National Chip and Dip Day – The
original party food, I often serve these as one of the hor's duerves
at our parties. It's easy and delicious.
National Melba Toast Day – believed
to have been created in 1897 by Auguste Escoffier and named by Cesar
Ritz after Dame Nellie Melba, the stage name of an Australian opera
singer, it is a very thin and crunchy bread.
Earth Hour – On this day at 8:30pm
EST, turn off your lights for one hour. No, I am not crazy. This is
a time to focus on our planet. Think about the resources that go
into our daily lives and how we can best conserve them in order to
save this planet for our grandchildren.
Near Miss Day – On this day in 1989,
a large asteroid missed earth by only about 500,000 miles. Which is
just a little farther away than the moon.
National Puppy Day – Today is a day
to celebrate puppies and the joy they bring to the people who love
them, and also to fight against the puppy mills and the tragic plight
of the dogs within them. http://www.nationalpuppyday.com/about.htm
OK Day – This slang word was first
used in 1839 by a journalist who was shortening the common slang at
the time 'oll korrect' which was a deliberate misspelling of 'all
correct'. Interestingly, OMG is also older than the kids today would
probably imagine, having been first written by a British Naval
Officer in 1917.
World Meteorological Day – This day
celebrates 50 years of world weather watching by the World Weather
Organization. There is a theme every year and this year's theme is,
“Watching the weather to protect life and property.”
http://www.wmo.int/worldmetday/
National Day of Unplugging – OK, all
of you people who are addicted to your technological devices. Today
is a day to unplug from them and reconnect with life. Turn off the
cell phones and iPods and iPads and gaming systems and televisions.
Talk to people face to face today. Listen to the silence around you,
if you're lucky enough to find some. I did find it interesting that
the internet is full of sites that each seem to put this celebration
on a different day. So if you heard that it is celebrated on some
other day, that would be why. I was not able to determine which day
is the real day.
To celebrate today, go to your local
SPCA and adopt a puppy and name him 'OK'. Then turn off the devices
and have some chips and dip and melba toast with some other unplugged
friends out in the back yard at 8:30pm EST (after you have turned out
all the lights in the house) so you can watch the skies for asteroids
and weather events.
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