Plenty to celebrate in March

Tomorrow is Organize Your Home Office Day. This assumes you even have a home office. Most people I know have a home office that consists of various heaps of paper and unopened envelopes buried beneath magazines and hobby stuff.

Organizing means sorting through the piles and restacking things so they don’t fall over before once again covering them with whatever happens to be available. Since April 15 is fast approaching, this would make a good beginning for those of us who have yet to tackle the tax mess. Of course, by the time we get around to actually doing the taxes everything will be lost again.

Last week was National Chocolate Chip Cookie Week. If we observed the week properly we should have plenty of energy left over to organize the entire house, not just the home office.

What I don’t understand is why there isn’t a National Milk Week paired with the cookie week.

March has lots of other things to celebrate. Deaf History Month and Music in Our Schools Month at first seem to be at odds with each other. But many hearing impaired people still enjoy the energy and vibrations that music offers. Others, like my mother, just turn the radio up loud enough so the sound makes other people cringe.

It is also National Caffeine Awareness Month. Maybe we should be aware of the amount of caffeine it takes to get us to observe all these celebrations.

March is National Collision Month. One of my co-workers celebrated this today by narrowly escaping a tree that toppled inches behind her car as she was passing through a local intersection. The tree was probably celebrating National Prepare Your Home to Be Sold Month. Or maybe it was trying to observe National Eye Donor Month. Lucky for my friend, she didn’t have to donate any body parts as a result of the tree’s suicide.

Next week is National Spring Fever Week. I don’t know about you, but I get spring fever whenever the weather warms up, not just for one week in March. I have a really bad case of this malady today and will probably go outside and pick up all the trash that has blown into the yard just for an excuse to be outside. It’s a good thing I don’t have a window nearby or I never would get this column typed. It is just too pretty to be inside even if we do have gale force winds blowing down trees.

Wednesday is the anniversary of the telephone. I think the telephone ranks as one of the top inventions I don’t choose to live without. It is in a three-way tie with indoor plumbing and modern furnaces. I don’t know who came up with the do-not-call list but whoever it was should get some kind of prize.

Now if they could just come up with a do-not-spam list we would be all set.

The anniversary of the invention of Monopoly was March 7. I remember spending entire summers playing that game.

We would “loan” each other money just to keep the competition going. I used to play it with my daughter as an easy way to teach her to count change. She surprised me when she said she did the same thing with young relatives for the same reason. I haven’t played in years and years.

In addition to all of the above, March is host to National Athletic Training, Craft, Frozen Food, Kidney (not as frozen food), Nutrition, Peanut, Professional Social Work (as opposed to amateur social work?), Talk with Your Teen about Sex Month (no thanks), and Women’s History Month. Notice none of these honors are local.

There are weeks dedicated to cheerleading, pet sitters, chocolate (my kind of week!), animal poison prevention, regular poison prevention and cleaning (people celebrate cleaning?).

So if you can’t find something to celebrate this month you’re just not trying unless you celebrate National Sleep Awareness Week and nap through the rest of the winter.[[In-content Ad]]