Good morning! It's a beautiful morning! The forecast says cloudy to start and then sunny; but I can already see brightness beyond the edge of cloud cover. It will be pretty chilly ... upper 40s. But it IS December! LOL! I admit, I wouldn't mind some snow too. But inches .. not feet!! Since that's rare for NC in December, I'll just have to be patient. But I've saved some vacation days ... just in case! :)
Last night I got some laundry done, and a little (very little) bit of decluttering. Tonight I'm going to push myself to get a few more things done, as well as get the weekend lined up. It's looking like I'll be having an "informal" open house. Yay! Time to start baking cookies!! Of course, tonight is also one of my favorite TV nights ... so perhaps lining up some sewing!
There are 14 days left until Christmas!
Today is "Human Rights Day" ... "Nobel Peace Prize Day" ... "UN Human Rights Day" ... "Admission Day (Mississippi)" ... "Constitution Day (Thailand)".
Quotes of the Day:
"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."
-- Mark Twain
"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."
-- Donald H. Rumsfeld
Today in history:
In 1869, the Territory of Wyoming granted women the right to vote.
In 1901, the Nobel prizes were first awarded in Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm, Sweden.
In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. His brother succeeded to the throne as King George VI.
In 1950, U.S. diplomat Ralph Joseph Bunche received the Nobel Peace Prize for his peace mediation during the first Arab-Israeli war. He was the first African-American to win the award.
In 1984, the National Science Foundation reported the discovery of the first planet outside our solar system, orbiting a star 21 million light-years from Earth.
In 2003, Mick Jagger became Sir Mick after the Rolling Stones' front man was knighted by Prince Charles.
Today's birthdays include
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the first free school for the deaf, in 1787
- Poet Emily Dickinson in 1830
- Librarian Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal book classification system, in 1851
- TV newscaster Chet Huntley in 1911
- Actress Dorothy Lamour in 1914
- Actor Harold Gould in 1923
- Actress Susan Dey in 1952
- Actor/director Kenneth Branagh in 1960
Everyone have a Great Thursday!
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