Mothering Sunday - Celebrated on the 4th Sunday of Lent, this is a United Kingdom day that is similar to Mother’s Day in the United States. It began a day when domestic servants are given a day off to visit with their mothers and other family as well as their mother church. But it has evolved into a day when people tend to give gifts to their mothers.
National Promposal Day - This is that fateful day when teenagers all over the country are encouraged to ask that dreaded question...Will you go to the Prom with me? I say dreaded because it’s risky. The person you ask might say no, which might or might not break your heart or cause embarrassment. But life is a risk, you have to put yourself out there and risk getting hurt, otherwise you won’t get to experience all the fun and camaraderie that life also has to offer. I do urge you to avoid the spectacular and highly public promposals that we are seeing a lot of these days. They put a lot of pressure on teens to match or exceed the pageantry involved, and if your intended date says no, it could be very, very bad. So just catch this person alone and simply ask, trust me, it would be better for everyone.
Debunking Day - This is a day that the MythBusters can really get into. It’s a day to work to prove or disprove anything that you are told.
World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film - Created in 2010 by Javed Mohammed, this is a day to share and discuss Muslim culture and to use art and film to build bridges of understanding.
World Plumbing Day - If it were not for the skills of the plumbers in our society, we would all still be using outhouses and bathing in creeks or big tubs in the kitchen filled with water heated over the stove. That might be fun for a day or two, but not for long. We take our indoor drinking water and sanitation for granted most of the time, but we should think about how unpleasant it would be to use an outhouse in the below zero temperatures that we typically experience in the winter, like they had to do for forever up to about a hundred years ago. And when we do, we should call up some plumbers and thank them.
Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day – I love waffles but they are not too good for me, and gluten free ones are so expensive. So I don't eat them very often. But these look like they would be pretty delicious AND maybe even a little bit healthy. Give them a try.
Johnny Appleseed Day – Johnny Appleseed, that famous American nomad who wandered the country planting apple seeds and communing with the animals, is celebrated on this day by some because it is a good time for planting apple trees. Others prefer to celebrate on September 26th because that is Johnny's birthday and a good time for picking apples.
National Worship Of Tools Day – This is a day to either buy new tools, or get out the old ones, make sure they are in working order and then fix something. Tools aren't any good if you just look at them, you need to use them.
Check Your Batteries Day – This coincides with Daylight Savings Time and is a time to change the batteries in your smoke detectors. It's important to make sure your smoke detectors work properly so that they can save your life if you try to sleep through a fire. Trust me, you don't want to do that. But even more annoying than sleeping through a fire is waiting too long to change your batteries because they start that high pitched chirping sound. Because, let me tell you, if you have as many smoke detectors as I do, it is very time consuming standing underneath each one for an hour while you wait for it to chirp. Especially since the one that is chirping is never the one you are standing under. And then, you might have the situation that I had a couple of years ago when not one but two of my smoke detectors started chirping, but they couldn’t do it at the same time. No. I stood under every single smoke detector in my house and not a single one chirped while I was under it. The sound was always coming from a different room. It took me about six hours to figure that one out. Save yourself and change all of the batteries today.
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