Important Announcement BEFORE Tomorrow

I forgot to mention an important announcement!

Tomorrow is the first day of NoShavember, aka Novembeard. Meaning everyone needs to shave tonight. And then...not again. Until December.

It's basically a pointless month long celebration of manliness and competition of manliness. And, I would argue, womanliness. Yes, with a sigh of disappointment I regret to inform my lovely readers that in this day in age there are still undertones of sexism in our world, attempting to discriminate against women on this important and influential holiday. Not this year, ladies! I say we band together and fight back. It's important to note that my revolt is including only legs. Repeat: legs only!

Ladies, we cannot participate in Novembeard, but we can participate in NoShavember. So get 'em silky smooth, guys get those faces baby fresh and then more fun announcements throughout the month. Feel free to keep me updated on your progress, post pics to my facebook if you like :)

Best of luck, everyone. I'll leave you with a little hairy inspiration.

Halloween

Hallowe'en, All Hallow's Even, Hallow Evening! All Saints Day, Hallowmas, Hallowtide, All Hallows, All Hallow Eve, All Souls Day Eve...

It's Halloween!

Origins are somewhat sketchy:

Some say roots are found in the Celtic holiday "Samhain",a pretty important day in medieval Ireland and Scotland to celebrate the end of summer. They believed this, the last day of autumn, was also the day in which the natural and supernatural worlds were closest. To ward off negative spirits they built bonfire and offered animal and human sacrifices to appease the gods.

Others will say the origins of Halloween go further back, to Parentalia, a 9 day ancient-Roman festival of the dead and ancestors. 

Wherever and however it originally came about, there's no question Halloween has been hugely affected by religion, culture and time. One of the biggest influences on Halloween was All Saints Day, the Roman Catholic holiday (later adopted by certain western protestants) to celebrate the Saints, all Saints, on November 1.

But Halloween as we know it today has pretty much little to nothing in common with the origins. That's okay... I have fun dressing up in costumes, getting free candy, drinking cider, carving pumpkins, bonfires, haystacks, scary movies and haunted houses, corn mazes, scaring people, and adopting black kitties! 

I know Panic! At the Disco isn't everyone's cup of tea...but they have some awesome Halloween songs, and really how many good bands do that? You have to respect. He's some links if you want some jams for today to get you in the spooky mood:

This is Halloween
It's Almost Halloween

A Delicious Paradox

Today, the day before Halloween, is a celebration of perhaps the best exclusively "Halloween" candy ever invented. The candy corn. Although a bit of a paradox- a candy vegetable- I find myself unable to question this tricky treat because of said deliciousness. So here's to you, candy corn. Thanks for making my halloweens so confusingly yummy.

Oh, look. A link!

Happy Birthday to a Special Bottom Dweller

Happy Birthday, Pepe!

I wasn't really a supporter of the muppets, but I was a big fan of his work on the long john silver's commercials. 

Best. Day. Ever.

Happy best day of the year; It's Friday, a holiday in and of itself- it's the last game of the world series, which my boys won, and...Chocolate Day!

Appropriately enough, tonight was also girl's night in my apartment so we did all the best chocolatey girl stuff possible. Of course.

T. O. V. Day

I'm so sorry, I lied to you guys in my last post. Today isn't chocolate day, tomorrow is. And tomorrow is also Friday and game 7 of the world series...best day ever, just sayin.

 

Today is Turn Off the Violence Day. And it's as simple as it sounds. Cut it out. T.O.V. promotes education on violence and violent behavior, how to handle violent situations or people and how to stop it from happening. Their claim is that violence is a learned behavior; it can be unlearned. 

 

"Some day together we may reap the harvest in a world that thinks of violence only as the last resort, not the only option ... or the best." -turnofftheviolence.org

Hopefully it isn't a stretch to believe violence could never be an option.

Peace, love and happiness,
L

Zzz...

Today was probably the best day ever, and while I didn't get to enjoy it to the fullest extent that I would have liked, I did the best I could.

It's Sleep In Day. Unfortunately, in the life of a college senior, sleeping in only happens on Saturday. I couldn't afford to miss my 9 o'clock class, so I just slept in as much as possible. From bed to class in 20 minutes isn't exactly impressive but it is a personal record. *bow*Hopefully y'all got some sleep today.

Also, heads up for tomorrow- Chocolate Day, among other things. Commence extreme excitement

Monuesday

Today is Monuesday. What's a Monuesday and how do we celebrate it, you ask? Well... Monues isn't exactly the holiday it's the thing that happens when I don't write a blog on Monday and stay up way too late and wake up way too early and try to combine Monday and Tuesday and see if anyone cares. Monuesday.

Yesterday was United Nations Day, which is cool and awesome and cool, but there's not much to say about it. I like, nay, I love the United Nations. Happy day, UN!

Today is much more interesting. World Pizzamakers' Day! When I first realized this was a food holiday, I thought it was just any other food holiday- the kind where I'd find it barely mentioned in another blog or two and on Martha Stewart's website. But this is a LEGIT food holiday!

Pizza is believed to have been created for the first time in Naples, Italy in the 600s. I don't think any other food but bread has lasted that long, and I'm sure glad it did. God bless Italian food...but I digress. So, how appropriate that the day be greatly celebrated in Italy today. The Pope prayed a blessing over pizza, pizzamakers and the families of pizzamakers today in St. Peter's Square (the Vatican) in front of 50,000 which included 2,000 pizzamakers from all over the world. THEN! Get this, the pizza makers made and passed out 50,000 slices of pizza to celebrate. Holy mozzarella, that's a lot of pizza.

So take a load off, order in tonight and enjoy. Maybe even watch a little jersey shore and celebrate the fact that their time in Italy is coming to an end.

Celebrating the Impossible

So... yeah. Today is Mother-in-law Day.
I thought about celebrating, but alas... I cannot.
So then I thought about not blogging today, but I've been dropping the ball a lot lately.
So I'm going to celebrate Mother-in-law Day by celebrating NOT having one! Boo-yeah! I've got two parents, and their enough to worry about (right, mom?) so I'm celebrating the fact that I don't got no ball and chain and thus no mother-in-law to judge the cleanliness of my house or make passive aggressive comments about my cooking. Mmm :) it's nice...

Make a Difference Day

Today is Make a Difference Day which is quite simply a day of doing good, in whatever form that comes in for you. Basically, the idea is to come up with a way to make a difference- either make your own cause or join another- participate and report on it. Anything at all that makes a difference by doing good. Check out the website, it's pretty cool
http://makeadifferenceday.com/

Back and Catching Up

Hey y'all. I'm back! Mid-term kicked butt and now I'm all prepared to catch everyone up on all the days we, unfortunately, missed...

Friday:
World Egg Day, Be Bald and Free Day, National F.R.U.M.P. Day (that's  Frugal, Responsible, Unpretentious, Mature Persons. Whatever...) national lower case day, and National Take Comfort Day
Saturday:
I Love Lucy Day, Mushroom Day, Sweetest Day, National Grouch Day and National Poetry Day
Sunday:
National Boss Day, Dictionary Day, World Food Day, National Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day, Learn a Word Day and Let Them Eat Cake Day
Monday:
Gaudy Day, International Adjust Your Chair Day
Tuesday:
No Beard Day (I actually do not support the celebration of this day...except for girls, maybe) Black Poetry Day, Scary Black Cat Day and hooray, the anniversary of the day Puerto Rico became a US colony
Wednesday:
New Friends Day and Evaluate Your Life Day
Thursday:
National Fruit Day and Suspenders Day

Whew! That's so many cool days we missed out on! Sorry about  the mini-hiatus and thanks again for understanding. Now let's get back to the grindstone.

Today is Garbanzo Bean Day and...that's it. Okay, so maybe not the best day to return with a bang, but hey...before Fergie came along no one cared about black eyed peas either. Maybe today we give garbanzo beans the respect they could potentially deserve.

Holiday Vacation

Hey guys,
Just wanted to announce that we're taking a short break from holidays. I'm on mid-term break and spending it in Missouri, so whoo-hoo. Unfortunately, I left my calendar and notebook in Ohio so I'm a little lost. That's okay though, we're just going on a  mini-hiatus, and I'll catch you guys up on Thursday.
Thanks for understanding,
L

Doubtful, Thomas?

Today's International Skeptic's Day, otherwise known as 'cool if you want it to be'.
I'm personally not in support of this day and I offer into defense of my case what we will refer to as Evidence A and Evidence B.
Evidence A is what being a skeptic will get you.

Evidence A

Whereas Evidence B will show you where being awesome will lead you.

Still skeptical? Well, that's up to you to decide.

Bearbear!

National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work or School Day!

 

Today is probably the best day ever... the point? Be a kid again. Share your life with your bear, and your bear with your friends and co-workers.  This is my teddy bear, Bearbear (aka Jerbear) which was a gift from my amazing and wonderful, loving boyfriend Jerrod. Fun bear fact- when you squeeze his paw he lights up! Which is perfect, because I'm 7 and also afraid of the dark.

So, what's the scoop? We all know you still have a teddy bear, don't lie. Whats your bear's story? Share it with someone today :)

Partay!

It's My Party Day! And yes, I did cry...because I wanted to. This is yet another one of those days where I found too much information on the holiday to ignore that fact that it's obviously a legitimate day...but not enough information to actually know what it is..or what it's for, or how to celebrate, or why. I'm going to have to assume it's exactly what it sounds like and just party it up.

Happy Thanksgiving, Eh?

Ah, today is filled with my favorite kind of holiday. No, not the 'crazy kind of food you have to come up with and consume' day, not 'random and abstract noun or verb for no real reason' day, though these days are fun too. Today is full of historical holidays! And I just love it!

First up, most of you guys probably know this already, but its Columbus Day. Welcome to America, Cristóbal. There's not really any awesome ways to celebrate this day, it's just a day of observance. Though most schools and government run businesses take the day off, unlike mine...

Today is also Thanksgiving in Canada! Nice! Their Thanksgiving isn't much different than ours, other than they get a 3 day weekend and we usually get a 4-5 day weekend :) The purpose of their Thanksgiving isn't different from ours at all. It's a chance to give thanks to God for what He's given us, originally for a bountiful harvest. They celebrate with family, lots of food, parades and even (that's right) football! And not the sissy "by 'football' we mean 'futball' so really we mean 'soccer'" kinda football, either! I mean real, live Canadian Football League double-header, a.k.a the Thanksgiving Day Classic. Finally Canada, something I can really respect you for.

Also they often use the 3 day weekend as a chance to travel. I can respect that as well.

Virginia celebrates Yorktown Victory Day today, the victory in the Siege of Yorktown, which was a very influential win for George W. (Washington, that is) in the Revolutionary War.

And if all this history isn't cool enough for you, then fine! Celebrate my last ditch effort holiday. Angel Food Cake Day. It's tasty and good for you. Now get outta here, and do something productive with your day!

Say cheese

Today is...well, sort of lackluster as far as holidays are concerned. All I could stir up for today is... dut dut dut duuuh! Moldy Cheese Day. So yeah. Enjoy. And as my dear friend Ellen would say... "That's disgusting."
That's all, thanks for tuning in. Tomorrow looks more promising (though, really, can you go downhill from moldy cheese?)

Tag, you're it!

American Tag Day

Tag, you're it! You could certainly celebrate today by running around and playing tag. It's beautiful here in Ohio! But the origins of American Tag Day are in animal shelters. In a study that included over 1,000 animal shelters across America, over the course of three years over 1 million dogs and over half a million cats were taken in as strays (tame animals taken in, not dropped off). Only 15% of the dogs and 2% of cats were ever reunited with their original owners.
So no I'm not going to go on some PETA rant, or link you to an ASPCA commercial. This is just a friendly reminder to make sure your animals are tagged, just in case it ever happens to you and your pet. Also... seriously. Go play tag. It's a beautiful day

Jeans, boobs and frappes (Oh my!)

Today is a pretty cool day, Lee National Denim Day. Lee is trying to raise money and awareness for breast cancer by asking for a donation equal to the amount you spent on the jeans you're wearing today. Watch the video at this link to see Mike Rowe (you know, Dirty Jobs) take off his pants in honor of his mother.

Also, today's an excellent day to stop by Starbucks and grab something tasty and filled with awesomeness. It's Frappe Day! As disappointing as this is, I do actually know of certain parties (who may or may not belong to cults) who don't like Starbucks. That's okay, I also highly recommend the Mocha frappe from Dunken Donuts and actually McDonald's isn't too bad either (blasphemy, I know...)

Most of all, today, just...enjoy! It's a lovely Friday. Do something awesome :)

Sincerest Apologies

Holy week of my life flashing by without me noticing it, batman! Dearest loyal and faithful National Lori Day followers- might I extend my most heart-felt and regretful apologies for dropping the blogspot ball.

Let me briefly catch you up on the days I've missed and pick up with today. I promise it won't happen again! (Or if it does, we should institute some vlogbrothers-esque type punishment system for dropping the ball. [here's an example of an aweful punishment for making a video too long, which is one of their rules of vlogging])

Saturday:
Homemade Cookies Day, World Vegetarian Day, Less Than Perfect Day , International Frugal Fun Day
Sunday:
Name Your Car Day, World Communion Sunday
Monday:
Virus Appreciation Day, Look at the Leaves Day, World Habitat Day
Tuesday:
 Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, National Golf Day
Wednesday:
National Story Telling Day, National Techies Day

And lastly today:

German American Day is celebrated every 6th of October in honor of the day the 13 German families landed in America who later founded Germantown, PA. In 1983 Reagan declared German American Day a holiday on October 6th on the 300th anniversary of German American immigration. There's no relation between German American Day and Oktoberfest, but that doesn't sound like a bad way to celebrate, huh?  ;)



Come and Take It Day is a day for the taking! And making...making it whatever you want it to be. It's sort of a grab life by the- well you know, sort of mentality. Today is up for grabs, take it and make it whatever you want it to be.

Other holidays to be celebrated today:
Garlic Lovers Day, really garlic should be celebrated everyday in my opinion.
Physician Assistant Day
Lawyers Day

So there you go. A weeks worth of catching up to do, a weeks worth of celebrating, an apology, a promise and Oktoberfest all in one blog. Brought to you by yours truly. Enjoy today, come and take it!