It Finally Feels Like...

I'm on vacation. Finally.

Honestly, when did traveling to go on vacation become so much like work and just feel like it too. No offense to my hosts, but my Georgia trip did not much feel like a vacation. Next year, I will either plan the all out road trip where one is allowed to pull over and enjoy the sites, shoot dumb photos, and eat ice cream from every county you've never heard of or not go at all! It's either that or wait to take a supposed "vacation" until I've been out of school a bit. It truly just felt like an extension of school. Bad, bad, and more bad.

But, onto greener subjects. Like last night, where I mentioned to my love that I feel like today was the really the first day of being on vacation. Now, I may be the only soul to be able to still be working and feel that way, but trust me I do.

You know the vacation feeling I speak of; sleeping in, or getting up early to catch the first tour of a museum you've wanted to see your entire life, being able to drink your coffee slowly and savor it, wearing bed head all day if you feel like it, not having to match your clothes (at least not perfectly) , or just plain old wearing nothing but a swim suit all damn day! Are you there yet??? Do you get the idea, the "vakay" yummy memories I'm craving and FINALLY ensconced in?

While I may only have the day off the thing is this, the day is mine. By this I mean, to do whatever I please or not do....OMG, what a concept. Truly I have not felt like this in months (count back three quarters to last September before 3 quarters of science torture and one professor who should be committed).

It's 11:13 am. I am sitting here in my robe. I just polished off a bowl of dripping, sweet pineapple with a bit of shredded coconut and a sprinkle of toasted walnuts. Delicious! I got out of bed sometime around 9:40 am. I listened to the ladies on the View and now I have Rhapsody playing "soft hits, (whatever!) so I can sing along.

I could get up and make some coffee. I could post my books for sale on-line. I could sit and browse and catch up on all my favorite on-line sites all afternoon. I could go out and collect the ingredients for a meal I'm planning for dinner. But, here in is where the vacation mode lies at its truest...I could. But. I. Do. Not. Have. To.

Yeah, for finally hitting the vacation mode!