{"id":5595,"date":"2011-03-26T04:15:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T10:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2011-03-24T14:54:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T20:54:46","slug":"insert-holiday-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/?p=5595","title":{"rendered":"Insert Holiday Here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/calendar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6908\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"calendar\" src=\"http:\/\/mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/calendar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a>Yes&#8230; Yes&#8230; I know. The next blog up is supposed to be <strong>Food. It&#8217;s Really Not That Hard&#8230;<\/strong> I&#8217;ve caught all manner of grief about the &#8220;cliffhangerness&#8221; of the $750.00 story&#8230; Well, suck it up and quit complaining. It&#8217;s coming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">HOWEVER&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well&#8230; You saw THAT coming, right? I know I did&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As it happens, March 26 is way more than just a two and a six in a square on a sheet of paper. Never mind that the two and six would only add up to eight, which is way less than 26. Unless you then multiplied the sum by three and added two. But this isn&#8217;t supposed to be a math lesson. It&#8217;s actually supposed to be a March lesson, sans drums, hares, and, well, marching&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suffice it to say, March 26 is a couple of things besides just a date on a page:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Earth Hour Day<\/strong> &#8211; if you don&#8217;t know about Earth Hour day, then go here and find out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\/sites\/earthhour\/index.html?gclid=CMWQiJKC6KcCFZFoKgodNyFIcQ\">EARTH HOUR<\/a> &#8211; We here at <em>La Casa De La Pelirrojas<\/em> will be on candle power this evening to show our support. Feel free to join us (in the whole candle power thing, not showing up at our house. Do that and we might have to shoot you&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Make Your Own Holiday Day<\/strong> &#8211; Srsly. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.holidayinsights.com\/moreholidays\/March\/makeholidayday.htm\">Details<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soooo, since March 26th, <strong><em>every year<\/em><\/strong>, is National Make Your Own Holiday Day, the staff of Brainpan Leakage &#8211; the staff in question being Moi&#8230; and&#8230; well&#8230; E K, because she&#8217;s the supervisor and I have to do what she tells me to do&#8230; But anyway, here at Brainpan Leakage we&#8230; I&#8230; she&#8230; us&#8230; Whatever&#8230; thought it might be a good thing to toss some ideas out there for folks, just in case they are having problems coming up with a holiday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">POSSIBLE HOLIDAYS FOR NATIONAL MAKE YOUR OWN HOLIDAY DAY<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>National Make Your Own Porn Day<\/strong> (Be sure to share)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>National Do Whatever E K Says Day<\/strong> (24\/7\/365 for me already)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>National Read A Rowan Gant Investigations Novel Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>National Chuck A Woodchuck Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>National Simonize Your Car Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>National Eat Sushi Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>National Hit Someone In The Face With A Pie Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>National Just Say No To Microsoft Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>National Velvet Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>National Eat Some Vienna Sausages Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>National SPAM On A Stick Day<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>And&#8230; You know me&#8230; The list could go on, and on&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So there you have it. It&#8217;s <strong>National Make Your Own Holiday<\/strong> day, so make yourself a holiday and celebrate it every way you can. But when the festivities are over, remember to turn out the lights, shut off the TV, and maybe just read a book by candlelight. Because no matter what holiday you invent, it&#8217;s still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\/sites\/earthhour\/index.html?gclid=CMWQiJKC6KcCFZFoKgodNyFIcQ\">Earth Hour<\/a> day, and we&#8217;ve only got one Earth &#8211; it has to last us a while&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides. You&#8217;ll save some cash by not using all that electricity, and  then you can afford to run out and buy some more books by that M. R.  Sellars guy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Earth-Hour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6914\" title=\"Earth Hour\" src=\"http:\/\/mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Earth-Hour.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Earth-Hour.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Earth-Hour-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Murv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric Holidays, and whatever you can imagine. A public service announcement from author M. R. 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