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December 31: National Champagne Day, Make Up Your Mind Day, New Years Eve, No Interruptions Day, Universal Hour of Peace, and Leap Second Time Adjustment Day.

🥂National Champagne Day! While genuine champagne only comes from France’s Champagne region, there is plenty of bubbly available from Italy, California and even the South of France. Ringing in the New Year is the perfect opportunity each year to celebrate National Champagne Day.

⁉️Make Up Your Mind Day! This day is set aside to encourage us to quit wavering, to take a side, to follow through with a decision and stick to it. As New Year’s resolutions go, this may be the day to decide which ones to declare.

🎄New Year’s Eve! Also known as Old Year’s Day or Saint Sylvester’s Day! As we count down the last hours and seconds of the old year, it is a good time to look back at the year and reminisce with friends and family. In Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries, it is tradition to eat 12 grapes during the countdown to midnight symbolizing hopes for the new year. Around the world, eating anything in the form of a circle or ring symbolizes coming full circle and is considered good luck. As a Christian observance, it is traditional to hold an evening Mass the night before a Holy Day. New Year’s Day in the Roman Catholic Church honors the Virgin Mary. In some countries, St. Sylvester, Pope of the Catholic Church from 314 to 335, is celebrated on New Year’s Eve. New Year’s Eve has been celebrated for millennia. Honoring the end of one year goes hand in hand with celebrating new beginnings in the new one.

🌴No Interruptions Day is observed annually on the last workday of the year. This is a day set aside for getting organized for the new year by cleaning up your workspace without interruptions.

☮️Universal Hour of Peace! A day created as a simple step toward a war-free world. Conceived by Dr. Barbara Condron at the School of Metaphysics, the first Universal Hour of Peace was celebrated October 24, 1995. It coincided with the 50th anniversary of the United Nations and the autumnal equinox. The following year it was moved to January 1st at Noon GMT. It is now celebrated from 11:30 p.m. December 31st to 12:30 a. m. January 1st.

🕰Leap Second Time Adjustment day is listed as an observance title only. Some years scientists do not make adjustments. But, if they do, then it’s done on either June 30 or December 31. The majority of the world measures time solely based on a 24 hour day in which each hour contains 60 minutes and each minute contains 60 seconds. That measurement is much too simple for accurate time measurement. Scientists since about 140 AD have attempted to break down the hours in the day into a consistent and precise means of measure. Due to the variability of the Earth’s rotation, measurement of the 24 hour day is not an exact science. There is some dispute over the validity of leap second adjustments. The leap-second system was first introduced in 1972.

I'll pass on the champagne! Or not! I'll make up my mind later. Happy New Years Eve! No interruption day does not happen at my house. Universal peace is a great idea.

I'm glad Bixby is having a good time, I hope you are to. And getting your naps in too.

Well I'm going back to the game. I need 100 more bells to upgrade my Orb. So close!

Sending warm hugs!🐶💕❄️💕