My Vacation is over...

I've been with the company I work with for 3 and a half years - and other than a few days here and there around the holidays, I've never taken a vacation. I've always been beaten to the punch at snagging a certain week off (which is how I missed my Mother's wedding last year). This year, when the family in New York picked a week for the annual family cookout, we grabbed plane tickets ASAP (ie. back in February). Gadget wasn't sure if he was going to be able to get off work, so I went on my own.

It was a crazy, busy busy week. I don't think I've ever done so much when I've gone away... ever!

I drove up to my Aunt's on Friday afternoon and flew out to NY Saturday morning. It was still another hour (PLUS... stupid traffic) out to my mom's house... and Saturday night was the Nana Cares' Disco Dance Fundraiser. Sunday was the family cookout; we spent the whole day Monday & Wednesday at a cousin's pool; Tuesday was spent 20 miles offshore, fishing on a boat; Thursday, I flew back to MD. I stayed at my Aunt's house Thursday night, Gadget (& SNOW!) met up with me and we went off to Grandma's Friday morning. I had a friend who was having a birthday over on Assateague Island - which is only an hour from my Grandma's - so we were going to meet them there. Well, at the last minute, Gadget changed his mind, and we went home. >sad face<

I spent all day yesterday relaxing, watching Ink Master, Tattoo Nightmares, Teen Wolf, and Tanked. I also went grocery shopping... but that's never very exciting.

Overall, it was a pretty awesome vacation - and I'll wear my crazy sunburn with pride! I got out of the house and did stuff - I went swimming, caught some fish and had a great time with my family. I'll be sharing some more photos as the week goes on of the different fun things that happened during my vacation!

Life : Snapshots of Week 20

This has been a bizarre week. My work-from-home schedule was all out of whack, we had a ton of things going on in our personal lives, and we've been running around like crazy.

I spent a considerable amount of time in my studio this week, cleaning and organizing. I've made a bit of progress on that - however, I won't meet my May goal of having all the boxes unpacked. I underestimated the number of boxes of books, and I KNOW that I do not have enough book shelf space. For now, they are stacked neatly inside the closet in my studio, hidden away.

Ivy spent most of the week sleeping in the sun in the middle of the floor of the living room - while Shai spent most of her time following me around and yelling at me. My mother-in-law came over to see the new place, so I spent a ton of time cleaning the house and getting as many boxes unpacked/put away as possible. My poor Snow was fixed on Monday, so we weren't able to take him to the dog park this weekend while he heals up.

Saturday was spent at a mall outside of Baltimore where Gadget and his company were showing off the game that I talked about yesterday. On the road, we passed by Andrews AFB where there was apparently an air show going on. I snapped a bunch of pictures of this plane doing loop-de-loops. It was pretty awesome. Come to find out, a friend of mine went and got lots of pictures and video as well.

Being home during daylight is awesome, and I like to go on small little walks around the complex and take pictures of the pretty flowers, and follow around the angry black squirrels. There was also a poor little bird that a neighborhood kitty killed not 10 feet from my front door (there was also a dead duck way out by the dumpsters, but that had been mutilated - probably by a dog).

Here's a collection of random photos from the week: