I'm Going to Strawberry Fields (MHU)

I'm going to test my skills at one-handed typing today I am holding an almost-asleep baby in my left arm. And it seem to be easier to do silly blogging one-handed than homework. Besides, Baby Katie likes to crinkle my assignments.

So today ushers in another day of MONDAY HOLIDAY UPDATES although posted later in the day than usual, which I apologize for, especially since today is a pretty sweet-awesome holiday in itself. This week also happens to be Emergency Medical Services Week, which must make all those EMTs pretty happy. I didn't know we had a week for celebrating our lovely friends and heroes at 911, but I'm glad we do! Even if the ones on Smallville end up going crazy and try to kill the main character, steal your second-favorite character away from her husband, kill her husband (who happens to be in the Superman canon, so they shouldn't even be allowed to kill him), and then try and kill her, even after her husband is finally being cool again. But no, I'm not bitter!

As I promised, today is an awesome holiday. It's International Museum Day, which is yet another completely legit holiday! Unfortunately, the day is almost over, but today is still a great day to see your local museum and enrich yourself intellectually. Especially since all over the globe museums celebrate today with discounts, special exhibits, and even gifts for attendees. Museums are awesome enough as it is; give me free stuff with my knowledge any day of the week!

Tuesday actually plays host to a Turkish holiday that I'm quite fond of- Ataturk Commemoration Day, which is better known (and easier understood) as Youth and Sports Day. It's actually the day the Turks celebrate their independence, and what better way to celebrate independence than through Youth and Sports! May is lovely weather all over the globe, so I suggest all youth and non-youths go out and play some sports.

I really like Wednesday's holiday, because it brings me back to my happiest memories of my old house in Brookdale. Okay, I have a lot of memories of Brookdale, but the most special and cliche one of all was when Mom would be working in the garden out front and I'd get to pick strawberries from the bush growing under the house. I'd grab a few, run into the kitchen to rinse them off, and eat them fresh as possible. We don't have a strawberry bush nowadays, but Strawberry Picking Day still brings back memories that I never want to forget. And sure, it'd be a better story and a cooler memory if I just ate them off the vine, but we were sanitary with our childhood memories, doggonit!

Now, I'm sure you take notes and memos often enough that you don't need an entire holiday for it, but you ought to widen your view on memo-writing. Because Thursday is National Memo Day, and we've got to make the best of it! I suggest carrying a Post-it note pad around with you. Make memos of what your friends say so you can correct them in the future. Write inspiring notes to stick in less-than-inspiring places. Make to-do lists that go beyond "bread, milk, eggs" and instead include "conquer Asia, find a rift in the time/space continuum, watch the entire series of Friends". Or, maybe for those less ambitious, "order chinese, set clock ahead two minutes, watch a hilarious television show". Both memos are far superior to "bread, milk, eggs" any day.

Friday is another one of those holidays that is most awesome because of the holiday the day after. And I actually suggest following through with both, because both are bound to make you happy through the power of....dunduhduhdaaa....music! Friday is Buy a Musical Instrument Day, which I think is a splendid holiday. If you're in need of a new piano, saxophone, viola, lute, or one-man-band set, today would be THE DAY to buy it! However, I don't condone expensive impulse purchases like that, even if it is the holiday. So if you're not in need of a new piano, saxophone, viola, lute, or one-man-band set, today would be THE DAY to buy a kazoo. Or maybe a tambourine...I think I'll get a tambourine.

Whatever you chose on Friday, I hope it's great for Jazz, because Saturday is the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend, and as such, International Jazz Day! This holiday is awwwwesome, not only because it's conveniently scheduled the day after Buy a Musical Instrument Day, not only because it was created just a matter of months after I was, and not only because it has roots in New Orleans which makes me think of the Princess and the Frog (why yes, the image is that Louie, instead of that Louis. Sorry for my blasphemy). This holiday is awwwesome because...hello? JAZZ IS AWESOME. And I finally have a holiday I can listen to my Rat Pack, Ella Fitzgerald, and every other brilliant and dead artist I love with holiday-approved fervor.

Sunday is another one-choice-only holiday, and another one I find ironic. This lovely day is National Escargot day, which perhaps makes it a little less lovely. I've never had escargot and don't intend on trying anytime soon, but if someone brings some over on Sunday, by golly I might as well try it. I'm all for french stuff. Even if that french stuff includes eating a snail. Or, y'know, I could be like the majority of our population and ignore this holiday exists. Works for them!

Oh, lovely. The baby's completely asleep...which means I can return to my homework. I'll colorize this entry and add lovely pictures if/when I finish up, and if the children stay asleep. They were supposed to stay up all four hours...I like this much better!

Title's Lyrics can be found in Strawberry Fields Forever by the Beatles. And should be sung on Wednesday!