Vacation

"fhrblig" (fhrblig) 10/18/2019 at 19:56 • Filed to: None

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I have been through probably the worst 3-month stretch of my working life. Stress ratcheted up to 11, weeks of 12-15 hour days, profound frustration, and the cratering of my professional self-confidence. All the while, I’ve been dealing with a minor (but frustrating and painful) health problem. I’ve had some pretty serious breakdowns over all of this, but fortunately I have the support of my husband, who has been fantastically supportive and I really have no idea where I’d be without him.

This week has been significantly better (except for Monday), but now it’s more awesome because I’m on VACATION!! My husband is too, and this will be his first vacation in over a year due to his job change.

We’re going to drive down to my parents on Monday to drop the doggo off, then we’ll drive back up on Tuesday. Wednesday we are flying to Seattle for a couple of days because he’s always wanted to go there, and then it’s back on Friday night. As much as I’d love to meet some PNW Oppos, this is the first time we’ve had off together in a long time and we’re going to make the most of it, so please forgive me!

I haven't been this excited for time off in a very long while.

jimz > fhrblig 10/18/2019 at 20:12

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what’s a va... cation?

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > fhrblig 10/18/2019 at 20:13

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These things are necessary. You do you. Sounds like you could really put that time off to good use.

fhrblig > jimz 10/18/2019 at 20:17

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If you can't remember, you probably need one too

fhrblig > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 10/18/2019 at 20:21

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It’s so overdue. I haven’t had an actual vacation where we went somewhere since we went to Vegas a couple years ago. Plus we haven’t had much opportunity to even take time off at the same time since then, save for a couple days here and there. Unfortunately he only has one week until next year at this time. I’m actually going to take a vacation without him in July of next year, but it’s with his blessing since it’s to a place he re ally doesn’t want to go.

jimz > fhrblig 10/18/2019 at 20:37

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nah, wouldn’t know what to do with myself. I think the most days off I’ve ever taken in a year (holidays included) is 8 or 9.

DipodomysDeserti > jimz 10/18/2019 at 23:39

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Not knowing what to do with free time? Is this a thing? Can you transfer me your vacation time?