If you know anything about Chinese New Year, you know that it's one of the biggest celebrations of the year, filled with tons of food, traditional music, parades, and of course, fireworks. A fifteen day-long celebration, Chinese New Year honors the first day on the lunar calendar, and begins on the new moon. This year [...]
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Celebrate This: National Popcorn Day
Today we celebrate the lesser of the many evils that snack world has to offer. In the land of greasy potato chips, artificial cheese flavorings, and sugary cookies, popcorn reigns supreme, and is only as simple or decadent as you want it to be. A movie just isn't a movie without a big bowl (or [...]
Celebrate This: National Oatmeal Muffin Day
It's tough playing second banana to cupcake, which is why it's high time we celebrate the muffin, and all it's down for us as cupcake's often healthier and always under appreciated cousin. Today we celebrate a particular kind of muffin, the oatmeal muffin, a healthier and, in my opinion, tastier alternative to all that sugary nonsense kids [...]
Celebrate This: National Bouillabaisse Day
From the moment I woke up, and lifted my head off of the pillow, I knew there was something fishy about Bouillabaisse Day. What!? You don't know what Bouillabaisse is? Oh you are so passé! Just kidding! It wasn't until I set out to round up a few ideas for my daily Celebrate This post that I [...]
Celebrate This: Poinsettia Day
Poinsettias are mysterious little plants—all year they're practically invisible, unseen in flower shops and grocery stories, until about three weeks before Christmas and BAM! They're sprouting up everywhere! These festive flowers are actually native of Mexico and Central America, which explains why you might be hard pressed to find one any other time of year. [...]
Celebrate This: National Christmas Card Day
Who doesn't love receiving Christmas cards? And sending them! When else are you suppose brag about your success and the outcome of your year as a mother, husband, sister, son? Christmas cards come but once a year, so it's important to send them, and send 'em early. Here are some crafty card tutorials from around [...]
Celebrate This: National Brownie Day
Brownies are delicate desserts whose rich, chocolaty taste, despite any claims made on boxes, is never instant even if their mix is of the pre-packaged variety. A good homemade brownie is hard to find and even harder to achieve without a little patience, and in my experience bad brownies transform their tasters into a gourmet [...]
Celebrate This: National Fritters Day
Of all the food-related holidays out there none tugs at my heart strings quite like National Fritters Day. Although I had never heard of the holiday before setting out to do research for this blog, I have fond memories of the crispy little nuggets and their abilities to transform a rainy afternoon into somewhat of [...]
Celebrate This: Stay At Home Because You’re Well Day
Sick days can be a bit of a bummer—missing out on work or school without enjoying the benefits because you're too tired/congested/achey to do anything other than hug a box of tissues and pray the lavender haired old lady beats the smug college professor on Jeopardy. Today we celebrate Stay at Home Because Your Are [...]
Celebrate This: National Square Dance Day
If you haven’t heard the word today is National Square Dance Day, and if you’re like me and a good percentage of the population, you probably don’t know how to square dance. Fret not, because you don’t have to be skilled in square dancing to throw a hoedown and you don’t have to know how [...]
