My new year resolution

     Yesterday was January 1, 2012. It was the first year I didn't make a resolution. Instead I decided instead to change my life up a little. I want to expand my world, explore new horizons and all that. I'm bored with my small world everyday view on life.
     
     I was setting up my kids' calender and was looking at all the holidays on there. I noticed a whole bunch of them that I'd never heard of. In first week of January there is a holiday called Epiphany. I'd never heard of it and was curious. I'd heard of Passover, Ramadan, Yom Kippur, Chinese new year and a few others but I'd never really paid them much attention. I think it's about time.
     
     The idea sort of came to me from two sources. First, is the book i'm currently reading, The Year of Living Biblically. Basicaly it's about a guy who spends a year following every law in the bible as literally as possible. It started me thinking about how people who follow different religions act and what their lives are like. Second, I watched the movie Life In a Day. The director took footage (of everyday life on July 24, 2010) submitted by amateur filmmakers from all over the world and put it into a documentary. It's amazingly done and you really start to see how small you are in the world. Your normal is far from what millions of other people in the world would call normal.
      
     So I'm going to try to celebrate every major Government and religious holiday in my Christan/Catholic/Islamic/Pagan/Jewish calendar. If you google "Holidays that fall on_____(pick any day)" you will get many different results. For example there is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day (April 2), Positive Thinking Day (Sept 13), Tell a Fairy Tale Day (Feb 26) and a TON others. I'm not going to bother with these. Maybe next year. They are created by companies, local government and some are just plain made up. There isn't any way to verify them and the list is way too long, I'd be celebrating 10 "holidays" at the same time. 

The first holiday is New Years Day. I watched the ball drop, did the required kiss at 12:00:01 and went to bed. We had the traditional southern good luck dinner of collard greens and blacked eyed peas.

The next holiday I'll be celebrating is Epiphany (Jan 6 but traditionally celebrated in the US on the following Sunday, Jan 8). My very first one! But first I need to find out what it is.