why limit happiness to just one hour?
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note: happy hour began as an event in the military.
it is believed that the term comes from events organized
by a club called the happy hour social for the United States Navy in 1913.
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“fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.”
-william shakespeare
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image credit: google images
safe travels.
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“if all the cars in the united states were placed end to end,
it would probably be labor day weekend.”
-doug larson
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image credit: national toy museum (record for world’s longest line of toy cars)
“seasons pursuing each other,
the indescribable crowd is gathered,
it is the fourth of the seventh-month,
what salutes of cannon and other small arms!”
-walt whitman
happy 4th!
feliz cinco de mayo
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“live every day as it is a festival. turn your life into a celebration.”
-shri radhe maa
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image credit: accordingtodevin.com
“the rabbit of easter. he bring of the chocolate.”
-david sedaris
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image credit: pinterest vintage cards
“st. patrick’s day is an enchanted time –
a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic.”
-adrienne cook (master gardener)
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image credit: facebook
“one ox, two oxen. one fox, two foxen.”
jenny lawson
Happy Chinese New Year in the year of the Ox- 2021!
Celebrated at the second new moon following the Winter Solstice,
Chinese New Year is also known as the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival.
According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar,
this festival marks the end of winter and the beginning of a long-awaited spring!
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image credit: fairycake fair, tokyo station, japantimes.com
puxatawny phil with some other (less famous) celebs.
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it’s his big day, and one of my favorite fun holidays
no matter what he predicts
about the coming of spring
(*not sure about his accuracy)
i love his spirit.
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*the national climatic data center compared U.S. national temperatures from 1988 to 2012 to determine the accuracy of Phil’s predictions, and he’s only been proven correct 39% of the time — significantly worse than chance.
today while out shopping for christmas
i unexpectedly ran into my old friend,
valentine’s day.
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“i had that curious feeling that i was living on several planes simultaneously;
the overlapping of these planes was confusing.”
-anna kavan
“That’s right. I AM THE PUMPKIN KING!”
– Jack Skellington
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one of my favorite leading men/holiday movies ever.
happy halloween!
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image credits: walt disney pictures
I didn't have my glasses on.... 