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Need More Reasons To
Celebrate This Month
us!" And, that means you, too. So........... time to spend an hour or so playing cards with
family and friends. And, it arrives at just the
Happy Festivus for the Restivus!
perfect time of year........ a few days after
December 24t h - Nat ional Egg Nog Day. Christmas. The holiday hustle and bustle is over.
National Egg Nog Day comes but once a year. It The kids are getting bored of their new toys. It's
celebrates a special, traditional holiday drink. It is time to turn to card games for a calmer, relaxing,
consumed with or without Rum. The timing and more slow-paced form of fun and
couldn't be any better-- the day before entertainment.
Christmas--- Christmas Eve!
December 30t h - Bacon Day celebrates crispy
December 25t h - Nat ional Pumpkin Pie Day. It's strips of salted pork...Bacon! This is a day to
one of America's favorite pies. Pumpkin pie is thoroughly enjoy bacon at every meal. Snack time,
steeped in holiday tradition. The peak too. It is recommended that you enjoy bacon
consumption period for pumpkin pie begins at today in social gatherings. So, go ahead, and have
the fall harvest, and lasts all the way through to a bacon party!!
the Christmas meal and dessert.
December 31st - Make Up Your Mind Day is a
December 26t h - Boxing Day is celebrated in very decisive day. All during the year, you've put
England, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and on hold, many issues and decisions. Eventually,
other former British commonwealth countries. It they need to be resolved and decided upon. Well,
is a legal holiday in these countries. This is also St. today is the day. It's not a day to procrastinate. It's
Stephans Day, where Boxing Day gets some of it's not a day to put off making a decision. If you are
roots. On St. Stephans' Day, churches opened going to make up your mind this year, you'd
their collection boxes to the poor. Boxing Day was better do it real soon.
an expression of appreciation and thanks, much
December 31st - New Year 's Eve is when all the
like Christmas tips are today.
fun and festivities are. We see out the old year
December 27t h - Nat ional Fruit cake Day and ring in the new. While it is often thought of as
celebrates the rock hard, fruit filled holiday cake. a time to drink and be merry, many people take it
While fruitcake was popular in the 40's and 50's, as an opportunity to eat and be merry.
we are not sure if anyone has ever eaten this
December 31st - Unlucky Day is today. We
weighty, gooey, sugar laden cake.
sincerely hope it's not unlucky for you. It will be
Scientists have been unable to penetrate deeply unlucky for some people. It seems fitting that
into a fruitcake, and therefore, have failed to Unlucky Day is the last day of the year. You get
uncover its exact composition. Its density has also the chance to get all the bad things out of the
hampered their ability to use carbon dating to way, so next year will be happy, healthy and
identify the age of a fruitcake. Unconfirmed prosperous.
rumors suggest that some fruitcake are hundreds
of years old.
December 28t h - Card Playing Day is the perfect
