What's ordinary time for? After the anticipation of Advent, the spectacle of Christmas, the revelation of Epiphany and the blessing of all those lights at Candlemas, isn't 'ordinary' a bit of a let-down? Who wants to be ordinary?
Actually in this context, it's a misconception that 'ordinary' means 'not extraordinary' or 'not special'. Ordinary time isn't dull, unexceptional. The word comes from the Latin ordinalis, which has to do with putting things in the right order. Ticking the weeks off one by one. Numbering them, or naming them, so that you know where you are. When you put things in a numbered series - first, second, third, etc. - those are called ordinal numbers (in the linguistic use of the term, not the same thing as the set theory usage). Ordinal, ordo, and the ordinary (bishop or office holder) all come from ordinalis, and they are all about putting things in order or sequence.
The really big slab of ordinary time comes after the Easter season - more than twenty weeks leading back to Advent when the church year starts all over again. But this little slip of ordinary time between Candlemas and Lent, which can be as short as a week, doesn't have to be insignificant.* You might be quite glad for something low key, to catch your breath before the next big thing - after all, endless feasts lose their sparkle if there is nothing to contrast them with. But even if they are quiet and unremarkable, that doesn't mean the days don't count for anything. It just means we count them as they happen.
*There is debate in some quarters as to whether Ordinary Time starts after Epiphany, or after Candlemas. But in this particularly frozen winter I have been entirely happy to remain in celebratory mode as long as possible.