Back to Work after a Week-Plus Off
Dec. 29th, 2025 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerToday it's back to work after a week-plus off. My last regular workday was Friday the 19th. Now it's the 29th. I was off for 9 days. Well, 8¾ if you count the bit of work I did last Monday. 😅
Coming back to work after a hiatus like this is a bit disorienting. One full week isn't long by European time-off standards, where taking a whole month at a time to travel or just relax is common, but it's still enough to get out of the habit of working. Today it's like, "Oh, I've got to sit down at my desk at 8am? And work? All day? And tomorrow, too?" ðŸ˜
And it's not like I even did much with my time off. I didn't even get the memo I had the week off until the week before. By then it was too late to plan anything.... Not that we would have planned much, anyway, with Hawk's recovery from surgery. And things went from "not great" to way worse early in the week, so even if we had planned to go somewhere, we'd have been rushing back home. So I spent most of the week off sitting at home. It was like working from home, just minus the work. 😞
This week's a slow one at work. Many of my colleagues are off until Friday (the day after New Year's) or next Monday. Many of our customers are out, too. My company's holiday break of Dec 22-26 was a bit weird because most companies that are giving holiday breaks this year are scheduling them Dec 24 - Jan 2. The short of it is, there's not a lot of meetings or calls this week. I might take a day off on the 31st just so I don't feel guilty sitting here doing nothing.
Coming back to work after a hiatus like this is a bit disorienting. One full week isn't long by European time-off standards, where taking a whole month at a time to travel or just relax is common, but it's still enough to get out of the habit of working. Today it's like, "Oh, I've got to sit down at my desk at 8am? And work? All day? And tomorrow, too?" ðŸ˜
And it's not like I even did much with my time off. I didn't even get the memo I had the week off until the week before. By then it was too late to plan anything.... Not that we would have planned much, anyway, with Hawk's recovery from surgery. And things went from "not great" to way worse early in the week, so even if we had planned to go somewhere, we'd have been rushing back home. So I spent most of the week off sitting at home. It was like working from home, just minus the work. 😞
This week's a slow one at work. Many of my colleagues are off until Friday (the day after New Year's) or next Monday. Many of our customers are out, too. My company's holiday break of Dec 22-26 was a bit weird because most companies that are giving holiday breaks this year are scheduling them Dec 24 - Jan 2. The short of it is, there's not a lot of meetings or calls this week. I might take a day off on the 31st just so I don't feel guilty sitting here doing nothing.
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