At first I read this as Norms and was going to figure out my favorite 5 Norms.* Happy Friday, which is also National Skip the Straw Day (I try, but restaurants drop one on the table and takeout places put…
Friday 5: The Lou
Happy Friday, which is also National Almond Day (I like almonds – almond extract in place of vanilla extract in a cake or cookie recipe is amazing unless you’re feeding someone with an allergy), National Tartar Sauce Day (first Friday…
Friday 5: Insert coin
Happy Friday, which is also National Cut the Cord Day (founded by SlingTV, surprise surprise) and National Pizza Day! I love pizza in any thickness/thinness of crust, meaty or veggie, white or tomato, in-person, delivery, or Digiorno. Pizza cut in…
Friday 5: Mayday! Mayday!
Happy Friday, which is also National Tater Tot Day (loaded tots are amazing), Bubble Gum Day (I don’t chew anymore but my favorites used to be grape Bubble Yum and watermelon Hubba Bubba), and most importantly, Groundhog Day. Punxatawney Phil…
Friday 5: On the right tracks
Happy Friday, which is National Green Juice Day (no thanks), National Peanut Brittle Day (make your own!), and most importantly, my father’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Dad! I was in Philadelphia for work on Wednesday and after almost 4 years of…
Friday 5: Random topic generator
Happy Friday, which is National Popcorn Day. (That link is interesting – I’d have loved to see a horse drawn popcorn wagon!) But most importantly, it’s a bona fide snow day in South Jersey. WM was home from school and…
Friday 5: Stolen 5
Happy Friday, which is also National Pharmacist Day (hello, BvP!) and National Marzipan Day. It is also the day I received my driver’s license in 1990. And my friend Brian Z’s birthday. I just returned home from giving blood. One…
Friday 5: Touch that dial
Happy Friday, which is also National Whipped Cream Day (I approve) and National Bird Day (cheep). INT. KIM’S OFFICE – DAYKIM RUSSELL, a nondescript 51 year old woman who doesn’t look a day over 49, sits at her desk composing…
Friday 5: Repetitively redundant
Happy Friday, which is also National Pepper Pot Day (but not Pepper Potts day), No Interruptions Day, and Tick Tock Day (but not TikTok day.) Most importantly, it is day four of what we here call Sloth Week – a…
Friday 5: The other shoe
Happy Friday, which is also National Date Nut Bread Day and Forefathers Day. And that’s it. Usually there are 6-8 “National Days” each Friday and I have to narrow it down to two for the blog. I guess no PR…
Friday 5: Go
Happy Friday, which is also National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day, National Wear Your Pearls Day, and my Aunt Carol’s birthday. I had a half-day today, because WM and I went to see a matinee of a Very Philly Christmas at…
Friday 5: Relish the Thought
Better late than never! Yesterday was Friday, December first, also known as World Aids Day and Antarctica Day. (Right now Antarctica is experiencing Midnight Sun!) And it was also my brother’s birthday. Forty-four years ago yesterday my life changed, mostly…
