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Tuesday, January 1 at 6:00 PM - Bonza Bottler Day. This is an excuse to celebrate and happens every month when the day and the date are the same (Jan. 1, Feb. 2, etc.) We'll meet at
Cozymel's, 6450 Poplar Av. for celebratory drinks. They have this wonderful Margarita sampler guaranteed to put everyone in a festive mood.
Friday, January 4 at 6:00 PM – Dinner at Cockeyed Camel
Restaurant, 6080 Primacy Parkway. A sports bar and restaurant in the heart of East Memphis that serves a wide variety of American food. RSVP to
Trisha@M-Friends.org by noon on the 4th if you plan on attending. Look for the giant yellow Mensa lapel pin on our table.
Friday, January 11 at 6:00 PM – Games night and book blitz. I have a large selection of games on-hand or bring your favorite along. Rummage through all the books and take what interests you. Pizza, beer and soft drinks will be served. 1832 Talisker Drive, Cordova. RSVP to
Trisha@M-Friends.org by noon on January 11th if you plan on attending.
Friday, January 18 at 6:00 PM – Mimi's Italian Café, 7546 Hwy 70 (at Appling Rd.). Good, tasty neighborhood Italian food... RSVP to
Trisha@M-Friends.org by noon on January 11th if you plan on attending. Look for the giant yellow Mensa lapel pin on our table.
Friday, January 25 at 6:00 PM – Bombay House, 1727 N. Germantown Parkway. Great Indian food reasonably priced. An M-Friends favorite! RSVP to
Trisha@M-Friends.org by noon on January 11th if you plan on attending. Look for the giant yellow Mensa lapel pin on our table.
| An anonymous
M-Friend donated $62 to the Porter-Leath foundation in M-Friends name.
This was announced on WRVR and they mentioned Mensa a couple of times
during the broadcast. Yea! |
Monthly
Themes January - Book Blitz
February - All Things Chocolate
March - Go Fly a Kite?
April - April Showers Bring May Flowers
June - undecided
July - Let Freedom Ring
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New Year – New Events
Starting in January, M-Friends is going to have a theme for each month and at least one event relating to that theme. In searching the internet for ideas for January, I found that
January is (to name a few) Clown month, Hobby month, Oatmeal month, Prune Breakfast month and Book Blitz month. Since I didn't think I'd get many takers to dress up like a clown and cannot imagine “eggs n’prunes”, we're going with Book Blitz. Seems appropriate. In addition to the various “whatever” month declared, I also found that the 3rd week of January is Cuckoo Dancing week celebrating Laurel and Hardy
movies and many strange daily anniversaries, etc. that could create some interesting events. (I swear, I did NOT make
any of these up.) Just proves every day is a reason to celebrate something, especially with friends.
12th – Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day (I wasn’t sure if the fabulous wild men feasted or if we feasted on them, but it sounded
interesting.)
15th – First Superbowl game held in 1967 (Green Bay Packers defeated Kansas City Chiefs.)
17th – Prohibition Remembrance Day – Prohibition became official in America in 1920 at 12:01 AM.
21st – National Hugging Day
24th – Beer in cans first became available on this day in 1935
25th – Elvis Presley’s First No. 1 hit released, “Heartbreak Hotel,” 1956
27th – Thomas Crapper Day) Anniversary of the death of Thomas Crapper who invented the flush toilet.
I have no idea what kind of event you could plan around this, but whatever it is it would be interesting.
29th – Puzzle Day
We may have some events not listed in the newsletter come up for January, so check our website:
http://M-Friends.org for events added after the newsletter cut-off, or send me an e-mail at
Trisha@M-Friends.org to be added to the Event Notification e-mails sent out all month long.
I hope some of you will find something interesting you’d like to turn into an M-Friends event. If you do, just send me the details and ‘ll get it out to the group. If you can’t do something in January, try for February. The February theme will be “All Things Chocolate” and we’ll be having a chocolate orgy to celebrate, but there are many other interesting dates to consider as well. February is National Bird Feeding Month, Creative Romance Month, Friendship Month and Condom Month (hmmm could do a variation on the helium balloon event we used to have at RG’s. Use condoms instead of balloons… NAH! Guess that wouldn’t fly with some people).
The 2nd week of February is Celebration of Love Week and Flirting Week. The 3rd week is Random Acts of Kindness Week.
Other possible reasons to celebrate:
2nd – Groundhog Day & Bonza Bottler Day
3rd – Super Bowl Sunday
5th – Mardi Gras Day
11th – Clean out your Computer Day
14th – Valentine’s Day
17th – Blondie & Dagwood got married on February 17, 1933
20th – Hoodie Hoo Day. This holiday is celebrated in an interesting way. At high noon everyone yells “Hoodie-Hoo” to chase away winter and make way for spring.
27th – Polar Bear Day
Allecia Powell and Susan
Hinson have both already volunteered to host events in the upcoming months
and I'll be hosting
the Chocolate Orgy and Margarita Monday Party; we hope you'll find
something you'd like to host too.
So pick a reason (or just make one up) and have an event; come to an event
andbe sure to jump up and shout “Hoodie Hoo” on February 20th.
I hope everyone has a very happy and prosperous 2008 and I hope I have the opportunity to see all of you at least once (hopefully more) during 2008.
Trisha
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