Real talk: Drinking holidays are the best holidays. Christmas is a drag, and the majority of the side dishes at Thanksgiving have the texture of baby food. But New Year and Independence Day are golden beacons of what a holiday should be -- no time spent with family, oodles of liquor, and usually some shit gets set on fire.
The only real downside with these holidays is that your job probably doesn't give you much time off besides the day of. And while some of us are Type A enough to ask off for the entire week, the rest of us aren't, and are therefore suffering through a work day with a considerable amount of sunburn and alcohol-related dehydration.