Backwards Day- 31 January

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Backwards Day is the day to do everything backwards, from back to front! 

There are many ways to celebrate this day: go reverse, put on your clothes when the back is in front, write, speak or read backwards. 

It is also possible to change your daily routine to be the opposite: start with pajamas in bed and finish the evening at work. Start your day at dinner and end with breakfast. Eat dessert first and then the meal. People can say "bye" when meeting and "Hi" when they separate. In a phone call start with: "Goodbye! Thanks for calling!" And end the call in: "Hello, how may I help you?". 

An interesting example in the history of reverse doing things is of none other than one of the world famous artists, Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci wrote in his diaries in mirror writing, with the text in the opposite direction and can only be read in front of the mirror. There are several theories as to why Da Vinci did this. Could it be because it made it difficult for people to steal his ideas, or he could have hidden his work to prevent religious persecution. Another theory is that the artist simply wanted to avoid staining ink, because when writing from left to right with the left hand, the writing hand "smears" the ink and Da Vinci was left-handed.

In short, this is a very cool day to get out of the routine and normal life. While this may seem like a silly day, there is a deeper meaning behind it and an opportunity to re-examine our habits.

January 31 is also Zebra Day

Inane Answering Message Day- January 30

The voicemail messages on the phone are usually dull and corny. How many times have you heard the message: "You have reached X's voicemail. Please leave your message and I will get back to you shortly"?

January 30th is the day to replace the message in your voicemail with something original, funny, creative or silly, something that will give your caller a good taste, a smile or laughter and a good feeling, because why bother those who call you for not answering? At least give him a reason to smile.

One of the funniest moments in the Seinfeld series was the episode where George Costanza recorded a silly voice message on his phone with these words:

Believe it or not, George isn’t at home.

Please leave a message at the beep.

I must be out, or I’d pick up the phone.

Where could I be?

Believe it or not, I’m not home!

January 30 is also Croissant Day

Croissant Day - January 30

Croissant Day is celebrated in the United States on January 30 each year.

Legend has it that the croissant was created in Vienna, in 1863, when the Turkish Empire laid siege to Vienna.

The Turks made several attempts to conquer the city by force, but were unsuccessful, so they decided to try to take control of it through underground tunnels.

The bakers of Vienna, who worked in the cellars, heard the sounds of the excavation and called the army of cities. Thanks to their vigilance, the bakers received great respect and gratitude for their help in preventing the Turkish takeover and in memory of the event they baked a crescent-shaped cake - the symbol of the Ottoman Empire. Since the defeat of the Turks, it has been customary to serve Viennese coffee with a crescent-shaped pastry at breakfast.

Legend has it that more than a century later, Marie Antoinette introduced the croissant to the French who enthusiastically adopted it and has since been identified with French cuisine.

In France, the croissant is usually prepared without a filling, or with almonds or chocolate. In the United States it is customary to fill the croissant with all sorts of things like cheese or meat before baking.

French chef Dominique Ansel, who lives in New York, invented the croissant in 2013 - a pastry that is half a croissant and half a donut. Ansique's confectionery located in SoHo, New York, Dominique Ansel Bakery, has become one of the most sought after confectioneries in the world. To get the pastry there was a long queue every day for a few hours before opening and by 8:15 there were no more pastries left.

How to celebrate Croissant Day?

Who doesn't love a croissant? It comes with butter, with chocolate, with almonds and more. You can eat it with jam, honey and even without anything it will be very tasty. There is nothing like a fresh and hot croissant next to the coffee to celebrate Croissant Day. So in honor of Croissant Day, make or buy yourself a fresh croissant and enjoy every bite!

January 30 is also Inane Answering Message Day

Curmudgeons Day- January 29

You will not believe but there is also a day like this. The Curmudgeons day is a day dedicated to all the disgruntled, nervous, irritable and bad-tempered people regularly or most of the time.

There are several ways to celebrate or mark this day. Some say you can stay home and do nothing. There are those who say that this is the day when you are allowed to be as miserable and irritable as you want. Whatever you choose to do, this is a day to celebrate the sourness and bitterness of life.

Curmudgeons Day is celebrated in honor of William Claude Dockenfield, known as W.C. Fields, who was a famous comedian and a grumpy man himself.

W.C. Fields was born on January 29, 1880 and died on December 25, 1946. He created the character of a misanthrope, egocentric and alcoholic who hates dogs, women and children and despises religion, its customs and its priests. The fictional character clung to him and became so identified with him that the boundary between the character and the actor who plays her blurred in terms of the public towards the end of his life. Only with the publication of his diaries and personal letters did it become clear that he was married (but living separately from his wife) and was a loving father to his children and grandchildren.

And here's a justification for being resentful and nervous: a list of the most annoying things in life.

There is no doubt that the most annoying things in life are big things like arguments about politics, or drivers who are not considerate on the road and more. But there are lots of other annoying things in life that may be small but they can really upset. Here are some examples of such things and we would be happy if you add more to us in the comments (it's really annoying that there are no comments 😉):

1. The most annoying thing is to write someone good luck in response to a picture he posted on Facebook and then get a million notifications about what other people have written to him. (Solution: Turn off notifications for this post)

2. The most annoying thing is that it rains right after you wash the car.

3. The most annoying thing is that you have to poop in the middle of the shower or right after you get out of it.

4. Find out that your coffee has cooled down.

5. The most annoying thing is that no matter how much you like a particular song, once you turn it to ring your alarm you will start to hate it to death.

6. The most annoying thing is the models who say they are so thin because of their natural metabolism and they actually eat whatever they feel like.

7. The most annoying thing is these people you tell them something unpleasant has happened to you and then they start saying to you: But why did you do that? You should have asked me!

8. The most annoying is the one that itches at the bottom of the foot.

9. The most annoying thing is that you record a show on VOD and then see part of it and stop, and because there is an eye drawing next to the recording, someone comes and deletes it for you.

10. The most annoying thing is that you watch a series with someone and he continues to watch episodes without you.

11. The most annoying thing is TV commercials breaks.

12. The most annoying thing is to make an invested salad and at the end, when you add the salt, accidentally open the large whole and then you pour a lot of salt into the salad and destroy it.

13. The most annoying is the ones that whenever you tell them something, they immediately tell you their story that is better, or bigger or more impressive.

14. The most annoying thing is that someone tag or post your picture on Facebook that you are really ugly.

15. The most annoying thing is to breakup with someone and be told afterwards "he was not worth you at all".

16. The most annoying thing is a flat tire.

17. The most annoying thing is that all sorts of stupid people with shoe intelligence who have participated in reality shows get their own TV talk shows.

18. The most annoying is people who get annoyed by every little thing.

19. The most annoying thing is that you run out of hot water in the middle of the shower.

20. The most annoying thing is that until you finally get a call from the lottery, it's to offer you another subscription.

21. The most annoying thing is to miss calls on your cell phone from a confidential number while you are waiting for an important call.

22. The most annoying thing is to drive to the post office to pick up a package, look for full time parking because it is always on the busiest and busiest street and at the end find that the post office is closed.

23. The most annoying thing is to come home after you have not been there for hours and find out that you have not turned off the boiler or the stove in the shower.

24. The most annoying is phones from a confidential number that ask you for donations, offer you loans or telemarketing.

25. The most annoying thing is to find out that a garment has become too small for you. Why do you never find out that the garment has become too big for you?

26. The most annoying thing is stepping on dog poop on the street.

27. The most annoying thing is to find out too late in the toilet that you don't have toilet paper.

What are the things that annoy you the most?

January 29 is also Puzzle Day

Puzzle Day - January 29

Every year on January 29, the puzzle day is meant to remind us that using our brain to solve puzzles is among its many benefits.

Whether it's a puzzle, crossword puzzle, trivia, bulk, puzzle or sudoku, thinking games force our minds to work. Studies have found that when we work on a puzzle, we use both sides of the brain. Spending time every day working on puzzles improves our memory, cognitive function and problem-solving skills.

The puzzles also help us improve our social skills. When we work on these cerebral stimuli with someone, we enhance our social interactions. Whether we join a group or play with our children, these interactions make us socially active and teach our children social skills as well.

Working quietly on the puzzle also provides the mind with an opportunity to focus the mind in a meditative way that is not forced.

Bottom line, the puzzles stimulate the brain, keep it active and practice its skills which is why they are so important and they deserve a day of their own.

The history of the puzzle

The first puzzle was created around 1760 by the engraver and map maker John Spilsbury. John attached to the tree the world map he had drawn and cut it into pieces, with each part being a country in the world. John's puzzle was used by British students in geography studies.

John Spilsbury's puzzle

Until the 20th century, puzzles that were made of wood were used for educational purposes.

At the beginning of the 20th century, puzzles also began to be made from cardboard. The puzzles are made by stamping (a process in which a metal board to which sharp metal strips are attached in a suitable pattern is pressed into the cardboard by force from above and by this pressure the cut is created).

In the early 20th century, the Parker Brothers, famous game makers, began producing puzzles as an entertaining mind game. The puzzles were so successful that in 1909 they stopped producing other games and their factory started producing only puzzles.

After World War II, wooden puzzles began to disappear because of the high cost and high length of time required to manufacture them.

During this period, the improvement in lithography and the method of cutting made cardboard puzzles more common.

Today puzzles are mainly used as a mind game and are produced with more and more pieces. The largest jigsaw puzzle in the world contains 42,000 pieces.

The biggest puzzle in the world - link

How to celebrate Puzzle Day?

If you do not have a puzzle, it is today to get one and start solving. You can buy in the store and you can also go to online gaming sites and solve online.

How to solve a puzzle? 

First prepare the work surface on which you will place the puzzle. It should be a large enough surface that the whole puzzle picture can be placed on.

Gather the frame parts and separate them from the rest of the parts. The parts of the frame can be identified by having one side completely straight.

Sort the pieces of the puzzle by colors and textures. Once sorted, it will be easier for you to assemble each piece in the puzzle.

Use the puzzle picture to assemble the pieces of the puzzle frame.

Focus on assembling one set of parts at a time. If you get stuck, move on to another area. This is not terrible because the goal is to get rid of as many parts as possible to facilitate the assembly craft later on.

If there are parts that are difficult to assemble, do not try by force. The quality manufacturers create the puzzles when the appropriate pieces fit together easily.

If you have lost a piece of a puzzle, contact the company that makes it and ask for the missing part. Most companies tend to respond to these requests in the affirmative and mail the missing parts.

A puzzle of the Sistine Chapel of the Ravensburger Company 

January 29 is also Curmudgeons Day

Global Community Engagement Day- 28 January

Community involvement is a process of collaboration within community groups to address issues that affect the well-being of these groups. Although the term seems vague, community involvement is a concept that is a part of every person's life.

Any action you take that helps people in your community, whether it's a local community like the neighborhood or city where you live, or the country where you live, any such thing is community involvement. Community Involvement Day is designed to express appreciation to people who contribute to their community through various activities. Even if you contribute in your actions to something global, outside the boundaries of where you live, you are considered community involved because you are part of a large community of Earth inhabitants and you deserve appreciation.

Community involvement can be manifested in many activities for the community such as: helping the elderly, assisting the disabled, working with autistics, providing free private lessons for needy children, raising and distributing food packages to the needy, medical assistance to animals or providing assistance in animal shelters, animal adoption As a foster family until they find a permanent home, volunteering for the Civil Guard or rescue organizations and more.

Global Community Involvement Day started as an idea of the Engage 2 Act, an organization that aims to promote community involvement by bringing people together to talk about important issues in their community. Engage 2 Act started as a small group in South Australia that wanted to reach out to people all over the world and talk about what they are doing for community involvement. Because they wanted to put the holiday on the world map, they started with a survey, and asked their followers on social media, who is the person most active in community involvement. Whoever received the most number of votes, his birthday will be their official holiday date.

The results of the surveys showed that the most prominent person in his community involvement is the writer Dr. Wendy Sarkissian and that is why they chose her birthday today as the world community involvement.

How to celebrate Community Involvement Day?

One way to celebrate this special day is to meet with your colleagues who are involved in the community and do for it and celebrate with a good meal. You can also talk to other people about it, organize lectures and post on social media your activities and those of other people in your community. Today almost every locality in the country has a Facebook page and it is today to post on this page the special holiday and encourage people to take part in the community and donate their time and skills to it. Everyone has something to contribute and it is always exciting to see people helping each other.

January 28 is also Data Privacy Day

Data Privacy Day - January 28

Data Privacy Day is an international holiday that falls every year on January 28th. The purpose of Data Privacy Day (called "Data Protection Day" in Europe) is to raise awareness and promote best practices for data privacy protection.

Data Privacy Day is "celebrated" in the United States, Canada, and 27 other European countries.

The Data Privacy Day Educational Initiative is focused on raising awareness among businesses and users, of the importance of protecting the privacy of their personal information online, especially in the context of social networks.

In addition to events and activities that encourage awareness raising, we are also promoting the development of technological tools that protect the personally identifiable information people enter online.

It's today to stop and think about how you can protect your privacy online so that your personal data is not exposed to anyone and take steps such as changing your privacy setting on social networks, clearing cookies from your computer that will prevent you from tracking online, avoiding filling out personal information on sites that ask you to do so. Justifiable reason and more.

January 28 is also World     Community Involvement Day

Chocolate Cake Day - January 27

Chocolate Cake Day is celebrated in honor of the most favorite cake of the people in the world. The cake with which most events are celebrated like birthday, anniversary, recruitment or bachelorette party, wedding and more and more is a chocolate cake because it is both the easiest to make and loved by almost everyone.

The chocolate cake recipe usually includes flour, eggs, sugar, cocoa powder or dark chocolate (which gives the cake the taste and color of the chocolate), oil or butter and leavening ingredients like baking soda (if you do not use puffed flour).

Of course you can also make a vegan chocolate cake, without milk and eggs, and a gluten-free chocolate cake without flour.

The history of chocolate cake

In the United States, chocolate was mainly consumed as a beverage until the 1930s and 1940s. Chocolate cakes as they are today, usually did not exist.

According to old records, the chocolate cake was born in 1765, when a chocolate maker Dr. James Baker ground an old cocoa bean between huge millstones to make a thick syrup, the liquid produced would be poured into cake molds, but from there it would turn into a drink.

In 1828, Coenraad van Houten from the Netherlands developed a mechanical extraction method for extracting fat from cocoa drinks, resulting in cocoa butter and cocoa solids that could be sold either as chocolate bars or as cocoa powder. Chocolate became a drink of the rich, a snack that the masses could enjoy.

A process for making a smoother chocolate called "conching" was developed in 1879 by the Swiss Rudolf Lindt and made baking easier with chocolate, as it was seamlessly and fully integrated into the baking of the cakes. Lindt is the founder of the elite Swiss chocolate company Lindt, which produces chocolate in a variety of types to this day.

Until almost the end of the 19th century, chocolate recipes were mainly aimed at chocolate drinks, their presence in cakes was only in filling and glazing. In 1886, American cooks began adding chocolate to the cake batter, to make the first chocolate cakes in the United States.

How to celebrate Chocolate Cake Day?

What better way to celebrate Chocolate Cake Day than to make a delicious chocolate cake yourself? There are a million chocolate cake recipes online. For example, if you want a very quick and easy chocolate cake to make, you can go to Link or Fur Chocolate Cake. If the cake comes out too thin for you, you can make another one, spread cream and make a cake in layers. The chocolate cake can be coated in cream, chocolate ganache, whipped cream, chocolate sauce and add candies, strawberries and endless options for decoration. Do not forget to respect others and do not eat all the delicious cake alone!

Picture: Chocolate cake with whipped cream icing, melted chocolate and strawberries

January 27 is also National Geographic Day and International Holocaust Remembrance Day