Few weeks have as many holidays as this one!
Take a look:
- March 13 – Daylight Savings Time began in North America and elsewhere, also known as CWPJNDT (Could We Please Just Not Do This?) Day.
- March 14 – Not surprisingly, the day after Daylight Savings Time begins is National Napping Day. What else could it be? Well, this year anyway, it’s concurrent with (that means “at the same time”—wake up!) Pi Day. Yes, people eat pie, but it’s really about that mysterious number 3.14 (followed by a bajillion more digits) that you get when you divide any circle by its diameter. It’s also Einstein’s birthday, and it’s in direct competition with 42 as the answer to the question, “What’s the meaning of life?”
- March 15 – Equal Pay Day. Of course, every day should be Equal Pay Day, really.
- March 16 – Purim commemorates the courage of Queen Esther, who risked her life to demand equal pay, so to speak, for Haman, the thug who’d arranged to annihilate her people. Purim is also being recognized this year as a symbol for the people of Ukraine. You can probably guess who their “Haman” is. Pray!
- March 17 – Saint Patrick’s Day commemorates Patrick’s “driving the snakes out of Ireland.” It’s celebrated by parades and, outside of Ireland, where literally everyone claims to be “part Irish,” by the profoundly religious ritual of drinking green beer.
- March 18 – Holi is often referred to as the Festival of Love. And it’s very much a festival of love for my wife and me, since it’s also our MATE Day (Mitch and Trudy’s Engagement)! We’ll celebrate with a candlelit dinner tomorrow (Saturday) night. And tonight we’ll dance and sing and throw colored powder on each other. Or not.
- March 19 – St. Joseph’s Day is unofficially Italian Food Day because the faithful adoptive father of Jesus is particularly loved by Italians. Trudy and I celebrate Italian Food Day pretty much every week. Thanks, Joe!
- March 20 – Technically it’s the start of next week, but everyone thinks of Sundays as the end of the week. Anyway, this year it’s the Vernal Equinox, which literally means “Spring Equal-Night” (in the Northern Hemisphere). But you can just call it the … First Day of Spring!
Enjoy the rest of The Holiday-iest Week Ever, friends!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Since that’s today too 😀
Thank you, Jean, you too! (I really am part Irish, btw, but I don’t drink green beer.)
I don’t drink alcohol myself. 😉 On bright side, more to Irish culture than drinking. 😊
There’s finally hope that congress will finally get rid of, “CWPJNDT” day.
Yes, I live in a fantasy world …
Yes, although the current proposal is actually for year-round Daylight Savings Time–which has its own issues, like sunrise at 8:30 or 9 a.m., and kids going to school in the dark. It was tried for two years in the early 70s and abandoned.
Yes, which is why the current Senate proposal will likely fail and we’ll be changing clocks forever … sigh …
With my green eyes and freckles, I look 100% Irish. But according to my Ancestry DNA test, I’m only 24%. Still, that’s enough for me to wear the t-shirt I had custom made. It’s a white shirt with a big green shamrock on the front. Above the shamrock it says: Yes, I Am Irish. Below the shamrock: No, You May Nor Kiss Me. 😀
;>)
linda can you multiply 7 × 7
I can, but not quickly. Many years ago, I loved math. Mathematics was like a language to me. But then I had a head injury, and I lost most of my knowledge about numbers and math.
your answer is
49 🙂
do you want to type to 100
No, thank you.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100
Perfect!
copy & paste & use that in your blogs
Happy MATE day! 💚🍀
;>) Thanks, Paula!
Happy Holiday-iest Week, Mitch!
Thanks, Nancy, you too!
I love this week, but you forgot March Madness. Today and tomorrow should be holidays. (I know its not always this week)
True, true.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day and Happy Mate day to you and Trudy. 😁
Thank you!
Thank you Mitch! I almost choked laughing at the funeral director one.
you left off march 11 & march 22
Those dates don’t happen during this week, Rudy.
march 45-47
No month has that many days, Rudy. But I don’t think you’re talking about days of the month, are you? I think you’re just talking about numbers–only I don’t know what you mean.
March 44, 4543 is that a real date
Nope. But you already know that, don’t you?
yes you know 39 ÷ 3 = 14
13, actually. Were you trying to trick me when you wrote 14? ;>)
march 11th the world trade center collapsed
It was September 11th, Rudy. People call it “9-11” because it happened in the ninth month of the year, on the eleventh day of the month.
march 22nd president john ken passed away
That’s too many holidays for me. I’ll just stay home and practice my crotchety persona.
Your crotchetiness does need practice, Liz. You’re way too cheerful.
Oh, dear . . .
Oh, very cool stuff this week! ☘️🍀
Happy MATE Day to you and Trudy!
Thanks, Ellie!
Happy Holi day to you and yours 🙂
Hey Mitch, a couple reactions to your enlightening and entertaining post. “The funeral director” is the wife’s perfect punchline to her hubby’s thoughtless, unreasonable demands. The Holiday-iest mood, ever, would arise once our global society clearly establishes NO MORE WAR DAY; and all 7.9 Billion of us souls observe it, religiously, 365 or 366 days per year!
Now THAT would be a holiday worth celebrating!
Happy St. Patrick’s day, Mitch. Don’t forget The Ides of March (March 15)
Well, I forgot to “beware” it and so far nothing has happened to meeeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
😅😅
Here in St. Louis, we call March 14th “314 day” because our local area code is 314. Just goes to show how creative we are in making things “all about me!”
;>)
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