I've learned to stagger mine througout the year. Sometimes I would like to take the 2 weeks in a row. But then I hate coming back!
Tomkow and Old Sarge are out drinking. One night, Sarge turns to Tomkow and says, "You know, I don't know what else to do.
Whenever I go home after we've been out drinking, I turn the headlights off before I get to the driveway.
I shut off the engine and coast into the garage. I take my shoes off before I go into the house.
I sneak up the stairs. I get undressed in the bathroom. I ease into bed, and my wife STILL wakes up and yells at me for staying out so late!"
Tomkow looks at him and says, "Well, you're obviously taking the wrong approach.
I screech into the driveway, slam the door, storm up the steps, throw my shoes into the closet, jump into bed, rub my hands on my wife's behind and say, 'How about some good lovin?' .... and she's always sound asleep."
I tried to do that for the last several years. I take the weeks of Thanksgiving and Christmas every year, but this year I have almost 7 days of leave to use or lose.