Daily Whine & Shine - Friday, April 10, 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:
The second week of April is:
Be Kind to Animals Week
National Guitar Week
The Lenten Season is 3/2-4/18
Daily observances:
April 10 is National Sibling Day,
Encourage a Young Writer Day, and
Good Friday
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!!!!! ♥♥♥
April 14 - National Pecan Day, International Moment of Laughter Day (Note: One site said the 14th one the 16th, l
let's laugh on both, okay?), Reach as High as You Can
Reach Day (Note: One site says this day and the Look Up
at the Sky Day are on the same day. You might want to
observe them together so you can look up and reach up on
the same day.)
April 15 - U.S. Pay Your Income Tax Day, Rubber Eraser
Day (Probably because of last minute tax preparers),
Take a Wild Guess Day (Hopefully, not on your taxes),
and T.E.A. Party Day with rallies all over the U.S. (T.E.A. =
Taxed Enough Already!!!)
April 16 - National Karaoke Day, International Moment of
Laughter (I wonder...at what time???), International
Stress Awareness Day (Some say this is a national - U.S. -
only day. Let's share it! Stress is everywhere!), National
Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day
April 17 - Ford Mustang's Birthday (1964), Blah, Blah, Blah
Day
April 18 - National Animal Crackers Day
April 19 - Garlic Day, National Hanging Out Day (Hmmm.
Not so sure about this one. Today when kids say they're
hanging out it doesn't mean the same thing as when I
was young.)
April 20 - National Pineapple Upside Down Cake 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: 16
It's also Good Friday. Does your church have a service today? Ours doesn't, and although we've been going there for 3+ years, it still surprises me. We did have a great Maundy Thursday service - a Sader Supper - but....
Well, I guess I can find another church nearby having Good Friday services. I wonder why the churches around here don't do what they did where I lived in Texas. We had 7 churches - Catholic and Protestant - that each took two stations of the croos and we rotated from church to church for the service. One year, we had the service in a huge church and had the 7 pastors and congregations gather there.
Whine.........I have to go to work.
Some days are diamonds, and some days are coal.
But I'm proud of what you've accomplished. I've always told you that you could do things - go back to school, for instance. :) I'm sorry you feel that your mom doesn't see your potential.