Good Morning from the Celebrity Suite of the Wyndemere Condominiums on Turtle Creek. Today is Wednesday, November 24.
Happy Birthday to:
Holiday Countdown:
01 Days until Thanksgiving
04 Days until Hanukkah
28 Days until Winter Solstice
31 Days until Christmas
33 Days until Kwanzaa
38 Days until 2022
The day before gathering around the turkey, gather around the nearest jukebox to celebrate National Jukebox Day! As Americans flock to their hometowns for Thanksgiving, many will head out to neighborhood bars and restaurants. They will catch up with friends and family and celebrate by playing great songs on their local jukebox.
These days we have TouchTunes. In 2011, TouchTunes revolutionized in-venue entertainment with the launch of a multi-application platform designed to appeal a tech-savvy audience. Users could choose from hundreds of thousands of songs available.
TouchTunes is the largest interactive music, and entertainment network in over 65,000 bars and restaurants nationwide. The day before Thanksgiving is traditionally the busiest bar night of the year as families and friends gather to reconnect over drinks and load up the jukebox with their favorite songs.
Coincidentally, the inaugural celebration of National Jukebox Day landed on November 23, 2017, the anniversary of the date the first coin-operated phonograph was installed by Louis Glass in the Palais Royal Saloon bar in San Francisco back in 1889.
Happy National Jukebox Day!
It’s going to be a cloudy, rainy and chilly day in Big D today. I will be heading to the UT Southwestern Spa and Resort (hospital) for my plasma exchange and to get the dressing changed on my port in a few hours. I am having it done today instead of my usual Friday since the aphaeresis clinic is closed tomorrow and Friday. (The nerve of them closing for the holidays - LOL).
Then it’s home to crash. I will probably sleep most of the afternoon - but what a great day to sleep on the couch - cloudy, rainy and cold outside with something completely ridiculous and thoughtless playing on the television.
I have nothing to prepare for tomorrow. Just a quick stop after PLEX to pick up my dishes and send them home with tomorrow’s host. I am attending a Friendsgiving tomorrow - about 6 or 7 of us. Everyone is making (and by making, I mean ordering and picking up) a dish or two to share.
Normally, we would be getting up tomorrow morning and heading to the Turkey Trot downtown with 30,000 of my closest Dallas friends - and then off to a local watering hole for a Thanksgiving Day cocktail and a shot (that second one still has possibilities - hell, I may even wear my Turkey Trot jersey and my medal from two years ago - LOL).
I know everything and everyone is trying so hard to get back to normal but it’s just not there yet - at least I don’t think so. And I am not about to force it or rush it.
Anyhoozle, I hope you all have a wonderful day and whatever you do today and every day, do it with kindness in your heart. The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one! And as always:
...wear a mask
...be kind and compassionate to one another
...dance/sing/laugh it out. It might not help but it sure as hell couldn't hurt.
Peace, Love and Blessings to you all. -AJ
Good Morning from the Celebrity Suite of the Wyndemere Condominiums on Turtle Creek. Today is Thursday, November 25 - Thanksgiving Day.
Happy Birthday to:
Holiday Countdown:
03 Days until Hanukkah
27 Days until Winter Solstice
30 Days until Christmas
32 Days until Kwanzaa
37 Days until 2022
Thanksgiving Day is observed each year in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. The observance is a time when families and friends gather and give thanks for many reasons, each often as different as each person who gathers around the table.
In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that many acknowledge today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. However, it wasn’t until 1863, amid the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.
It is going to be a sunny, chilly day in Big D on this Thanksgiving Day and I have so much to be thankful for.
On this Thanksgiving Day…
I am thankful for my parents, my family and my friends who are family.
I am thankful for Roger R Carbajal, Shannon Brown, Timothy Thomas, Brandon Brown, Christopher Longoria, Rick Thompson, Sallie Ann Plaxico, Carol Margo Stanners, Michael Little - ExP Realty, LLC., Michele Gough, Stephen Kent Soliz, Jan Ross and so many more people that help me every day in so many ways.
I am thankful for my church family - both here and in York, SC.
I am thankful for the kindness and love shown to me from all of them.
I am thankful for thoughtful doctors guiding me on my journey with multiple sclerosis.
I am thankful to be the recipient of kindness from complete strangers. Experiencing and receiving a kind gesture from a complete stranger - whether it is something as simple as holding a door open or helping me up / down a few stairs or to my car - it is eye-opening (to say the least) to be on the other side.
I am thankful for my (new-ish) home, my job, my coworkers and colleagues, the Dallas Titans, Judy Kuhn, grocery delivery, my discovery of ranch water and so much more.
And finally, I am thankful for each one of you. If you are reading this, I am thankful that you let me vent and spill my thoughts out every single day as I travel down this not-so-easy road that I have been chosen and blessed to travel. It has not been easy but it has allowed me to see all of the blessings around me that I never recognized as blessings before. And spilling my thoughts has been very therapeutic for me as well.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours and no matter what you celebrate, I wish you all a SPECTACULAR Holiday Season!
Anyhoozle, I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving day and whatever you do today and every day, do it with kindness in your heart. The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one! And as always:
...wear a mask
...be kind and compassionate to one another
...dance/sing/laugh it out. It might not help but it sure as hell couldn't hurt.
Peace, Love and Blessings to you all. -AJ
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