Oh Sinkie Day – this is basically everyday of my life. This is the day to eat while you are standing over the sink. Possibly eating leftovers, cereal, pizza, whatever your choice of cuisine. No need to set the table, or even sit at the table, just scarf it down! Sounds like a great plan to me. I excel at this holiday, maybe every Friday should be Sinkie Day! 
This year, I am reminding other people to shop, but I do not have to remember. We are not doing gifts this year, we are going home for Christmas - back to Michigan - and that is our gift to ourselves and our families. Therefore, my gifts have all been purchased! 
I have used many bathrooms around the world…another one of my favorites was on the train in India. Now if you never have had the privilege to use one of these let me explain… I walked to the front of the train car and slid open the door to the bathroom...it reeked of urine, I tend to gag when there are foul smells so you can only imagine the amount of gagging that was taking place. As I looked around the small metal room there was nothing but pee and “other things” all over the floor and a hole in the bottom of the train. There were two little places to put your feet while you tried to aim for the hole (see picture below...this is what it looked like minus the covering on the hole...mine went DIRECTLY onto the tracks). I will admit when you are going to the bathroom the fresh air feels great on your bum though! Yes, the hole goes directly onto the tracks, with the wind coming up out of the hole it explained why there was nasty all over the floor. So there I was squatting over an open hole in the bottom of the train, the train was jerking and wobbling back and forth, I was trying to keep my feet on the "foot areas" and I didn’t dare touch anything, it might have been the most athletic moment of my life!
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Henry Dryfus, an industrial designer working for Bell Telephone, is credited with inventing the interface notion of the pushbutton, working as a consultant to Bell Telephone. One of the first prototypes of the design was made of wood showing how early prototypes can be quite effective in communicating new concepts and getting customer feedback. The version that Bell Systems / Western Electric introduced in 1962 at a World’s Fair in Seattle and as a commercial product on November 18, 1963 was based on this wooden model (third photograph above). They replaced the basic design language from a circle to square to visibly highlight the change from dial to pushbutton design. (expertvoices.nsdl.org)
On November 16th, 1995 the day of its fiftieth anniversary, UNESCO’s Member States adopted a Declaration of Principles on Tolerance. Among other things, the Declaration affirms that tolerance is neither indulgence nor indifference. It is respect and appreciation of the rich variety of our world’s cultures, our forms of expression, and ways of being human. Tolerance recognizes the universal human rights and fundamental freedoms of others. People are naturally diverse; only tolerance can ensure the survival of mixed communities in every region of the globe. (www.unesco.org)
*Shameless Plug: Norwex is a “cleaning system” that is totally chemical free – you can get rid of all the chemical cleaners in your house and replace them with a Norwex antibacterial cloth and water – you get things cleaner then you can with bleach – saving you time & money, and saving the earth from chemicals and more waste! They also have organic personal care products. If you would like to know more you can check out their website at http://www.norwex.com/ and lucky for you I am a consultant…so if you have questions or would like to order something you can email me at norwexseattle@hotmail.comAs I was saying: Now my fridge is sparkling clean! I had a minor mishap with the drawers…I pulled them out to clean them and couldn’t figure out how they went back in. I started yelling from the kitchen… “I need an engineer, help, help” and my lovely hubby came running to my rescue and quickly had the drawers back in their original positions!
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20. Call your mother – Definitely mission complete!
Thank you. Words cannot express the gratitude I have for you and what you do. The sacrifices you and your family make every day are extremely honorable and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I love the United States; I love living here and all the things I do everyday that I take for granted. Thank you for fighting for those freedoms. Please know that you have all of my support and I am proud of each and everyone of you. I feel honored to live in a country where you are or have served. Thank you, you are continually in my prayers.
2. God gave you 24 hours in a day because that is enough time in the day to do what you need to do…the important things. If it is taking you longer you need to cut some “not so great” things out of your life - otherwise you will miss your life.
Alarms: What an Octopus is.
“These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don’t resent attacks, and my family doesn’t resent attacks – but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back to find him – at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or 20 million dollars – his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since! I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself – such as that old, worm-eaten chestnut that I have represented myself as indispensable. But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog.” (Source: www.aadl.org)
I am a bit of confused by the name of this day, it is written Pumpkin Chunkin’ Day, but it is about Pumpkin Chuckin’. I think there was some typo somewhere along the line and it just stuck…so I’ll go with it.
One time Jared and I were making Pounded Chicken – one of my favorite Herm recipes! We didn’t have a big pan to make all the chicken in so we decided we would each just make our own next to each other. We had all the same ingredients out, used them all at the same time, did everything the same….mine was un-edible – it ended up being thrown away. Jared’s, however, was gourmet! It was sooo good, and he just sat in front of me eating it, talking about how great it was while I ate my bowl of Corn Flakes…Boo.
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Now I did find bigger sandwiches online, but the above is the official largest sandwich. There was one in Mexico that weighed in at 6,991 lbs., and also one in India weighing 8,895lbs.1st Century B.C. - The first recorded sandwich was by the famous rabbi, Hillel the Elder, who lived during the 1st century B.C. He started the Passover custom of sandwiching a mixture of chopped nuts, apples, spices, and wine between two matzohs to eat with bitter herbs. The filling between the matzohs served as a reminder of the suffering of the Jews before their deliverance from Egypt and represented the mortar used by the Jews in their forced labor of constructing Egyptian buildings. Because he was the first known person to do this, and because of his influence and stature in Palestinian Judaism, this practice was added to the Seder and the Hillel Sandwich was named after him.Nothing really beats a good sandwich:
1762 - The first written record of the word "sandwich" appeared in Edward Gibbons (1737-1794), English author, scholar, and historian, journal on November 24, 1762.
(Source: Whatscookingamerica.net)
