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Carol H Tucker
Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
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Monday, Monday.....
Today is the 2nd day of the 25th week , the 20th day of the 6th month, the 171st day of 2016, and: - American Eagle Day
- Anne and Samantha Day
- Cuckoo Warning Day -- if you hear a cuckoo today, it will be a wet summer.
- Flitch of Bacon Day – when it was celebrated annually, this was the day. Nowadays it is celebrated every four years [Leap Year] on the date set up by the town of Dunmow in England where the ceremonies now take place
- International Surfing Day
- Lambrusco Day ((any day is a good day for wine, neh?))
- National Daylight Appreciation Day
- National Ice Cream Soda Day
- National Kouign Amann Day – only actually celebrated by one restaurant [with a helluva marketing department apparently] to celebrate the opening of B. Patisserie. The signature item of this shop is the kouign amann, the Breton pastry that literally translates into “butter cake.”
- National Vanilla Milkshake Day
- New Identity Day
- Plain Yogurt Day
- Ride to Work Day [motorcycles]
- Ryan Moran Day [the first full moon in June]
- The First Day of Summer [AKA the summer solstice] at 6:34 PM EDT. Having the full moon coincide with the summer solstice hasn’t happened since 1967. June’s full moon is known as the Strawberry Moon, by the way, although it has also been called the Rose Moon, the Honey Moon and the Mead Moon.
- The Longest Day –((admit it, you thought about that movie too)) hereabouts we will have about 15 hours of daylight, but the earliest sunrise happened back on June 13th and the latest sunset will be on June 27th
- Toad Hollow Day of Thank You ((says something about my cynicism of late that I misread this as “totally hollow day of Thank You” when I first saw it….))
- West Virginia Day – declared the 35th state in 1863 as a result of the secession of several northwestern counties of Virginia during the American Civil War [AKA the War Between the States]
- World Humanist Day
- World Peace and Prayer Day
- World Productivity Day
- World Refugee Day
In 451 at the Battle of Chalons, Flavius Aetius squares off with Attila the Hun -- and since the latter retreats afterwards, the former calls it a win [scholars differ on the Roman claim, as well as the importance of the battle in stemming the tide as Attila pretty much rampaged at will through much of Gaul and crippled the military capacity of the Romans and Visigoths]. In 1782 the US Congress adopted the Great Seal of the United States -- but calling it "the United States didn't happen until 1787. In 1840 Samuel Morse received the patent for the telegraph. In 1895 the Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and considered the busiest artificial waterway in the world, officially opened. In 1948 Ed Sullivan comes to TV with a variety show called "Toast of the Town" on CBS. In 1963 the "red telephone" was installed in the White House and the Kremlin following the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1975 the movie "Jaws" was released.
Sometimes things just don’t happen like you expected them to. I mean, we all remember back when we were kids and just couldn’t wait to grow up so that NO ONE could tell us what to do, when to go to bed, when to get up, what to eat, etc etc and so forth – and just look how that turned out, neh? I am beginning to think that retirement is the same kind of wishful thinking. While I know folks that are living what I consider pretty good lives [nice home, nice activities, good health, able to travel], I also know folks that are staying home and staring at the four walls, counting the pennies and pretty worried that their money won’t last as long as they do. Given my work history and the fact that I missed the pension boat, I was not surprised when the financial advisor I consulted a couple years back told me that if I scrimped and saved, living very frugally [with no vacations or dagnabit expenses] for six years, I could retire at age 72 – and look forward to life scrimping and saving and living very frugally. On Mondays, I have to remind myself that I made the choice to work as long as I could keep a job – which means as long as I can stay employed and my health holds out – so that I could enjoy a lifestyle that included splurges now and then as well as some travel. I didn’t expect to have to make that choice – like my friends, I expected to be able to retire after working for over 50 years – but this is the world I live in. Instead I am rather proud that I have worked longer [harder is prolly a totally separate issue] than anyone else in my family or amongst my friends and enjoy what trips I do take, my dagnabit moments, and my little indulgences while I can.
But Monday mornings? Still tough….
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