What day is it?

I used to have a calendar that had a holiday on every single day. It was a great marketing tool when I did party decorating and sold party pariphanalia. I always had a reason for my customers to have a party and purchase party goods from me. I got very good and putting together themes and decor.

It's December 4th and you want to have a party, but you can't think of a theme that doesn't involve one of the major Dec holidays? No problem for me because it is: National Cookie Day, Wear Brown Shoes Day, Day of the Artisans (Honors all workers), Manila Paper Birthday 1845, National Grange Birthday 1867, National Dice Day, Ribbons and Wrap Day.

Still can't find a reason to celebrate? I have a list of 24 monthly events for December, maybe one of them will peak your interest. Or I could take any of the above reasons and show you how to decorate, dress up, what to serve to eat, what kinds of games/entertainment to have.

But I no longer do theme parties. No, I work in the highschool keeping students on track and in the evenings I read text books and write papers. Unless it is Wednesday, then I am in class for four hours. Except today, I get a one week break between classes. Well, a break on the being in class part, I still have 100 pages of text to read and a three page paper to write for the first day of class next week. But I digress.

I was trying to find something to blog about this month that wasn't my favorite Christmas song/ornament/tradition etc. Something that I could write about while taking a break and I decided to pick an obscure December holiday and blog about it each day. When I choose Charles Dickens in America day, I hadn't planned on the post being about my change of heart, it just turned out that way. Nor did I plan on the wise men showing up in my post about telescopes. But after they did, they gave me the idea that maybe I could take the obscure holidays and somehow relate them to life. Kind of like a parable or something.

Then I looked at today's list and came up with nothing.

I just looked again. Nope, got nothing wise and profound for you today. Sorry.

I think I'll just pick Ribbons and Wrap day and go put some paper and tape and bows on presents for the kids.

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Indeed.