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Starting My (Unexpected) Vacation
Dec. 21st, 2025 10:43 amSaturday was the start of a Christmas-holiday vacation. Counting the two weekends I've got 9 days off from work. As I remarked at the start of the week this is an unexpected vacation. I only learned about the extra days off on Monday!
The late notice to me means I didn't have time to plan anything. ...Not that I could have planned much, anyway, as Hawk is still healing from her foot surgery. And if I had planned a low-key trip it'd be in jeopardy, anyway, as she took a spill last weekend that has made it really hard for her to move again. Hopefully this setback is temporary. One of her doctors says it'll take 2 weeks to recover. That puts it out at... the end of my vacation. 😞
"Oh, but we can stay home and celebrate Christmas!" you might encourage us. Except we don't celebrate Christmas. It's a nonfactor for us. Usually we simply use the time off to travel somewhere. That makes it extra annoying we can't travel. Especially that we can't travel and actually do anything.
But we did manage to do a little bit Saturday! Hawk and I went out for lunch together, did a bit of shopping, then came home to relax. She needed to rest as even moving between the car and a restaurant table and a motor scooter at the store exhausted her. But resting up in the afternoon recharged her for a low key evening with friends. We met a few friends at La Fiesta (a favorite Mexican restaurant) for dinner and then played board games together back at our place until 11pm.
Today (Sunday) we've got nothing planned. Ditto the next few days. I'm sure we'll get together with friends again a few times this week, so at least there'll be something to do. But even though there's not much I am glad for the time off from work, now that I think about it. I just wish I could find better value in my not-working time by having more fun.
The late notice to me means I didn't have time to plan anything. ...Not that I could have planned much, anyway, as Hawk is still healing from her foot surgery. And if I had planned a low-key trip it'd be in jeopardy, anyway, as she took a spill last weekend that has made it really hard for her to move again. Hopefully this setback is temporary. One of her doctors says it'll take 2 weeks to recover. That puts it out at... the end of my vacation. 😞
"Oh, but we can stay home and celebrate Christmas!" you might encourage us. Except we don't celebrate Christmas. It's a nonfactor for us. Usually we simply use the time off to travel somewhere. That makes it extra annoying we can't travel. Especially that we can't travel and actually do anything.
But we did manage to do a little bit Saturday! Hawk and I went out for lunch together, did a bit of shopping, then came home to relax. She needed to rest as even moving between the car and a restaurant table and a motor scooter at the store exhausted her. But resting up in the afternoon recharged her for a low key evening with friends. We met a few friends at La Fiesta (a favorite Mexican restaurant) for dinner and then played board games together back at our place until 11pm.
Today (Sunday) we've got nothing planned. Ditto the next few days. I'm sure we'll get together with friends again a few times this week, so at least there'll be something to do. But even though there's not much I am glad for the time off from work, now that I think about it. I just wish I could find better value in my not-working time by having more fun.
