week

National Guitar Week

The Lenten Season is 3/2-4/18

Daily observances:

April 6 is Twinkie's Birthday (introduced

in 1930), Jump Over Things Day, Drowsy

Driver Awareness Day

April 7 - No Housework Day, Museum Day, World Health Day, National Teacher Appreciation Day

April 8 - International Bird Day, Draw a Picture of a Bird Day

April 9 - National Cherish an Antique Day

April 10 - National Sibling Day, Encourage a Young Writer

Day

April 11 - World Parkinson's Day, Eight Track Day (Does

anyone still have those???)

April 12 - Look Up At The Sky Day (Huh? And do what?

Appreciate it? Paint it?), Thank Your School Librarian

Day, Licorice Day, Walk on Your Wild Side Day, Big Wind

Day, Easter Sunday

April 13 - My birthday!!!, National Peach Cobbler Day,

Blame Someone Else Day, and MY BIRTHDAY!!!!! ♥♥♥

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