{"id":12306,"date":"2020-02-26T23:20:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T05:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=12306"},"modified":"2020-02-26T23:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T05:22:31","slug":"we-all-need-reasons-to-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/we-all-need-reasons-to-celebrate\/","title":{"rendered":"We All Need Reasons To Celebrate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you happen to like Polar Bears, Pokemon, Chili, or Protein then February 27th<\/sup> is definitely your day to celebrate! That\u2019s right \u2013 its National Polar Bear Day, National Pokemon Day, National Chili Day, and National Protein Day!\u00a0 YEEEE-HAWWWW!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t help but wonder who comes up with all these random national\nholidays?  But whoever they are, I think\nthey are AWESOME!!!!  \u201cWhy?\u201d you\nask?  Because right now it\u2019s the end of\nFebruary, the weather is yucky, its dark outside by 6pm every night, its flu\nseason, the coronavirus is spreading like crazy, and frankly it\u2019s just nice to\nhave all these random national holidays that give us a reason to celebrate and\nbe lighthearted!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a really long, stress-filled day today, yet it felt\nlike the clock whizzed by so fast today that I barely had a moment to breathe\nbefore it was already dark out. My head was spinning with all the things I\u2019d\nhoped to get done but didn\u2019t, and the pile of things that as going to be waiting\nfor me to get to tomorrow because I didn\u2019t finish them today, and I found\nmyself already dreading tomorrow when it isn\u2019t even here yet!  That\u2019s messed up!!!  So, as I sat down to write a blog tonight I\nforced myself to google what random holidays there were tomorrow to give me\nsomething lighthearted and fun about what to look forward to tomorrow \u2013 and guess\nwhat? – it totally worked!  As I read the\nlist of holidays for tomorrow I got this mental picture of polar bears eating chili\nwhile playing pokemon I couldn\u2019t help but start laughing at the thought\u2026laughing\ntotally eased the tension in my body, and I felt myself begin to relax\u2026I have to\nadmit the thought of National Protein Day didn\u2019t do much for me, but the silliness\nof finding fun little reasons to celebrate and look forward to tomorrow did.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all need reasons to celebrate, even if they are small, insignificant, silly reasons\u2026every little bit helps.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201cWhat Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business & Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you happen to like Polar Bears, Pokemon, Chili, or Protein then February 27th is definitely your day to celebrate! That\u2019s right \u2013 its National Polar Bear Day, National Pokemon Day, National Chili Day, and National Protein Day!\u00a0 YEEEE-HAWWWW!!! I can\u2019t help but wonder who comes up with all these random national holidays?  But whoever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,204,22997,22994,22998,23005,22996,23001,16404,23004,23002,6126,22999,2811,11195,22993,7635,23000,23003,854,90,355,22995,8335,23006,19932],"class_list":["post-12306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-awesome","tag-celebrate-the-small-stuff","tag-chili","tag-coronavirus","tag-dreading-tomorrow","tag-find-a-reason-to-celebrate","tag-find-things-to-look-forward-to","tag-flu-season","tag-google-it","tag-how-to-unwind","tag-laughter-is-the-best-medicine","tag-lighthearted-cheer-up","tag-national-holidays","tag-pokemon","tag-polar-bears","tag-protein","tag-random-celebrations","tag-random-reasons-to-celebrate","tag-relax","tag-silliness","tag-silly","tag-something-to-celebrate","tag-something-to-look-forward-to","tag-stress-reliever","tag-what-awesome-looks-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12307,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions\/12307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}