Everyone’s favorite fat cat—well, favorite until Bill Murray took over his voice and he became an annoying CGI creation that seems a thin shadow of his former fat self—has his own day on June 19. It’s the day his comic strip, written and drawn by Jim Davis, was first put into publication. Here are a bunch of ways to celebrate Garfield Day.

• Sleep in—or, better yet, sleep all day. Use a blue blanket, and be sure to bring a teddy bear to bed.
• Eat lasagna—or just eat. And eat. And eat.
• Go out to the fence at night and howl so everyone will throw shoes and other miscellaneous items at your face.
• Kick stuffed animals off the kitchen table—or send them to Abu Dhabi. (Better yet—send them to kids who probably don’t have stuffed animals, and check off two things with a single action.)
• Paint your face orange with black stripes. Maybe you won’t want to do this one, but your kids probably will. Wear orange and black clothes (Halloween in June!) or see if you can find a Garfield shirt to wear.
• Read Garfield comics all day. If you don’t have any, your local library likely does. If you’re like my husband and you have all of them, speed-read through them, share with friends, and introduce a child to them.
• Watch the Garfield cartoon shows and/or movies. Groan at the appropriate places. Vow to never watch the movies again.
• Put yourself on a restricted diet—then empty the entire contents of your fridge into your belly.
• Book yourself an appointment with the vet—er, doctor. Attempt to escape the whole way there.
• Terrorize the mailman. This might mean simply telling him to have a nice day, or inquiring his opinion about the weather.
• Laugh at how Garfield looked during his first few comics. Write a paper on how he’s changed since, analyzing Davis’s frame of mind, the development of cats as a species, and how lasagna fits into it all. Bonus points for quoting a cat.
• Sabotage any relationship your best friend attempts to have with the opposite sex, then sit in his lap and purr.
• Watch clown shows all day. Pretend to be disdainful.
• Shred the furniture with your fingernails, then blame the dog.
• Attempt to eat birds outside by pretending to be a birdfeeder.
• Attempt to kill spiders.
• Be cordial to all mice who walk past you.