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Well peeps, here are the holidays for January! Thank you for the suggestions again, they were extremely
helpful! I had a hard time thinking up my own stuff, so I depended more on the stuff listed on Butlerwebs. If I missed any of your birthdays for January, please let me know and I’ll list them right away.
JANUARY!
Jan 1 - Many Wishes for a Happy and Healthy 2008!!
Jan 2 - Run It Up the Flagpole and See If Anyone Salutes Day
Jan 3 - Festival of Sleep Day/National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
Jan 4 - Braille Day (Louis Braille Born this Day in 1809)
Jan 5 - Snoopy Appreciation Day (Snoopy first walks on two legs in the Peanuts cartoon strip this day back in 1956)
Jan 6 - Learn Morse Code (Telegraph was first demonstrated by Samuel Morse on this day back in 1838)
Jan 7 - Go Footloose Today (Kenny Loggins Born this day back in 1948)
Jan 8 - National English Toffee Day
Jan 9 - Give Advice to Someone Day (Dear Abby was published for the first time in 1956)
Jan 10 - Rod Stewart’s Birthday (1945)
Jan 11 - Read a Map Day (Start of Amelia Earhart’s two-day solo flight across the Pacific, 1935)
Jan 12 - Sit in a Chair in Your Living Room and Be Crabby Day (”All in the Family” TV Series premiered January 12, 1971)
Jan 13 - Blame Someone Else Day
Jan 14 - Clean Off Your Desk Day
Jan 15 - Blog About Your Favorite Football Team Day (First Superbowl Game, 1967)
Jan 16 - National Nothing Day
Jan 17 - Do Your Best Impression of Darth Vader (James Earl Jones, Voice of Darth Vader, Born this Day in 1931)
Jan 18 - Cary Grant’s Birthday (1904)
Jan 19 - Edgar Allen Poe’s Birthday (1809)
Jan 20 - Jackson DeForest Kelley’s Birthday - aka Dr. Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy from “Star Trek” (1920)
Jan 21 - Post Something You Dream of Doing (Martin Luther King Jr. Day Observed)
Jan 22 - Linda Blair’s Birthday (1959)/Wolf Appreciation Day (Full Moon)
Jan 23 - National Pie Day
Jan 24 - First Heart Transplant (1964)/Square Dance Day
Jan 25 - Opposite Day
Jan 26 - Ellen DeGeneres’s Birthday (1958)
Jan 27 - Light Bulb Appreciation Day (Electric light patented, 1880)
Jan 28 - Challenger Remembrance Day
Jan 29 - Election Day for Florida
Jan 30 - Nicotine’s Birthday!/Fun at Work Day
Jan 31 - Help Someone Open a Bottle Day (Twist-Off Bottle Cap Invented in 1956)
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I will absolutely celebrate “blame someone else” day this year. I’ll, of course, blame it on you too!
Comment by suzel December 30, 2007 @ 7:15 pmYuss! I love it when people blame me! Muah ha ha. ;)
Comment by Tara December 30, 2007 @ 7:44 pmAwesome list. I’m posting it in my cube!
Comment by notfainthearted December 31, 2007 @ 12:34 amcool!
And not that it’s relevant, but Nicorette turns 6, Nicotine Jr turns 1 and Nicotine turns…um…hmmm…in January.
Comment by nicotine jones December 31, 2007 @ 12:39 amNotFaintHearted: Yay! Cube decor! :)
Nicotine: Of course it matters! I found your birthday post from a few years ago, so I added your birthday to the list. I can announce Nicorette’s and Nicotine Jr.’s b-day then too if you want!
Comment by Tara December 31, 2007 @ 9:44 amI have missed the opportunity to make a suggestion again but the holidays listed are fantastic.. as always.. Have a Happy new Year…
Comment by babybull40 December 31, 2007 @ 2:51 pmExcellent, as always! Another fun month in Eclectic Spaghetti-ville!
Comment by laura b. December 31, 2007 @ 2:52 pmWhat great suggestions. I can’t wait to see what everyone does with them.
Comment by churlita December 31, 2007 @ 2:55 pmThanks, T. Oh, my birthday is actually the 29th. But I don’t mind if we skip it. I’m at a point where I don’t care about the number…just glad to be here and still have hair (on my head), haha!
Comment by nicotine jones January 1, 2008 @ 12:47 amHappy New Year to you Tara.
I love the pic of the spring flowers, it makes me hopeful…
Comment by solipsist January 1, 2008 @ 2:05 amThey look like some quality days to start 2008 with!
Happy New Year Tara!!
Comment by Tim January 1, 2008 @ 7:41 amHappy New Year, Tara!
Comment by AlienCG January 1, 2008 @ 9:35 amBabyBull: Thanks! Lots of interesting birthdays this month, as well!
Laura B: Thank you for the suggestions! Eclectic Spaghetti-ville? I like that! :)
Churlita: Yup, should be a fun month again!
Nicotine: Oh, okay. I think I got that date from a few years ago. I thought yours was on the 30th so I posted it then.
Solipsist: Happy New Year to you and yours! That’s the flower of the month right there. I wish Spring were here already.
Tim: Thank you! Happy New Year to you too!!
AlienCG: Thank you! Happy New Year to you too! Here’s to a fun and healthy 2008!
Comment by Tara January 2, 2008 @ 10:52 am