Jace Shoemaker-Galloway
Humiliation Day: Humility quotes and sayings
With a brand new year underway, many people look forward to new beginnings. Whether your particular resolution for the New Year involves a healthier lifestyle, new job or perhaps a new romance, this is the time of year when many people reflect and re-evaluate and today is no exception. While the origins of this annual holiday are unknown, Jan. 3 is Humiliation Day. It’s a special day of the year that focuses on humility and being humble, not humiliating others. While humility
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Zzzzzzz. Festival of Sleep Day: Top Tips to Help You Sleep Tight Every Night
While its origins are unknown, Festival of Sleep Day is the perfect time to catch up on a little shut-eye. The amount of sleep we get directly impacts our quality of life. Getting a good night's sleep also positively affects your mood, memory, learning and creative skills. Getting enough sleep can also reduce your stress levels. Besides better concentration, people who are well-rested look healthier and more attractive. Plus, folks who are well-rested lose more fat than those
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It's Fruitcake Toss Day - Pitch it
With another holiday season behind us, it’s finally time to haul the Christmas tree out to the curb and take down all those holiday decorations - until next year. But there may be one holiday item you’re not quite sure what to do with. The dreaded fruitcake. Some folks swear there are only one or two fruitcakes in the world that get passed down from generation to generation! If you happen to have one propping up a door or collecting freezer burn, today may just be your lucky
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Happy Mew Year for Cats Day: Purrfect!
When it comes to holidays, today is simply "purrfect." Jan. 2 is a special day of the year for felines of all shapes and sizes. It’s Happy Mew Year for Cats Day, an annual “howliday” created by Thomas and Ruth Roy. This special day celebrates those “purrfect” pussycats we love so much. While many holidays are all in good fun, many animal-related holidays also help raise awareness about the millions of unwanted, unloved, neglected and abused cats (and dogs) that end up in an
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National Hangover Day: How to get over a hangover
If you rang in the New Year with a little too much holiday cheer, you may be paying the price today! Besides New Year’s Day, Jan. 1 is also National Hangover Day, also referred to as Bad Hangover Day! Whether you attended a great big holiday bash or small get-together for New Year’s Eve, indulging in too much of the bubbly can result in a horrible hangover the next day. According to Mayo Clinic, a hangover is defined as “a group of unpleasant signs and symptoms that can devel
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National Bloody Mary Day
If you enjoyed New Year’s Eve far too much, you’re in luck! Not only is January 1st New Year’s Day, it’s also National Hangover Day and National Bloody Mary Day. While the only honest-to-goodness known cure for a hangover is well, time, some swear that drinking a Bloody Mary the morning after a big night, can cure whatever ails ya! Fernand Petiot is often credited as the “inventor” of the drink when he mixed equal parts of tomato juice and vodka at Harry’s New York Bar in Par
