Cows are notoriously languid creatures and make their way home at their own unhurried pace. That's certainly the imagery behind 'till the cows come home' or 'until the cows come home', but the precise time and place of the coining of this colloquial phrase isn't known. ( source ) These days the phrase is used to indicate something is taking a long time to happen or something will happen indefinitely.

National Dress Up Your Pet Day Uh, okay? Since it isn't halloween I'm a little confused why you would dress your pet up today. Organize Your Home Day 31 Smart, Low-Cost Organizing Ideas The Home-Organizing Tips You Need to Know Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day Hot Pastrami Sandwich Recipe Dude, I love pastrami. Bring it on! If I were in the City today (you know, the Big Apple) I would hit Katz's for one meal for a sandwich and Carnegie for the other meal for a sandwich. They both serve up 'da bomb diggity pastrami and other foods! Poetry at Work Day It's Poetry At Work Day! (this is a dated article but all the content is relevant) Poetry at Work Survival Kit More Poetry at Work Resources I'm no good with poetry but in December I did consider rewriting MJ's Smooth Criminal into a parody called HR Criminal.  Maybe I'll work on that today and call it poetry put to music.  *wink*

(For Tuesday July 29) We traveled to NYC today to begin a week full of celebrating the wedding and marriage of my brother, Brad.  When we landed tonight we cabbed to a new-to-us apartment, my sister-in-love's, on the Upper West Side.  We are used to heading to the Upper East Side to my other brother's place but this trip we are filling up all the spaces!  We walked into this new-to-us space and I felt at home.  I felt at home because it was a space infused by people I love, people I have the honor of calling family.  It made me grateful that no matter where I am in this world when my family is with me that place is like a home away from home.  My family is the foundation of any home in any place.

Lest I sound trite I'm going to have to start acknowledging the "givens" for Gratitude Attitudes. Some days I just get "stuck", usually it's on those days that nothing has really happened good or bad, nothing has really stuck out, it's just been a ho-hum kind of day that passed by.  But even with the "givens" shouldn't I be grateful?  To take for granted the "givens" means, in my opinion, that I have ceased to be grateful for even those.  A grateful heart, a gratitude attitude life, is grateful for all things, even or maybe especially the "givens".   So with that said... :) Today I am grateful for shelter, a house to call a home.  After traveling to my beloved Kenya and seeing other places in this world (even in my own city) where the kind of shelter I have is a luxury, I am not unaware of how blessed I am and I try to stay mindful of not taking the house we have for granted.  We have a roof that doesn't leak, w...