I was on vacation. I’m not on vacation any longer. I miss vacation already but I’m not really sure why I miss it.
I didn’t go on vacation in the way “normal” people go on vacation. I didn’t take a trip to the beach or visit family or anything remotely close to that. I took vacation from work in order to regroup and prepare for September. I hate September. And I was really getting scared of September after the August I had. So. I. Took. Vacation.
I had big plans for my vacation. I had a very long list of things I was going to do. I had a long list of things I was not going to do. I had a long list of things I was going to blog about.
I make lists but I rarely achieve the things on my lists because the lists are too long. This time, I took those long lists and I created mini-lists and I actually got some things done. Not a lot of things done and that’s sort of disappointing. But as usual, my life got in the way and things that were not on my list appeared at the top and so it goes.
Join me as I review my lists and consider whether I should attempt another little vacation of this sort in the near future. (I hope my boss is not reading this and my coworkers don’t kill me for considering it after they so nicely covered for my short notice, surprise vacation request)
Things to Blog:
Michelle’s Reading List
Michelle’s World Religions
Why I Want a Hybrid
Michelle and the Pecans
Virtues
Being a Bad Unitarian
Vegetarians Who Don’t Eat Vegetables
Boys
Us/Them
Things I am NOT Doing:
Reading my boards
Reading anyone else’s boards
Reading my work email
Taking work conference calls
Laundry
Things to Get DONE:
Call Gateway
Get the cats spayed
Clean the kids bathroom closet
Clean the cat closet
Deal with J’s Game Cube issues
Paint E’s dresser
Deal with the little kid clothing chaos
Organize the videos and DVDs
Stow the recent purchases piled up in the bedroom
Put away the TW laundry mountain
Us/Them – TG stuff for Koan
Clean the closet
Clean my office
Prepare Michelle’s curriculum
Install software on Michelle’s computer
Clean the kitchen cabinets
Write 2 reports
Read, a lot
Write in the “Brilliant Women Journal”
Take TW to the doctor for her “procedure”
Unlisted Things That Got Done:
Supervised Hazel a lot
3 trips to Publix
3 trips to CVS
1 trip to Walgreens
2 trips to the car dealer
1 trip to the smelly bookstore
1 trip to the women’s bookstore
A Meme blog post
Some Katrina Red Cross posts
Baked Banana Bread
Set up TW’s new telephones
Shopped a LOT on eBay in the Red Cross auction areas
I miss my vacation. I want another one. Soon.