Category Archives: Bright shiny objects

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Election Day

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Today is Election Day here in the United States.  Many of you have already voted, but if you haven’t please do.  It is your responsibility as an American citizen. It is our most precious responsibility and our right as citizens of this great nation to participate in the process of choosing our leaders.  And yes, the presidential election has been… Read more »

Vodka Day!!

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Today is Vodka Day! I personally celebrated this for several days in July during my vacation in Las Vegas, but I digress….. No one really seems to know how the day was started or why it’s on October 4th.  But who cares!  Have a screwdriver, or a vodka sour, or a vodka lemonade, or any other vodka cocktail you desire… Read more »

For the Love of the Game

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We are 2 weeks into my favorite season- football season! I’m an NFL junkie.  I’m a fantasy football league commissioner, I’m in a suicide/ pick ’em pool with a group of friends, and a long-suffering Miami Dolphins and Minnesota Vikings fan.   I just love it and have since I was in college and interested in a guy who watched… Read more »

Collect Rocks Day

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Today is National Collect Rocks day. This day holds a special place in my heart as my Granny Marquardt was a rock enthusiast.  Her basement was full of shelves and bags and boxes rocks from all over the United States.  They pretty much all looked like to me, but to her each one had a (usually very long) story that… Read more »

A Strange One

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Today is International Strange Music Day. This day was created by Patrick Grant, a musician from New York City and is named after a song he wrote called, oddly enough, Strange Music.  The idea is to expose yourself to, and perhaps even perform, strange music. What’s strange?  Well, you can take it one of two ways- #1 Music that’s foreign… Read more »

The best day yet

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Today is Daiquiri Day! This heavenly frozen beverage was invented in the village of Daiquiri Cuba as a way to boost morale and productivity for miners during the long, hot Cuban summers sometime in the early 1900’s by a clearly very smart man named Jennings Cox. Cox’s original recipe only contained lime juice, sugar, rum and ice, but of course… Read more »