the special days of October, pt. 1

It’s now October, and like we did last month, we’re going to look at some of the special holidays this month.  There’s a bunch, and we’re going to cover less than half of them (mainly the humorous and fun and random ones).  Let’s begin with the celebrations that last for the whole month.

October is :

  • Awareness Month — This is for those people who don’t have a clue.  This is the month you should try to figure out what’s going on in the world.  And, fortunately for you, the staff at Buffet o’ Blog are here to help.  You can ask any question via the “contact us” form, and we’ll probably give you an answer.  We know lots of stuff.  Go ahead and try it out.
  • Cookie Month — This one is awesome.  For the whole month, you should appreciate cookies.  And what better way to appreciate them than to eat them?  So you should eat cookies every day.
  • National Pizza Month — Another wonderful food to celebrate!  Pizza is truly one of the best meals possible.  And we are supposed to celebrate it for a whole month!  So that means we all need to eat a lot of pizza and not take it for granted.  Now, I realize that pizza can be unhealthy sometimes, but this is a holiday, so diets don’t apply.  So eat all the pizza you want.  And I’d like to send a big shout-out to whoever thought up this holiday, because it was a great idea.
  • National Dessert Month — This is almost too much awesomeness for one month, I think.  Cookies, pizza, and all desserts, to be eaten all month.  Is November the national diet month?  It can’t be, because of Thanksgiving, where you’re expected to eat as much as possible.  Anyway, if there’s still room for more food after all the pizza and cookies, eat lots of desserts.
  • Sarcastic Month — Whoa!  By my interpolation of this, it means we get the license to be sarcastic all month!  I wonder who thought up this holiday (and if they thought it through).

    • I’m still thinking about how to best handle the food situation for October.  (I can’t help it — it’s exciting!)  Because when I fully appreciate pizza during a meal, there’s usually no room left for dessert, even cookies.  But I don’t want to leave anything out.  So here’s the tentative plan.  I’ll eat cookies for breakfast, all-you-can-eat pizza for lunch (preferably Larry’s Pizza), and then have desserts for supper/dinner.  And for those of you with a voracious appetite, all three of those options make excellent snacks, too.  So what more could you ask for?

    Of course, you aren’t limited to just those foods.  And beverages will be required also.  The official Buffet o’ Blog recommendation for drinks that fit with these meals is sweet tea with the pizza, and milk with the cookies and desserts.  You can’t go wrong with that, and it is actually the best option, too.

    Well, we haven’t even got to the weekly and daily holidays yet for October, but this is getting really long, so I’ll continue them in the next post.  Stay tuned…

    October is Disaster Appreciation Month

    Nature produces some incredible events, like lightning, volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, avalanches, hurricanes, etc.  These things are impressive, being both visually stunning and amazingly destructive.  But most of the time these events get a lot of bad press, and so they aren’t properly appreciated for how awesome they are.  We shouldn’t take nature for granted, so we here at Buffet o’ Blog have declared October to be Disaster Appreciation Month.  Take a few moments to be amazed by the grandeur of nature’s fury.

    tornado with lightning

    There’s just one picture here, but you can surf the Net and find lots of great weather pictures.

    increasing the continued success

    I’m still excited about the increase in traffic last month.  It has been going up each month for five consecutive months.  I predict it will continue to increase, too, because we’re about to add some new features.  And of what we currently do, there are plans to make it even better.  If you like our humor, we’re going to get funnier.  If you like the stupidity, well, we’ve only scratched the surface of what we’re capable of!  If you enjoy the randomness, know there’s more where that came from.  Yep, things are going to get bigger and better here, you’ll see.

    Some of you may be wondering how we can provide all this for free, when some of the other free blogs copy and paste their humor or they write only 3 to 5 posts per month.  It’s because I enjoy trying to be funny and I think people should laugh more.  However, that doesn’t pay the bills, so I’m forced to work other jobs.  If only I could write on this blog (and my other one) full-time, that would be awesome.  Then there would be more high-quality content here than you could shake a stick at.  If you’d like to see this happen, send me some money.  Use the “contact us” link in the sidebar to request the address where you can send me a big pile of U.S. currency.  Then it’s like I’d be working for you.  I’m okay with that, if you pay enough.  🙂  There’s also some benefits we’d have to work out, which has already been discussed on the blog here (like free sweet tea and nachos, plenty of breaks, etc.).  And not only would you get to enjoy more original content, you’d be contributing to my mission of making the world a better place.  It’s a win-win situation!

    a toast to continued success here

    We have now finished the calendar month of September, and in terms of site traffic it was the most successful month ever here at Buffet o’ Blog.  There were 2,539 pageloads in the month, which doesn’t include any while the administrators are logged in.

    So I would like to say thanks to all of you who are here reading this blog.  It’s really a lot of fun to put this together, and I’m glad some people are enjoying it.  Let’s have a toast to our continued success.  (What?!?  We’re all out of toast?  Who let this happen?!?)  Well, I just heard from an ex-employee that we are out of toast.  So here’s what we’ll do.  The next time you eat toast, think of this blog.  To make this celebration more special, go ahead and load your toast up with all the butter and jelly you want to, and consider the calories on us.  Or if you want cheese toast, feel free to melt some cheese over your toast.  And you can add bacon, too.  Go all out.  Don’t worry about your diet, because it’s a special event.