Happy Day After Thanksgiving

You know what I like about the Day After Thanksgiving? It’s an unofficial holiday. Schools are closed, most businesses [well, except retail businesses] are also closed for the day. There is still mail delivery, banks are open and of course, you can go shopping anywhere.

People have Day After Thanksgiving rituals and traditions like they do for official holidays. There are those leftover turkey sandwiches [the best!] and at my house, it’s Christmas Tree Day. I just spent a couple of hours decorating the tree, baking cinnamon swirl bread and assembling a set of German candle chimes. Some people put up their outside decorations and others gather at the break of dawn to mount an all out assault on the mall. I wouldn’t mind spending all day hunting bargains, if 40 million other people weren’t doing the same thing, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

So Happy Day After Thanksgiving, the year’s only unofficial holiday. Kudos to whoever decided Thanksgiving should be held on a Thursday so that the next day would make a logical choice for a day off as well. Nice going.