Saturday 1/6/24
Sunday 1/7/24
Saturday
Apple Tree Day
Cuddle Up Day
Epiphany
Fruitcake Toss Day
National Bean Day
National King Cake Day
National Shortbread Day
National Smith Day
National Take a Poet to Lunch Day
National Take Down the Christmas Tree Day
National Technology Day
World Day for War Orphans
Sunday
Harlem Globetrotter's Day
I'm Not Going to Take It Anymore Day
International Progerammers' Day
National Bobblehead Day
National Old Rock Day
National Pass Gas Day
National Tempura Day
No Pants Subway Ride Day
Orthodox Christmas Day
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Award show season starts this weekend with The Golden Globes.
The boycott is over and you can check them out on CBS Sunday at 8pm (or following football).
It will be fun to see how many thank the Foreign Press Association which was disbanded and is now the Golden Globe Foundation.
Comedian Jo Koy will be hosting. You can check out his Netflix comedy special if you want to get acquainted.
Barbie could be a big winner. So hang on!
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It's the first weekend of the New Year! Good Housekeeping has a few ideas on how to spend it.
First off, with the Noreaster happening, this one is out!
Go on a hike. It's outdoorsy and active and will get you some fresh air.
A better idea is start a new book. If you had a goal of reading more books this year, now's your chance to get started.
Get cracking on that resolution. Whatever you've chosen as your New Year's resolution, use this weekend as a chance to either get a jump start on it, get back on track, or continue the new habits you put in place this week.
Do a deep clean. If you haven't taken down your Christmas lights yet, it's time. Plus, chances are you're sitting on some holiday items that still need to be organized, sorted, tossed, or returned.
Cook something at home. It ticks the boxes if you resolved to save money by not eating out as much this year, or eating healthier in general.
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According to Tinder, the first Sunday in January is "Dating Sunday" . . . the busiest day of the year for online dating.
On Dating Sunday, they see an extraordinary surge in people updating bios . . . uploading photos . . . sending messages . . . and responding to them.
In fact, Tinder said that people respond to messages 19.4 minutes faster on "Dating Sunday" than on any other Sunday of the year.
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So today is the Twelfth day of Christmas. Twelfth Night, and if you eat any cake, be careful, it's time again for The King Cake. A frosted sweet bread—a delicious cross between a coffee cake and a French pastry—with a hidden bean or tiny plastic baby baked inside. It’s traditionally made for Twelfth Night as well as Mardi Gras season.
It's also knows as Epiphany Eve. Epiphany is said to be when the Wise Men showed up.
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Color-corrected photos of Neptune showed us its true color for the first time this week. Experts thought it was more of a deep shade of blue, but it's lighter than they thought. Not a joke: They say it's just a tad less pale than Uranus.
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With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world's most poisonous spider has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park.
The spider measured 3.1 inches from foot to foot, surpassing the park's previous record-holder from 2018, the male funnel-web named "Colossus."
"Hercules" will contribute to the reptile park's antivenom program. Safely captured spiders handed in by the public undergo "milking" to extract venom, essential for producing life-saving antivenom.
"We're used to having pretty big funnel-web spiders donated to the park. However, receiving a male funnel-web this big is like hitting the jackpot."
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First Holographic ABBA and Holographic KISS is on the way, and after 47 years, Elvis Presley will re-enter the building . . . as a hologram. The hologram show "Elvis Evolution" will hit the London stage in November of 2024 . . . then relocate to Las Vegas, Berlin, and Tokyo.
The company that puts it on calls it a "jaw-dropping concert experience" that will be, quote, "a bucket list item for Elvis fans and admirers around the world."
Flesh-and-blood Elvis played his last show on June 26th, 1977 at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. He died less than two months later, at the age of 42.
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