2018: By The Numbers

I love Halloween.  And the 304th day of 2018 was 10/31/18 - HALLOWEEN!  I took a personal day from work (yes, I checked email and even called in to some meetings), but it was a relaxing day and then went on my annual mission to hand out candy to as many Oaklyn kids as we can find!  Halloween music on the radio, wonderful weather, a great friend as a co-pilot, smiling kids, and full-sized candy bars (or Skittles or Swedish Fish for the non-chocoholics).  It was close to a perfect Halloween.  So, for our number of the day, we hold up 234 (the number of candies we handed out today) and we play one of the most Halloweeny songs there is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxcM3nCsglA

It's Day #303 of 2018 and the palindromic day was a good day, as usual.  But 10/30/18 is also Henry Winkler's 73rd birthday.  So 73 will be our number of the day.  And the Happy Days Theme song is my earworm song of the evening!  :-D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGITFJr_4Po

10/29/18 has come and gone.  A normal day, pretty much, capped by a thrilling 2-1 win in the next to last Fall Softball game of the season.  But Day #302 of 2018 is also National Cat Day and, even though I am much more a fan of the canine than the feline, it's always a good excuse to honor the number 9 (for lives) and this classic from Al Stewart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqZc7ZQURMs

10/28/18 is National Mother in Law Day.  And, on the 301st day of  2018, I reflected on how lucky I am to have the Mother in Law I do.  She would do anything for her family and almost anything for other people she knows.  So, today's number of the day will be 17406 (her zip code in York, PA), and I could not use the classic Ernie K. Doe song, Mother in Law (or any of the versions of it that I found).  While the song is catchy, the lyrics are really mean.  So, when I think of my MIL, I think of music.  It's at the root of much of her talents and work.  So, I picked the Andrew Lloyd Weber song about music (of the night). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77umP7IRxD4

10/27/2018 is day #300 of 2018.  300 days.... of this crazy year.  And the times truly are crazy (today's news was rough) but we had a day filled with social events with people we love.  So that was good, even if the news is bad and the world seem to be going crazy.  The number of the day is 300, and this song by Sia (the theme to the movie 300), will be our song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf7hD10QQkI

For the 12th year in a row, the last Friday in October found me at Oaklyn Public School chaperoning the OMAYSC Red Ribbon Halloween Dance.  And, on the 299th day of 2018, I reflected on the fact that my kids were less than OMAYSC age when we started, and now, on 10/26/19, they are past the OMAYSC age and have moved on to High School.  And these dances are important to give kids a place to go and have fun on a Friday evening, even if the last 30 minutes seem to take forever :-).  So 12 will be our number of the day, for the years I have been chaperoning, and Lee Ann Womack sings a nice song about dancing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV-Z1YwaOiw

180 years ago, on the 298th day of the year, Georges Bizet was born.  So, on 10/25/18, a pretty basic, nondescript day (and that is OK!), let's celebrate with my favorite Bizet composition, and have 1838 (the year of his birth) as the number of the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmuFOuh3QHs