Why is Today Special? P.2

Today is April 14 2011.

-Famous Birthdays-
*Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977) She is 34 today. She was the star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer tv series.
*Adrien Brody (1973) He is 38 today. He is a famous actor who has starred in many movies. He won and academy award for his performance in The Pianist (2002.
*Ritchie Blackmore (1945) He is 66 today. He is the guitarist for Deep Purple who's most notable song is "Smoke on the Water".
*Pete Rose (1941) He is 70 today. He was a infamous talented baseball player who was banned from baseball for apparently betting against his own team which caused controversy.
*John Gielgud (1904) He would be 107 today. He was a British actor that played Hamlet over 500 times.

-Holidays-
*International Moment of Laughter Day - The objective of this day is to get people to laugh, and to laugh more often.
*National D.A.R.E Day - Everybody's favorite in school Anti-Drug campaign.
*Anniversary of President Lincoln's Assassination
*Vaisakhi (India) - An ancient harvest festival, which also marks beginning of a new solar year and new harvest season.

-Historical Events-
*966 - Christianisation of Poland
*1028 - German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king
*1191 - 85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III
*1434 - The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.

Changes to blog appearence

Quick update.

Now that I have a steady flow of ideas in my head I am going to start working on the appearance of the blog. I will keep it simple but spice it up just enough to the point where it is not too "loud" or cluttered.

Any changes I do are not final and may get changed over the next week or two while I work on the look of the blog. My first change is the header image, what do you think?

Why is Today Special? P.1

In a new series I will be posting interesting facts about the current day to get your day going. Who knows maybe you will learn something new. I cant post every single thing that happened that will just be way too long of read but I will try to post the most interesting things.

Today is April 13 2011.

-Famous Birthdays-
*Thomas Jefferson (1743) Would be 268 today. He was a past United States President.
*Max Weinberg (1951) He is 60 today. He was the band leader for Conan O'Brien show.
*Don Adams (1926) He would be 85. He was the star of the tv series Get Smart.
*Al Green (1946) He is 65 today. He is a famous R&B singer.

-Holidays-
*Thomas Jefferson Day-Self explanatory
*Sinhala and Tamil New Year (Sri Lanka) - This is Sri Lankas New Year. Many other South and Southeast Asian countries celebrate around this time.

-Historical Events-
*837 - Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years
*1204 - Crusaders occupy Constantinople
*1241 - Battle at Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King Béla IV
*1250 - The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured
*1556 - Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope

Thank you for taking the time to read my first part of many installments of Why is Today Special? Hope you enjoyed it.

Have a Laugh P.2

This is a picture of mine I took in the Valentines section of my local Wal-Mart. I had gone there for a few things and wandered into the clearance section of all their Valentine Day stuff. My eyes were scanning all over to see if they had any really good deals on something, which they didn't, then I saw it. I almost could not believe what I was looking at it at first. I had to prop it up so I was sure.

Now I will let you decide what you think it looks like but I will tell you what it is supposed to be which is a Caterpillar.

Things are finally getting underway with my blog.

Today I sat down when I had some free time and planned out what topics I can cover in my blog. I will post almost anything and everything that is interesting, educational, my interests I want to share and daily happenings to me.

I really want this to be an interesting blog where people can view a lot of different content to keep them entertained. I am not focusing on one set subject because in my opinion at least that can get fairly boring and predictable. Unless there is a topic I really hit on and many people like this is going to be very active and interesting blog *fingers crossed*

I thank all the followers and people who are supporting me so far, all your blogs are interesting to me! Feedback is always welcomed. Check in here daily for new content, I will try my best to make at least one blog a day.

Spring really needs to show its face.

Waking up to another cold morning and while it may be officially here according to a calendar, temperature it is not. While the days are nice in the 60's, the nights are still cold in the 30's. It will just start to warm up and before you know it snow will start to fall again. I propose we ask mother nature to keep the thermometer at a nice 70-80 range with no humidity.

Random Quote: "I told you I was sick" (as seen on a gravestone)

Bare with me followers!!!

I am getting used to this blogging world. Finding time and topics are both quite a task. While I get settled in I may post blogs about a lot of different topics. I may decided to make this an overall informative and fun blog covering many different topics and interesting odds and ends. I want to keep you guys reading as well as entertained daily.

On a random side note, I just had some peanut butter and fluff for the first time in several years. I had forgotten how good it was.