Feels Like Felt

Today is Felt Hat Day! Today is pretty easy to celebrate. Just wear a felt hat. It can be the traditional 18-1900's style hat, but really any hat will do as long as it's made of felt. Since my mom is in charge of a lot of costumes at the school/church, and I used to be in theatre myself, it was almost too easy to find a felt hat to wear. So I wore it while eating breakfast before I went to work, and I wore it while doing my daily web surfing when I got home. The only thing about the one I found is that it gets awfully itchy after a while. The seam is just in an unfortunate place for the way my head is shaped. Oh well, a good hat is hard to find.

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~Kyle

Catching Up

I'm back at home and now that I've caught up on sleep I  can spend as much time and bandwidth as I want telling you about the holidays for the past three days!

August 14th was National Creamsicle Day! The closest I got to celebrating that day was eating ice cream, because finding a creamsicle while staying in a hotel is a lot harder than it sounds.

August 15th was National Relaxation Day! I celebrated this day every spare second I could. Which turned out to be a lot since I had an international flight with an 8-hour layover.

August 15th was also National Failures Day! I also celebrated this day in the form of failing to sleep very much at all. I can't express how happy I am that I failed, but the planes and pilots succeeded.

Finally, today is Bratwurst Festival! I have to say that I'm mildly disappointed in the fact that the day I come back is a food holiday since those are so simple to talk about and celebrate. I will say that a fairly recent story I have about hot dog related things is that even though I spent eight hours in Chicago yesterday, I didn't have a chicago style dog. Why? Because no hot dog is worth eight dollars. Maybe I'll try and get one when I'm not in an airport where the prices are set almost as high as the flight paths.

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~Kyle

Tapiooo Caaanada

Today is National Tapioca Pudding Day! I don't know much about tapioca anything aside from what little I gleaned from this video clip when I was younger. Aside from that I'm about as far away from being a font of tapioca knowledge as you could get. So I guess... some kind of void or vacuum. Well, that's enough filler for today's holiday. Like any other food holiday, you celebrate by eating the food that the holiday is based on. So... on to the more interesting sounding day.

Today is also Respect Canada Day! Now before you laugh like I did when I saw this holiday, it's not nearly as dumb as it would seem. See, the holiday was made by Canada FOR Canada. It's a day when canadians observe the beauty of their land and try to realize that they shouldn't screw it up with littering and angry faces. This is a MAJOR difference from what I thought it was: A day made by Canada telling other countries to respect it. That'd be like the principal's kid at the school making a day where he just expects people to not pick on him. That's not cool. So, my bad for assuming, Canada. This holiday is actually pretty cool. Kind of like your own private Earth Day. I assume other countries are welcome to respect Canada, too, though, if they wanted.

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~Kyle

Pearly Whites

Today is Smile Power Day! There is indeed much strength in the power of a simple smile. It makes you feel happy even if you're faking it, and it is very infectious. As long as you brush your teeth, that is.Smiling even makes you live longer! I recently started working at a bakery, and there is a great difference between the feel I get from customers who smile and those who don't. Although, it's kind of part of my job as a cashier to make sure that they leave smiling. So share a smile with someone today and make life a little lighter!

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~Kyle

Goes Great With Everything.

Today is Chocolate Chip Day! Chocolate chips are to thanks for some of the best cookies, cakes, muffins, and most importantly: cookie cakes. They are one of the only key ingredients in some of the best baked goods (by best baked goods, I mean anything with chocolate) that can also be eaten as a snack. In fact, chocolate chip cookies, if made from scratch, are the only thing I know I can make and snack on during almost every step of the baking process. From dough to done, it's all good. So celebrate today by grabbing a bag of chocolate chips and eating as many as you can allow yourself before feeling sick/guilty.

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~Kyle

Makeing Mistkaes

Today is Rubber Eraser Day! Erasers haven't always been there for us to make our past mistakes (or at least our written ones) disappear, so today is a day to celebrate the fact that they now exist. Sure, in today's crazy age of gadgets, hoozits, and whatchamacallits, we tend to not use erasers as often because we now have text editing programs that do all sorts of tech-magic to our documents. However, if you are anything like me, then you still appreciate the feel of a pencil on paper. If you do, you probably are doubly thankful for the feel of an eraser on paper, because anyone who writes with a pencil knows that you never start writing until you are sure your eraser is at the ready. I write with mechanical pencils most of the time, and those rarely have replaceable erasers, so I've been known to just throw them away once the eraser is gone. Don't worry, I transfer the lead to a new pencil (Mechanical pencils: 1, Wood pencils: 0).

Today, write as any mistakes as you darn well please because rubber erasers are more than happy to eat your mistakes. Unless your job entails you writing quickly and accurately. Then, save the celebration for home.

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~Kyle

Being Wrong and Buzzards

Today is Buzzard's Day! This holiday is pretty much exclusive to Ohio, as citizens spend today celebrating the return of the buzzards. Buzzards are apparently also known as turkey vultures, which makes me wonder: Why? Both turkeys and vultures aren't really animals I ever thought about outright celebrating the return of. Aside from thanksgiving or the time I have to decide between a Santa Fe Chicken Wrap or a Turkey Club Sandwich, I rarely think about turkey at all. As for vultures, I've only ever actually seen them in cartoon deserts or The Jungle Book. I thought that maybe it was Ohio's state bird, but I was wrong. Their state bird is the cardinal. I don't understand this holiday, but I suppose if I see a buzzard, I'll give it a smile.

Today is also Everything You Think is Wrong Day! This may seem like a somewhat cruel holiday, and it kind of is. Today is a day spent in the awareness of the fact that some days just do not go right. Well, to be more exact, it's for those days when everything goes wrong. No matter what you think might fix a situation, something will come along and make it worse. We all have had those days, and we all will simply give in to them eventually and watch our day fall apart around us. Don't worry, though. After days like those, the next day always seems so much better.

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~Kyle

Goody Goody

It's National Gumdrop Day! The first day in February about food that is easy for me to come by, and still quite tasty. There are a lot of different gummy candies that are made of the same stuff as gumdrops, but actual gumdrops will always have the very unique and noticeably different texture and taste. The classic gumdrop, in my opinion at least, are the kind with a very light coating of sugar around them (See: Candyland). So since today is dedicated to gumdrops, I will eat the ones that I just so happen to have from recent holidays and vacations. Even though they are fruit flavoured, and usually gumdrops are flavoured in different minty tastes. I prefer the fruit flavour, though. I don't know why this holiday is in February and not December, as I could have made a gingerbread house or some such thing. Oh, well. Time to go eat some candy!

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~Kyle