Happy Presidents' Day

Since it's the third Monday in February, everyone is probably sleeping in and not reading this yet, since nobody works on such an important holiday. The schools are closed, government offices are shuttered, and worst of all, there's no mail.  Not that there ever is, but this slams the door on the possibility of something good coming.

Anyway, today is quite important as we all know. It is a date on which nothing big ever really happened, yet all the mattresses go on sale. This is slightly annoying to me and to my husband, as we purchased a new mattress at full price about a month ago. What the heck is wrong with us? How could we forget Presidents' Day, with it's intriguing apostrophe at the end?

Remember when schools were closed for two separate holidays in February, to celebrate the birthdays of two different presidents? Those were the good old days! But that got too expensive, so the decision was made by important people, involving ink on paper and filibustering in the halls of Congress one would imagine, to combine those birthdays into one special and unique day that is actually the birthday of neither. It truly is a day "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Why they sell mattresses on this day remains a mystery.

Now get out there and celebrate!