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Celebrate Awkward Moments Day
Awkward moments happen all the time, and to some folks more than others! For anyone who’s ever wished the ground would open up and swallow them, Awkward Moments Day is a celebration of all awkward moments. From walking out of a public toilet with loo roll on a shoe, to realizing you’ve been speaking to someone everyday for a year, and don’t know their name, life is full of these moments.
Although there isn’t much information regarding the origins of Awkward Moments Day, many people have commented on how interesting it is that Awkward Moments Day is the day after St Patrick’s day! Awkward Moments Day can boast a mascot though, the awkward turtle.
So, if anything awkward happens on Awkward Moments Day, be sure to see the humour, of the situation, and have a good laugh about it, before moving on to the next one!
Spanish artist Susana Blasco uses old photographs, a cutter knife and glue to create interesting compositions and optical illusions with her handcrafted collages.
Word of the Day
reveille
“It’s eye before flea, except after sea.”
MEANING:
noun:
1. A signal to wake up in the morning, using a bugle, trumpet, etc., at military installations.
2. Any signal to get out of bed.
3. The hour at which a wake-up signal is sounded.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French réveillez (wake up!), from réveiller (to awaken), from re- (again) + eveiller (to rouse), from Latin exvigilare (to keep watch), from ex- (out) + vigilare (to be awake or keep watch), from vigil (awake). Ultimately from the Indo-European root weg- (to be strong or lively), which also gave us vegetable, vigor, velocity, watch, vigilante, vedette, vegete, and velitation. Earliest documented use: 1633.
USAGE:
“An alarm clock that wakes you with the scent of chocolate? It sounds like something Willy Wonka would create, but the Sensorwake Olfactory Alarm Clock is available from Harrods. Within two minutes of reveille, one of seven fragrances (including seaside, croissants, espresso, and grass) will intensify gradually until you are ready to face the day.”
Katrina Burroughs; Katrina Burroughs Rounds Up the Latest and Cleverest Gadgets You Didn’t Know You Needed; Sunday Times (London, UK); Sep 18, 2016.
1. A signal to wake up in the morning, using a bugle, trumpet, etc., at military installations.
2. Any signal to get out of bed.
3. The hour at which a wake-up signal is sounded.
Katrina Burroughs; Katrina Burroughs Rounds Up the Latest and Cleverest Gadgets You Didn’t Know You Needed; Sunday Times (London, UK); Sep 18, 2016.
Idiom of the Day
heart touching
also, heart-warming
also, heart-warming
Meaning
- an event that makes you feel happy
- something that moves you on an emotional level
- to touch someone’s heart means to make them feel empathy or sympathy
Synonyms | Related Phrases
- heart-warming
- touch someone’s heart
- emotional
- touching
- heart-breaking (Antonym)
Example Sentences
- We watched a heart-touching movie about a boy who lived next to a concentration camp during the Second World War.
- The feedback that we received from the public was heart-warming.
- The girl’s story about her lost dog was heart touching.
- Jane wrote a heart touching poem in the memory of her late grandmother.
- Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman return to India from Pakistan was a heart-touching moment for every Indian.
- A little daughter sent a heart touching message to her soldier father.
- My new colleague has told me a heart-touching incident about her life.
Origin
The phrase that is most often used is heart-warming, instead of heart touching. It seems as if heart touching is most often used in Nepal, Pakistan and India. Even though the phrase is not exactly the same, the meaning is.
It is not clear exactly how the phrase was first used. Most sources claim that the adjective can be traced back to the 1620s.
It seems as if the first publication of the phrase can only be traced back to the 1890s.
Even though the spelling may differ (some countries write it as one word, others as two) the meaning remains the same. It is a feeling that makes it feel as if your heart is being touched. This is also why people often say the experience touched their heart.
This Day in History
1541 - Hernando de Soto observed the first recorded flood of the Mississippi River.
1813 - David Melville patented the gas streetlight.
1850 - Henry Wells & William Fargo founded American Express.
1881 - Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opened in Madison Square Gardens.
1899 - Phoebe, a moon of the planet Saturn, was discovered.
1902 - Enrico Caruso recorded 10 arias for the Gramophone Company. He was the first well-known performer to make a record.
1909 - Einar Dessau of Denmark used a short wave transmitter to become the first person to broadcast as a "ham" operator.
1931 - Schick Inc. displayed the first electric shaver.
1945 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 50 goals.
1959 - U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill.
1965 - Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to spacewalk when he left the Voskhod II space capsule while in orbit around the Earth. He was outside the spacecraft for about 20 minutes.
1966 - Scott Paper began selling paper dresses for $1. (Believe it or not, I loved wearing those paper dresses!)
1986 - Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson.
1989 - A 4,400-year-old mummy was discovered at the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.
1992 - Donna Summer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1997 - Joni Mitchell announced that she had reunited with a daughter she had given up for adoption many years earlier.
2016 - Legacy Recordings released "Elvis Presley: The Album Collection." The 60 CD box set included all of the albums Elvis recorded and RCA released in his lifetime.
Stirred But Never Shaken
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, March 18
You are an extremely intuitive person who is sometimes hard to read--and hard to reach! You seem to need more quiet time for personal reflection than most. However, when you are with others you are sociable, interested, and lively. You relate well to people from all walks of life. You have a great need for stimulation and change in your daily routines. Famous people born today:
1782 John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson's Vice President (1825-32), born in Abbeville, South Carolina (d. 1850)
837 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th US President (1885-89, 1893-97), born in Caldwell, New Jersey (d. 1908)
1858 Rudolf Diesel, French-born German engineer (invented the diesel engine), born in Paris, France (disappeared 1913)
1869 [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister (C, 1937-40), born in Birmingham, England
1879 Cluny MacPherson, Canadian doctor and inventor of the gas mask, born in St. John's, Newfoundland (d. 1966)
1905 Robert Donat, English actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Citadel), born in Manchester, England (d. 1958)
1922 Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights activist, born in Mount Meigs, Alabama (d. 2011)
1932 F. W. de Klerk, South African President (1989-94), winner of 1993 Nobel Peace Price with Nelson Mandela, born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province
1941 Wilson Pickett, American R&B singer (Funky Broadway), born in Prattville, Alabama (d. 2006)
1970 Queen Latifah [Dana Owen], American rapper and actress Living Single, Chicago), born in Newark, New Jersey
READERS INFO
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1922 -
Judith Kaplan celebrates the first American Bat Mitzvah ceremony.
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1541 - Hernando de Soto observed the first recorded flood of the Mississippi River.
1813 - David Melville patented the gas streetlight.
1909 - Einar Dessau of Denmark used a short wave transmitter to become the first person to broadcast as a "ham" operator.
1931 - Schick Inc. displayed the first electric shaver.
1945 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 50 goals.
1959 - U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill.
1989 - A 4,400-year-old mummy was discovered at the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.
1992 - Donna Summer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1997 - Joni Mitchell announced that she had reunited with a daughter she had given up for adoption many years earlier.
2016 - Legacy Recordings released "Elvis Presley: The Album Collection." The 60 CD box set included all of the albums Elvis recorded and RCA released in his lifetime.
DAILY SQU-EEK
1922 Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights activist, born in Mount Meigs, Alabama (d. 2011)
READERS INFO
Judith Kaplan celebrates the first American Bat Mitzvah ceremony.
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Beyond Wonderland Southern California 2019
Mar 22 - 23, 2019 | San Bernardino, CA
Beyond Wonderland stages a helluva show. Yes, there's electronic music by the likes of Kaskade and Tiesto beating into your eardrums. But there's also a hookah-smoking caterpillar atop a giant mushroom on stage. And creatures handing out gigantic blue icing "Eat Me" cupcakes to the crowd. And human-size white rabbits frolicking around.
The fantastical rave takes its cues from Alice in Wonderland. "Embark on an adventure to the far side of the forest," the festival beckons, and it makes it happen via wandering, costume-clad characters, interactive art and wild backdrops to accompany the main acts.
Around 40,000 sexy twenty-somethings stream in for the two-day peace, love and dance scene. They don creative (and skimpy) outfits, their glitter sparkling and rainbow-colored beads bobbing to the spacey trance, dubstep and house beats. Everyone grooves alongside each other with no judgment. It really is a storybook realm.
further information: Beyond Wonderland 2019 - Tickets & Lineup | Night Owl Guestlist
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Santa Clara Valley Wine Trail Spring Passport 2019
Mar 1-31, 2019 | Santa Clara, CA
Follow the Santa Clara Valley Wine Trail and wine taste at 32 wineries the entire month of March. As a Passport holder, you have the opportunity to meet the talented winemakers and staff and learn how they produce some of the world’s finest award winning wines. You can expect up to three, one-ounce pours at each winery you visit during the month. Wineries may have food and entertainment, pour special select or library wines, offer barrel samples and attractive discounts.
Under the Horse Chestnut Tree(1898), a drypoint and aquatintprint by Mary Cassatt, an American painter and printmakerwho lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children, on which her reputation is largely based. In recognition of her contributions to the arts, France awarded her the Légion d'honneur in 1904, but she never had as much success in her homeland, having been overshadowed by her brother, railroad magnate Alexander Cassatt.
7 Year Old Blaze Ingram Runs 13.76 Second 100m Dash
knit
thanks, Leah
knit
thanks, Millie
Greylock pattern by Cobblestone Designs
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Wharariki mitts pattern by Sabine Kastner
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Treasured Heirloom Baby Blanket
Knit Pattern of the Day: Valerie, Canadian Correspondent
VEE NECK MEN'S SWEATER
crochet
thanks, Helen
CIRCLE TO SQUARE GRANNY SQUARE BLANKET
crochet
thanks, Ann
Cozy Crochet Hoodie, 6 mos
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RECIPE
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CROCKPOT RECIPE
thanks, Ida
SWEETS
thanks, Carol
ADULT COLORING
CRAFTS
thanks, Betty
PUZZLE
| ardent block brass bring cling close | dense device digs drive drove encroach enjoy force friend | impecunious incite insolence involve lair laps lone | minute music needy please regal relentless | seeds share smile solid stammer stolid stroke stymie ties twist |
SUDOKU ... hard
solution:
QUOTE
CLEVER
Sneaky Squirrel
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Answer: Figural and souvenir salt and pepper shakers became popular in the mid-20th century. Some ceramic shaker sets were made in the United States, and more were produced by Japanese firms and imported heavily after World War II. Of the many animals depicted in figural shakers, squirrels are among the most prolific. An eBay seller listed an identical set recently, described as "Vintage squirrel and tree salt and pepper shakers, 1950s." Each shaker was marked "Japan" on the bottom. The set was priced at $17.99 plus shipping. Many comparable ceramic novelty shaker sets are priced at $20 or less.
A Sticky Situation
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Answer: Franklin MacVeagh (1837-1934) was a lawyer who served as director of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago for 29 years. President William Howard Taft asked him to be secretary of the treasury in 1909. Following Taft's defeat in the 1912 election, MacVeagh returned to Chicago to become president of Franklin MacVeagh & Co., a wholesale grocery company. The company closed in 1932, a victim of the Great Depression. Lyndon, a company brand name, is also found on paper labels of canned fruits distributed by Franklin MacVeagh & Co. This tin dates to about 1920, around the time Log Cabin brand of syrup was being marketed in house-shaped tins. A tin such as this might sell for $40 to $50.
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