This is going to be a great weekend with lots of interesting and crafty things to ooh and aww over!
Have a Firecracker Cocktail!
It’s Valentine’s Eve! Live it up and have a Firecracker cocktail with the ones you love! I’ve had this in my recipe file for ages. I have no idea where it came from but it’s yummy! I used to love these after I had some liquid courage in me! ;-) It’s not usually my choice for a first drink. I’m not that brave! I dare you to give it a “shot!” Let me know how it goes! ;-)

Reasons to Celebrate Each Day in January
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My FRG included this in their monthly newsletter this month. I had such a laugh over all the days that people have a reason to celebrate this month! Some of them are pretty “out there!” Nevertheless, it’s always nice to have a reason to feel happy, happy! At the very least, I’m sure you’ll find a reason to roll your eyes and chuckle before you’re through!
January is:
National Oatmeal Month, Hot Tea Month, Be On-Purpose Month, National Book Blitz Month, Bread Machine Baking Month, Candy Month (now that’s my kinda month!), Celebration of Life Month, National Clean Up Your Computer Month, Clinical Trial Awareness Month, Egg Month, Family Fit Lifestyle Month, Glaucoma Awareness Month, National Gourmet Coffee Month (again, my kinda month!), High-Tech Month, Image Improvement Month, International Creativity Month, International Quality of Life Month, Mail Order Gardening Month (WHAT?), National Mentoring Month, Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month, Poverty in America Awareness Month, Random Action Month, Reaching Your Potential Month, Senior Women’s Travel Month, and Yours, Mine and Ours Month, Cuckoo Dancing Week, Wilderness Wildlife Week of Nature, Home Office Safety and Security Week, International Printing Week, Man Watcher Week (that’s hilarious!), Christian Unity Week, Healthy Weight Week, National Handwriting Analysis Week, Hunt for Happiness Week, Catholic Schools Week, National Creative Frugality Week, National Nurse Anesthetists Week (can you say that word?), Celebration of Life Week, Diet Resolution Week, Lose Weight/Feel Great Week, New Year’s Resolution Week, Women’s Self Empowerment Week, Intimate Apparel Market Week, Graves’ Disease Awareness Week, Thank Your Customers Week, (Hmmmm, wonder how many business will ACTUALLY do this?), “Someday…. We’ll Laugh About This” Week, Letter Writing Week
Observance Days in January:
On This Day In History
December 30th
1460 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield.
1731 – 1st US music concert (Peter Pelham’s great room in Boston)
1877 – Johnannes Brahms’ 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna
1918 – John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover
1970 – Paul McCartney sues his bandmates to dissolve the Beatles
Famous Birthdays Today
1880 – Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein
1935 – Sandy Koufax, Dodger pitcher (Cy Young ’63, ’65, ’66, perfect-1967)
1942 – Guy Edwards, English racing driver
1953 – Meredith Vieira, American television journalist
1957 – Matt Lauer, TV host (Today Show)
In Memoriam
1691 – Robert Boyle, Irish scientist (b. 1627)
1832 – Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies
1984 – Massa, oldest gorilla on record (b. 1930)
1992 – Ling-Ling, 1st panda China gave US, dies at 23
Holiday’s Around the World
Bolivia, Chile : Bank Holiday
Iran : Birthday of Iman Reza
Italy : New Year’s Eve
Philippiines : Rizal Day (anniversary of his death) (1896)
El Salvador : Bank Holiday
Remembrance Day
Flanders Field by ~Amniva on deviantART
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Written by Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 – 1918) of the Canadian Army. He wrote this poem after witnessing the death and attending the funeral, of a friend, Lt. Alexis Helmer. A portion of the poem is now printed on the Canadian ten dollar bill.
More info can be found on Wikipedia.
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