#Ōmisoka

[i-am-ebobo]

'He lost fight with a tree'

❄️Happy Holidays❄️

[kyotodreamtrips]

The Japanese New Year (正月 shōgatsu) is an annual festival with its customs. The preceding days are quite busy, particularly the day before, known as Ōmisoka.

[wolfnowl]

Another new blog post for you: "Celebrating the Holidays!"

[joelojeda]

It's been quite a while since last I mustered the time to do a Holiday card (and I cheated a bit by repurposing a drawing made for a convention) but here's my best wishes to you all!

May you spend meaningful time woth your loved ones, share in blissful memories, and all around have a wonderful year-end festivities.

Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays!

Happy Festivus!

Merry Yule!

Happy Hanukkah!

Happy Kwanzaa!

Happy Ōmisoka!

Happy Bodhi Day!

Happy Boxing Day!

Happy Winter Solstice!

Happy Sir isaac Newton's Birthday!

Whatever you believe in/celebrate (or not) I wish you the best.

Superman TM & C DC Comics, obvs.

[tinydefector]

Hiii how u doing?

Do you have any headcanons about cultural share? Like, Spanish reader show the bots how to do Flamenco, Argentinian reader demonstrating a tango, Mexican reader telling stories about their gods (Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc,...), Norwegian explaining how fishing is a big part of their economy.....

I'd love to speak about human culture to our beloved bots !

Ps I don't know alot on Mexico, Spain or Argentina. I know alot more on Australia (my home country) Celtic mythology and also Aboriginal dreamtime.

I do have some headcanons on cultural differences between the bots and humans. I happen to have alot and also enjoy the idea of bots from different colony's have different cultures too. And the culture exchange between the bots and humans gets very exciting.

The bots love learning about the different peoples culture and the mythology gets them so excited to learn about. But I believe even just the culture exchange between the different humans gets exciting. The sharing of holidays, celebrations, dances and language.

The joys of teaching the bots about Christmas, Yule, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Las Posadas, Ōmisoka. And them sharing the holidays/ important days of their planet. Sharing dances with loved ones and creating new ones with the humans. Cybertron lost alot of its cultural to the war and so much they have had to rebuild and each moment of joy they get gives them more hope for a future.

And I think that the bots meeting people native to different lands also helps them improve their sense of being. Don't take more than you need and give back to the land. It's something alot of them take to thier spark, after all Cybertron died due to exploiting the planet until it collapsed and the war just lead to more destruction. Alot of the bots tend to take teaching of native people very closely.

I myself would personally love sharing dreamtime stories with the bots, its something I hold dear because I had to relearn so much of who I am who my people are and I'd love to teach the bots about the different totems of my people. The animals that are sacred and aren't to be eaten. To share the art and creation.

It also gets even more amusing when each side talks about taboos.

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Taglist @angelxcvxc

[plural-affirmations]

I know this post is now several weeks late, but I just wanted to say: if the holidays are hard for you, it's ok.

Just because there's a societal celebration doesn't mean you have to suppress your feelings.

You're not required to be happy during Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Yule, Saturnalia, Boxing Day, Las Posadas, Ōmisoka, New Year's Eve/Day, Lunar New Year, or any other holiday. Your grief, your stress, your pain is real. And it deserves to be recognized. It doesn't magically go away just because of the time of year; you're allowed to need help!

Winter is actually pretty hard for a lot of people! Seasonal depression is real, and even if you don't experience that, I think everyone gets a little tired of the cold after the first few weeks.

The point is: it gets better. Springtime is just around the corner, and you won't have to deal with any of this for another 12 months. That in and of itself is worth celebrating!!You're doing amazing!

🖤💜💙💚💛

[sheepiling]

❄️ It's Time! ❄️

Happy Holidays! I've given my 2017 Holiday Celebration Pack sim, Fredi Jaden, a Seasons makeover! I made her as a lil' winter CAS gift before we had the Seasons EP, and now that we do I've always wanted to give her a makeover with lots of new wintery outfits!! Of course, her old outfits are still there as well!!!

I'm so happy for this sim! Her name means "winter field" in Haitian Creole, and now she's able to actually play in the snow!! I hope you all like her!!! 💝

You can find this sim on my Gallery page, and my ID there is the same as my tumblr: Sheepiling

I wish you all a wonderful Holiday Season! Happy Yule! Merry Christmas! Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Kwanzaa! Happy Diwali! Happy Winter Solstice! Happy Ōmisoka! Happy New Year! 🎄🎁🕯️🥂🔔⍟🎆🐲✡️✟🌟☃️🦃🪔🍾

Whether you celebrate a specific holiday or not, I hope the last month of your year is filled with happiness and fun! Much love! ♡ 

[ekat-fandom-blog]

Batfam headcanon

They probably celebrate every holiday in December. All of them. Christmas, Hanuka, Kwanzaa, Yule, Boxing Day, Ōmisoka, etc. Even some small weird ones like Peppermint Bark Day, Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day, and Eat a Red Apple Day, Make a Gift Day, Let's Hug Day, International Sweater Festival, Earmuff Day, Bathtub Party Day, etc.

Most of them come from different cultures and would 100% try to make the month more chaotic by adding the technically-a-holiday holidays.

I found these holidays on this website.

[rayraystudies]

I like to learn about different holidays, and although I am not Japanese have a wonderful ōmisoka! This is a holiday to celebrate the last day of the year and put a good foot forward into the New Year. Hope everyone has a wonderful last day of the year and that 2022 was everything you hoped for. I'm going to have a rambly post up tomorrow so I'll save it for that, but thank you for the support and friendliness of this year!

✍ Archer & Olive Bullet Journal

ig: rayraystudies || links: carrd

[tenjin-no-shinja]

According to the original tags this picture is from Ōji Inari Shrine in Tokyo.

This shrine apparently is the focus in a Rakugo play called Ōji no Kitsune. Apparently according to legend foxes gather there yearly on Ōmisoka the night before the New Year, and get all dressed up in costumes, holding a festival. The shrine is also linked to the phenomena of Kitsunebi or Fox Fire, which are said to be created by Kitsune and look like floating orbs of light.

Sources: 1, 2

[starrwulfe]

Currently: last day of 2023

Last day of 2023 getting already started here in Atlanta. Let’s go!

⌚ Currently: Logged in online monitoring work stuff (yup, today’s a work day, at least til 2PM EST.) Quiet.

🎶 #nowplaying: Cowboy Bebop Lofi ( Lofi hip hop )

💻 Coding: nothing at the moment. I’m probably gonna tinker with my indieweb process in the blog a little. And just chat with you guys out here in #fediverse land.

☕ Drinking: Wifey is about to put some 8 O’Clock Morning Blend in the grinder, I think.

🌤Wx: 30°F/-1°C and Sunny at 8:07 EST. Light east winds. going up to 60°F/15°C today. Above normal temp today, but gonna be chilly for the next few after this. 🥶

🔜Next up: Gonna prep a brisket to be smoked tomorrow for New Year’s Day dinner. Today is also 大晦日 Ōmisoka which means we’ll be eating toshikoshi udon is for dinner. If we were still in Japan, there’d be me watching Kohaku and trying to sing off key with my family. But we’re back in the US, so that means football then fireworks.

So, how’s everyone else out there? What did/will you do on the last day of 2023?

[brookston]

Holidays 12.31

Holidays

Banished Words List Day

Bright Idea Day

Check the Smoke Alarms Day

Cowbellion de Rakin Revel (Alabama)

Falls Festival Starts (Byron Bay; Australia)

Genf Restoration (Restoration of the Republic Geneva; Switzerland)

Granite Day (French Republic)

International Solidarity Day (Azerbaijan)

January 0

Leap Second Time Adjustment Day

Lightbulb Day

Make Up Your Mind Day

Namahage (Japan)

National Andrea Day

National Heroes Day (East Timor)

New Year's Eve (a.k.a. ... 

Afternoon Before New Year’s Day (Estonia)

Amateur Drinking Night

Amband

Auld Year's Night (Scotland)

Baal Fire Festival (England)

Baharu (a.k.a. Baru; Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore)

Bisperas ng Bagong Taon (Philippines)

Brew Year's Eve

Calennig (Wales)

Ditch the Resolutions Day

Feast of Father Time

Festival of the Dead (Positivist)

Festival of Yemya (Yoruba/Santeria)

Fire and Ice New Year’s Eve Celebration (Anchorage, Alaska)

First Footing

First Night

Fravartigan (Parsi Zoroastrian)

Freedom’s Eve

Gamlarskvold (Iceland)

Harvest Day (Benin)

Hogmanay (Scotland)

Joya no Kane (Japan)

Kanun Novogo Goda (Russia)

Karma (African Americans, African Diaspora)

Malam Tahun

Namahge (Demon Festival; Japan)

Noche de Pedimento (Wishing Night; Mexico)

Noche Vieja (Mexico)

Nochevieja or Fin de Año (Spain)

No Resolution Day

Novy God Eve (Russia)

Oíche Chinn Bliana (a.k.a. Oíche na Coda Móire or Oíche Chaille; Ireland)

Okera Matsuri (Sacred fire Rite; Kyoto, Japan)

Old Year’s Night (England)

Ōmisoka (Prepare and Welcome New Year’s God Toshigami; Japan)

Oud en Nieuw or Oudejaarsavond (Netherlands)

Pele ga Ngwaga o Mosha (Botswana)

Ritual for Iemanja (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Samoan Fire Dance (Samoa)

Silvester

Sint Sylvester Vooravond (a.k.a. Oudjaar; Belgium)

Stonehenge Fireball Festival (UK)

Swinging the Fireballs (Stonehaven, Scotland)

Szilveszter (Hungary)

Tar Barrel Burning (Allendale, England)

The Night of Big Portion (Ireland)

Vigilia di Capodanno (a.k.a. Notte di San Silvestro; Italy)

Watch Night (Christian)

World Peace Meditation Day

Yang Yi (Uzbekistan)

Oga no Namahage (Oga City, Japan)

The Old Life Festival (Elder Scrolls)

One Voice Day

Procrastinator's Day

Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]

Restoration Day (Switzerland)

Silvesterklause (Switzerland)

Solidarity Day of the World (Azerbaijan)

Universal Hour of Peace (UN) [11:30 pm]

World Healing Day

World Peace Meditation Day

You’re All Done Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Champagne Day

National Vinegar Day

5th & Last Sunday in December

King Mango Strut (Coconut Grove, Florida) [Last Sunday]

Last Sunday of the Year [Last Sunday]

Independence Days

Ikerlàndia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Penn Federal Republic (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Slinky Empire (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Apodosis of Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Artology)

Columba (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Sharaf (Honor; Baha’i)

Feast of the Holy Family (Christian)

Festival of the Dead (Complimentary Day; Positivist)

Giovanni Boldini (Artology)

Henri Matisse (Artology)

Hogmanay (Pagan)

Hogmanay / Hug Many Day (Pastafarian)

Isabel & The Shark (Muppetism)

Kwanzaa, Day 6: Kuumba (Creativity)

Look Good Until You Die Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Lucifer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Max Pechstein (Artology)

Melania the Younger (Christian; Saint)

Seventh Day of Christmas

Sylvester I, Pope (Catholic Church)

Twelve Holy Days #6 (Virgo, the intestinal tract; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #7; Silvester (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

Zoticus of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day of Sekhmet (Egyptian Warrior Goddess)

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Unlucky Day (Worldwide)

Premieres

The Birds and Other Stories, by Daphne du Maurier (Short Stories; 1952)

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (Film; 1969)

Cool For Cats (BBC Musical Variety TV Show; 1956)

Destination Tokyo (Film; 1943)

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (TV Special; 1972)

Divorce Court (TV Series; 1957)

Duel in the Sun (Film; 1946)

The Dunderheads or Feeling Zero (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 243; 1963)

Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom (Novel; 1986)

The Fraudulent Volcano (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #16; 1964)

The Knight and Knave of Swords, by Fritz Leiber (Short Stories; 1988) [Fafhrd and Gray Mouser #7]

Love To Love You Baby, by Donna Summer (Song; 1975)

The Mice Will Play (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

A Most Violent Year (Film; 2014)

New Years’ Rockin’ Eve (New Year’s Eve TV Special; 1972)

One Froggy Evening (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

The Paradine Case (Film; 1947)

Perfume, by Patrick Süskind (Novel; 1985)

Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Comic Opera; 1879)

Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates (Novel; 1961)

Three to Go or Crash on Delivery (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 244; 1963)

Two Doors Down (Scottish TV Series; 2013)

Today’s Name Days

Melanie, Silvester (Austria)

Donata, Silvestar, Silvija (Croatia)

Silvestr (Czech Republic)

Sylvester (Denmark)

Silvar, Silver, Silvester, Silvo (Estonia)

Silvo, Sylvester (Finland)

Colombe, Sylvestre (France)

Melanie, Silvester (Germany)

Melany (Greece)

Szilveszter (Hungary)

Paolina, Silvestro (Italy)

Kalvis, Silvestrs (Latvia)

Gedgantas, Melanija, Mingailė, Silvestras (Lithuania)

Sylfest, Sylvi, Sylvia (Norway)

Korneliusz, Mariusz, Melania, Sebastian, Sylwester, Tworzysław (Poland)

Melania (Romania)

Silvester (Slovakia)

Melania, Silvestre (Spain)

Sylvester (Sweden)

Melania (Ukraine)

Malone, Melania, Melanie, Melany, Silas, Silvester, Sylvester (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 365 of 2024; 0 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 52 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 19 (Gui-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 19 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 18 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 5 Fest; Fryday [5 of 5]

Julian: 18 December 2023

Moon: 80%: Warning Gibbous

Positivist: Festival of the Dead (Complimentary Extra Day)

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 6 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 11 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 10 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Festival of the Dead [Complimentary Extra Day; Month 0 of 13; Positivist]

[kyotodreamtrips]

The Japanese New Year (正月 shōgatsu) is an annual festival with its customs. The preceding days are quite busy, particularly the day before, known as Ōmisoka.

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 12.31

Holidays

Banished Words List Day

Bright Idea Day

Check the Smoke Alarms Day

Cowbellion de Rakin Revel (Alabama)

Falls Festival Starts (Byron Bay; Australia)

Genf Restoration (Restoration of the Republic Geneva; Switzerland)

Granite Day (French Republic)

International Solidarity Day (Azerbaijan)

January 0

Leap Second Time Adjustment Day

Lightbulb Day

Make Up Your Mind Day

Namahage (Japan)

National Andrea Day

National Heroes Day (East Timor)

New Year's Eve (a.k.a. ... 

Afternoon Before New Year’s Day (Estonia)

Amateur Drinking Night

Amband

Auld Year's Night (Scotland)

Baal Fire Festival (England)

Baharu (a.k.a. Baru; Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore)

Bisperas ng Bagong Taon (Philippines)

Brew Year's Eve

Calennig (Wales)

Ditch the Resolutions Day

Feast of Father Time

Festival of the Dead (Positivist)

Festival of Yemya (Yoruba/Santeria)

Fire and Ice New Year’s Eve Celebration (Anchorage, Alaska)

First Footing

First Night

Fravartigan (Parsi Zoroastrian)

Freedom’s Eve

Gamlarskvold (Iceland)

Harvest Day (Benin)

Hogmanay (Scotland)

Joya no Kane (Japan)

Kanun Novogo Goda (Russia)

Karma (African Americans, African Diaspora)

Malam Tahun

Namahge (Demon Festival; Japan)

Noche de Pedimento (Wishing Night; Mexico)

Noche Vieja (Mexico)

Nochevieja or Fin de Año (Spain)

No Resolution Day

Novy God Eve (Russia)

Oíche Chinn Bliana (a.k.a. Oíche na Coda Móire or Oíche Chaille; Ireland)

Okera Matsuri (Sacred fire Rite; Kyoto, Japan)

Old Year’s Night (England)

Ōmisoka (Prepare and Welcome New Year’s God Toshigami; Japan)

Oud en Nieuw or Oudejaarsavond (Netherlands)

Pele ga Ngwaga o Mosha (Botswana)

Ritual for Iemanja (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Samoan Fire Dance (Samoa)

Silvester

Sint Sylvester Vooravond (a.k.a. Oudjaar; Belgium)

Stonehenge Fireball Festival (UK)

Swinging the Fireballs (Stonehaven, Scotland)

Szilveszter (Hungary)

Tar Barrel Burning (Allendale, England)

The Night of Big Portion (Ireland)

Vigilia di Capodanno (a.k.a. Notte di San Silvestro; Italy)

Watch Night (Christian)

World Peace Meditation Day

Yang Yi (Uzbekistan)

Oga no Namahage (Oga City, Japan)

The Old Life Festival (Elder Scrolls)

One Voice Day

Procrastinator's Day

Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]

Restoration Day (Switzerland)

Silvesterklause (Switzerland)

Solidarity Day of the World (Azerbaijan)

Universal Hour of Peace (UN) [11:30 pm]

World Healing Day

World Peace Meditation Day

You’re All Done Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Champagne Day

National Vinegar Day

5th & Last Sunday in December

King Mango Strut (Coconut Grove, Florida) [Last Sunday]

Last Sunday of the Year [Last Sunday]

Independence Days

Ikerlàndia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Penn Federal Republic (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Slinky Empire (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Apodosis of Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Artology)

Columba (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Sharaf (Honor; Baha’i)

Feast of the Holy Family (Christian)

Festival of the Dead (Complimentary Day; Positivist)

Giovanni Boldini (Artology)

Henri Matisse (Artology)

Hogmanay (Pagan)

Hogmanay / Hug Many Day (Pastafarian)

Isabel & The Shark (Muppetism)

Kwanzaa, Day 6: Kuumba (Creativity)

Look Good Until You Die Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Lucifer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Max Pechstein (Artology)

Melania the Younger (Christian; Saint)

Seventh Day of Christmas

Sylvester I, Pope (Catholic Church)

Twelve Holy Days #6 (Virgo, the intestinal tract; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #7; Silvester (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

Zoticus of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day of Sekhmet (Egyptian Warrior Goddess)

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Unlucky Day (Worldwide)

Premieres

The Birds and Other Stories, by Daphne du Maurier (Short Stories; 1952)

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (Film; 1969)

Cool For Cats (BBC Musical Variety TV Show; 1956)

Destination Tokyo (Film; 1943)

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (TV Special; 1972)

Divorce Court (TV Series; 1957)

Duel in the Sun (Film; 1946)

The Dunderheads or Feeling Zero (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 243; 1963)

Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom (Novel; 1986)

The Fraudulent Volcano (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #16; 1964)

The Knight and Knave of Swords, by Fritz Leiber (Short Stories; 1988) [Fafhrd and Gray Mouser #7]

Love To Love You Baby, by Donna Summer (Song; 1975)

The Mice Will Play (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

A Most Violent Year (Film; 2014)

New Years’ Rockin’ Eve (New Year’s Eve TV Special; 1972)

One Froggy Evening (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

The Paradine Case (Film; 1947)

Perfume, by Patrick Süskind (Novel; 1985)

Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Comic Opera; 1879)

Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates (Novel; 1961)

Three to Go or Crash on Delivery (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 244; 1963)

Two Doors Down (Scottish TV Series; 2013)

Today’s Name Days

Melanie, Silvester (Austria)

Donata, Silvestar, Silvija (Croatia)

Silvestr (Czech Republic)

Sylvester (Denmark)

Silvar, Silver, Silvester, Silvo (Estonia)

Silvo, Sylvester (Finland)

Colombe, Sylvestre (France)

Melanie, Silvester (Germany)

Melany (Greece)

Szilveszter (Hungary)

Paolina, Silvestro (Italy)

Kalvis, Silvestrs (Latvia)

Gedgantas, Melanija, Mingailė, Silvestras (Lithuania)

Sylfest, Sylvi, Sylvia (Norway)

Korneliusz, Mariusz, Melania, Sebastian, Sylwester, Tworzysław (Poland)

Melania (Romania)

Silvester (Slovakia)

Melania, Silvestre (Spain)

Sylvester (Sweden)

Melania (Ukraine)

Malone, Melania, Melanie, Melany, Silas, Silvester, Sylvester (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 365 of 2024; 0 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 52 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 19 (Gui-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 19 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 18 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 5 Fest; Fryday [5 of 5]

Julian: 18 December 2023

Moon: 80%: Warning Gibbous

Positivist: Festival of the Dead (Complimentary Extra Day)

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 6 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 11 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 10 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Festival of the Dead [Complimentary Extra Day; Month 0 of 13; Positivist]

[daishisensei]

Happy Wednesday? 🎆 🎇 Plans for NYE?

Ōmisoka? *glances at the calendar* New years is a big celebration for my culture, but usually it was mostly celebrated in January, where we had three days of feasting, osechi ryori... The thirty-first is just to get your traveling done before such so you are with family. But... *trails off and looks back down at the polishing rag* perhaps I shall just see to a shrine and the first rising sun, hatsuhinode.

[babygray]

Just a small thing:

I recently learned about a Japanese version of A Christmas Carol that is set on New Year’s Eve (Ōmisoka) instead of Christmas Eve, and I think that’s actually pretty neat.

Japanese Bob Cratchit, working on Christmas Day? Heh, no big deal. Everyone does. That’s usually the last day of school…

Japanese Bob Cratchit working on New Year’s Day???!!!! That’s awful!! That’s the “going home for the holidays” holiday. The “chilling at home to set the mood for the rest of the year” day. And Scrooge wants him to work!?