"Urban Girl's Almanac" - 5 new articles
NOVEMBER 2009 DAYS-OF-NOTE THESE. ARE THE DAYS. OF THE DEAD...
1st ~ All Hallows Day. Blessed are the saints.
2nd ~ Good, bad or ugly. A day to remember the dearly departed, this All Souls' Day. 2nd ~ Full "Frost" Moon 3rd ~ It's Election Day - Fly the US Flag today and go out and VOTE! 
11th ~ Honor those that serve our great country this Veteran's Day! It's a flag-flying holiday, too! 11th ~ FRANCE celebrates Armistice Day.  Friday the 13th ~ Get your superstition on.
15th ~ Cough-cough-hack-hack. National Great America Smoke-Out. 22nd ~ Sagittarius the Archer begins today  26th ~ Sing it with me this Thanksgiving Day,"Come on let's turkey trot. Shoo-shoo, gobble-gobble diddly. Give it all you got...." 27th ~ Eid al Adha, Muslim Feast of Sacrifice, begins today Sunday the 29th ~ Get your calendars out, Advent begins today NOVEMBER IS
 SEPTEMBER 2009 ~ DAYS-OF-NOTE 4th ~ Did you 'ear the news? It's a Full "Corn" Moon! Now. That's corny;-)
Monday the 7th ~ Go ahead. Take the day off - It's Labor Day in the USA! 9th Day of the 9th Month ~ JAPAN celebrates Chrysanthemum Day! September 11th ~ Never forget 9/11/2001 - Honor Patriot Day today! Sunday the 13th ~ Celebrate Grandparent's Day today! 13th ~ Dutch. Swiss. Belgium. So many to choose from on this International Chocolate Day. 18th ~ The New Year, 5770, begins and the Jewish celebration of Rosh Hashanah commences at sundown. 19th ~ Let the feasting begin - at sundown, that is, when the Islamic celebration, Eid al Fitr begins. Sunday the 20th ~ Holy cow! It's World Priest Day. 21th ~ JAPAN honors their senior citizens today with Respect For the Aged Day.  22nd ~ Daytime and nighttime are even-steven once again on this Autumnal Equinox.
22nd ~ Some say it's just a wanna-be, but hey, it has it's own day as today is National White Chocolate Day! 23rd ~ Autumnal Equinox Day in JAPAN. 23rd ~ Libra the Scales begin today. So many options - wish I could decide what to write here ;-) 24th ~ SOUTH AFRICA celebrates it's diversity this Heritage Day! 26th ~ Annie get your gun...and pole...Today is National Hunting & Fishing Day. Sunday the 27th ~ A Day of Atonement for our Jewish friends.This High Holy Day,Yom Kippur, begins at sundown.  SEPTEMBER IS:
National Chicken Month National Organic Harvest Month National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month National Potato Month
Celebrate September Birthdays with Asters and Sapphires!  A Summertime Treat ~ Peaches and Cream PopsIn celebration of National Peach Month - try these peachy pops!
 Peaches & Cream Pops
Recipe and photo courtesy of the California Tree Fruit Agreement  Voilà! The French MartiniYou have a certain je-ne-sais-quoi about you. An élan. You're the connoisseur of the cul-de-sac. Before Starbucks was born, you ordered café au lait for dessert when everyone else was still thinking pie à la mode was haute cuisine. You go on a rendez-vous, while others simply date. You respond, s’il vous plaît when a simple sure will do. You're the belle of your clique. You know the difference between crème brûlée and crème de la crème, panache and papier-mâché.
When referring to your backside, it's always a derrière. Beautiful peignoirs hang in your armoire, while the rest of us stuff jammies in our dresser drawers. You prefer being au naturel instead of buck-naked. You make an occasional faux pas, but never a blunder. You've been known to utter, vis-à-vis, when making a point. You don't think references to your plates of hors d’œuvres as "horse doovers" is particularly funny. You believe lamé is, IN FACT, a fabric blended with metallic threads, not urban-slang for totally-lame-dude! You think being passé is always, well, passé! "Moi?", you ask coquettishly. Yes. My urban belle. Moi! Not that there's anything wrong with that! So. For your next private tête-à-tête or evening soirée with friends, show your savoir-faire with the classic French Martini! Et voilà! French Martini 
4 ounces Vodka
1 ounce Chambord (raspberry liqueur) 5 ounces Pineapple juice Lemon twists Ice
Chill 2 martini glasses. Fill a shaker with ice and add all ingredients. Shake or stir*. Pour into chilled glasses. Garnish each with a lemon twist. *The pineapple juice will cause this martini to be cloudy whether it is stirred or shaken.
I'll always say au revoir, my friends, but wish to never bid you adieu! Click here for more martini club recipes!  Get "Timely Tweets" on Twitter
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