Who determines what is and isn’t worth having a federal holiday?  And, why don’t all of the declared Federal Holidays have to be observed?  President’s Day is a weird one, some people have it off, some schools are closed, some offices are closed….but then others are not, some teachers have to go into work, some offices are open, it’s like a guessing game to decide where you can and can’t go…well you can go, but it’ll be a waste of your time because it’ll be closed due to the “holiday”.

Are there committees formed in order to decide if something is important enough to have its own holiday?  Or does someone just suggest it to the president?  Some of our holidays just seem odd to me.  President’s Day???  What are we suppose to be celebrating?  I wish I knew the history behind the holiday and what the point was….

Columbus day….ugh, don’t get me started on that one.  I really do not feel that we should celebrate someone “discovering” a land that already had people living there.

There are so many holidays and I’m not sure what make some of the days so special, and why we don’t honor other things.  There seems to be a day for everything…even a day for speaking like a pirate, but what makes something leap to a federal holiday?