Crazy Old Cat Lady

I went to the URL for CatLady to see who got my preferred URL name and it's just one useless entry and then I checked out my next preferred URL name of CrazyCatLady (son#1 calls me "Crazy Lady" and the rest of the world calls me "Cat Lady" so I thought a URL was born) and she's a great writer, but I can't find any way to add a comment telling her so. So my URL ended up being CrazyOldCatLady. My web page is http://cvanhorn.homestead.com/

Thursday, February 21, 2008

STILL 1 DAY OLDER THAN GEORGE WASHINGTON


I used to joke with my students that I was one day older than George Washington until I had to stop because they no longer knew when his birthday was because the nation stopped observing his actual birthday date when it brought in the "Presidents Day" on a Monday to allow everybody to have a 3-day weekend (and because as I got older, more and more of the students stopped getting the joke and started nodding their heads in agreement).

(People my age know that tomorrow is George Washington's birthday because we didn't have to go to school on Feb 22nd in honor of him. I could have a birthday party and not have to go to school the next day. We also know that Feb 12 is Abe Lincoln's birthday because there was no school that day either. I feel sorry for these poor confused children these days trying to figure out Abe's and George's birth dates when they have only 1 holiday, not on either of the true birthday dates.)

Here's my first Happy Birthday greeting (sent at 1:17 in the morning):

Hello cvanhorn,

We at MiceChat would like to wish you a happy birthday today!

(Son #2 is heavy into Disney stuff so I have to belong to read his threads. He is really funny.)

Saturday, February 16, 2008

VALENTINE TULIPS 2008