For those of you in the US, Happy Washington's Birthday, which is the official Federal holiday, not that bastard child "Presidents Day" which has taken over in the public imagination thanks to the marketing people.

The cake was very good. Breakfast of champions.

Playing a lot of Horizon Forbidden West this weekend. Taking a break now for a continuing legal education course, because of course they scheduled it for a holiday. It's actually fine, as it's the cheapest live CLE I've ever found, and I enjoy the presenter. Not a topic that affects my practice one way or another, but it's academically interesting.

The husband is taking advantage of my disappearing from the main TV to vacuum. Our housekeeper is taking a well deserved vacation, so we'll miss this upcoming Friday's normal cleaning.

I did the annual wrapping of all the Xmas presents for the husband this afternoon, while monitoring work email for an audit thing I needed from the big boss. Got the wrapping done, and even made two of them fancy with actual tied ribbon, which is a Xmas miracle because I am the worst person at wrapping presents. I have no patience for the process, and would happily dump everything in bags and tissue paper, but for the husband's very disapproving looks whenever I suggest that option. But hey, self-tied ribbon. Also, that's not to say there aren't gift bags courtesy Amazon and some smart assed ones I couldn't resist ("Alexa said you'd like this" on one, and "Hint: It's not a hippopotamus" on another). And, all of the stocking stuff is ready as well, with yet another gift bag for some candy overflow. Yes, I'm passive aggressive about the bags.

Will need to stop by the local grocer at some point as well, if we can ever talk about what else we want to eat on Friday. You'd think we'd have done so on one of the legs of the trip to the comic shop, but no, we didn't. Oh well.

Video calls set with his family tomorrow. And we'll probably do the same with my family on Friday.

So bring on the four day weekend, for on Monday we find out if Congress can and will override a veto, and if they'll do something else to provide funding beyond that Monday, when funds run out (unless the President signs the big relief bill, which has agencies' annual funding in it as well). Since there is zip I can do about that, I'm going to enjoy the holiday and leave the worry for Monday.

I picked up a couple things for Prime Days so far, some baking sheets (to replace the cheap and pretty dreadful ones we've had for years now), and baking pans (which we seem to be missing?). And at susandennis' suggestion from yesterday a couple premium channels for $0.99 for two months (and a calendar reminder set up to go in a cancel before the price goes up). Not bad, only stuff we needed, and I've avoided the rest of the hype and not spent a ton. Yay.

Yesterday was a nice, relaxing day off, thanks to the Federal holiday. I think the key to actually relaxing is a) my coworkers also have the day off so they're not sending me work while I'm off; and b) the husband did not have the day off, so he also was not bugging me to do things because he was too busy with his own work. ;) I thoroughly enjoyed a late morning run in the drizzle (fewer people, more cars, than my usual early morning time), some video gaming, cooking, playing with the cats, and a lot of reading. Oh, and tearing the place apart trying to find the keys to the old apartment which I have somehow misplaced. Yay. I know they have to be around somewhere, but heaven knows where we put them. I have other copies of the door keys, but not the mail key or the electronic fob for the gates, so I can get in if need be, but I can't check the mail at the moment. If I can't find them I'll have to get the realtor to give me the mail key from the lock box so I can get our ballots.