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:

New Year’s Day, January 1st
Three Kings Day, January 6th
Sherlock Holmes’s Birthday, January 6th
Bubble Bath Day, January 8th
Clean Off Your Desk Day, January 8th
Elvis’s Birthday, January 8
Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday, January 15th (observed the 3rd Monday of the month)
Psychiatric Technician’s Day, January 16th
Golf Day, January 17th
Penguin Awareness Day, January 20th
National Hugging Day, January 21st
Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day, January 22nd (some crazy cat lady came up with this day!)
National Pie Day, January 23rd
Compliment Day, January 23rd
Fun At Work Day, January 25th
Healthy Weight Day, January 25th
School Nurses Day, January 25th
Spouse’s Day, January 26th
Australia Day, January 26th
Inane Answering Machine Day, January 30th

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