Last Day of Work for 2007

As of 5pm today, I am done with my employed life for the rest of 2007. Let me pause here to say, YAY! WOOHOO!!!!

Ahem. Anyway, I’m very excited for this break. As I’ve whinged and whined in the past, I haven’t had a full vacation with no work since… I think the age of 14. The longest I’ve had off since then is two weeks, once or twice to visit family and last year, for our honeymoon. I know a lot of people are in the same boat, so I have no real right to have been so dang whiny about the whole situation, but there it is. 🙂

I plan to have a whole lotta nothing planned for this break and do whatever I please, whenever I please. I intentionally don’t want to make a lot of plans and extend myself too much socially, because I just want to take it super-easy. The only things I have planned are the following:

• A trip to Tulum, Mexico! This will be my first trip to Mexico. Thanks to Max for the idea and getting us to get off our butts to sleep in thatched roof cabanas and roll out directly onto the beach every morning. I am so very looking forward to this.

• Rock Band party! Evites will be forthcoming.

• A trip to visit the little ones in GA. My sister and mom have come up with the idea of renting a little cabin in the woods for the family for a couple of days. It would be nice to go sledding and toast marshmallows in a cozy little cabin with family. Or an utter nightmare. 😉 But I’m thinking it’ll really be nice. It’ll also be quite confusing to get back from 80-something weather in Mexico and go shortly thereafter to a cabin in the snowy mountains (yes, apparently, there are snowy mountains within driving distance of Atlanta).

I start work on Monday, January 14th, 2008. It’ll be weird to be jobless for so long, but weird in a good way. 🙂 Today, I felt completely befuddled at what to do with myself at home without access to a laptop and mobile email device. I kept looking around me and feeling, well, rather incomplete. That’s embarrassing, isn’t it?