March Awareness

•Arts Awareness Month

•Asian American Awareness Month

•Ethics Awareness Month

•Hemophilia Awareness Month

•International Listening Awareness Month

•Mental Handicap Awareness Month

•Mental Retardation Awareness Month

•National Caffeine Awareness Month

•National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

•National MS Education and Awareness Month

•National Peanut Month

•Nonpoint Source Pollution Awareness Month

•Nutrition Awareness Month

•Parenting Awareness Month

•Poison Awareness Month

•Seagrass Awareness Month

•Sinus Pain Awareness Month -- apparently, it moved to February

•Vulval Health Awareness Month

Blogger Awareness

I don't know if it's true, but I just stumbled onto a website that claimed that February was Blogger Awareness month. I feel completely crushed that I missed it. My heart is breaking and I wish I could use a flux capacitor to create this blog 4 days ago.

Google Calendar

Discovering Awareness

Tonight as I was driving to dinner, I heard the NPR announcer (the local one... Scott Simon would never stoop to this level) remind the listeners that it was National Colorectal Cancer Awareness month. What the what? What a word :) 


First of all, why do we need rectal awareness? 


And, what other causes should we be aware of? 
http://aware.easilyamused.org/ (This was inspiring)
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/03/16/08 (You should be aware of this bit of podcasting gold) 


After much laughter and discussion we decided to make a list of how we would demonstrate awareness of all of the March Awareness Months. 


Here goes: 

• Drink water on March 22nd
• Donate to Red Cross
• Sleep this month
• Call a poison control company and thank them for their services
• Read parenting tips night 
• Eat the healthiest and least tasty item we can think of 
• Depollute a puddle
• Learn about seagrass
• Blood thickening/thinning night (if we can't figure that out, we'll wander down a dark alleyway and wait to be attacked by a teenage vampire) 
• Ethics movie night
• Caffeine tasting
• Practice true listening skills
• Be crafty (more like a potter than a fox) 
• Drink prune juice out of shot glasses
• Eat peanut butter to excess 
• Thank the author of http://aware.easilyamused.org/ for writing such an awesome blog.