Vacations: Go for it!

Vacations:  What is it about a vacation that makes things seem better?  Because it takes effort to take a vacation - packing, planning, and if you're "Mom" in a family, there's a lot of pressure on you to get all the meal plans in place as well! 

I just returned from a long weekend at my mom's house, the same house I grew up in.  They've been in the house 50+ years, so it has a long family history.  And even though going there always means some kind of "honey do" list, it still feels like a vacation!  Mom's nearly 80, Dad's been gone for nearly 3 years now, and frankly, he did everything around the house.  He was Mr. FixIt.  And if he didn't know how to fix it, he took it apart and could usually find a way to fix it.  Those kinds of males seem to be fewer these days.  And maybe that's because fewer things these days are mechanical and able to take apart and put back together.   

I'm lucky, my son takes after me and my dad:  we all have the ability to figure out mechanical things.  I brought him with on this trip so that he could be the muscle behind some of the jobs mom needed to have done.  We had him trimming trees, hanging Christmas lights and figuring out how to reset some of the warning dash lights in her car.   :)   All in all, a very successful and busy vacation, but that's how it goes.  You gotta take care of family!  (Just don't get me started about the 4 grandsons who actually live close by ... and don't help!)



Being gone from work was a relief, but at the same time, a hateful part of going on vacation.  There is always so much going on in a BigBox store, that finding a good time to get away -- let's face it, there IS no good time.  Coming back is the worst; as usual there were changes made while I was away.  And I didn't get to have any input on the changes.  My helper, Elvis, was called into the office for whatever reason (I don't give a rats ass at this point) but whatever he did/said got ME pulled into the same office for a confab.  "Would I be OK with a sit-down conversation with the store manager, the HR manager and him?"  "NOPE".  They wanted more of an explanation, but it wasn't easy to nail it down to one or two things, and it was time to go home.  Why is it that management always wants to have these convos at the end of a work day????  If I stay over, I accumulate overtime hours, and then have to take an extra long lunch the next day ...... blech.  Not sure where all this is going to go, and I'm not happy about any of it.  I'm tired of him spreading gossip about me, about others.  It's the main reason why I don't have conversations with him at all.  Maybe this is a huge sign that I should be moving on.   :/ 

Only time will tell.

If you can't get away for a week long vacation, or a long weekend,
sometimes just one day can make all the difference in the world! 
Go for it!