National Months of Celebration

Some people don't necessarily understand why people would set aside months to celebrate things.  You have May as the national smile month, March as the national reading month, we even have a black history month. 

The ones that I know of, are a lot of things that America doesn't seem to have enough of.  People do need to smile more.  It's good to promote reading.  The celebration of the rich history of a certain ethnicity is a good thing.

I don't see these celebratory months as something silly.  I see more of the "National ??? Day" celebrations as silly such as "National Pirate Day" or "National Popcorn Day". 

It's mostly silly fun.  Society doesn't disrespect those who don't celebrate these silly things.

I think there should be a day in May to celebrate May.  The phrase is "April Showers Bring May Flowers," but most I see a lot more rain in May.  Just wait for a rainy day and do rainy day activities.

Another cool thing would be a National Nerd Day.  We need to celebrate nerd and being nerdy.  So just nerd out on whatever day this is.

One more thing to celebrate is Kid's Day.  A day to celebrate children.  This needs to be a national holiday.

Colossalcon!!

In two weeks, I'll be attending a convention at the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio called Colossalcon.  This will be the con's 13th year in existence and it will be my third time attending.  There are all sorts of guests attending this year!  You have your basic Voice Actor guests, but there are much more this time around.  There are djs, artists, a man who calls himself Samurai Dan.  I'm mostly going for the voice actors, though, especially a certain Vic Mignogna. 

I also hope to see several fans I've made there, such as good friend Amanda Gunkle and many more. We are part of a fangroup for Vic Mignogna called "Risembool Rangers."  Risembool is the name of the hometown of one of Vic's most popular characters.

I'm so anxious!  I'm so excited!  Aah!!

Violence on TV

Most violence in TV today are set on channels that unintended viewers usually don't even look at.  TV violence is very minimal compared to movie violence, and I don't think there is too much.  It's easy to change the channel or turn the TV off if violent shows bother you.  The most violent shows I've seen are usually after 12 am.  As a fan of anime, I've become pretty immune to the affects of TV violence.  I don't really care.

The below image is from the anime Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.  It's an example of a violent show that isn't too violent at all.  This show has plenty of bloodshed in it, but nothing too extreme and all the other story elements of it outweigh the violence by a lot.

Cinco de Mayo!

It's the fifth of May: Cinco de Mayo  National No Homework day!  I really haven't taken a big part in this since I got into high school.  I didn't know it was National No Homework day - that may explain the minimal amount of homework I have today.  In Japan it's also a holiday called Children's Day.  They don't have school today.  Why can't we have that holiday?  Mrs. Toma gave us candy to celebrate it.   Why doesn't the US have a children's day?  We have Mother's Day and Father's Day, why no Children's Day?

Prom!

So, prom has come and gone! I've never actually been into dances or Prom for that matter.  Even if asked I probably wouldn't have gone.  I may go to my Senior Prom, but I might not - it depends if I have a date or not.  I don't feel like I need to have a date or anything, but that'd be the only reason for me to go.  I didn't even realize Prom had taken place so there's not much else for me to say...

Earth Day

Tomorrow is Earth Day!  I've never actually done anything for Earth Day.  It's not really a big deal to me, or hasn't been in the past. 

Many consider Earth Day the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.

There is a site for the holiday called earthday.org   It is currently holding a campaign called "Green Cities Campaign" in attempt to decrease annual rising temperatures

There are several events going on worldwide from the Americas to Oceania.

Spring Break!

My brother Joseph's birthday was yesterday, but we celebrated it the day before on Saturday.  The day started with me waking up at around 10.  I didn't eat breakfast because of how early it was.  Not long after waking up and getting settled in front of my computer, we left and went to the Spotted Cow near the Adrian Mall that has a Putt-putt course.  We ate ice cream then played putt-putt.

When we were done playing, we went and visited my grandmas (my grandma and great grandma). My great grandma had just gotten home from a nursing home after having her foot operated on due to an infection.  We said hi, walked my grandma's dog, a shihtzu named Rusty, and we went home. 

Later that night we had a bond fire and roasted marshmellows.  The night carrid on boringly, I played on my computer for a while and then went to sleep.