lillian13 | Happy Birthday lillian78!

Well, I had FIVE DAYS OFF. Did I accomplish anything I had planned? Not so much. :-)

I did sneak into another jewelry class in order to get the Box From Hell closer to being finished. I have gone through my library, as it is long overdue for a good culling. (I think I'll have a little sale in front of my apartment next weekend.) I mopped. I shopped; replacing the (sob) really good Liz Claibourne shorts I wore to work all the time--they ripped right across the butt in the wash last week. I went to dinner. I saw no movies. I watched a lot of rain. Mostly, I slept and read and watched TV. This is probably the longest I've had off with (almost) no responsibilities--i.e., work or family--in several years. I think it's been good for me.

lillian78 gave me a virtual stack of prezzies! My first birthday present!

Here is my usual silliness about her birthday!

You share today with...

Kevin Bacon (49)
Angelica Houston (56)
Jeffrey Tambor (63)
Wolfgang Puck (58)
Marty Feldman (74)
Michael Weatherly (38)
Nelson Rockefeller (99)
Joan Osborne (45)
Milo Ventimiglia (30)

On this day...
1776 - The Declaration of Independence was read aloud in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1680 - The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1874 - The Mounties begin their March West.
1889 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
1889 - At the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain after 75 rounds.
1932 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
1933 - NFL team Pittsburgh Steelers was established.
1947 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.

And a couple of "appropriate" saints...
Saint Quentin (d. 287 AD), patron of bombardiers, chaplains, locksmiths, porters, tailors, and surgeons. Invoked against coughs, sneezes, and dropsy.
Saint Grimbald (827 - July 8, 901) was a Benedictine abbot also called Grimwald, invited to England by King Alfred the Great in 885. Grimbald arrived in England and declined the see of Canterbury, preferring to remain a monk. He became the abbot of the New Minster at Winchester appointed by King Edward the Elder. Grimbald is credited with restoring learning to England.