Back to Work Blues

Can my vacation truly be almost over? I was supposed to have like ten days of nothing to do! Now, on day nine, I find myself thinking about work, starting to go over in my mind all the things that will need to be done when I return. That overdue Biological Opinion for the park, the conservation easement review for the development, the amendment request for those grading phases, yada yada yada.

It really helped me to have something to work towards - you know, having this cruise - saving vacation time, planning what I would do, looking forward to this vacation. And now that it's over, I've got nothing to look forward to.

So Tuesday I'll be back at work, vacation gone in a flash, another few hundred dollars deeper in debt, all the stress of my job still there. What can I do? Sigh...I guess there's nothing left I can do but...

...start planning my next vacation (although it seems so far away...)!!!

No Longer a Cruise Virgin!

After waiting months to go on my vacation, Mark and I are back from our week-long cruise to the Mexican Riviera. We left from San Diego and enjoyed seven days of relaxing at sea, during which time we stopped in Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta. There were many great things about the cruise - the food, the spa, the relaxing, the no Teddy Bear whining at me 24 hours a day, the swimming with dolphins - but to see all the pictures, please click here or on the collage of pictures below and view the slide show that I put together with captions (you have to click the slide show button). Enjoy!