Vacation Chill/Thankful

I've been away from work for about a week now and my semester is finally over!

The main thing that I have discovered about myself in the past few days is that I would go stark raving mad if I had no job or nothing to do. Don't get me wrong - I'm happy to have my "sanity check" vacation that I take at the end of every year to just chill, sleep late, hang with family and friends, sleep, sleep :-) and basically just end the year on nice, relaxing, positive notes.

The only downside is that by about this time (6th day or so), I become restless. Oh, it's not really that bad because I have stuff to do like projects around the house that I've put off all semester not to mention the books to catch up on, etc. However, I realize that desite the fact that I'm ready to end the work week by oh say, every Wednesday, activity keeps me sane and eliminates rust on the brain. Or, so I'd like to think.

So, now that I am reminded of this, I will continue to enjoy the time away from the rat race and the mass herdage with a smile knowing that I have a great personal life, finally have a job and coworkers that I like and that for the most part, people I care about are happy and healthy.

To make things better, it still doesn't feel like winter in these parts (woo hoo!!) which makes it all the better to bike and enjoy fun stuff outdoors. It could be worse, I could live in some blizzard stricken area which would suck.

So, with that thought, I think I'll go enjoy the rest of my veg out time and focus on enjoying the little and simple things in life. Oh yeah, and catch up on my tivo'd shows! yaaa tivo!!

Anyway, my hope for the rest of the year is that we all have a good time leaving the 2006 year behind and welcome the new year with positive thoughts and plans. While I'm not the mushy type, I do occasionally wish for peace and the welcoming of the new year is a good time as any to revisit this hope.

Peace.