It’s East Meets West Day…. time for a few introductions. Will this gathering be the social event of the year? Maybe, maybe not. What we do know, is that this April 25 holiday is designed to encourage east and west meetings and competitions.  Sports teams can come together to compete against one another. Countries and political groups can hold meetings and conferences. Clubs and organizations from both sides of the country can hold a conference. 

Many kinds of sports teams hold annual East vs. West games. Most often, it’s held by high school sports teams. It does not have to be limited to sports teams. It could be any club or organization that holds competitions and can be geographically separated into east and west groups.

These special games usually serve several purposes, including:

• for charitable benefits
• Sports booster club
• to honor and/or showcase the best players of the season.

If your region is oriented north and south, you can use this day as a North Meets South Day.

Don’t Go to Work Unless it’s Fun Day might be your day to sleep in. Everyone wants the ideal job, one that’s fun and rewarding. The boss is great. Your coworkers are your family and friends. And, you can’t wait to get there each day. Unfortunately, many jobs are less than ideal in this respect. But, you need the paycheck. This holiday offers you the chance to make your place of employment more fun. If this April 5 holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday when you are normally off of work, it’s an easy day to participate in. Otherwise, make sure you get your boss’ approval before participating.  

Wouldn’t it be nice to wake up in the morning and decide whether you will go to work? If it is going to be fun at work today, by all means, get up and go. Otherwise, turn over and go back to sleep.

Employer Tip: To increase attendance today, we suggest you consider things that will make it fun to go to work. Like the promise of a paycheck, benefits,…………..

Warning: We strongly suggest that anyone thinking of not going to work, clears it with their boss first! Special and bizarre days are fun to participate in. But, not at the risk of losing your job.

Many major cities have a culinary specialty that they are known for. Chicago, Illinois is famous world-wide, for it’s Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza.  These pizzas are so great, that Chicago couldn’t keep the recipe a secret. Nowadays, you can get a deep dish pizza almost anywhere in the U.S., and in many parts of the world, too. Many people say Chicago makes the best pizzas in the world. So, it only stands to reason, that the best deep dish pizza is only made in Chicago. We concur.

 Today, people all over the world celebrate Deep Dish Pizza Day.  We have no doubt about what you will do today, to savor and enjoy this special holiday.

The deep dish pizza was created in 1943 in Chicago, Illinois. It was created by Ike Sewell, founder of Pizzeria Uno. The deep dish pizza recipe calls for a deep, buttery, and crunchy crust. If you follow the original recipe, and we hope you do, the cheese is on top of the dough, and the sauce is on top of the cheese. You can add any other toppings, as you prefer.

Did You Know? The first pizza was made in the country of Greece…. not Italy.

National Columnists Day recognizes the importance and value of newspaper columnists. Students can also use this April 18 holiday to explore a career in journalism.

The National Society of Newspaper Columnists, which was founded in 1977, sponsors and promotes this day in support of columnists and journalists around the world. This day is dedicated to increasing awareness of the importance and contributions made by columnists and journalists.  

Do you want to participate in this day? Read a newspaper column. Or, show some appreciation to these writers.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. (UNESCO) recognizes six languages as official languages of the UN. They are six of the most spoken languages in the world.  Mandarin Chinese is one of these six languages. In recognition and celebration of these languages, each one was given a special holiday. Chinese Language Day is today, an April 20 holiday.

Chinese Language Day was created by UNESCO. The goal for this day is to celebrate multilingual and cultural diversity, and to recognize and celebrate Chinese as one of the six official languages of the United Nations. This special holiday also pays tribute to Cang Jie, a legendary figure who invented Chinese characters over 5,000 years ago.

Chinese Mandarin  or Putonghua, is the native language of over 1 billion people. There are over 200 dialects of Chinese, with many so diverse, that they could be considered their own language group. The most common of these is Mandarin, which is the official language (or dialect) of the People’s Republic of China. It is also widely spoken in Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore. After Mandarin, the most commonly spoken Chinese languages, or dialects, are Wu, Shanghainese, Hongkongese, and Cantonese.

International Children’s Book Day encourages reading and promotes the love of books for children. The best and fastest way to develop our young children into intelligent human beings is by teaching them to read. Instilling a love of reading promotes a lifetime of learning and enjoyment. Reading is a great hobby. It looks good on a resume, too. So, use this April 2 holiday to help a child to learn to read.

Libraries celebrate today with storytelling hours and other events for young children. You can celebrate today by giving a new book to each of your kids. If they are too young to read, spend time reading stories to them. It’s a great and memorable bonding time for you and your child.

National Cheeseball Day is today, an April 17 holiday. But wait!!! What kind of cheeseball are we talking about? There’s the light and airy, irresistible puffy corn cheese ball that you munch on for a snack by the dozens. There is also the party cheeseball, often decorated with nuts, that sits on a party tray until spread on a cracker. Why do we celebrate these two snacks? Simply because the author of this holiday is unknown and failed to leave documentation describing the reason for this day. either way, this is a day to stuff yourself with cheeseballs.  In celebration of this special holiday event, let’s celebrate and enjoy both kinds of cheeseballs.

When it comes to the cheeseball snack, we are certain that you can’t eat just one. Not even a handful. Corn cheese balls are addicting. Place a bowl of cheeseballs on the counter and watch them disappear right before your eyes. Toddlers and young kids are Cheeseball hounds. So are teenagers and adults. In other words, everyone lives cheeseballs.

The cheeseballs we savor on holiday trays are equally loved. Strangely, it is wildly popular around the holidays and hard to find other times of the year.

Celebrate this cheesy day with cheeseballs (both kinds). Serve them after dinner during your favorite television show, or whenever it’s convenient. 

Caramel Popcorn Day is here. Yipee! This April 7 holiday is an opportunity to enjoy the combination of two great treats – Caramel and Popcorn. This tasty, chewy treat is hard to beat. It is readily found in popcorn tins and specialty shops. Or, you can make it yourself at home. All you need is some popcorn and the seasoning.

If you are like me, you don’t need an excuse to eat any kind of popcorn. So, you can easily guess what you need to do to participate in this day. While salted, buttered, and any other flavors of popcorn are fine any other day, today it must be caramel flavored.

A great way to make this day truly memorable is to make homemade caramel popcorn.

Today is California Poppy Day, an April 6 holiday. Fields of California poppies are known in California and elsewhere as “fields of gold. Today is a day set aside to honor these beautiful flowers and wildflowers. 

Cheerful and bright orange poppies are native to the western coast of North America, from southern Canada, and southward into Mexico. They grow wild, sometimes covering huge fields in a sea of gold, when in bloom. Gardeners love to grow them in their flower gardens, in flowerpots on their patio or deck, as well as using them as ground cover. 

In the late 1800s, Californians were working toward making the California Poppy their state flower. It did not happen until March 2, 1903. And, it wasn’t until more than a century later, that California Poppy Day was created. 

Celebrate California Poppy Day by planting some of these poppies in your flower garden, enjoying pictures and information about them, or holding teaching sessions and talks to children or groups.

Blah Blah Blah Day is today. This April 17 holiday just might be the blah-est day of the year. Every day of the year, your spouse or your boss at work is nagging you to get certain things done. But, all you hear is “wah,wah, wah” or something like that. It’s hard to imagine why they are nagging you. Afterall, they’ve only been asking you to do a particular task for five or six months.  The intent of this day is to do all of the projects and things that people have been nagging you to do. This may include quitting a habit, losing weight, or working on home projects. The “Honey Do” list or job jar is a top target for today.

With all of the projects done, no one will nag you for the rest of the day. Of course, once those tasks are done, some new ones will certainly crop up. So, most likely tomorrow you will hear them say “blah, blah, blah ” all over again. 

Did you know? This is a copyrighted holiday. This event was created in 2006 and is provided, courtesy of the great folks at  Wellcat.com

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