August 25, 2005
Taking the day off
by Liza Sabater
We have not taken a vacation in 5 years. A real vacation. A non-working vacation. So today, we're taking the day off. We took a day off last year to go to the beach.
Let me say, life, right now, as far as traveling and exploring the world and enjoying the fruits of our labors ... sucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the smallest violin in town. Still, if you have kids, work full-time and have a creative life (blogging, painting, coding, playing music, etc.) you'll understand my pain. Carpal-tunnel pain :)
Time to play!
Where do you go or what do you do when you take a real day off?
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Say it loud, say it proud!
A real day off? What's that?
Actually, I try to take at least one trip per year to Atlanta to visit my best friend.
Enjoy your day--and rest those wrists and fingers!!!
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Comment by: spyder at August 25, 2005 06:26 PM
well i am one of those that takes a vacation by coming home and getting online, to relax and recover from weeks on the road camping and working and listening to music and working and camping and doing it over and over week after week. Gee isn't this fun? And it is to a certain degree in that i do stop and take in the amazing natural beauty of the West Coast of the US. We live on a pretty amazing and inspiring continent; one we need to work harder at protecting and caring for, not as a nation but as an environment.
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Comment by: Lisa Williams at August 25, 2005 10:38 PM
My kids are 1 and 4, so travel vacations end up being more work than staying home. Together, we like to go for a picnic in the evening to this park that has a big open field; it's not near a busy road, body of water, or something to climb on, so we don't have to spend the entire time on Hypervigilant Alert State 5 and yelling "no!" every fifteen seconds. Sometimes the kids join us on the blanket, especially when we break out the package of wafer cookies from the nearby deli.
Alone I like to take my kayak into the ocean.
Like Spyder I find blogging restful. I know some people say, "how much do you work on that thing?" or "Blogging is a lot of work!" but I don't see it that way. With small kids you live in Interrupt-Land, and Blogging is a mini-vacation to the Blessed Land of the Completed Thought. That's real luxury.
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Comment by: gttim at August 26, 2005 10:17 AM
Dog friendly beach! Of put the dogs in jail and go to the beach without them!
You are in NY? GO to New Hampshire or Vermont. I just drove through there coming back from Lake Placid. Beautiful? LP wasn't anything to sneeze at either.
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Comment by: Elayne Riggs at August 26, 2005 04:31 PM
I haven't done anything more than day-trips in at least two years. One of our cats needs medicine twice a day so we'd have to board him, and that runs into money. I'm taking off the week of Labor Day, and at this point I have no bloody idea what I'm going to do - probably blog and sleep...
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Comment by: Jeff at August 25, 2005 10:38 AM