I Heard it On my Radio (MHU)

It's the LAST MONDAY OF (my) SUMMER, and that's really frightening. But it's still a lovely set of holidays...encouraging to know that even when we start going back to school and mundane mondays, there's a reason to celebrate every day. Good note for our Last Monday Holiday Updates of Summer!

Well, last week I made a slight error, so this week's holidays includes one that you may recognize as a repeat.
That's right, today, not yesterday, is Thrift Store Day!! I do love my thrift stores, but seeing as I went to Goodwill quite recently and have much to do in means of preparing for school this Thursday, I don't think I'll be going. I will celebrate, however, by listening to Goodwill purchased music! watching Goodwill purchased movies! and wearing Goodwill purchased shoes!

Tuesday's holiday is a wonderful day for me to review all my family letters that I have helped Sami write in the past. No, it's not "Write a letter for your pet" day. It's Bad Poetry Day! A day for you to pull out the best of the worst rhymes you know...or even better, BEGIN a rhyme scheme, alter it without notice, and maybe (my favorite of the worst) try and rhyme words with themselves!! It'll be a wonderful day for not only irritating your scholarly friends, but also learning to appreciate true poets. Ones who know better rhymes than "Roses are Red, Violets are Blue...." and "I'm a poet and I didn't even know it".

We can thank President Woodruff for Wednesday's legitimate National holiday...National Aviation Day!! Mark, I hope you live this day to your fullest as a ~new official flight instructor~. Congratulations! Isn't it wonderful that we've come so far from never believing an object denser than air could fly to getting my brother...my brother to teach other children how to fly. So, Happy Birthday Orville Wright, and thanks a bunch for being awesome and learning to fly.

Another awesome thing about our period of time besides flight is radio communication. So, let's celebrate National Radio day as it falls this Thursday!! Eugh....it's a lot more exciting to celebrate that than the first day of school. The beautiful people who run the River radio station always read off the bizarre holidays as found on the wonderful site Holiday Insights, so they should enjoy Thursday. I'll try my best to enjoy it, too; definately going to listen to my fantastic radio stations to/from school. And doing the homework I bet I'll have.

If you aren't aware what grade I'm in (and will most likely be even more proud of than I already am by Friday), I'm a SEN10R. And Friday is like our own little personal holiday....National Senior Citizen Day!! Alright, considering this is another Reagan holiday that he gave to the elderly "For all they have achieved throughout life and for all they continue to accomplish", I probably shouldn't jokingly take it away. I know a lot of awesome senior citizens, and they really do deserve a holiday. But, being a senior myself, I can't promise I won't be a little prideful and pretend I'm it's meant for high-school seniors, even just to get credit for another holiday.

Although it's been years since I've lost a tooth and been visited by the Tooth Fairy, I still realllllly like Saturday's holiday. It's Tooth Fairy Day, and would be a very convenient day for a small child to lose his or her tooth. I'm not sure how else you could celebrate the day, except by learning about her traditions and how they vary by country, discussing what she does with the teeth (I've always assumed the tooth faries live in a city of teeth), where she gets her coins/dollars/gifts, and maybe even watching Tooth Fairy movies. I recommend Toothless. It's funny, cute, light-hearted, and really gives the Tooth fairy position the respect she deserves. I do not recommend Darkness Falls. It's a horror movie. About the tooth fairy. And it's not even done well. That is not the way to celebrate this Saturday, my friends.

Sunday's holiday seems to be best celebrated by hippies and other non-literal thinking friends of the wind. It's Ride the Wind day, which bodes well for many airline slogans and kite salesmen. If it is indeed good weather, I hope to at least fly a kite. Maybe I can't physically ride the wind, but I can feel like I am through the assistance of paper, plastic, and sometimes even metal (see Wednesday!). So all in all, this holiday seems just as relaxing as Relaxation Day, especially as we begin to leave Summer. I'm looking forward to Sunday.

"Radio Gaga" can be found by Queen and should be sung on Thursday