January SUCKS!

So I haven't written in a while - basically forever.

We've had a lot going on lately.

Fat people with no eyebrows have been trying to make our lives miserable and to some degree it is working.

I am in the process of looking for a job, we are starting to look at houses, but the main thing we are dealing with is how sucky the month of January is.

I have long contended that nothing good happens in the month of January. Charles seems to think that New Year's counts, however, I disagree. I think that Dec. 26 to February 14th are the 50 most depressing days of the year. It's extremely cold outside, classes start back, you have to go back to work, and there is only 30 minutes of light in a given day (and for the duration of that time you are forced to sit in an office).

So. I was talking to Charles about how there needed to be something to look forward to in the month of January and I have decided to make January 16th (15 days before and 15 days after - it is the dead middle of January) a holiday. Charles suggested that we look into holidays that may already exist before establishing our own. In his search for a reason for the month of January to exist on our calendar as we know it today, he found out that January 16th is "National NOTHING Day."

This just proved my point even further.

I need a holiday where I get a gift or something. So, it could be like National 1 Dollar Gift Day (which doesn't seem to already exist). Or it could be like red lipstick day or something. Polygamist day . . . I'm struggling with this.

Anyone have any other ideas? I'm going to do this this year and actually have a party, but I need a good idea. So, help me out.