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)
Posted by suzel on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 7:15 pm
I will absolutely celebrate “blame someone else” day this year. I’ll, of course, blame it on you too!
Posted by Tara on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Yuss! I love it when people blame me! Muah ha ha. ;)
Posted by notfainthearted on Monday, December 31, 2007 at 12:34 am
Awesome list. I’m posting it in my cube!
Posted by nicotine jones on Monday, December 31, 2007 at 12:39 am
cool!
And not that it’s relevant, but Nicorette turns 6, Nicotine Jr turns 1 and Nicotine turns…um…hmmm…in January.
Posted by Tara on Monday, December 31, 2007 at 9:44 am
NotFaintHearted: 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!
Posted by babybull40 on Monday, December 31, 2007 at 2:51 pm
I have missed the opportunity to make a suggestion again but the holidays listed are fantastic.. as always.. Have a Happy new Year…
Posted by laura b. on Monday, December 31, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Excellent, as always! Another fun month in Eclectic Spaghetti-ville!
Posted by churlita on Monday, December 31, 2007 at 2:55 pm
What great suggestions. I can’t wait to see what everyone does with them.
Posted by nicotine jones on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 12:47 am
Thanks, 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!
Posted by solipsist on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 2:05 am
Happy New Year to you Tara.
I love the pic of the spring flowers, it makes me hopeful…
Posted by Tim on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 7:41 am
They look like some quality days to start 2008 with!
Happy New Year Tara!!
Posted by AlienCG on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 9:35 am
Happy New Year, Tara!
Posted by Tara on Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 10:52 am
BabyBull: 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!