I figured out a way to get to the Holidailies prompts: Just go to one of my entries from last year where I linked to a question and once on the prompt site, hit “reload.”
Today’s prompt asks “What have you been most looking forward to this holiday season?”
As usual, I’m looking forward to socializing. First there is the now-annual trip to see the state trees with a buddy. Then there’s the office party, which will be a three-hour cruise on the Potomac River.
Go on. Sing it. You know you wanna.
“A THREE-HOUR TOUR…”
Glad that’s out of your system.
I’m hoping to meet a few friends for brunch as well, do a couple of trivia nights, and top it all off with seeing John Oliver at the Kennedy Center on New Year’s Eve.
But I’m also looking forward to a whole week off. Usually I wait until after New Year’s to take a week off as a way of taking one for the team at work because most of my team members have kids. This year I’m taking the week of December 30 off. If I don’t take the time off, come the first paycheck of January I’ll have 240 hours of vacation time there and it will stop accruing.
OH, HELL NAW. Ya girl here has NEVER maxed out on vacation in her 36-year career. I prefer to keep it hovering around four weeks–not close to maxing out but enough that if I ever decide to chuck it all and live in a yurt, I have a whole month of income coming to me. If I hadn’t had to cancel my two-week trip to Portugal earlier this year on account of my cardiac rehab, I wouldn’t be close to maxing out, but I really should have taken at least another week off between March and now. Shame on me, as I’m a big proponent of work-life balance. Also, to be perfectly blunt, once I’ve been in a job for more than a few years, if I don’t take a week off every four months or so, my writing starts to suck.
We can tell.
I heard that!
At any rate, I’m looking forward to relaxing for most of that week. No alarm clocks. Maybe a solo trip to the Smithsonian. Maybe lunch with a retired friend. But mostly a lot of goofing off.
What are you looking forward to this month?
Today’s snowflake. I had to turn the saturation way up or you wouldn’t be able to see the colors. Unfortunately, turning the saturation up also turned the cast of the light up and now it looks like the paper is 40 years old. Sorry about that.
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