The Beauty of a Holiday Weekend

The great thing about national holidays is that most people in the working world are all looking forward to having time off at the same time. Of course, not everyone works a "standard" job with typical Monday through Friday hours, but for those of us who do, we can all share in the excitement for an upcoming long weekend. In my office, we spend the whole week leading up to these sorts of weekends asking each other what fun activities and trips and family gatherings are planned for the time off. Some of us will stretch it out to longer than 3 days, so we aren't really sure exactly what day we'll all see each other again or how sparse the office might be on the days adjacent to the weekend. Then after people start to roll into work after the holiday, we enjoy comparing notes on all of the fun things we did, and we collectively bemoan the fact that the time goes by way too fast, and "Wouldn't it be great if we could have a 3 day weekend every week?!" :)