by Edie Melson @EdieMelson
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It’s time
again for Calendar Days. These are just fun to read. They’re also a great way
to jumpstart our creativity when looking for ideas for articles and blog posts.
They’re also a fun writing prompt idea.
In addition,
calendar days are great conversation starters for social media sites like
Facebook and Twitter, especially when two contrasting holidays fall on the same
date. Here are some that tickled my funny bone this month:
February 1 is
both Dump Your Significant Jerk Day and Change Your Password Day. I’d
definitely link those together. Doesn’t it strike you a little ironic that
February 13 is both Desperation Day and Madly in Love with Me Day? February 17
is My
Way Day so it only makes sense it would also be Random Acts of Kindness
Day—would you kindly accede to my way of doing things? Finally, February 26 is
Tell a Fairy Tale Day and Personal Chef
Day. If I told you I had a personal chef that would be a whopper of a fairy
tale.
February
Holidays, Special Days & Downright Crazy Days
February is:
Bake for Family Fun Month
National Black History Month
Library Lovers Month
An Affair to Remember Month
Grapefruit Month
Bird Feeding Month
Hot Breakfast Month
Cherry Month
American Heart Month
Weekly
Celebrations
Week 1:
Women’s Heart
Week
Children’s
Authors and Illustrators Week
Just Say No to
PowerPoint Week
International
Networking Week
International
Friendship Week
Week 2:
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
Have a Heart for a Chained Dog Week
Risk Awareness Week
Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps us From Getting Dizzy
Week
Jell-O Week
Week 3:
Brotherhood/Sisterhood
Week
Build a Better
Trade Show Image Week
National
Engineers Week
National Justice
for Animals Week
National
Entrepreneurship Week
Texas Cowboy
Poetry Week
Week 4:
National
Secondhand Wardrobe Week
Peace Corps Week
National Eating
Disorders Awareness Week
Daily
Celebrations
February 1
Car Insurance Day
Dump Your
Significant Jerk Day
Serpent Day
Change Your
Password Day
G.I. Joe Day
Baked Alaska Day
Freedom Day
Robinson Crusoe
Day
Spunky Old Broads
Day
Decorating with
Candy Day
February 2
Groundhog Day
Sled Dog Day
Marmot Day
Hedgehog Day
World Play Your
Ukulele Day
Crepe Day
February 3
Carrot Cake Day
Four Chaplains Memorial
Day
The Day the Music
Died
February 4
Homemade Soup Day
USO Day
Stuffed Mushroom
Day
Facebook’s
Birthday
Liberace Day
Quaker Day
World Cancer Day
Thank a Mailman
Day
February 5
Nutella Day
Bubble Gum Day
Doodle Day
Chocolate Fondue
Day
Weatherman’s Day
Western Monarch
Butterfly Day
February 6
Lame Duck Day
Lace Day
Frozen Yogurt Day
Take Your Child
to the Library Day
February 7
Send a Card to a
Friend Day
Popcorn Day
Wave All Your
Fingers at Your Neighbors Day
Eday (math)
Ballet Day
February 8
Laugh and Get
Rich Day
Chinese New Year
Molasses Bar Day
Clean Out Your
Computer Day
Boy Scout Anniversary
Day
Opera Day
Kite Flying Day
February 9
Toothache Day
Read in the
Bathtub Day
Extraterrestrial
Day
Stop bullying Day
February 10
Umbrella Day
Plimsoll Day
February 11
Don’t Cry Over
Spilled Milk Day
National
Inventors Day
White Shirt Day
Get Out Your
Guitar Day
Pro Sports Wives
Day
Be Electric Day
Satisfied Staying
Single Day
Make a Friend’s
Day
February 12
Lincoln’s
Birthday
Lost Penny Day
Paul Bunyan Day
Safety Pup Day
Darwin Day
Plum Pudding Day
February 13
World Radio Day
World Whale Day
Desperation Day
Madly in Love
with me Day
Get a Different
Name Day
Employee Legal
Awareness Day
February 14
Library Lovers Day
International Book Giving Day
National Have a Heart Day
Cream-filled Chocolates Day
Pet Theft Awareness Day
Valentines Day
National Organ Donor Day
Ferris Wheel Day
February 15
Susan B. Anthony
Day
National Gumdrop
Day
National Hippo
Day
Remember the
Maine Day
February 16
National Almond
Day
Do a Grouch a
Favor Day
Presidents Day
Innovation Day
February 17
My Way Day
Champion Crab Races Day
National PTA Founders Day
Digital Learning Day
Random Acts of Kindness Day
February 18
Pluto Day
Ice Cream for
Breakfast Day
Cow Milked While
Flying in an Airplane Day
Battery Day
February 19
Chocolate Mint
Day
Lashes Day
February 20
Cherry Pie Day
Hoodie Hoo Day
World Day for Social Justice
Love Your Pet Day
February 21
Sticky Bun Day
Information
Architecture Day
Single Tasking
Day
International
Mother Language Day
February 22
George
Washington’s Birthday
Be humble Day
Walking the Dog
Day
Cook a Sweet
Potato Day
International World
Thinking Day
February 23
National Dog
Biscuit Day
Play Tennis Day
Banana Bread Day
Curling is Cool
Day
Iwo Jima Day
Diesel Engine Day
February 24
Tortilla Chip Day
National Cupcake
Day (Canada)
Inconvenience
Yourself Day
February 25
Clam Chowder Day
Chili Day
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day
Chocolate-covered Peanuts Day
February 26
World Pistachio
Day
Personal Chef Day
Bacon Day
For Pete’s Sake
Day
Levi Strauss Day
Tell a Fairy Tale
Day
February 27
International Polar
Bear Day
World Sword
Swallowers Day
Day of Action
N Brainer Day
Strawberry Day
February 28
Chocolate Soufflé
Day
National Tooth
Fairy Day
Rare Disease Day
Public Sleeping
Day
Floral Design Day
February 29
Leap Year Day
Rare Disease Day
International
Underlings Day
Bachelor’s Day
Now let's do a
little brainstorming for next month. What are some of your favorite days from the
list and how do you propose using them?
Don't forget to
join the conversation!
Blessings,
Edie
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My blog is about the "yielded heart" so I am researching the Four Chaplains Memorial Day. Did you know that they were the four chaplains who died in WWII on the ship SS Dorchester?They helped all the soldier board life boats and gave up their own life jackets when the supply ran out. They joined arms, said a pray and sang hymns to their God as the ship disappeared in the ocean.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Edie, for giving me this idea.
Chris writing from a yielded heart at http://www.christinemalkemes.com
Christine, I love that story. There have been several movies and books about the event. It really sums up what our military men and women are willing to sacrifice. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts! Blessings, E
DeleteThanks for the great ideas, Edie. Love this post.
ReplyDeleteCynthia, thank you!
DeleteThanks for your return to the Calendar Days. I share them with our First Draft Society & they always ignite a return to finger-keyboard connections for us. I plan to use this "play your ukulele day" to grab my uke and see I can find new on there.
ReplyDelete"Cow Milked While Flying in an Airplane Day"? Who makes up this stuff? It could make for an interesting story though.
Deletechocolate mint day??? there's a chocolate mint day?!?!?!? oh i'll definitely be celebrating that!!
ReplyDeletei've always known George Washington's birthday is the 22dn, and as i'm writing a blog post on women's fiction to post that day, makes me wonder about a women's fiction story for Martha. ooohhh, the wheels are spinning now... (and i thought i didn't write historicals.... LOL )
oh, and there's one mo' special day—MY birthday! shared with Mr. Lincoln!