Just a quick post

We've had a nice weekend with snow Friday and then a pretty wonderful Valentine's Day today, starting with a playgroup party and ending with hubby and I going out to eat. Also we still have some long stem strawberries and chocolate we need to eat lol. Sorry I haven't posted much in a bit but things have been pretty crazy around here and I will be getting back into the world of exciting long posts in the future lol. Days like the last few definitely remind me how blessed I am to have so much love in my life and in my family, even if it isn't always easy it's definitely worth it. Hope everyone else had a happy holiday with your loves :)!

February: It's not just about Valentine's Day

My earlier Groundhog's Day post got me thinking about what other Holidays fall in February and I found this site http://www.brownielocks.com/february.html and thought it'd be fun to share some of the other celebrations from this month. I'm just listing the daily ones but the link has monthly and weekly as well. There's quite a few funny ones :) Enjoy!

February Daily Observances
1: Freedom Day, G. I. Joe Day, Give Kids a Smile Day, Hula in the Coola Day, Robinson Crusoe Day, Spunky Old Broads Day, Working Naked Day
2: Candelmas, Groundhog Day, Hedgehog Day, Imbolic, Sled Dog Day, African American Coaches Day
3: Four Chaplains Memorial Day, National Girls and Women in Sports Day
4: World Cancer Day, Liberace Day, Quacker Day, USO Day
5: Weatherman's [Weatherperson's] Day, Move Hollywood and Broadway to Lebanon, PA Day, Wear Red Day, World Nutella Day, Bubble Gum Day
6: Dump Your Significant Jerk Day, MOBIUS Awards Day
7: Ballet Day, Daytona Pole Day, Man Day, Orthodox Meatfare Sunday, Super Bowl XLIV, Wave all your fingers at your neighbors Day
8: Boy Scout Anniversary, Laugh and Get Rich Day, Grammy Awards Day
9: Read in the Bathtub Day (I like this one lol)
10: Plimsoll Day
11: Be Electrific Day, Pro Sports Wives Day, National Shut-in Visitation Day, Satisfied Staying Single Day, White Shirt Day
12: Darwin Day, Lincoln's Birthday, Oglethorpe Day, Safety Pup Day
13: Madly in Love With Me Day, Employee Legal Awareness Day, Get a Different Name Day
14: Valentine's Day, Chinese New Year, Daytona 500, Ferris Wheel Day, Library Lovers Day, National Have a Heart Day, National Condom Day, World Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day, League of Women Voters Day, National Women's Heart Day, National Call In Single Day, Race Relations Day, National Donor Day, Quirky Alone Day, Shrovetide (14-16), World Marriage Day
15: Presidents Day, Lupercalia, Orthodox Green Monday, Susan B. Anthony Day, Shrove Monday, National Gum Drop Day, Rabi'I, Westminster Dog show (15-16)
16: Mardi Gras, Fastnachts Day, International Pancake Day, Pancake Day aka Shrove Tuesday, Paczki Day, Washington's Birthday
17: Ash Wednesday or Quiet Day, My Way Day, National PTA Founders Day, World Human Spirit Day
18: Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (lol hubby will love that), Pluto Day
19: Chocolate Mint Day, Iwo Jima Day
20: Love Your Pet Day, Northern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day, World Day for Social Justice, Clam Chowder Day
21: International Mother Language Day
22: Single Tasking Day
23: Curling is Cool Day, IHOP Pancake Day, Spay Day USA
24: Inconvenience Yourself Day
25: National Chili Day, Ta'Anit Ester
26: For Pete's Sake Day, Levi Strauss Day, National Personal Chef's Day
27: Open That Bottle Night
28: Floral Design Day, National Sword Swallower's Day, National Tooth Fairy Day, Purim, Perigean Spring Tides
And the 29 or Leap Day won't be back till 2012 :)

Doctors Stuff

This is a mini-rant, today's topic being doctors. I had to set up a doctor's appointment since though I'm over most the issues I was having I still feel off and need to get checked out. Usually my doctor's office is super helpful and my doctor's assistant is so sweet, well this week she's out of town so I felt like I had to explain that I wanted what I thought was just an easy appointment in very slow words to the new lady, who kept jumping to other things and I had to tell her no that's not it....overall very frustrating. Anyway I got a mini-appt. of sorts yesterday just for some quick tests and the nurse said they would call again in the early afternoon today to possibly schedule an appointment with my doctor if needed. They were very sure that they would be calling soon after lunch and not too late in the afternoon. Needless to say they didn't call so I put in a call at 4:30 since they close at 5 just to check. The temp. nurse said that my doctor has already left for the day so they'll call tomorrow morning instead argh. She said it should be before 10 and to call if no one has called me by then.

Then at 4:45 amazingly I got a call back from my doctor who happened to come back to the office and he made me an appointment. So I get to get checked out and feel kinda victorious that I got the appointment finally! Wish me luck!

The other doctors stuff of today was setting up J's well check-up. The kids' pediatrician is usually pretty tough to arrange appointments and J needs his 18 month appointment (a little late since I've been sick). Well today when I called the pediatrician's office I had the easiest experience with them ever! It was crazy, I told them when I needed the appointment it was open and it's set up! It only took 2 minutes or so. I think the universe must be going nuts or something lol.

So hopefully all will be well and everyone healthy with both appointments.

Groundhog Day

I realized today was Groundhog Day when it was mentioned through the MSN homepage after I logged out of hotmail lol. I know this holiday may not mean too much in the grand scheme of things and the groundhog mentioned in the MSN article has chosen winter 90% of the time and has supposedly only a 39% success rate so I'm not putting too much into this either way. My first thought upon hearing this was actually the question "why didn't google have an appropriate title image on the homepage today?" I find this to be a kind of funny and sad realization on how dependent I've become on Google to remind me of random holidays. I definitely don't need the search engine's help on when Christmas or Easter are but for things like President's Day, random historian's birthdays, and the first telephone or whatever I have learned many minor days of note from none other than google. You would think the opportunity for google to add a cute brown rodent to the title would be jumped on today despite his low track record, maybe the next groundhog will do better.

Anyway, according to the groundhog Winter will be staying around for awhile, but I think rain or shine, warm or cold I will just go with the flow and keep the heater on and long-sleeved wear out as long as needed. And I still am slightly disappointed I didn't get a groundhog depiction on my Google page this morning lol.