Saturday 12/21/24
Sunday 12/22/24
Celebrate:
Saturday
Anne and Samantha Day
Crossword Puzzle Day
Don't Make Your Bed Day
Forefathers' Day
Humbug Day
International Dalek Remembrance Day
National Coquito Day
National Flashlight Day
National French Fried Shrimp Day
National Hamburger Day
National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day
National Kiwi Fruit Day
National Look at the Bright Side Day
National Short Story Day
National Wreaths Across America Day
Phileas Fogg Win a Wager Day
Ribbon Candy Day
Short Girl Appreciation Day
Super Saturday - Go Shopping!!!
Yule - A German winter festival that Christmas ate up!
Yule is one of the oldest winter solstice festivals, with origins among the ancient Norse thousands of years ago.
First Day of Winter - 4:21AM the day with the fewest hours of sunlight throughout the year, making it the “shortest day” of the year.
Sunday
Abilities Day
National Cookie Exchange Day
National Date Nut Bread Day
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Christmas isn't the only thing to sing about when it gets cold. UltimateClassicRock.com put together a list of 30 winter songs that aren’t about the holidays. Here are some highlights:
1. "A Hazy Shade of Winter", Simon and Garfunkel
2. "Wintertime Love", The Doors
3. "Trapped Under Ice", Metallica
4. "Winter", The Rolling Stones
5. "A Winter's Tale", Queen
6. "Winterlude", Bob Dylan
7. "Snowbound", Genesis
8. "Winterlong", Neil Young
9. "December", Weezer
10. "February Stars", The Foo Fighters
11. "Cold Rain and Snow", The Grateful Dead
12. "Out In the Cold", Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
13. "California Dreamin'", The Mamas and the Papas
14. "Winter Time", Steve Miller Band
15. "A Winter's Tale", The Moody Blues
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Christmas is next Wednesday so not a lot of days for shopping. Time for last-minute gifts. Gift cards are always a reliable standby, but here are five other ideas that are just as easy, but even more meaningful . . .
1. A digital product. Like an online course, a streaming subscription, or even a video game.
2. An "experience." Buy concert tickets, tickets to a football game, a vacation, or any other future event. Then give the person a printout of the tickets in a card.
3. Cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is hitting all-time highs right now, and new memecoins are always coming out.
4. A homemade coupon. Like taking them to their favorite bar and getting the first round or cooking them dinner from scratch.
5. Photos of you together. If you've got some great photos together on your phone, print them out and put them in a nice frame for them.
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Someone just did a poll on holiday etiquette, and there are some fascinating results. Here are the highlights:
1. Leaving the price tag on a gift . . . 56% say it's unacceptable.
2. Giving a child a toy gun as a gift . . . 40% say it's not okay.
3. Giving a pet as a gift . . . 38% say unacceptable. (Especially if it's a surprise and they might not want it. Another 22% said maybe, maybe not, it depends on the context.) (This is a good time to get them a coupon and spend some time together after the holidays lunching and looking with them for a pet. Pets are personal, and what you like might not be what I like.)
4. Not giving a gift to someone who gave you one . . . 37% say that's not cool.
5. Giving a gift that's secondhand or used . . . 34% say unacceptable.
6. Not giving a gift to a close family member . . . 29% say that's not okay.
7. Asking for cash as a gift . . . 29% say that's unacceptable.
8. Throwing away wrapping paper instead of recycling or reusing it . . . 28% of people say that's unacceptable.
9. Giving someone else's child a gift that makes a lot of noise . . . 28% say that's unacceptable.
10. Giving a gag gift instead of a serious one . . . 28% say that's not cool.
11. Re-gifting an item . . . 25% say that's unacceptable.
12. Giving a gift that's unwrapped . . . 24% say that's unacceptable. (at least put a bow on it)
13. Asking for donations to a cause instead of a gift . . . 16% say that's unacceptable.
14. Waiting until the last minute to shop for gifts . . . 14% say that's unacceptable.
15. Returning or exchanging a gift . . . 10% say that's unacceptable.
16. Giving a gift AFTER the holidays . . . 7% say that's unacceptable.
17. Giving cash as a gift . . . only 4% say that's not okay.
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Sometimes the villain can be the best part of a movie, even at Christmas. "People" magazine put together a list of the Greatest Christmas Movie Villains of All Time.
1. Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) from "It's a Wonderful Life". (Lionel is Drew Barrymore's great uncle.)
2. Oogie Boogie from "The Nightmare Before Christmas".
3. Neighborhood bully Scut Farkus from "A Christmas Story".
4. Comet and the Abominable Snow Monster from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". ( I would add Santa..he's kind of a jerk)
5. Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) from "Die Hard".
6. Ted Maltin (Phil Hartman) from "Jingle All the Way".
7. Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) from "Home Alone".
8. The Grinch (Jim Carrey) from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas".
9. Ebenezer Scrooge (George C. Scott) from the 1984 TV movie "A Christmas Carol".
10. Jack Frost (Martin Short) from "The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause".
See the list from People here.
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