I was thinking about some relaxing time, but not a whole week of vacation.
At work I was preparing for an inspection by the Federal Housing Authority in the building that I manage, and getting totally stressed out. It was the first week in February and there was still 5' piles of snow everywhere. In the mornings I would be outside clearing away the snow and ice and in the afternoon inside repairing doors, changing emergency lights and fixing faucet leaks.
I had 2 weeks until the inspection and just a ton of maintenance work to do. My supervisor from another city called to find out how I was doing and offered to come down and help me with the work. We worked through the weekends and got things looking good, and then had the inspection. ( It went good)
During this time I was just recovering from pneumonia and was completely exhausted. My supervisor suggested I take a vacation after all the hard work we had just completed. Great idea I said , so I put in my 2 weeks notice to take a week off.
March 3rd seemed like a long way off now that I decided to take some vacation time. I spent most of the days at work thinking about what I should do and where to go. A birthday party was being planned in eastern part of the state or I could visit my Grandson 2 states away who is going through chemo therapy. Maybe I should just stay home and work on my TO DO LIST.
The weather was starting to turn nice, it was in the 40's almost every day, so I decided to just stay home and relax. My plan was to play on the computer, do a little cleaning, take a long nap, and snack most of the day. I didn't think I would get much done on my TO DO LIST so I left that out of my plans.
Vacation came and I followed my plan except for 2 days when the temperature got up to 60 degrees. It was so nice that I went out to the flower bed and worked for a few hours.
Taking a vacation at the end of winter just before spring has been one of the best ones I have had in a long time. I never know what the next day or week will bring so, I am going to keep living my life to the best of my ability.
Earl
