Holidays

I've celebrated Halloween by eating nothing but candy all day, but I also voted yesterday and Election Day deserves its own holiday too. The first step has already been taken b/c my kids don't have school on Election Day. Now if you can just convince people that starting the holiday shopping season in early November instead of late November would boost the economy we would have ourselves an extra day or two off. I like Thanksgiving b/c it's always on a Thursday and you almost assuredly will take a day off on Friday to get a 4 day weekend. Election Day could work the same way. Just think of all the Election Day sales you could get ready for if it was the new unofficial start of holiday shopping. It's not like stores haven't had seasonal merchandise out since the beginning of October. Let's give our economy a swift kick in the pants. Oh, and you can probably get out some voters who spend all day working and don't feel like going to the polls at the end of the day. But that would mean the holiday would have to something to do w/ its original intent. I'm sure if it were enacted that original intent would quickly fade away.