In China people celebrate a new year this week, one they refer to as the Year of the Ox.
In the United States a different celebration begins this week, culminating in a holiday only this country could conceive: Super Bowl Sunday,
It's east to celebrate the Super Bowl. Many people will host parties in conjunction with the event. You can even celebrate on the lighter side by getting your party supplies and just watching the game at home (especially the silly commercials).
My only advice for would-be Super Bowl party folks is order your pizzas early. Super Bowl Sunday is the busiest day for pizza delivery companies, along with New Year's Eve.
That's the US New Year's Eve, not China's.
Please don't forget the many other designated holidays, festivals and events listed below. Note Thomas Crapper Day on the 27th.
Have fun for the rest of the month of January and look for a February list soon.
JANUARY 2009
MONTH:
Be On-Purpose
Birth Defects Prevention
Book Blitz
Blood Donor
Careers in Cosmetology
Celebration of Life
Cervical Health Awareness
Change Your Stars
Clean Up Your Computer
Creativity
Diet
Family Fit Lifestyle
Fiber Focus
Financial Wellness
Get Organized
Glaucoma Awareness
Hobby
Hot Tea
International Gourmet Coffee
Jump Out Of Bed
Lose Weight/Feel Great
Mail Order Gardening
Mentoring
New Year's Resolutions Month for Business
Oatmeal
Personal Self-Defense Awareness
Poverty in America Awareness
Prune Breakfast
Quality of Life
Radon Action
Reaching Your Potential
Resolve to Eat Breakfast
Skating
Soup
Thyroid Awareness
Volunteer Blood Donor
Walk Your Pet
Wayfinding
Wealth Mentality
Yours, Mine and Ours
WEEK:
1-7:
Diet Resolution
2-9:
"Someday We'll Laugh About This"
4-10:
New Year's Resolutions
Thank-Your-Customers
5-9:
Home Office Safety and Security
5-11:
Women's Self-Empowerment
11-17:
Cuckoo Dancing
International Printing
12-16:
National Pizza
18-23:
Fresh-Squeezed Juice
18-24:
Healthy Weight
Hunt for Happiness
18-25:
Week of Christian Unity
Meat
19-23:
Medical Group Practice
25-31:
Catholic Schools
National Nurse Anesthetists
26-30:
Take Back your Time
DAY
1(Th):
New Year's
Bonza Bottler
Tournament of Roses
Z-Day
2(F):
3(Sa):
Chocolate Covered Cherry
Drinking Straw
Fruitcake Toss
4(Su):
Appendectomy
Trivia
5(M):
National Bird
Thank God It's Monday!
Twelfth Night
6(Tu):
Bean
Bubble Bath
Epiphany (Three Kings, Twelfth Day, Twelfthtide)
Joan of Arc
Smith
7(W):
"I'm Not Going to Take It Anymore"
Old Rock
8(Th):
Elvis' Birthday
National English Toffee
NCAA Football Championship
9(F):
10(Sa):
Cut Your Energy Costs
Full (Wolf) Moon
Where's the Beef
11(Su):
12(M):
Clean-Off-Your-Desk
Family Communication
Organize Your Home
13(Tu):
14(W):
Ratification
15(Th):
First Super Bowl anniversary
Get to Know your Customer
Humanitarian
16(F):
Appreciate a Dragon
International Hot and Spicy
National Nothing
Prohibition
Religious Freedom
17(Sa):
Kid Inventors'
18(Su):
National Hat
Pooh
19(M):
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Popcorn
Robert E. Lee
20(Tu):
Aquarius
Buttercrunch
Inauguration
Penguin Awareness
Rid the World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks
World Religion
21(W):
National Hugging
Squirrel Appreciation
22(Th):
Blonde Brownie
Celebration of Life
Women's Healthy Weight
23(F):
National Handwriting
Pie
24(Sa):
Compliment
Global Belly Laugh
25(Su):
26(M):
Australia
Better Business Communication
Bubble Wrap Appreciation
Chinese New Year (Year of the Ox)
Peanut Brittle
Spouses
27(Tu):
Thomas Crapper
28(W):
Fun at Work
29(Th):
Carnation
Cornchip
Freethinker's
Ice Cream Cone
Puzzle
30(F):
Write to Congress
31(Sa):
Inspire Your Heart with the Arts
International Seed Swap Day of Action
National Backwards
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