Posted December 20, 2019
It's The Journey That Counts!
Life's journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "Wow! What a ride!"
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Weekly Anna-Gram
      Happy New Year!
​I’ve been off line for a week because I fell again – flat on my back. – on Christmas eve morning. I wasn’t able to move for days, and sadly had to miss all the Christmas and New Year festivities. ​
Bummer of a way to begin 2020, but this morning is the first I’ve been able to get dressed, move around a little, and get an X-ray of my back. 

​Anagrams for the Holidays
● New Year's Resolution = Notions we rarely use
● And a Happy New Year = Read happen, anyway.
● New Year Resolution = Outline owner’s year

​Quotes For The Holidays
● “New Year's Day ... now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” __ Mark Twain

● “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” __ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Observance Days
  Happy New Year
​2020 
January is:
● National Book Month
● National Birth Defects Prevention
   Month
● It's Okay to Be Different Month
● Reference Book Month
● National Bath Safety Month

​The Coming Week is:
● New Year's Resolutions Week:
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● Celebration of Life Week: 1-7
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● Diet Resolution Week: 1-7 
● Silent Record Week: 1-7
● Universal Letter Writing Week
   (second week)
● Folic Acid Awareness Week
    (second week)

​January 3 is:
● JRR Tolkien Day
● Drinking Straw Day
● Memento Mori "Remember You Die" Day
● National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day Link
● Dimpled Chad Day

Obsolete Christmas Words
​● apolausticiam = total devotion to enjoying yourself (19th Century)
● rumball = a feast served up the day before Christmas, rather than Christmas Day. (18th century)
● rumball night = Christmas eve. (18th century)
● bummock = a large quantity of drink purposely brewed for a special occasion, and in particular at Christmas.
(An old Scots word; in the 18th century a bummack, or bummock, was also the name of a party given by landlords to their tenants at Christmastime.)

 
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/11-christmas-words-the-english-language-has-forgotten-a6765246.html