January 14th 2022 - Holidays and Observances

 

(click on the day for details)

• Christian feast day:
  • Barba'shmin
  • Blessed Devasahayam Pillai (Latin Church)
  • Divina Pastora (Barquisimeto)
  • Eivind Berggrav (Lutheran)
  • Felix of Nola
  • Macrina the Elder
  • Odoric of Pordenone
  • January 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Defender of the Motherland Day (Uzbekistan)
• Feast of the Ass (Medieval Christianity)
• Flag Day (Georgia)
• National Forest Conservation Day (Thailand)
• Old New Year, and its related observance:
  • Azhyrnykhua (Abkhazia)
  • Yennayer (Berbers)
• Ratification Day (United States)
• Revolution and Youth Day (Tunisia)
• Sidereal winter solstice celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; marking the transition of the Sun to Capricorn, and the first day of the six months Uttarayana period. (see April 14):
  • Magh Bihu (Assam)
  • Maghe Sankranti (Nepal)
  • Maghi (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh)
  • Makar Sankranti (India)
  • The first day of Pongal (Tamil Nadu)
  • Uttarayan (Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Rajasthan)
• World Logic Day^[55] (UNESCO)

 

Observances (click on the day or week for details)

National Dress Up Your Pet Day

International Kite Day

National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day

Cesarean Section Day

Feast of the Ass Day

Ratification Day

Take a Missionary to Lunch Day

 

Fun Observances

 Organize Your Home Day

January 14 get started early on this year's spring cleaning and organizing on Organize Your Home Day.

It may sound like a lot of work, but you will thank us later. Your home will be organized, ready to receive company at a moment’s notice and more importantly, if you keep it up throughout the year, you will have an organized home next year this unofficial holiday rolls by.

Beneficial All Year

Being organized can balance your life. It can reduce stress and makes you more productive. It can stop you looking for things, of having to buy new things that you don't need. If you make it your way of life today, it can soon become a habit and you will reap the benefits for years to come.

How to Celebrate?

• Get your cleaning supplies out and get scrubbing and organizing.
• Rope in your family to help you organize, give everyone a task and award them for finishing them.
• Hold an organizing party, and have friends help you. You can thank them by making them their favorite meal or by helping them organize their home in return.
• Make an organization itinerary. Attack a room or an area every week and you will have an organized home in no time.
• Declutter by donating things you don't use anymore.

Did You Know…

…that cleaning can help burn calories? On average, mopping the floors for an hour will help you lose about 160 calories.

 

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Spotted on a Laundromat corkboard:

“Please keep clothes on while doing laundry.”

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Some people just have a way with words, and other people … oh … not have way.

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The four most beautiful words in our common language:


I told you so.

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I don’t want to brag, but I do speak pig Latin;

I mean, I’m not fluent, but I’m sure if I ever went there, I could get by.

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You’ll never be as lazy as whoever named the fireplace.

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A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here’s how it works:

If you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.

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Every novel is a mystery novel if you never finish it.

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The holiday 
season:
a deeply religious 
time that each of us 
observes, in his own way, by going to the 
 mall of his choice.

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Being president is like 
running a cemetery: You’ve got a lot of people under you, and nobody’s listening.

---Bill Clinton

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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of a national emergency—even if I’m in a Cabinet meeting.

—Ronald Reagan

 

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