Forecast says chance of snow, but the weather radar doesn't show anything for many hours yet (and it could easily miss us).
Wrapping up a very slow day at the office, here.
I hadn’t taken any time off, really, all last year, so I decided to take ALL of what I had saved up at once, and just go “off the hook”, as it were, for the entire Christmas Season.
So, I was away from my desk from December 12th through until last Wednesday. Then, because I’d ended up putting in almost a full day from home on the 12th, I traded for this past Friday off, as well. In all, about three whole weeks not having to commute, pick up the phone, wrestle with software, or anything work-related.
Man, I tell you THAT’S therapy!
Then, we went and celebrated all the Twelve Days of Christmas; spreading the gift-giving — and receiving — all the way out until Saturday. Yeah, the kids were still keeping pretty close score of who got what, and how many, but they took more time with each gift, and enjoyed them all a whole lot more than they have in the past when we did Christmas ALL on Christmas Day.
If you have enough power over your schedule to pull it off, I highly recommend both the consecutive days off, and the lengthened celebration, capped off with Epiphany, as a means to slow the harried 21st Century soul, and so allow for more contemplation, introspection, wonderment, and to suffuse the days, again, with the hallowed nature of the Season.