Beverage Day – This is a day
to enjoy your favorite beverage, whatever it is.
National Tourist Appreciation Day –
If you are a tourist, appreciate yourself. If you do business with
tourists, appreciate their desire to support your business, whatever
it is. If you are annoyed by tourists visiting your city, appreciate
the business they bring to your local area. You thrive because of
them even if you don't directly do business with them.
National Nurses Day – This is
the first day of National Nurses Week. It runs from May 6th
to May 12th every year. May 12th is the
birthday of Florence Nightingale. Nursing is a difficult profession
that is best suited to caring, compassionate, intelligent, and
dedicated people. Make sure you show them appreciation today.
International No Diet Day –
Created in 1992 in the United Kingdom, this is a day to accept
yourself however you look, however much you weigh. Do not try to
change yourself by dieting today. You are beautiful/handsome just
the way you are.
Crepe Suzette Day – There are
differing accounts relating to how this dish originated. But the one
sure thing is that it is delicious and involves pouring liqueur over
a crepe and setting it on fire. A practice that I have never been
able to bring myself to try because I'm afraid of the fire getting
out of control.
Buddha Day – We celebrated
this day last month as well. Because of regional differences in
calendars, different countries celebrate this important Buddist
holiday on different days. Like April 8th, this day is
one of the more common days on which Buddha day is celebrated.
Joseph Brackett Day – Born on
this day in 1797, Joseph Brackett was a religious leader of the
Shakers. He wrote a song called “Simple Gifts” that became very
popular in the Shaker community.
Melanoma Monday – Melanoma is
the deadliest form of skin cancer and one American dies from it every
hour. If it is detected before it spreads, the five year survival
rate is 98%. So we need to wear orange today to help spread
awareness and work to teach people how to detect this devastating
cancer as early as possible.
No Homework Day – This is a
made up holiday by the Wellcat.com people, so don't let your children
count on their teachers celebrating it. The spirit of the day is to
give kids a rest from all the homework they have to do every day.
To celebrate today, suspend the diet
plan for the day and love yourself no matter what size you are.
Then check yourself and your family
members for signs of melanoma while you drink your favorite beverage
and sing “Simple Gifts” to them. Then run over to the nearest
hospital or doctor's office and hand out Crepe Suzette's to all the
nurses to thank them for their hard work. On the way home,
appreciate the tourists who are all over the place, slowing you down,
because they are helping your local economy, and then stop at the
nearest Buddhist Temple and respectfully offer an offering to Buddha.
Then you can go home and pester your children to complete the
homework that they don't have.
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