Memento Mori Day, National Write to Congress Day, National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day, Festival of Sleep Day January 3rd

Weekly Celebrations:

Celebration of Life Week
Diet Resolution Week
New Year's Resolution Week
Silent Record Week (O-kay)
Someday We Will Laugh About This Week
Women's Self Empowerment Week

Daily Celebrations

Memento Mori Day
Memento Mori is a Latin phrase loosely translated as "remember that you are mortal" which doesn't seem very cheerful, but apparently was more of a "carpe diem" type phrase. So, while at first it doesn't seem like a very New Yearsy type day to celebrate, it actually is... Set those resolutions! Life is short!


National Write to Congress Day

To write your elected officials all you have to do is click here. I have posted this link three times since I began blogging, a month ago today, but it is important to keep your political servants aware that they are supposed to be serving you, the voter, and the best way to do that is let them know that you are aware of what they are doing.

Since it is also National Poverty Awareness in America Month, there are many things that you can write about that issue to your Congressperson. Especially, since they just passed a new budget that gives tax breaks to people over the $1 & $5 million income range and cut Medicare, Medicaid, and other necessary programs. President Bush's 2006 Budget Plan.

National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day

I never had liked Chocolate Covered Cherries, until I worked in a doctor's office where the doctor's wife loved them. Whenever she felt that something particularly stressful had happened, she would pop out a box of them and hand one to me, and she would eat one herself. After weeks of disliking the jellied cherry stuff with plastic coated chocolate, I became quite attached to them. Occasionally, I will buy a small box to keep in my desk. Mmmm, they probably are on sale from Christmas!

Festival of Sleep Day

Does anything need to be said about this day? Yeah Sleep!