Tag: February

the special days of February, pt 2

We now continue our look at the special days / holidays / observances in February.

  • 9 Toothache Day — I will pass on this one!
  • 11 Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day — You shouldn’t ever cry over spilled milk, so I don’t know why there’s an individual day for it.
  • 13 Get a Different Name Day — This is the time for you to go by your favorite nickname or alias.
  • 14 Valentine’s Day — This is the day when florists raise the price of roses by a few hundred percent, and when your wife / girlfriend expects red roses and chocolates and a card.
  • 15 Singles Awareness Day — I imagine singles are plenty aware of their singleness after Valentine’s Day, so this holiday is totally unnecessary.
  • 17 Random Acts of Kindness Day — The key here is that the acts of kindness are random.  There are a ton of possibilities here.  For example, you could give someone a pet turtle; just leave it on their desk at work.  Pets make people happier, I’ve heard.
  • 18 President’s Day — Some of the famous presidents already have their own holidays, so this is for the presidents that you don’t remember.  I don’t know what you should do to celebrate, unless it means getting off work.  Unfortunately, most companies don’t observe this one.
  • 19 National Chocolate Mint Day — Your actions this day should be obvious : eat foods with chocolate mint.
  • 20 Hoodie Hoo Day — According to my research, you are supposed to go outside at noon to shout “Hoodie-hoo!” to scare away Winter and make way for Spring.  Um, is this for real?  Apparently there are people who actually meet to do this.  To each their own…
  • 22 Be Humble Day — I try to be humble, but it’s difficult when you’re this cool…  🙂
  • 22 International World Thinking Day — This is a holiday celebrated by the Girl Scouts and other girl groups.  On this day, they should set aside some time to think about things.  🙂
  • 23 International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day — Your dog probably already appreciates them plenty, but what about you?  This day, you should eat a dog biscuit or two so you can fully appreciate them.  I know, this is unconventional, but trust me — it’s a good time.  It’s best to do this with some friends over.  I guarantee there will be some laughs.
  • 23 Tennis Day — Tennis is an excellent sport and is a great source of exercise, but this should be in the spring, I think.  The weather in February might not be too cooperative for outdoor sports.
  • 24 National Tortilla Chip Day — Eat tortilla chips.  Note that cheese dip goes extremely well with tortilla chips.
  • 27 No Brainer Day — By definition, a “no brainer” is something that’s simple, easy, obvious, and/or logical.  So on this day, you should only do simple stuff, like eating and sleeping and watching TV.  For those things that require thinking, you shouldn’t do it today.  So obviously you shouldn’t be working this day.
  • 28 Public Sleeping Day — Work is in public, right?  🙂
  • 29 Leap Day — As you know, this day occurs once every four years.  I happen to know someone who was born on Leap Day, so she has a birthday only every 4 years.  That’s kinda neat.  I think businesses ought to give their employees the day off on Leap Day, since it’s a bonus day.  It should be like an extra Saturday during the weekend.  Someone should make this happen.  If we have to work on the extra day of the year, we should be paid extra.  It makes sense to me…

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the special days of February, pt 1

Now we will continue our tradition of looking at the special days and holidays of each month.  This month we will look at February (of course).  As usual, this is not a complete list, because those can be found elsewhere, but I guarantee you will not find another list like this one.  See, we add our own unique commentary and humorous analysis to the holidays, to make it more fun.  Feel free to share the link with your friends — just right-click on the name of this post, and select “Copy Link Location” (or whatever sounds closest) to get the link.  Some of these holidays you will want to observe, and it’s even more fun if you get your friends “in the know” about them.  Now, let’s get started with the month-long celebrations and observances :

  • Creative Romance Month — Of course it’s this month, because of Valentine’s Day.  Your wife / girlfriend will appreciate you using some creativity, well, as long as it includes a dozen roses, some chocolate, and a card with mushy stuff written in it.  But other than that, be creative.
  • American Heart Month — Just by parsing the title, this is for people who have a heart (i.e., humans, not cyborgs) and who are American.  So for our international readers, I reckon you’re left out.  Sorry…  Oh, and BTW, I’ve heard that beans are good for your heart…
  • Great American Pie Month — This is what I’m talkin’ about!  For the whole month, eat pies.  I’m not sure what pies are American, but I reckon anything made here is fine.
  • National Cherry Month — I’m not much on eating plain cherries, but put them on a cherry cheesecake or a cherry cream cheese pie, and it’s on.  And it happens to be American Pie Month, too.
  • National Weddings Month — Shouldn’t this be in June?
  • National Snack Food Month — This is another good one.  And there are a lot of options for this one.  Let’s see, Oreos, ice cream sandwiches, Cheetos, Doritos, King Dons, Twinkies, nachos, bean dip, popcorn, etc.  And remember, this applies to the whole month.
  • National Wild Bird Feeding Month — I don’t make it a habit to feed birds, but sometimes after a meal when there’s some leftover bread that isn’t going to be eaten, I’ll toss it out in the field behind my house.  I know that God feeds the little birds, but that doesn’t mean I can’t help.

Now we’ll look at the holidays and observances that are for individual days :

  • 1 National Freedom Day — Is this like Independence Day?  It seems ambiguous to me, but I wouldn’t mind another holiday like that, because that would mean more grilling burgers and hot dogs.
  • 2 Ground Hog Day — I don’t put much faith in whether a groundhog sees his shadow, but that sure was a funny movie.
  • 5 Disaster Day — I’m surprised this one is on here.  I think natural disasters are awesome, but most people seem to not see the beauty of them.
  • 6 Lame Duck Day — Uhh… WHAT?!?
  • 7 Wave All you Fingers at Your Neighbor Day — Your neighbors probably won’t know about this, so they probably wouldn’t understand.
  • 7 Send a Card to a Friend Day – I bet this was created by a card company.  But I have to wonder — why is it just a week before Valentine’s Day?
  • 8 Kite Flying Day — This is a neat idea, but why is it in the middle of winter?  Somebody should think these things through.

I’m going to split this up into two posts, so it won’t be so long.  It will be continued tomorrow.  (There should be a link at the top of this post to the next one after it’s available.)