I Want to Ride my Bicycle (MHU)

Today is Monday, which, as always, means it's time for Monday Holiday Updates!

This week is the third week in May, and has two fantastic week celebrations. It's both National Bike Week, and National Police Week! This is fantastic, because I love Police and bikes. But really, I guess I love the idea of and Police and bikes more...I never really bike at all. At all. And I don't have the guts to ever be a police officer... and they scare me when I'm driving and I see a police car on the road. However! I love to see other people on bikes, and I am a bit of a follow-the-law nerd, so cops never graduated from the elementary school hero status. That counts...right?

Anyway. To kick off a week of really wonderful holidays, Monday is Twilight Zone Day. Which is quite funny, because May 11th has nothing to do with the release of any of the Twilight Zone television series, remakes, movies, opening of any related theme-park attractions, or birth of any actors, creators, or my father who is older than the series. Know what I say to that? I say [cue Twilight Zone Theme-song].

Today, I suggest you go out and enlighten the public about the Twilight Zone. I once sang the theme to a friend at an apt situation, and she just thought I was making crazy dissonant "neener" notes. It nearly broke my heart. Needless to say, she knows better now. Once you've finished enlightening the public, reward yourself with some classic episodes, a movie or two, or maybe take a trip into the 5th dimension yourself.* And heck, if that doesn't work, you could have your own personal little "Twilight Zone" and spend some quality time with Stephanie Meyer books.**

*I do not suggest this.
**I do not suggest this, either.

If you love Limereks, Tuesday you're in luck,
and this holiday won't be a muck.
But if you're a fool,
and think poetry's uncool,
than "Limerek Day" just might suck.

In third grade, limereks were my passion,
and my teacher thought them always in fashion.
So I wrote up a book,
on which she could look,
and get her daily poetry ration.

Now maybe you're a bit distraught;
a fan of rhyming maybe you're not.
But I'm sorry to say,
that Tuesday is the day,
where limericists are all really hot!

Wednesday is where the rhyming ends. It's a bittersweet day for me...the day I take my dreaded AP tests for both AP English and AP Art History. Neither of which are going to be easy and by the time I'm tired of writing, neither of which will be fun.

However, the holiday is "Frog Jumping Day", which can be celebrated a number of ways. While the day is actually meant to celebrate Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and read it, talk about it, or idolize it, the day makes a lot more sense for the average American to take their small child out for a healthy jaunt and a bought of Leapfrog. Or perhaps it would be more "average American" to take their small child, suggest a healthy jaunt and a bought of Leapfrog, and end up playing Frogger.

While those are both fantastic ways to celebrate a day like today, I would like to give a ~SPECIAL SUGGESTION~ to instead focus on anticipating Disney's fantastic upcoming movie, The Princess and the Frog! And while I've already pointed you towards the teaser, the real, legit, two-minutes-and-twenty-three-second trailer is here! And aaaah! What a film trailer it is. :) (just seven months left!)



Thursday only gives you one holiday to choose from, which, much like "Clean Your Room Day" yesterday, I find to be quite ironic. Thursday is, indeed, Dance Like a Chicken Day. This is pretty fantastic...just like at weddings, if the song comes on today, you just gotta dance. What, you think it's humiliating? Embarrasing? Ridiculous? TOO BAD. It's Dance Like a Chicken time!

Friday has a holiday that I REALLY get behind. And if I liked biking, did so well, or had a job, I would surely celebrate it. Friday is the highly acclaimed and Alaina-Approved National Bike to Work Day. Like I already said, this whole week is actually "Bike to Work Week", but this Friday is the designated day to show your pride and keep your body, earth, and mind healthy. Plus, I just checked the weather for Aurora and Logan and Salt Lake City. I got too bored to check elsewhere. But in ALL THREE BEAUTIFUL LOCATIONS, it's supposed to be in the 70's, with partly cloudy skies! How perfect for riding your bike can it get?!

I betchu on Friday, as you felt the wind in your hair and the partly cloudy skies peering down on your back, you said to yourself, "Gee, I just love nature!". And as you expertly avoided hitting cars, trees, small animals, and young children, you probably continued to think, "And I just love trees for holding still and being easy to avoid." Well then, Saturday is the perfect holiday for you! Even if you were a bum and didn't bike to work, live too far from work to bike, or perhaps too close to work to bike (I know I wouldn't appreciate it if Dad tried to bike down the stairs to his office), Saturday is still a lovely holiday. Why, it's Love a Tree Day, of course!

Go find a tree that you love, clip some branches, fertilize it, or find some other, better way to love it. Climb a tree (in a completely safe manner), swing from a tree-swing, or maybe sit in that perfect little U-shaped nook and read a book. I highly suggest reading a book about loving trees. Such as this fantastic one that makes me want to cry. I know when I have free time on Saturday, I'm going to climb up my hill to the oak with the U-shaped nook and read me some 1984 underneath the partly cloudy skies...there's nothing quite like sitting in the branches of a tree, with the wind toussling the leaves and your feet danging above the ground.

Sunday is Pack Rat Day, which I misread the first few times on Holiday Insights to be "Rat Pack Day". It made me very excited, and then quickly very disappointed. I would much rather celebrate the Rat Pack than the Pack Rats.

However, it still is a good day to gather your things, and love all those silly things you should be throwing away or selling. If you're gonna keep them anyway, might as well enjoy them for a day. Pull your collections down from their boxes and adore them; maybe mentally plan a garage sale.

And, while you're doing this, you really oughta listen to some Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Judy Garland, or other Rat Pack members. Maybe watch the original "Ocean's Eleven". That sounds like a much better fake holiday to celebrate, anyway.

"Bicycle Race" can be found by Queen. And hopefully it can be found on your personal soundtrack to Friday.