Uninspired

Today is Unlucky Day! Wow! What a day to end on. After all the fun and food, the calendar slaps a downer day right in my face as if to say "Haha! Fooled ya! It was all a long rise leading to an anti-climactic anti-celebration"

Or maybe what makes this day unlucky is the fact that it is the last day. All the holidays are over and celebrated, and this is the last day I get to write to all you lovely people and tell you what to do today. I'll miss it. You might. The Internet as a whole... Well that'll pretty much stay the same.

Of course, it doesn't lessen the memories that I've made while visiting museums, trying weird food, and learning about customs from other places around the world. This'll be a year I won't soon forget, if only by the holiday memories' merits alone.

The Unluckiest thing that happened to me, and still IS happening, is that I can't think of something new and fun to keep my mind busy. If I don't find something to keep myself distracted and experiencing new things, I might accidentally do something weird and crazy. Like... write a book. Or something. That's what wild and crazy people do, right? ARGH! The clock is ticking! I have to go think of something fast!

Here's hoping your year was just as filled with fun, and that your next brings even more new things into your life. Have a good one, folks!

Thanks for reading!
~Kyle

I finally snapped.

Today is Festival of Enormous Changes at The Last Minute! No, really. In fact, I was so busy making all these changes, that I almost forgot to tell you about it!!! All of my changes have been most mental, although should they be enacted according to my plan that reaches levels of convolutedness normally reserved for the maniacally evil, they will soon be fulfilled by the means of several physical actions acted out in the outside-of-my-mind world! [insert evil laugh here] SEE YOU TOMORROW!

Thanks for reading!
~Kyle

Has He Thoughts Within His Head?

Today is Pepper Pot Day! A pepper pot is a peppery soup, usually made with tripe, although apparently nobody uses that, and instead they replace it with some other meat (according to every recipe site I visited). I could make an authentic Pepper Pot, but I did my best with what was available at my work. So basically a very peppery vegetable medley soup. ... But to make up for that minor discrepancy, I will now watch the recent Iron Man movies. Because Tony Stark's personal assistant and love interest is the lovely Pepper Potts. So... that's a good reason if I've ever heard one.

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~Kyle

Shuffled Truffles

Today is National Card-Playing Day! With just me and my brother home along for the next... oh... let's say 15 or so hours, there aren't many card games for me to play aside from War or Solitaire. Since my brother just got a new PC, and I have been bequeathed an iPad, I choose Solitaire. For several reasons.

1) My brother wants to play on his computer
2) I don't have to shuffle the cards on my iPad

So there.

Today is also National Chocolate Day! (Again, I'm sure). But I have nothing against someone wanting to celebrate chocolate more than once. Frankly, I think there should be a No Chocolate Day, and we could all just assume that every other day IS Chocolate Day. That's just one man and every woman in the world's opinion, though.

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~Kyle

Cake and Fruit is Good.

Today is National Fruitcake Day! Fruitcake is the butt of far more jokes than it deserves. If baked, and eaten, correctly, it can actually be pretty good. I mean...it's fruit and cake. That has not ever not been at least somewhat satisfying. Granted, fruitcake is generally a little... tougher... than most cakes, but that's really one of the only few downsides. Case in point: No sitcom has made fun of a fruitcake's taste. They always make fun of its weight, mass, or density. Which, if you think about it, are really just preferences when it comes to cake. Not that it's an all-too-common way to order a cake. If you come to my bakery and order a "dense, weighty" cake, I will not have any idea what you are looking for, and probably just suggest chocolate to you. Most people think chocolate is denser. For some reason. Weirdos.

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~Kyle

THIS IS WHINING

Today is National Whiner's Day! I imagine it's a day for us to whine about the horrible gifts we got, but I honestly enjoy every gift I got. Plus, I used one of my new gifts to watch Tangled with a good friend just an hour ago, and then skyped a friend whom I missed very much! I have nothing to whine about today! But, that means I can't celebrate today... UUUUUUGH THAT SUCKS!!!

Oh wait there we go.

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~Kyle

Pumpkin Post

Today is Pumpkin Pie Day! I ate a piece of Pumpkin Pie and MERRY CHRISTMAS, it was good. I like pumpkin pie. A lot. It's about the only pumpkin flavored thing I like. Anyway, it's christmas, so I have to pay attention to family, so... later.

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~Kyle

Bleh!g-Nog

Today is National Eggnog Day! Eggnog is a very popular drink for the season! In fact, people really only drink it at christmas parties. You probably won't see it at any old shin-dig, but you'd have a safe chance of seeing one at a gala or some such thing. That's not to say it's a fancy drink by any means, it's just not really a common thing unless someone brings it or asks for it. It can be made with or without alcohol. I tried the one without alcohol and it left me with just one question.

What in the name of Old Saint Nick is wrong with you people?

Egg Nog is disgusting. Maybe it's because I had a store-made one. Maybe it's because it NEEDS the alcohol because that's the only way to handle the taste: drunk. It reminds me of the coconut flavored medicine my mother gave me when I was young. Which made me barf. Egg Nog reminds me of coconut barf. Happy Christmas Eve.

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~Kyle

Santa's Descendant

Today is Roots Day! A day to rediscover your roots, today is dedicated to... er... what I just said...

My grandmother recently told me that I was related to Father Christmas, so I thought this would be a great thing to look up, seeing as 'tis the season. For... looking up dead relatives...

I, like you, assumed that I was related to Santa, and would therefore someday take on the famous red mantle along with a few hundred pounds and start give the more preferable children some rewarding gifts that would more than likely be video game related. Because that's the kind of santa I am. The bad kids would get books. Not because I dislike books, I actually love them. I'd give them to the bad kids, because I think a good book could improve character.

WOW RABBIT TRAIL! Short story shorter, I eventually found out that "Father Christmas" was just Father Christmas. An Irish Priest with a VERY misleading name. Weird thing is: I can't even find THAT Father Christmas online anymore... maybe... someone is hiding my family history from me? Which can only mean one thing...

Well, I'm off to go on an Indiana-Jonesian adventure, I guess. Be back tomorrow!

Thanks for reading!
~Kyle

Lazier than ever!

Today is National Date-nut Bread Day! I ate some! Movie time with the family!



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~Kyle

Bright Flashburger

Today is Look On The Bright Side Day!
Today is also Flashlight Day!
Today is also Hamburger Day!
I thought I'd tell you all three before I told you that I carried a flashlight all day, and even used it on my hamburger before I ate it. And now, off to look at some christmas lights with the family, and then turn in for the night.

Thanks for reading!
~Kyle

Game Time

Today is Games Day! Today I played Magic Piano, Cube Runner, Fastar, Green Fingers, Skyrim, The Sims 3, and just a whoooole bunch of other games. I encourage you to find whatever game suits your fancy and get to playing it. Other than that, have a good night!

I guess I should apologize for the brevity of recent posts. I have family over and am squeezing these in between family time and celebration time. It's quite busy near the end of the year as is, too. But I digress.

Thanks for reading!
~Kyle

I did it.

Today is Oatmeal Muffin Day! I ate an oatmeal muffin at work. BLUH!

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~Kyle

This Little Piggy Got Married.

Today is National Roast Sucking Pig Day! I've been busy today, what with my brother getting married, but I'll try to squeeze this in before I pass out for the night. A roast suckling pig is a pig that is roasted and suckling on an apple. It's dead, though, so the apple is really just in it's mouth. Dead pigs can't suckle. I hope. That would be weird. I ate pork and apple flavored gum, but that's as close as it came today, to be honest. But, I'm giving myself a break due to the unlikelihood of getting a roasted suckling pig on a whim. Much less on a day where I'm best-manning a wedding. Which, by the way, was a great wedding and I couldn't be happier for my brother!

Thanks for reading!
~Kyle

Mild Mannered

Today is Underdog Day! A day to celebrate all the overlooked shoeshine boys that become the greatest heros of all time. I know there's at least one hero in particular that plays off of the idea of an underdog. I just... can't seem to remember his name. Weird. It'll come back to me. I just watched some of his old escapades, too. UGH! This is gonna bug me all night.

Just kidding his name is Underdog, duh.

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~Kyle

Dip ALL the Things!

Today is Chocolate Dipped Anything Day! Oh... Oh yes. Oh sweet merciful mercies of merciful merciness, yes. This day has been much looked forward to the entire year. Granted, I eat chocolate every day, but this... this is the day for it! I went back to Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory to get some chocolate covered anything, and bought one of almost every chocolate covered good they had! I am about to go to town on this plate of goodness, so you'll excuse me if I'm sound rushed, but... I really want to eat this stuff. You should too! Not my stuff, though. Get your own. Chocolate, despite what hershey's commercials make you think, is not for sharing with just any random person you meet. Sharing chocolate is a benefit only given to the highest echelon of friends. Also, I can't hand chocolate through the internet... but I look forward to that day.

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~Kyle

I'm sickly

Today is National Lemon Cupcake Day! Lemon Cake is pretty good and that translates into cupcakes, but my stomach is too sick to think about any of it! I ate one, though, so don't worry about that. I just don't want to THINK about it. Everyone knows lemon cookies are better anyway.

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~Kyle

More French Food

Today is National Bouillabaisse Day! I already feel like I've accomplished something today based solely on the fact that I spelled that right on my first try! Unfortunately for me, that doesn't count as a celebration according to my very flimsy 'rules' that I have for this blog. Since I happen to live within driving distance of a french restaurant or two, I found time to go and have a quick-ish dish of it. It's a soup with fish or shellfish prepared with several hens and spices that give it a uniquely French flavor. That can be good or bad depending on your opinion of the French. I thought it was pretty good, even though what I had wasn't exactly "authentic". It was as close as I could get! See if you can get closer. Unless you live in France. That's what we call an unfair advantage.

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~Kyle

Cold Music

Today is Ice Cream and Violins Day! Now, at first I thought this was two separate holidays, but as it would happen: It isn't. That made explaining the meaning of this holiday much harder. The celebration is still almost the same thanks to the 'and' between the two, but there is actually no solid explanation that I've found. Only theories. So... here is my theory.

Question: Ice cream is a cold treat, and is a summer favourite (as seen by all the ice cream holidays). So why would we celebrate it in December? A month notorious for it's lack of heat.

Answer: I do not know yet, so let's move on to violins.

Fact: Violins are known for being cued for either one of two things in musical scores made for the silver screen: sharks and sadness.

Other Fact: Ice cream has very little to do with sharks. However, dramatic characters that are sad turn to one of two foods to help ease their weepy pains: Chocolate or Ice Cream.

Less-than-Fact: Chocolate give a warming sensation that causes the eater to be just the slightest bit happier. While Ice cream does the same thing, it doesn't to it to the same extent, especially if it has no chocolate in it.

All of it Put Together: Violins can be said to be known for being a sad instrument, and Ice Cream can be a treat to eat while you are sad. So today must be a day to grab a pint (of ice cream, mind you), crank up the Tchaikovsky, and wallow! What're you waiting for? Get to it!

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~Kyle

What a Dingbat.

Today is National Ding-a-ling Day! Most of the people I know would instantly think that this would be a Chuck Berry related holiday. Thankfully, it is not. Instead today is a celebration of the OTHER meaning behind the phrase: a person whose head is not quite on. It's a day to celebrate the friend who is last to laugh. If you don't have a friend who laughs last, you either have creepily synchronized friendships, or you are that friend. So today might be a day to celebrate the fact that YOU are a ding-a-ling. Be your ding-a-lingiest today!

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~Kyle

Noodles!

Today is Noodle Ring Day! The kind you eat, not the ones in pools. A noodle ring is a baked ring of noodles surrounding pasta or filled with cheese. Or both if you want it to. I mean you're the chef. Your choice. No pressure.

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~Kyle

Thar she blows!

Yesterday was National Pastry Day, but my internet didn't want you to know until today. I celebrated at my work, and I'm sure that most of you celebrated without even knowing it. It was a workday AND a friday, after all.

Today is The Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales! This holiday requires a little more explanation than most, unless you live in Alaska. Your chances of knowing what it is would raise slightly if that is the case.  Inuits in Northern Alaska hunt whales in order to fill a large portion of their diet, since there isn't really any fruit or vegetation that's readily available. From mid-spring to early summer, they hunt bowhead whales, and hold a day-long celebration-feast for the whales captured. They have a tradition in November that has more or less become their thanksgiving since the introduction of the christian era. They have another feast with parts of the whale that were saved, along with different birds and what ever else the community has to offer. The last celebration is right around christmas time (today). This is a day that they pay homage to all animals, give prayer, dance, and feast. This celebration lasts up to an entire week! Count me in! I just don't have any whale meat to eat or offer. I can bring hot chocolate, though!

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~Kyle

Brownies and... I Dunno

Today is National Brownie Day! Today is pretty obviously a day to eat brownies. Which, as I have stated with every baked good related holiday, my job at a bakery made extremely easy. I mean... it's pretty easy anyway. Just mix up some brownie batter and baked it on up.

Today is Also Take it in the Ear Day, but I have no idea what that means, and even with internet research I still couldn't find a definition. Even Urban Dictionary, my site to learn what things that sound like something twisted, nasty, and perverse didn't not have any definition for it. I really wish I knew what it meant so that I could know whether or not it's something horrifying to think about or not. But I am clueless. Which might be a good thing.

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~Kyle

Like clouds, but tastier

Today is Cotton Candy Day! So I ate some. That's kinda all there is to say on the matter. Nah I'll tell you more later, but the light just turned green.

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Cotton Candy is one of those things in life that you won't really understand until you try it yourself. It's a popular thing to eat at the fair, and it should be more of a thing at the movies. I really don't understand why theaters don't sell it. It's easy, it's quiet, it's shareable, and most importantly they can buy it cheap and charge an obscene amount for it.

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~Kyle

Soup and Gloves

Today is Gazpacho Day! Gazpacho is a really delicious tomato soup that originates from Portuguese culture. It's tomato-based, and has garlic, onion, and whatever herbs and spices the chef deems tasty enough for their specific style of gazpacho. It's a cold soup, and usually more of a summer thing, but it still tastes good! Although eating cold soup in the winter wasn't too fun. At least it was fairly easy to find.

Today is also Mitten Tree Day! I found quite a few explanations about what today could be, but most of them have to do with either a story about mittens, putting mittens on a tree, or giving to the less fortunate. I decided to wear mittens and go give something to the bell-ringers outside of the mall (which is where I went to get Gazpacho... or tried to anyway... that trek took an hour or so of map-searching.

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~Kyle

It's Cake, But Fancy.

Today is National Sacher Torte Day! Like anything fancy, it is not at all pronounced how it looks, and if you say it wrong at a restaurant, they will likely laugh at you in the kitchen. "Satcher Tart? Sorcha Turt? S... Soccer... I'll just have that thing in the picture." A Sacher Torte is chocolate cake with apricot jam in the middle, and coated with a rich chocolate frosting. I actually am a fairly big fan of it, as it is quite good. I can only handle it once or twice a year, though. So today is one of those times!

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~Kyle

Bring Me My Brown Shoes!

Today is Wear Brown Shoes Day! Today is such an incredibly easy day to celebrate, that in my morning stupor, I completely forgot to check what holiday it was (which is what usually happens). I only remembered to check when I was getting the snack for children's church ready. Lo, and behold: I looked down on my feet and adorning them were two of the brownest shoes I e'er did own. Which... was pretty likely, considering I am a boy and do not change shoes daily. Plus, they're new shoes, so why wouldn't I wear them all day every day? Because I usually do not like wearing shoes. Is the answer to that question. Today, though, I will wear my brown shoes to the fullest of my ability. Which is a lot. I'm a great shoe-wearer.

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~Kyle

Looks Good Up There.

Today is National Roof-Over-Your-Head Day! Today is a day to be thankful for all that roof you have over your head, and to be thankful for the things it protects you from. This time of year, it mostly protects you from snow, cold, and zombie paratroopers. They are notoriously known for their winter escapades. Don't forget that it also protects you from the searing, unforgiving blister-heat that we so naively play in every summer that the sun forces on us. Unless you live in a glass house... which kudos to you for being sinless, but that has to feel unsettling every now and then. Well, regardless of your roof shape, size, material, or... weight(?), be sure to enjoy the fact that you have one. Not everyone does.

On a less serious note, today would be a great day to make a Gingerbread House.

Thanks for reading!
~Kyle

More Apple Stuff

Today is National Fritters Day! If you don't know what a fritter is, or are at the very least unsure if what you think is a fritter isn't just another kind of donut: A fritter is fried cake with either meat or fruit inside of it. Most of the time, people think fruit when they hear 'fritter', though. I ate an apple fritter today, and if I do say so myself: this month is shaping up to be pretty awesome. Holiday-wise anyway.

Thanks for reading!
~Kyle

One Stone

Today is National Pie Day! I sure do love me some pie.

Today is also Eat A Red Apple Day! I sure do love me some apples, too.

Obviously my one and only choice to celebrate today was to eat an apple pie made from red apples. Now, when buying a pie, it can be hard to tell which apples were used. ... Unless you ask, I guess. But I'm a busy man and I don't have time to go around Target looking for someone to ask such silly questions to. Besides, there were red apples on the box's picture so I just assumed. Good thing I was right, because these holidays have been celebrated!

Thanks for reading!
~Kyle