With February having Lunar New Year, Valentine's Day, and Ash Wednesday (in that order) in a five-day period, it was time to begin getting ready for the special events on those days. Fortunately that wasn't until the week after next, so there was plenty of time to get ready for things, and plenty of things to keep people entertained until then.
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One thing that was a result of the prep for the Lunar New Year was the opening of the remodeled weight rooms at Claw Coliseum. While the pandemic was finally getting under control, there were still restrictions in place to limit its spread. Nobody seemed to really mind doing their workouts "in shifts" because they had a lot to "work off", even though this would be a lot easier for Animalians. One of the shifts that were being seen most often were the cattle, since the Year of the Ox competition was going to be going on.
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One thing that was going to be going on during the Valentine's Day celebrations was the official "distribution" of carob-based chocolates. Since it had been discovered that carob could be safely consumed by Animalians, as it was now already known, food companies had been buying up carob, from beans, to seeds, to land to grow said trees on. While this was causing a big upset on the stock market, Animalians were only concerned with finally getting chocolate without theobromine. To help draw attention to it, a new stamp/sticker was developed to indicate which chocolate product was "100% Theobromine Free". While this was a good thing to have, some on the internet seemed to compare it to "asbestos-free breakfast cereal", which was received with confusion from many Animalians, based off of their reactions.
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Another thing that would be going on with Valentine's Day, whether intentional or not, were new relationships being developed between new Animalians. One of the funniest relationships being developed was between Barb and Amos, since Barb had developed a kind of dominatrix personality after having all the plastic removed from her, but the funniest part of said relationship was the simple fact that Amos flatly refused to be a "simp" as some people called it. The end result of the two struggling against each other ended up causing a lot of laughs from people who witnessed the events.
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With plenty to look forward to, and plenty to do to get ready for, the last week of January and the first week of February wouldn't be too boring, yet not too exciting.