Wednesday is Sunday?

I spent the day thinking it was Saturday today. I need one of these:

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/10/15/day-of-the-week-clock/

Weekday holidays always screw with my perceptions.

Have a good one!

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Wishing everyone a wonderful day!

Happy Election Day?

Since today is Election Day, I went in to my office to help out my boss. The municipal office is officially closed on Election Day for all but election business, but unfortunately my boss has to work all day as long as the polls are open.

Normally I go in at night and help tabulate election results and handle phones when the polls close [everybody calls to find out who won the minute the polls close - as if we have the answers. News flash: We don't. We have no clue who won anything until the tapes in come in from the polling machines, but I digress.]

Today I went in during the morning to do some work and to cover the phones while my boss toured the polling stations and I fielded a bunch of typical phone calls, mostly: "Are you closed today?" Since I've already answered the phone, people generally don't believe me when I say, "Yes, we're closed. I'm just here answering phones to tell people that we're closed."

Hey, this is government, folks. It's how things work.

The thing that got me most today, though, was the woman who said, "Oh, that's right. It's a holiday."

Now, I know she meant, obviously a government holiday. The day we elect our government officials is also a day all the government officials have off, explain that one to me?? But beside the obvious irony, I thought to myself, is it REALLY a holiday?

"Holiday" is a contraction of the words 'Holy Day' - therefore, is a day off in honor of the government [decidely unholy, let's face it] really a holiday, or just a day off?

Granted there are days of the year, the Fourth of July, for instance, which while it's a secular holiday, a government holiday, a Federal holiday, could also be construed as a 'holi-day' because it celebrates freedom. Likewise I suppose for anyone running for public office, Election Day would be a solemn and celebratory occasion, if they win of course. If they lose, then it's crap.

I'd like to propose that certain days be designated 'UnHolidays' - not because they're bad or evil, but because they are not necessarily holi/holy in any way. Election Day should be one of those UnHolidays. Everybody can have the day off, no problem, but let's not call it a Holiday because there are no parties [well again, unless you win the election] and there are no gifts, festivals, services, rituals or Hallmark cards designed to herald the occasion.

What do you think? Is Election Day a Holiday or an UnHoliday?

Happy Halloween!

Here's this year's Jack-o-Lantern. He turned out pretty scary even though he was actually supposed to be modeled after Squidward from SpongeBob Squarepants.

Here he is with the lights on. DD did the black outlining to make him scary during the day. I put the triangular hole in his head to let the evil spirits out. ;) And just because I was in the mood to chop some more.

Have a happy and safe Halloween everyone!

Two more with teeth

I'm going to carve this year's jack-o-lantern this afternoon so it'll look a little gnarled by tomorrow. I know some people carve them early, but then you either have rotting pumpkin in the house or a feast for the squirrels if you leave it outside, so I wait until the last minute.

Two for one

Because they're small, I picked two pumpkin shots today. The one on top looks like it would make a nice quilt. If I ever get back into quilting, I'll have to remember it.


This one looks like Topper would look if I could get him to sit in a pumpkin patch. I bought a huge pumpkin yesterday for carving, and he won't go near it, nor would he sit among all the little pumpkins I've got, so this is the next best thing.

An Earie Sight

Disney World takes Halloween very seriously. Last year we went to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party and we had a blast. If you're ever looking for a good holiday to visit the Magic Kingdom, try Halloween. It's not terribly crowded, the weather is usually fabulous and the decorations are great.

It's pumpkin week

I'm going to be looking for cool pumpkin pictures this week. This is one of my own jack-o-lanterns. Carving pumpkins is one of my favorite projects.

Happy 4th!

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So what's everyone doing today? It's a relatively cool, cloudy day here in NJ, which is fine by me. We're planning on doing very little - well, very little in the way of "day off" plans. We may take the kids to go see the Transformers movie [though I'd prefer to see Ratatouille - I hear it's great]. I really need to do laundry, clean the bathrooms and power through some more scenes of my WIP from hell. It's getting better - really a lot better. I've put chapter five to bed and now I'm concentrating on abusing chapter six.

The question I have is, how did the summer get so busy already? My calendar is full of appointments [no, not editors - doctors - the kids have to update their vaccinations this summer, DD just started physical therapy for her knees,] summer camp schedule is harrowing with cooking class and robot camp mixed into rec camp, Anime convention, and somewhere I'm insisting on a day at the beach, though DH would prefer I forget about that. I've put off that week's vacation until I finish my WIP and I doubt the house will get that all over cleaning it desperately needs until July is over.

What happened to the lazy, hazy days of summer? For me, it's just any other season but with more A/C.