October 9th

 Today is the 4th day of the 41st week, the 9th day of the 10th month, the 283rd day of 2024, and:

  • Bullying Prevention Day
  • Curious Events Day - forget about the Bermuda Triangle, I want to know why I open my mouth when I put on mascara?  
  • Emergency Nurses Day
  • Fire Prevention Day
  • Independence Day -  Guayaquil [ AKA Ecuador] from Spain in 1820 and Uganda from UK in 1962
  • International Beer and Pizza Day
  • International Top Spinning Day
  • Legends Cephalopods
  • Leif Erikson Day - did he really discover North America first?  We don't know, but the day is celebrated on the anniversary of the arrival of the first organized immigration from Norway to NYC in 1825
  • National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work and School Day - I didn't 
  • National Curves Day - or International Curves Day has been celebrating plus sizes since 2015
  • National Moldy Cheese Day
  • National Nanotechnology Day - honors the nanometer scale 10-9 meters 
  • National Pet Obesity Awareness Day
  • National Polenta Day
  • National Pro-Life Cupcake Day
  • National Sneakers Day
  • National Stop Bullying Day
  • National Take Your Parents to Lunch Day
  • Nautilus Night
  • PANS/PANDAS Awareness Day - to increase research, education and support to those affected by Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndromes (PANS) and Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS)
  • Scrubs Day
  • Stop America's Violence Everywhere Today [SAVE]
  • Submarine-Hoagie-Hero-Grinder Day - different regions, different names.  Submarine was the original, it is said
  • Walk & Roll to School Day
  • World Financial Planning Day
  • World Post Day
  • World Post Card Day


Quote of the day:
“You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.”
~ Richard Feynman


The magic number in our family was 23 - my grandmother was 23 when she had my mother, my mother was 23 when she had me, and I was 23 when I had my son.  So through the years, I always knew how old everyone was

Today is my mother's birthday.  

She would've been 97, well past the "expiration date" for women in our family.  She passed away in 2013 at the age of 86.  The mid-eighties seems to be the end point for us, something I am increasingly aware of.

My mother and I were not close, nor was she part of my life once I left home.  I can't really say that I miss her, but I do think of her now and then and wish that things could've been different.  But for that to have happened, we both would've had to be very different people....

I don't think she would like the current version of me any more than she liked the previous ones.  But then again, maybe the different person she would've become would.  We'll never know.

Happy Birthday Mom.

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