So next week I have the whole week off from work. It has been a long long time coming. My usual vacation time between summer school ending and fall semester starting was preempted by the move from our old Learning Center to our new beautiful albeit small Multidisciplinary Success Center ( Try spitting that out when you answer the phone!). During the summer when it was determined that we would not be allowed to take our vacations during the break I told my boss I would be taking mine once things died down with the semester.

The move itself was stressful and chaotic enough. On top of that, we have completely changed the focus of our center. A lot of it has been done on the fly, learning and fine-tuning the process as we go. I am not typically a learn/train/fix as you go kinda person, so this has been a very challenging, exhausting and enlightening experience. When the semester first started, there were days that I came home in tears, ready to quit, just HATING everything about my job. I have never been much of a sleeper, and lately I would even say that I could even be categorize as insomniac... well since the semester started, sleep has been something that I can't seem to get enough of. My new hours and all the chaos at work seem to have cured my sleepless nights.

So when the time came, I filled out my vacation request and turned it in to my boss. Her reaction was priceless, and has been duplicated many times from many different people over the past few weeks. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" and "WHY???????" and "WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO???"
It kinda makes me giggle a lot... and it really makes me feel good that people realize how hard I do work to make things run as smooth as they do amidst all the chaos of pioneering a new program.

So the big question is what am I going to do with that week off... I did feel kinda guilty telling people that I was just planning on not being at work and not really going anywhere even though I did have a few things planned. So I got to thinking, and Andy has Sundays and Mondays off, and works from home Tuesdays and Wednesdays. So I mentioned to Andy that we should go somewhere for a couple days. Well we never really discussed where to go until...

Yesterday I was sitting at work frantically trying to get things ready for the staff for next week while I am gone, making things as easy as possible for everyone while I am gone, my phone rang and it was Andy.... Hey Jess, wanna go to Vegas??? OF COURSE I DO!!!! He said he was looking at packages and they were very reasonable. We fly out Sunday afternoon and fly back in on Wednesday afternoon. We are staying at the Monte Carlo.

I will be taking my super cool camera so I can take loads of pictures. I don't think I have been this excited about a vacation since my honeymoon!!!!

Labels: Vacation.