Happy Canadian Thanksgiving everyone!

[viper37]

Huh.  I don't think we do anything special for New Years Day.

We used to have diner at my maternal grandparents on New Years Eve, and a launch at my paternal grandparents.  As everyone got older, and my mom died, I am now cooking the New Years diner for my maternal family, and my extended/step family.

My dad wants turkey at some point during Christmas time and that's about the only time I or his girlfriend can cook that.  I keep wanting to try something else, but most of my "experiments" are left for the entrée and the soup.  I can mostly cook what I want for Mother's day, but my father is a very difficult man and does not like "fancy" food.

But New Years Day you just stay in your pajamas and relax.

That's for January 2nd

[Barrister]

That's for January 2nd

That's for going back to work.

[crazy canuck]

I am with BB on this one.  New Years Day is for sleeping in.

[Grey Fox]

Work on the 2? Never work before the Epiphany!

[Barrister]

Work on the 2? Never work before the Epiphany!

GOA is generous and shuts down between December 25-January 1.  I get all that time off without using any holidays.

But it's all back to business on Jan 2.

[Grey Fox]

I have to stay with the kids until school is back on.

[PRC]

Work on the 2? Never work before the Epiphany!

GOA is generous and shuts down between December 25-January 1.  I get all that time off without using any holidays.

But it's all back to business on Jan 2.

Is that paid time off!?  If so I'd better write my MLA & JK himself... the conservative approach would be to align with the private sector and take only the 25th, 26th, and the 1st off.  Maybe a half-day on the 31st.  From the 27th to the 30th though, it's back to the salt mines!

[Barrister]

Work on the 2? Never work before the Epiphany!

GOA is generous and shuts down between December 25-January 1.  I get all that time off without using any holidays.

But it's all back to business on Jan 2.

Is that paid time off!?  If so I'd better write my MLA & JK himself... the conservative approach would be to align with the private sector and take only the 25th, 26th, and the 1st off.  Maybe a half-day on the 31st.  From the 27th to the 30th though, it's back to the salt mines!

Yes paid, and it was introduced under the PCs quite a while ago.

I think they realized no work actually got done between the 27-31, so they can actually just save a few bucks by just closing government offices.

[viper37]

That's for January 2nd

That's for going back to work.

not here! 

I used to work on the 25th in the afternoon, but a couple years ago, I decided to take all of my holydays.  So I work between the 27th-30th to finish some stuff and that's it, back on the 3rd-4th.