Stay-Cay: For the lazy and destitute

So I’m going back to work tomorrow after 12 days off.  “Summer holidays”, you might call them.   I had a comprehensive list of things that I wanted to accomplish on my time off, and one might assume that 12 whole days would be ample time to make a dent in said list.  Well, one MIGHT assume, but one MIGHT also not realize how good it feels to sleep in past 7:30 a.m. for the first time in 30-plus months.  Or how easy it is to get lost in an episode of Special Agent Oso.  Especially the one where Oso shows a young boy how to eat with chopsticks - damn, bear can work a paw!

Anyway, I accomplished only a very miniscule portion of my list.  The little stuff, like “Make sure you run the dishwasher”, and “Hayden needs to eat approximately 3 times per day”.  Shit, I could do THAT stuff after nine Miller Chills.  I don’t, as a general rule, but it might make a cool challenge some day.

I had good intentions to organize my dining room.  I know - those of you who have been in my house are scratching your heads, perplexed at where this dining room could be located.  That room that you can see from my living room?  With all the wrapping paper and books and sweat socks and Hot Wheels and Ming vases?  THAT’S my dining room.  There’s a table under there if you wanna get a blow dryer and remove the thick layer of dust.

(You’re totally not coming over the next time I invite you for Chinese food, are you?)

Enough about my junk room.  That obviously didn’t get done.  I did try to move a couple of items at a time, to their proper places, but every time I would try to sneak into that vicinity, I’d hear the pitter-patter of small feet behind me and then the inevitable “What are you doing, Mommy?”  And then “Oooh, what’s ZIS?”  “Do you need this Mommy?”  “Is it garbage?”  And so on.  I then usually give up and suggest that we go shoot cans off the fence in the backyard.  (R.I.P. Fluffy.)

Refreshingly, though I didn’t get a lot of CONSTRUCTIVE things done on my holidays, I had the chance to do some construction on my SOUL (Totes selling that line to Hallmark, so step off!)  I met new family (long story, for another, more blubbery, blog post), had some beach time, some shopping time, some photography time, spent some time with great friends, and relaxed with my boys. 

So, honestly?  Yeah.  My vacation was AMAZING.

And I get to do it all again in 2 weeks!  (Poor me.)  :-)

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