Today is Monday June 28, 2010

Paul Bunyan Day

Paul Bunyan is certainly a great American legend! This mythological lumberjack is credited with digging out the Grand Canyon by simply dragging his axe, clearing out North and South Dakota for farming, and scooping out the Great Lakes to provide water for Babe the Blue Ox.

To celebrate this American folkloric character, visit the amusement park Paul Bunyan Land or retell his tall tales to your friends and family!

June is Gay Pride Month & Great Outdoors Month

Today is also National Tapioca Day

"Images and text courtesy of MyPunchbowl.com" -- http://www.mypunchbowl.com/

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On this day in History:

	1894 - The U.S. Congress made Labor Day a U.S. national holiday. 1911 - Samuel J. Battle became the first African-American policeman in New York City. 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was signed ending World War I exactly five years after it began. The treaty also established the League of Nations. 1938 - The U.S. Congress created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to insure construction loans. 1945 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur announced the end of Japanese resistance in the Philippines.

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Quote of the Day:
"Life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing, full of liking and love, at times a poem and a high adventure, at times noble and at times very gay; and whatever (if anything) is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again."

--Rose Macaulay

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Today's Tip:

Buy Clothes Without Trying Them On

You have good reasons to avoid the dressing room―long lines and fluorescent lighting among them―so skip it altogether by sizing yourself up first at home, says designer Cynthia Rowley. Note how your favorite clothes look when you hold them to your body, and recall that when you're shopping. If the fabric of a pair of jeans or a skirt doesn't exactly meet the edge of your waistline when you hold it up, it won't fit correctly, Feldon says. And the next time you're in a hurry at the department store, remember this measurement trick from Rowley: The distance from the side of your neck to the tip of your fingers (on an outstretched arm) is about the same length as your inseam.