Celebrating in November Part 1

I went through the calendar on the wacky holiday website and made note of some of the days that we could celebrate this month (and next month too) on a Google calendar template.  While there are a lot of events to choose from, some of them are a bit more obscure and wackier than others so I tried to stick to thinks that we could pretty easily do and to intersperse the food events and non-food events.

November 1 - Calzone Day - We got calzones for lunch from Trattorio Uno.  And that was plural (calzones) which was way too much for lunch.  One was enough to share and HWNSNBP had the second one over the next couple of days.  It was also Clean Your Brush Day and I did clean my hairbrush, but I won't show you pictures of that.  Short as my hair is, I do use a round brush when I blow dry my hair and it does need to be cleaned out from time to time.  I usually clean our combs at the same time.  And the filter on the hairdryer that collects dust.  Check that off the list also.

November 2 - Look for Circles Day - I signed onto the ornament exchange I did last year again and the ornament I'm choosing to send involves lots of circles.

November 3 - Smart Home Day - We are finding more useful functions of the Amazon Alexa device we have that was a Christmas present last year from our daughter and son-in-law.  It wasn't until they visited this summer that they were able to help us "technically challenged" seniors set it up.  But it is actually quite helpful even with crafting.  If there's a recipe or pattern that has measurements that are not US standard I can ask Alexa to do the conversion for me very quickly.  We set up a smart plug with her that we can control from an app on my phone when we're away.  And we've had a remote controlled thermostat in place at the condo for a few years now which is very convenient.  We just need to get smarter in ways to use our smart devices to make our home smarter.

November 4 - Common Sense Day - It was a running joke at work that you could make a fortune selling common sense at a flea market, but we all know that it's something inherent and not to be bought.  I can see why someone would want to celebrate common sense because it seems like there is a very sad decline in it.  

November 5 - Donut Day - HWNSNBP treated me to a jelly donut from Tim Horton's but not without some aggravation on his part.  He went to the drive-up window and asked for a frosted jelly donut.  They told him that they don't have frosted jelly donuts.  He told them that he had gotten them there before.  They told him again that they were sorry, but they didn't carry frosted jelly donuts, only sugared and glazed whereupon the lightbulb went off and he amended his order to a glazed jelly donut.

November 6 - aside from it being Daylight Savings Day and garnering an additional hour of sleep, it was also National Nacho Day.  So nachos were on the menu for lunch.

November 7 - Hug A Bear Day - I didn't hug a bear, but I do have a bear joke - Why are teddy bears never hungry?  Answer at the end of the post.

November 8 - in addition to being Election Day (we voted by mail earlier), it became known to us that November 8th is also National Christopher Day, so I was sure to reach out to our son and wish him happiness on his day.  I also told him to look it up on Google to confirm that it was real and not something I made up.

November 9 - Chicken Sandwich Day - After a little explorative journey to a store in Morristown called Just Jersey, HWNSNBP and I got chicken sandwiches for lunch.  One from Popeye's and the other from Panera and did our own little in-house taste testing.  They were both good.  The sauce and pickle on the Popeye's sandwich give it a distinct flavor we enjoyed.  And the Panera sandwich comes with parmesan crisps (of which you can ask for more to be added) that add a little extra crispiness and nice flavor. The picture makes one look larger than the other, but when I cut them in half, they matched up in size.

November 10 - Area Code Day - Just a little art journal addition.

November 11 - Veteran's Day celebrated by wearing red, white, and blue.  Also Origami Day and I tried this 6 piece fold which I didn't realize was going to be glued together as opposed to interfolded so it's not officially origami.  And, truthfully, it didn't turn out like the video as it doesn't have the twistability shown in the finished product and seems to have an extra flap.  I did use origami paper, but perhaps it needs something a little heavier to twist easier.  Here is the link to the diretions.

November 12 - Chicken Soup for the Soul Day - it seemed, at break of day, that it would be a good day for making chicken soup begin a little overcase and cool, so I added the ingredients to our shopping list (Alexa) and sent a copy to HWNSNBP to pick up on his morning coffee run.  But by the time the afternoon rolled around the sun had come out and the temps rose to almost 70º and we got a late visit from our DIL and GS1, however, I had already put all the ingredients in the pot on the stove so I went ahead and made the soup anyway to have during the week.  As it goes, the temps went back to normal and will be thereabouts for at least the beginning of the upcoming week.

And I'll end with today.....

November 13 - Kindness Day and also Tongue Twister Day.  My kindness will be letting HWNSNBP have the tv to watch his Giants football game whilst I disappear upstairs to do some cardmaking.  But I'll drop some tongue twisters here should you decide to celebrate Tongue Twister Day.  We used to have a game called Passout, purchased in our late teens/early twenties at a store in the mall called Spencer's Gifts.  It was effectively used as a drinking game.  It game with a stack of cards, each having a tongue twister on it and if you could recite the tongue twister you had to drink.  Well, needless to say, the more you messed up, the more you drank....... I think you get the picture.  But there were some good tongue twisters in there:

A tutor who tooted her flute, tried to tutor two tooters to toot.  Said the two to the tutor, is it easier to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?

Of course there's this one:

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

And this one:

Theophilus the thistle sifter while sifting a sifter full of thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.

And if you were of my age and watched Wonderama on Sunday mornings with the host Sonny Fox there's always this one:

Sonny Fox wears funny sox.

Or:

Unique New York (said three times in a row)

Okay, be kind today (as I know you always are) and have fun!

(Teddy bears are never hungry because they're always stuffed.)