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It's never done till it's overdone
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It's after 5:00 pm on a Sunday and I am not in a shuttle on my way to the airport. It feels so decadent to be home.
I returned to my WW meetings this morning after having been away for 3 weeks. My members were very happy that I was back.
I have really been taking it easy this weekend and trying to not pile on too many to-dos. I should have been writing my blog, but have given myself permission to slack off. Although I have been researching my next topic.
Instead I've been immersed in planning our October family vacation.
A big thank you to Marilyn who gave me info! Also a big thanks to the Kaz impostor who was most helpful. Apparently I have Karen's name under someone else's email address in my address book. As it happens they happen to be British and on the DIBB and were most helpful. In reality I don't have Karen's email address at all.
For some reason, Sukie's daughter has thrown herself into planning this trip. Odd because she was not engaged at all in planning the last family holiday. I get the impression that she's really excited about this one. She has even sent my her plan for what we are going to do for each of the 14 days. Prior to this I would have thought that a fortnight was a rather long time to be down there, but now I'm having my doubts. I think I'm going to be happy if I'm allowed time to sleep and eat.
Maybe it's because it's over 4 months away or because I just got back from WDW, but I hadn't given it much thought.
This afternoon, to shut everyone up, I booked flights for Sukie and I to Orlando, reserved the car for the fortnight, and bought the tickets for Universal Studios/IOA and SeaWorld.
Funny thing is that with all the years we've been going down to Orlando, I've never been to SeaWorld.
Not sure why, but there's something not quite right about the place, something fishy about it.
We are not going to be doing any sort of dining plan. I've really gone off that. I'm in agreement with Marilyn about it. Given that it's such a long holiday we might cook in on some nights and, hold on to your seats, eat outside of WDW sometimes!
What with what's going on with work, it did make me nervous to buy everything now, but the deed is done. It is now a fait complete. Having said that, the vendor whose system I'm implementing is having their big customer conference in San Francisco smack in the middle of our October vacation. I can't move the vacation because it's happening when there is a term break in the UK. I also put in for my vacation back in December. It may turn out that I have to interrupt the vacation and fly to San Francisco for a few days and then fly back to Orlando. I don't know and I'm not going to worry about it. In my mind I'll be happy to just reach October.
I still have 15 vacation days unaccounted for, that's after the 14-day family holiday and taking 3 days at Thanksgiving. I will carry 5 days over into 2011, so I have to figure out what I will do with the remaining 10. I want to go down to AZ in August to visit, Cheri and that other chick who lives there with her sister. Cheri and I talked about driving to California and spending a few days in Disneyland and then me flying home from there.
I'm working on the detailed project plan for my project and so I need to see when I can squeeze in vacation. Over the next year or so, I don't know if there's every really going to be a good time for me to be away.
I had contemplated booking a 4-night cruise for us, but Sukie said that now that he's had a taste of a long cruise, he doesn't think travelling down to Florida for anything less than a week is worth it.
My, my, considering that 4 years ago he never wanted to even try a cruise, hasn't he become spoiled!
I returned to my WW meetings this morning after having been away for 3 weeks. My members were very happy that I was back.
I have really been taking it easy this weekend and trying to not pile on too many to-dos. I should have been writing my blog, but have given myself permission to slack off. Although I have been researching my next topic.
Instead I've been immersed in planning our October family vacation.
A big thank you to Marilyn who gave me info! Also a big thanks to the Kaz impostor who was most helpful. Apparently I have Karen's name under someone else's email address in my address book. As it happens they happen to be British and on the DIBB and were most helpful. In reality I don't have Karen's email address at all.
For some reason, Sukie's daughter has thrown herself into planning this trip. Odd because she was not engaged at all in planning the last family holiday. I get the impression that she's really excited about this one. She has even sent my her plan for what we are going to do for each of the 14 days. Prior to this I would have thought that a fortnight was a rather long time to be down there, but now I'm having my doubts. I think I'm going to be happy if I'm allowed time to sleep and eat.
Maybe it's because it's over 4 months away or because I just got back from WDW, but I hadn't given it much thought.
This afternoon, to shut everyone up, I booked flights for Sukie and I to Orlando, reserved the car for the fortnight, and bought the tickets for Universal Studios/IOA and SeaWorld.
Funny thing is that with all the years we've been going down to Orlando, I've never been to SeaWorld.
Not sure why, but there's something not quite right about the place, something fishy about it.
We are not going to be doing any sort of dining plan. I've really gone off that. I'm in agreement with Marilyn about it. Given that it's such a long holiday we might cook in on some nights and, hold on to your seats, eat outside of WDW sometimes!
What with what's going on with work, it did make me nervous to buy everything now, but the deed is done. It is now a fait complete. Having said that, the vendor whose system I'm implementing is having their big customer conference in San Francisco smack in the middle of our October vacation. I can't move the vacation because it's happening when there is a term break in the UK. I also put in for my vacation back in December. It may turn out that I have to interrupt the vacation and fly to San Francisco for a few days and then fly back to Orlando. I don't know and I'm not going to worry about it. In my mind I'll be happy to just reach October.
I still have 15 vacation days unaccounted for, that's after the 14-day family holiday and taking 3 days at Thanksgiving. I will carry 5 days over into 2011, so I have to figure out what I will do with the remaining 10. I want to go down to AZ in August to visit, Cheri and that other chick who lives there with her sister. Cheri and I talked about driving to California and spending a few days in Disneyland and then me flying home from there.
I'm working on the detailed project plan for my project and so I need to see when I can squeeze in vacation. Over the next year or so, I don't know if there's every really going to be a good time for me to be away.
I had contemplated booking a 4-night cruise for us, but Sukie said that now that he's had a taste of a long cruise, he doesn't think travelling down to Florida for anything less than a week is worth it.
My, my, considering that 4 years ago he never wanted to even try a cruise, hasn't he become spoiled!
Looks beautiful...
Nope. He's a DISer (was on our WBPC) who works for Southwest.
We are there for ten days during October and my DD has produced a 'plan'! I've decided I'm just going to let them all go off and do their own thing whilst I relax by the OKW pool. As Richard's not able to join us 
I'm going to play the Marlene Deitrich "I Vant To Be Alone" card... 
